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Publishing & Sharing Your Courses ​

A finished course isn't visible to anyone until you hand out a link to it. LecturePanda gives you three ways to do that — a link to one course, a QR code, or a catalog listing many — and a catalog can email your list about what's coming up.

You want toUseWhere to find it
Send someone to one courseAnnouncement page URLLecture Tools → Information Tools
Put a course on printed materialRegistration QR codeLecture Tools → Registration Tools
Say a link out loud or print it shortLecture short codeLecture Tools → Lecture Short Code
Show everything you offerCatalog link or embed codePublications tab → share icon
Put a single course on your websiteEmbed Announcement PageLecture Tools → Information Tools

Neither the course link nor the catalog link lives under your company settings, which is where most people look first. Course links are on the course; catalog links are on the Publications tab.

Always share the full link

Include the https:// prefix. Links shared without it fail in Safari for some users — see Registration & Access.

Catalogs ​

A catalog — also called a publication or series — is a single page listing every course you've published into it. It's your course portal: one URL that stays current as you add courses, rather than a list you maintain by hand.

Create one from the Publications tab using + Add Catalog, then publish courses into it. Every course has its own Publications tab showing all your catalogs with a Published / Unpublished toggle for each, so one course can appear in several catalogs at once.

Most organizations end up with a few catalogs aimed at different audiences — an all-courses one, a members-only one, a conference one — rather than a single list of everything.

Sharing a catalog ​

The share icon on a catalog row gives you both a direct link and an embed code. The direct link is what goes in newsletters, email signatures and social posts; the embed code drops the catalog into a page on your own site. Both update themselves as courses are published in and out, so you set them once.

Catalogs aren't public until you share them

Nothing surfaces a catalog to learners automatically. It exists at its URL and appears where you embed it — that's it.

Removing a course from a catalog ​

Open the course, go to its Publications tab, and switch that catalog to Unpublished. Registrations, completions and certificates are untouched — only catalog visibility changes, so learners already enrolled carry on as normal.

The common case is a live event that's finished: unpublish the live course and publish the on-demand version in its place.

Expired courses unpublish themselves. With Auto-Unpublish Expired Courses enabled — it's on by default in Course Configuration — a course drops out of every catalog once all of its credits have expired. See Publication for exactly when that runs.

Emailing your list about upcoming courses ​

Catalogs can email people. This is the feature customers most often assume doesn't exist: they publish a catalog, hear nothing, and conclude something is broken.

Two separate things have to be in place:

1. A list of subscribers on the catalog. The mail icon on the catalog row opens its subscriber list, where you can add addresses one at a time, upload them from a spreadsheet, search the list, and export it. Alternatively, set Offer Email Opt-In To on the catalog and the registration types you choose get a checkbox at registration to add themselves.

2. A schedule. The catalog's Reminders field takes a list of day offsets — enter 1, 5, 20 and subscribers are emailed 20 days, 5 days, and 1 day before each course in that catalog starts. Leave it empty and nothing is sent, no matter how many subscribers the list holds.

You can also send immediately: the mail button on a course's Publications tab sends the announcement now, and tells you when the next scheduled one is due so you don't double up.

Two different lists, constantly confused

A catalog subscriber list mails people about upcoming courses. A membership checking list validates people at registration to decide who qualifies for member pricing — it never emails anyone.

Uploading your members to membership checking and expecting catalog emails is the single most common version of "the catalog isn't emailing my list."

Syncing to a marketing platform instead

A catalog's Marketing Tool Sync pushes registrant information from its courses into Mailchimp or Constant Contact. That's a different job from catalog reminders — see Marketing Tools.

Finding courses later ​

Once you've run a few dozen courses, the Lectures list needs filtering rather than scrolling. Build a filter — by date, by title, by expiry, by registration count — and use Save As New View to keep it. Named views then appear in the Select Saved View dropdown.

Views worth having: courses still open for registration, courses whose credits expire this quarter, and everything from a given conference.