What are Sections and Lessons in a Course?

Sections and Lessons are in the Course feature in a Space. They’re there to help you to organize your content whether it’s a resource library, Course or more!

You can fully rename the feature, learn more about how to manage features in a Space here.

You have four content types to build your Course in the Course feature:

Sections allow you to break up your content and organize similar materials in one place. Each Section serves as the mini overview for a specific part, and each section contains Lessons. You can create up to 500 Sections and/or Lessons within each Course feature you create in your Mighty Network.

You can only create and edit content for your Course on web.

When you first enable the feature, you'll see an empty Course page with the option to Add an Overview, Lesson, and/or Section.

To add a Section, go to Course > Create > Add Section

After you save a Section, you'll have the option to:

You'll get to these options from Manage Section Settings for that Section.

The Instructor(s) listed in the Sections will be updated when Instructors on the individual Lessons are updated.

Add a new Section by scrolling to the bottom of the Course and clicking 'Create':

Lessons can stand alone or be organized into Sections. You can create up to 500 Sections and/or Lessons within each Space you create in your Mighty Network

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When you first create the Course feature, you’ll see the option to add a Lesson.

To add a Lesson, go to Course > Add Lesson

After you save a Lesson, you'll have the option to:

You'll get to these options from Manage Lesson Settings for that Lesson.

Members can bookmark specific sections and lessons directly from the Course by following these steps:

The option to bookmark is available on the web. Once bookmarked, the content will appear in the “Bookmarks” section, accessible on both web and mobile for easy access.

You can feature Lessons and Sections in the Featured or Welcome Section. Here’s how it works:

Note: You can only pin and unpin coursework when logged in on the web.

On web and mobile, you can choose whether you would like your Course to display in a Simple View or in a Thumbnail View. To change the view go to the gear icon > Space Features > Course > Manage:

The thumbnail view will pull the default image for each Lesson, but you can easily change it to a custom thumbnail inside each of the Lesson settings:

To the left of each Lesson title, you'll see a three-line menu or a play icon:

The play icon signifies the Lesson contains at least one video. The three-line icon signifies a text-based Lesson.

If a Lesson containing a video displays three lines instead of a play button, this may be due to its Vimeo privacy setting being set to "Hide this video from Vimeo". If the video has standard Vimeo privacy settings, try deleting the video from the Lesson and then re-embedding it. This action may resolve the display issue.

To add a play icon to a Lesson manually, follow these steps:

This will override the default setting and display the play icon on your video Lesson.

On the web and mobile, you can choose the default display of Sections - Expand All Sections or Expand Single Section.

Expand All Sections:

With this option, all Sections are expanded when a member opens the Course. As the member progresses through the Course, completed Sections will collapse.

Expand Single Section:

This option is helpful if your Course has many Sections and you don’t want to overwhelm members by showing all Lessons and Quizzes at once. Here’s how this option works:

Hosts, moderators, and members also have access to an “Expand all” or “Collapse All” button which gives them the ability to expand or collapse all Course Sections. This button is only visible when there are Sections in the Course. This setting does not save across devices or between visits to the Course.

Once you have Lessons and Sections, you can add a Lesson to an existing Section by hovering over the Section title and clicking the + icon:

You can duplicate, reorder and move Lessons, Sections and Quizzes.

Check out these article to learn more:

You have the option to preview any Sections or Lessons to show to members who are not a part of the Space.

Inside of the Lesson Settings, you can choose the option to Preview:

When a member that is not a part of the Space and sees the Space page, they will see an icon that says "Preview."

When they click on it, they will be shown all of the content that you have selected to be shown as a preview.

Any of the Sections or Lessons that have a lock icon next to them, a member will be unable to see.