Welcome to CourseFriendly CourseFriendly turns what you know into a course people can buy. You build the course, students sign up, you get paid. No production studio. No coding. Just your knowledge and a few clear lessons. What yo...

Create Your First Course You can have a working course shell in about fifteen minutes. Polish comes later. Before you start Have these ready: A working title for the course (you can change it any time) ...

Adding Lessons and Video Content A lesson is the smallest unit a student takes. Each lesson lives inside a module. You can mix lesson types inside the same module — a short intro video, a written page with the steps, a download with...

Quizzes and Assessments Quizzes are how you check that students learned the material — not just clicked through it. They also keep students engaged because the next lesson does not unlock until the current one is passed. Whe...

Pricing: Free, One-Time, and Subscription Pricing is one decision, made twice. First — should this course be free or paid? Then — if paid, do students pay once or pay over time? Free courses Free courses are us...

Coupons and Discount Codes Coupons get more people to enroll. Use them sparingly — a coupon that runs forever is just a lower price. When coupons work well A launch window. A discount for the f...

Drip-Release Schedule A drip schedule releases lessons over time instead of all at once. Students get a steady cadence of new material to come back to, and the course feels like a real journey instead of a folder of files. When dr...

Certificates of Completion A certificate gives students a small reward and something they can share. People put them on LinkedIn, save them as PDFs, and frame them on a wall. They cost you nothing and make finishing the course feel like a...

Student Progress Reports Progress reports tell you whether your course is working. Not whether people bought it — whether they finished it. A course with high enrollment and a 5% completion rate is a course that needs a rewrite, not...

Refunds and Payment Payouts This article covers two things — how you get paid for the courses you sell, and how to handle a refund when a student asks for one. Getting paid When a student buys a course, the payment g...

Embed Your Course on Your Website or Use a Custom Domain Your course already has its own page — a clean address on CourseFriendly that you can share immediately. But many creators want the course to feel like part of their existing ...

Enroll in a Course and Pick Up Where You Left Off This article is for students — people taking a course, not building one. Enrolling in a course There are two paths into a course. Path 1: Buy...

Download Your Certificate or Request a Refund This article is for students — people who finished a course or want their money back. Downloading your certificate If the course offers a certificate and...

Troubleshooting: Video Won't Play, Quiz Won't Save, and Other Common Issues Most issues clear up in less than a minute with one of the steps below. If you are still stuck after trying these, open a support ticket and tell us which step yo...