Module · Courses
Sections, lessons,
and someone halfway through lesson four.
Publish a course in the shape you actually teach it, sell access, and see where each person got to. They come back to the exact minute they stopped.
The shape of it
A course is sections, and sections are lessons.
Two levels, reorderable, and each lesson publishes on its own — so a course can go out with four ready and the fifth still being written.
Example course — one person's progress through it
They resume where they stopped
Progress records the exact position in a lesson, not just whether it was opened. Coming back on Tuesday puts them at the minute they left on Sunday.
Publish a lesson at a time
Course and lesson each have their own published flag, so you can release as you write rather than holding everything until the last one is done.
Reorder without breaking anything
Sections and lessons carry their own order. Moving lesson six above lesson four does not disturb anybody's progress through either.
How you get it
It is already on when you get the dashboard
This one is not on a checkout page, and you do not have to ask for it. Module flags are set while your dashboard is being built — if the site needs it, it is switched on before you ever log in. Nothing extra on your plan, and nothing to request.
If you are selling a course, it is switched on during setup and brings user accounts and the offerings catalogue with it — a course needs somebody to belong to and something to control who opens it.
Example — the same course sold three ways
Selling it
Access is a thing on the person, not a link you email.
Selling access is the offerings catalogue's job, and it appears by itself the moment there is a course to sell. One course can be sold several ways — on its own, bundled, or inside a membership.
Access is an entitlement on the person, so it can come from an order, from you granting it by hand to somebody who paid by transfer, or from another system you run. All three look the same afterwards.
Example cohort
Who got where
The lesson people stop at is the one worth rewriting.
Progress is per person per lesson, so “six people stalled on lesson four” is a fact you can read rather than a suspicion.
Which is usually the most useful thing a course tells you: not how many bought it, but the exact lesson where people stop. That is a lesson to rewrite, not a marketing problem.
Before you start
What this does not do, said now rather than later.
No video hosting
Helm delivers your lessons and tracks progress through them. It is not a video platform — the file itself lives wherever you already put it.
No certificates or quizzes inside a lesson
Quizzes exist as their own module and are not embedded in a course. There is no completion certificate.
No drip scheduling
A lesson is published or it is not. There is no releasing lesson three automatically on day fourteen.
Getting started
Tell us what you teach, and we will build it the shape you teach it.
Switched on per account rather than bought. Plans start at $20 a month.