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 title: Course
-description: Learn about courses in ClassroomIO.
+description: Overview of courses in ClassroomIO — lifecycle, settings, admin areas, and links to detailed guides.
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 import { Callout } from 'fumadocs-ui/components/callout';

-<Callout type="warn" title="Work in Progress">
-  This page is a work in progress. Help us expand it by contributing!
+A **course** in ClassroomIO is a container for lessons, exercises, people, and settings. Students enroll into a course to access its content in the LMS. This page summarizes how courses work for admins. For step-by-step setup, start with [Creating Your First Course](/docs/how-to-guides/create-first-course).
+
+## Course lifecycle
+
+| State | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Draft / unpublished** | Not visible in Explore or on the public landing page; open self-enrollment is blocked, but invite links still work |
+| **Published** | Live on your academy; visible in Explore and on the public landing page |
+| **Deleted** | Soft-deleted; no longer appears anywhere in the app |
+
+Publishing makes a course discoverable. Combine publish state with **Allow New Students**, price, and invites to control who can actually join. See [How Course Enrollment Works](/docs/how-to-guides/course-enrollment).
+
+## Key settings
+
+| Setting | Where | Effect |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| **Published** | Course **Settings** | Turns the course on for your academy |
+| **Allow New Students** | Course **Settings** | Public **Enroll** on the landing page |
+| **Price** | **Landing page** editor | Free vs paid enrollment |
+| **Course type** | Course **Settings** | Changes nav, compliance, and public access behavior |
+
+<Callout type="info" title="Course type changes more than a label">
+  Self-paced, Live class, Compliance, and Public types change what admins and students see in the app. See [Course Types](/docs/how-to-guides/course-types) for when to use each.
 </Callout>
+
+## Admin areas inside a course
+
+When you open a course from the **Courses** list, the sidebar gives you:
+
+| Area | Purpose |
+| --- | --- |
+| **Content** | Lessons, sections, exercises, media |
+| **People** | Members, invites, pending students |
+| **Settings** | Publish, Allow New Students, course type, links |
+| **Landing page** | Public page prospects see before enrolling |
+| **Compliance** | Appears for **Compliance** courses; tracking and bulk actions |
+| **Marks** | Appears for **Live class** courses; grading |
+
+## People and enrollment
+
+The **People** tab lists everyone in the course group. Members appear when they enroll or when you add them from **Add people**. Email-only invites show as **Pending** until the student signs in.
+
+Enrollment paths (public, invite link, admin assignment, paid) are documented in [How Course Enrollment Works](/docs/how-to-guides/course-enrollment). For sending invites, see [How to Invite Students](/docs/how-to-guides/invite-students).
+
+## What students see
+
+After enrolling, students open the course from **Home** or **My Learning** in the [Student Dashboard](/docs/student-dashboard). Published courses they have not joined yet may appear in **Explore**.
+
+## Related guides
+
+- [Creating Your First Course](/docs/how-to-guides/create-first-course)
+- [Course Types](/docs/how-to-guides/course-types)
+- [How Course Enrollment Works](/docs/how-to-guides/course-enrollment)
+- [How to Invite Students](/docs/how-to-guides/invite-students)
+- [Create a Course Landing Page](/docs/how-to-guides/course-landingpage)
+- [Student Dashboard](/docs/student-dashboard)
+