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Welcome to the TrainerCentral spotlight series.

We offer numerous features in lesson settings to streamline your course creation, boost sales, and enhance engagement. In today’s spotlight, we'll discuss them in detail.

Set lesson to draft

It's tedious for a course author to compose the entire lesson all at once. The set lesson as draft feature helps the author save their lesson materials as drafts as needed. This helps the course author cross-check and ensure accuracy before the lesson is published.

With this option, you can allow prospects to preview your course content. Once they engage with your course, there's a high chance of purchasing the entire course. This approach is similar to the preview or sample pages in digital book publishing, where potential readers are offered a sneak peek to help them decide before committing to a purchase, ultimately improving your sales.

 
Make this lesson downloadable 

Providing downloadable materials to learners is a valuable addition to your course. It helps learners revisit content as needed to reinforce their understanding. Consider this scenario: You've created a course called "Digital Illustration Techniques" and you're offering the lesson called "Shading Techniques" as downloadable. Learners can practice techniques offline using downloaded materials, which enhances their comprehension and success rates in the course, ultimately boosting your reputation.

Make this lesson a pre-requiste 

This option makes the lesson mandatory within the course and requires your learners to adhere to course compliance. For example, if you create a lesson covering the basics, skipping it might hinder learners' understanding of the course. To address this, you can set the lesson as a prerequisite, ensuring that learners complete it before moving forward.

Enable discussion 

The discussion forum allows learners to share their ideas, ask questions, and engage in meaningful discussions. As they gain more perspectives from their peers and trainers, their interest in and understanding of the subject will deepen.

For example, consider enabling discussion for the data structure lesson in the Java course. Learners and trainers can discuss coding challenges they've encountered. They can also share their troubleshooting methodologies and code snippets. This will encourage interactive, supportive, and engaging learning for all learners.

If you have any questions, ask us in the comments; we'll be happy to help.

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