Courses

Course Builder

Getting started

  • Online course builder basics

    Last Updated: 21.05.2025

    With SendPulse’s online course builder, you have everything you need to create, promote, and manage your courses. Build your own academy, upload course content, bring in instructors, and automate messages to stay connected with your students.

  • Academy basics

    Last Updated: 22.05.2025

    With online academies, you can bring all your eLearning content together to create a streamlined platform for both students and instructors.

  • Create a course

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With the SendPulse online course platform, you can create courses of any format: video lessons, audio lessons, text lessons, add files, and a final test to confirm successful completion of the course.

  • Create an LMS project

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With SendPulse, you can organize an online learning space for your team, customers, and partners, allowing them to get acquainted with your product or system. An LMS can help you adapt to your new company, master certain software, or improve your knowledge and skills.

Creating course content

  • Create a lesson

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With the drag and drop lesson builder, you can create a media-rich lesson. Use a variety of multimedia elements to help your students perceive information better: audio and video lectures, text instructions, lesson summaries in downloadable documents, samples, and so on.

  • Add video

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Video is one of the most effective formats for eLearning. You can add videos to a lesson as a file or embed links from video platforms like YouTube or Vimeo. You also have the option to add a watermark to protect your content.

  • Customize your text

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Text formatting helps make your content more readable and engaging for students. Use formatting tools to style your lesson or section texts and test descriptions.

  • Create course assignments

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Homework assignments help assess students’ comprehension of your course. You can add assignments to every lesson, accept submissions manually or automatically, and leave comments to give feedback.

  • Create a section

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Group lessons into sections to organize your content and help students navigate through your course program. A section is an introduction to your lessons that helps you arrange them by topic or module.

  • Create a test

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can create a test to assess students' knowledge and skills for each section of the course they complete. Customize the test page, add questions and other media, and set a score for each correct answer.

  • Add checkpoint tasks

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    A checkpoint lesson keeps students from progressing until they finish all assignments in that lesson. This helps boost engagement and keeps students focused on key topics.

Course Settings

General

  • Set course options

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    In this article, we will talk about how to configure general course settings, course format, and course access options.

  • Customize your academy

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Academy settings help create a clear and convenient learning experience for students. You can set your academy’s name, customize how it appears to students, add course recommendations, upload a favicon, and personalize themes and text styles in student accounts.

  • Add instructors

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can add additional users who will monitor your students’ progress — those who track student progress, customize lessons, create tests, design certificates, and answer student questions. Your instructors’ names are displayed on the course page and on the certificate of completion.

  • Work with the file manager

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    File manager is a repository for images, documents, audio recordings, and videos that you upload and send to users via SendPulse. Each service has its own storage folder in the respective section.

  • Add a sender email address

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Your communication with students is established via email. Students receive system emails: registration invitation, their login details, course start, and payment reminders, lesson updates, notifications about issued certificates, and so on.

Payments

  • Create a pricing plan

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    SendPulse uses pricing plans to manage course payments. These plans offer flexible options, which means you can adjust the price, levels of access to course content, and types of feedback students receive.

  • Manage course pricing plans

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can disable pricing plans without losing their course settings, remove them permanently, or update them.

  • Manage and use promo codes

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can add promo codes to allow students to use them when paying for your course. This way, you will be able to attract a larger audience and boost sales.

  • Receive course payments

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With course pricing plans, you can receive payments via students’ accounts, update payment statuses manually, or add a payment widget to your website.

Сertificates

  • Add an intermediate certificate

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Students can get an intermediate certificate once they complete a part of your course. This approach helps keep them motivated and reinforces their sense of progress.

  • Manage certificates

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With SendPulse's online course builder, you can create custom certificate templates, edit their content, set access permissions, and delete or reassign them as needed.

  • Create a certificate

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can create a final certificate that students will receive after they successfully complete your course, or add a custom certificate in your course. The certificate will indicate to whom it was issued, the name of the course, instructor names, and issue date. You can customize its style and add images that suit your course.

  • Upload a custom course certificate

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With SendPulse, you can create a certificate for your entire course and offer it to all students to reward them for completing it. However, if the standard certificate template doesn't work for you, you can create and upload a personalized certificate for each student.

Course website settings

  • Customize your academy website

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Every academy has its own website that you can customize to fit your brand style and business needs.

  • Add a course page

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can add dedicated course pages to your academy website to create a clear overview of every eLearning product you offer. Outline your course program, target audience, duration, format, and other details to engage more potential students.

  • Add a custom domain to your course

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    SendPulse allows you to change the address where your students enroll in your course. To do this, select or edit subdomains from SendPulse, or add your own domain registered on third-party services. Connecting your domain to a company name personalizes your page and helps users find it faster.

  • Customize student account style for every academy

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can adjust your student account style to create a unique academy design that suits your course topic and audience.

Course Management

  • Use course management tools

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Your course actions help you manage the course lifecycle — from launching to stopping or removing it. This way, you can reuse course templates, and keep your workspace organized.

  • View courses and key course data

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Your course page brings together everything you need to track and manage your program — from lessons and student progress to reviews, assignments, and instructor activity. All the key data is organized in tabs, so you can quickly find the information you need and take action.

  • Work with course history and comments

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    When managing a course, you need to track your course program changes and interact with other instructors. To build your workflows effectively, you can view your course history, leave comments, and attach documents to discuss them.

  • Use your course calendar

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Your course calendar helps you easily navigate your schedule of new sections, lessons, tests, and certificates across all courses and academies. This way, instructors can stay organized, prepare for upcoming lessons, and track course events.

  • Manage course content

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    To manage and configure course content, you can set up and organize access to various elements. You can also view all lessons, tests, and sections and use filters to quickly locate the information you need.

  • Set up a course program

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can customize the list of lessons that will be displayed to students in the student's account. Students will be able to open your lessons when the course start date comes.

  • Navigate collaborative course editing

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    If multiple users edit the same course content simultaneously, it can lead to data conflicts and make it difficult to maintain consistent and up-to-date information. For this reason, course editing in the builder is limited to one user.

Work with Students

Student Enrollment

  • Enroll students in a course via a pop-up

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With the pop-up service, you can draw students to your course using your website. You can also allow students to quickly enroll or pay for your course via your pop-up form.

  • Enroll students in a course

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    To start learning, students must first enroll in your course. You can add them manually, enable automated enrollment, or let them sign up on their own.

  • Enroll students automatically after a chatbot payment

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    With SendPulse services, you can automatically enroll students in paid courses using a chatbot. This will make the enrollment process easier for students and course creators or managers.

Interacting with Students

  • Video file protection in the Education by SendPulse app

    Last Updated: 03.01.2025

    Course file protection ensures controlled access to eLearning content within the Education by SendPulse app. It helps you protect your intellectual property and promotes a well-organized learning experience.

  • Manage course email notifications

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Students can receive email notifications about new lessons, course launches, instructor answers, and other course events. You can customize these emails or not send them at all.

  • View student questions

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    During the studying process, students may have questions regarding the material. They can ask a question inside each lesson in the student's account. A chat between the instructor and the student is created for each lesson. Students can also ask questions about the course on the course registration page.

  • Work with student assignments

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can check your students' homework to assess how well they understood a topic and provide them with feedback in the Answers to the task tab.

  • Receive students’ feedback about your course

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    SendPulse’s online course builder allows you to receive feedback from students. Everyone who takes your course can rate each lesson and test, post a review, and provide an overall course rating. This can help course creators improve their course program.

  • Email notifications sent to students

    Last Updated: 08.11.2024

    Students receive email notifications from the moment they register for a course until they complete it. These notifications help students stay in the loop of course events and updates, instructors’ responses, added lessons, and more.

  • Send web push notifications to students

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    In this article, we will talk about how to create and send web push notifications to your list of students in your instructor account.

Student Data Management

  • View student card data

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    A student's card acts as a profile that features their contact details, courses, progress, assignments, and question history. It can help you quickly find and manage information about every student.

  • Change a student's login credentials

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    If a student is unable to access their account, you can reset their password and send the new one by email.

  • Log in to a student account

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    Create fast login links to student accounts for easy access, go over their course content, and fix any technical issues they report. This helps you support their learning journey and make sure your course runs smoothly.

  • Assign a team member to a student

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can assign a team member to certain students. This will help distribute the workload among your team members, assign instructors based on their skills and experience, and segment your course audience.

  • Manage student groups

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can create a student group and assign an instructor to it within your course. This can help you segment students by their preferences, skill levels, or pricing plans.

  • View student information in the CRM section

    Last Updated: 09.07.2025

    The CRM section stores all information about your students, including their contact details, courses, payments, tags, and more. This makes it easier to find specific students and manage their data.

  • View student data

    Last Updated: 09.07.2025

    After enrolling in a course, students are added to the Courses section of the selected course in the Students tab. In addition, contacts are created in the CRM section, so you can manage your students via your pipeline and communicate with them using different communication channels.

  • How the number of students is calculated

    Last Updated: 26.05.2025

    With SendPulse, you can create courses and enroll students in them. Depending on the pricing plan, you can add from 200 to 100,000 students.

  • Manage students

    Last Updated: 09.07.2025

    Once a student enrolls in your course, their data will be saved to Courses > the Students tab. You can edit their data or apply actions to one or multiple students.

For students

Learning on desktop

  • Get a certificate

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    You can download your certificate in PDF or print it. Your certificate to their course will appear if your instructor has added one and you have completed the course. In your student account, you can view and download certificates that instructors issue once you complete a course or section.

  • Take a test

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    In your student account, you can take tests that instructors add to lessons or course sections. Test scores are saved and may affect your course progress.

  • Enroll in a course

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    You can start your learning journey in just a few steps, whether you've received a course invitation or found a course that interests you. Once you sign up, you'll be able to explore lessons, track your progress, and learn on any device.

  • Set up your personal account

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    In your personal account, you can edit your first and last name, select a language, and change your password. To do this, click Edit profile.

  • View courses

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    You can explore and manage your courses in one place. View what you've already started, check upcoming or completed programs, and discover new courses recommended by your instructor.

  • Take a lessons

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    In your account you can take lessons, pass tests, and submit answers to unlock the next steps and complete a course.

  • Manage a course after its completion

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    You can track your course progress and see what’s left to complete. Once you meet all course requirements, you can view your results, download a certificate, and leave feedback.

  • Use course calendar

    Last Updated: 11.07.2025

    Using the calendar, you can monitor course events, including course openings and closings and scheduled sections, lessons, tests, or certificates.

  • Ask questions and view instructors’ answers

    Last Updated: 11.07.2025

    You can ask questions inside each lesson. Go to the lesson and click the message icon in the upper right corner. Type in a question, and click Send.

  • Delete a student account

    Last Updated: 03.07.2025

    In line with data privacy laws, the profile owner (student) may delete their account and associated data.

Learning on mobile app

  • Take a course using the Education by SendPulse app

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    You can use the mobile app to study wherever you are. Open your course, view lesson materials, complete assignments and tests, and get feedback from your instructor — all in a few taps. Stay updated with notifications and manage your profile right in the app.

  • Install and sign in to Education by SendPulse app

    Last Updated: 10.07.2025

    You can use the “Education by SendPulse” mobile app to complete their assignments, download materials, ask questions, and edit their profiles. The app allows you to study with ease even if you do not have access to a computer.

Statistics and Analytics

  • View student payment data

    Last Updated: 14.07.2025

    Analyzing payment statistics can help you identify user behavior trends and your most popular paid course topics to optimize business workflows and drive revenue.

  • View your course analytics

    Last Updated: 07.07.2025

    You can view student progress statistics for all your courses. This will help you understand how difficult or easy your course is and track your students’ performance. You can also monitor student engagement, payments, questions, tests, and certificates received.

  • View course data on your dashboard

    Last Updated: 11.07.2025

    With our online course dashboard, you can get all the necessary info about your courses, including the number of students and their performance, questions, and payment updates. This will help you monitor your students’ progress and analyze their involvement in the learning process.

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