Sections and lessons
A course is made of sections, and each section of lessons. Both are edited from the course.
Sections
Section titled “Sections”On the course edit page the Sections (Sekcje) table lists the sections with their lesson counts.
- Create (Utwórz) opens a page asking for the section title. Save and you are back on the course.
- Click a row or Edit to open the section page, which carries its own lessons table.
- Drag rows (arrows icon) to reorder sections; that order is what students see.
- Delete removes the section with all its lessons. The files those lessons showed stay in the media library.
Lessons
Section titled “Lessons”On a section page the Lessons (Lekcje) table lists its lessons with their duration and the free-preview flag. Drag rows to reorder them inside the section.
Create opens the lesson editor. On a new lesson it asks only for the basics; the content editor appears once the lesson has been saved.
Details (Szczegóły)
Section titled “Details (Szczegóły)”- Title (Tytuł) — required. The lesson’s address is generated from it and stays unique within the course.
- Summary (Skrót) — shown under the lesson title on the site.
Content (Treść)
Section titled “Content (Treść)”The block editor, on the edit page only. This is where the lesson is actually written: a stack of blocks you add, arrange and open. Every block shows a preview of itself as it will look to a student, and clicking one opens its settings in a panel from the right. See Lessons and blocks for the editor and for what each block does.
Beside the Treść heading sits a sparkles icon. It opens the assistants menu (Asystenci):
- Draft from notes (Szkic z notatek) — turn your notes into a lesson body.
- Write quiz questions (Ułóż pytania quizu) — appears once the lesson has some prose to ask about.
Nothing either of them writes reaches the lesson until you review and apply it. See AI assistants.
The sidebar
Section titled “The sidebar”Save changes (Zapisz), Cancel (Anuluj) and Preview (Podgląd), which opens the lesson on the site. They stay in view as the lesson grows.
Then Konspekt, the outline of the blocks you have written, where each entry jumps to its block and anything that still needs attention is marked.
Then Settings (Ustawienia):
- Duration (Czas trwania) in minutes — shown in the curriculum and added up on the course page.
- Free preview (Darmowy podgląd) — anybody can open this lesson without enrolling, once the course is published: a draft opens nothing to anybody but the people who may preview it. Use it for an introduction or a sample; the programme marks it with a crossed-out dollar sign, which a screen reader reads as Darmowa.
At the bottom: Delete (Usuń), which removes the lesson. The files its blocks showed stay in the media library, where you can see they are no longer used and delete them if nothing else needs them.
Lesson files are private
Section titled “Lesson files are private”Images, video, audio and downloads inside a lesson are files of the media library, and a file uploaded from a lesson is course material (Materiał kursu): it is served only to somebody the lesson is open to, through links that expire within the hour, and a video’s link does not open in an address bar at all. A lesson may also show public files — a picture you already use on a page, for instance. A course cover and a page’s pictures are always public. See The media library.
Breadcrumbs
Section titled “Breadcrumbs”Every nested page shows a trail such as Kursy › course title › Sekcje › section title › Lekcje › lesson title. Click any part to go back up.
A course in another language
Section titled “A course in another language”Sections and lessons have no language of their own: they belong to a course, and the course has one. Writing a course again in another language copies the whole curriculum — every section, every lesson and every block — as a draft you then translate. The copy shows the same library files, so a picture’s words appear in the new language as soon as somebody writes them on the file in the library. See Languages.
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