How To Build a Course On Skool | Full Guide 2025

Summary

Highlights

• Start by accessing the classroom feature on Skool.com and creating a new course. 🚀
• Add a descriptive course title and choose access levels from open to private. 🔑
• Utilize platforms like Canva to design visually appealing course covers. 🎨
• Configure payment options using Stripe for easy monetization of your course. 💸
• Categorize your course content into folders for better organization. 🗂
• You can manually control member access within your community settings. 👥

Key Takeaways

• Setting up a course on Skool.com is as easy as pie! 🥧
• Customize your course with catchy covers using Canva. 🎨
• Choose between open access or specific level unlocking for your course. 🏆
• Monetize your course by integrating Stripe for easy payments. 💰
• Organize your content into folders and pages for structured learning. 📂
• Engage with your community and manage member access seamlessly. 🖥️

Overview

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction In the Introduction chapter, the video begins by greeting the viewers and outlining the purpose of the session, which is to guide them through the process of building their own course on school.com. It starts with the basic steps of opening one's profile and navigating to the community or group section. From there, it instructs the user to click on 'classro', where they will find the option to add a new course.
• 00:30 - 03:00: Creating a Course The chapter 'Creating a Course' provides a step-by-step guide on how to set up a course. It begins with instructions on accessing the course creation interface by clicking a designated button. The user is prompted to input basic information, such as the course name, which in this example is 'How to Code in Java in a Very Simple Way'. Furthermore, the user can add a course description, with a reminder to adhere to a 500-character limit for this section. The interface simplifies the process of configuring these fundamental details of the course.
• 03:00 - 05:00: Managing Access and Pricing This chapter discusses strategies for managing access and pricing for a course. It emphasizes the importance of being descriptive yet concise in descriptions to optimize character usage. The chapter outlines different levels of access that can be set for a course, ranging from open access for all community members to more restrictive levels.
• 05:00 - 08:30: Organizing Course Content In this chapter, the functionality for organizing course content is discussed. The ability to set unlock levels for specific content is highlighted, allowing instructors to choose between levels one to nine. A case is mentioned where a topic may be designated for a level two user. Furthermore, there is a feature that enables content to be automatically unlocked when a member upgrades their account. Additionally, users can add or upload photos and cover images for the content.
• 08:30 - 11:00: Editing and Deleting Courses The chapter 'Editing and Deleting Courses' provides guidelines on the required dimensions for a course cover, specifying a size of 1460 by 752 pixels. It suggests using design platforms like Canva to create attractive covers. Additionally, it discusses options for selling courses, including the 'buy now' feature, where customers can unlock the course after a one-time purchase.
• 11:00 - 14:00: Community Interaction and Course Visibility This chapter discusses the logistics of course access and the financial transactions involved. It emphasizes the need to connect a Stripe account to handle payments received after course purchases. Furthermore, it highlights the flexibility of scheduling access, with options to specify the start day of access, such as day one or day four.
• 14:00 - 15:00: Conclusion In the conclusion chapter, the process of managing membership access is discussed. The focus is on how members can be granted access automatically upon upgrade or how this can be controlled manually. There is a feature to allow or restrict automatic access, depending on the desired settings. Additionally, steps to manually grant access to existing members by navigating to the members section are outlined.

How To Build a Course On Skool | Full Guide 2025 Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 how to build a course on school so hello guys and welcome back to today's video in today's video Let's show you how you will be able to create your own course over here at school.com so first things first open your profile of course have it over here as you can see I'm currently looking at my group or community so after that simply click on classro over here and you will be able to see the option to add a new course
• 00:30 - 01:00 click on this button over here over here we will be able to see information about our course we could simply enter our options over here or our name so what is our course name so let's say how to code in Java in a very simple way you can now simply add your course description over here remember you have a limit of 500 characters and to give you an idea this title over here had
• 01:00 - 01:30 almost 50 characters over here so your description needs to be descriptive but concise it has to be uh very direct to the point so that you don't waste any characters over here you could put in levels that you could have for your course you have 1 two 3 four five different levels you could have it as open wherein all members of your community will be able to access the course you could also change it to level
• 01:30 - 02:00 unlock where you could change or have a specific level be uh the unlock uh requirements for this one so you could choose between one to nine over here so let's say this topic is for a level two user and then over here you could also have it automatically enabled or automatically unlocked when a member upgraded to annal over here by the way you could add or upload a photo and a cover as well
• 02:00 - 02:30 there is a limit to the cover your cover must have 1460 by 752 or like 752 you could use platforms such as canva to create a very appealing and a very good covers for your courses that you're going to make you're going also options or have options to be buy now over here where people can unlock the course after paying a one-time purchase for it so after they pay for it they will not ler
• 02:30 - 03:00 or they will have uh unlimited access to the course forever as you can see here but you will need to connect your account to be here or your stripe account so that it will have your or if so that the course will send money to your bank account or your stripe account after someone purchases and then we have time unlock over here you could have a specific access over here so let's say access starts at uh you could have day one or you could have day four over here here
• 03:00 - 03:30 and you could uh change the same things over here if you want your members to have automatic access once they upgrade to anal or you can disable that as well if you want them to really purchase this or have this as you can see and then over here you could have private and to give members access you would have to go to members stab and find the members that you want to give access to that so you will be able to find that under the members section over here so if some someone is a member you can then give
• 03:30 - 04:00 them the permission to create or to use that course so let's create an open one over here for now so Java and put one over here Java then we could upload some random things over here for now here we go you can save and let's wait for it it's currently processing so click on ADD and it will be added over here as you can see so this is now our course so
• 04:00 - 04:30 now we could modify our pages over here we could add something you could change this section over here and you could add a resource link a resource file a transcript or a pin Community post so depending on what that link is maybe a YouTube video or a video that you upgraded you could have that and then over here you could see uh we could add a folder a page over here uh the more options or the more pages over here of course it will correspond to that uh program progress bar over here so we
• 04:30 - 05:00 have two pages over here the first page being like let's say an introduction and then you could have uh if this is done after this specific part is done it will progress as you can see you can add as many page as you want as many folders as necessary for example for folders over here let's add test we have a folder over here we could which we could then add a page as you can see add a page in folder and now it will be under that specific folder so
• 05:00 - 05:30 you could categorize different topics different content so let's say an entire content is for algorithms so you could group a set of pages over here under this folder test and you could have that categorized as algorithm and then you could have other topics as well and then you could categorize them through pages and folders and let's say assuming that our or we want to modify our course we could click on edit course over here and we could edit the typical things that we
• 05:30 - 06:00 were able to uh see earlier so if you want to change it to a level unlock or private which we will try click on Save we could now check out our members over here and if there are active people over here we could simply modify their settings like in their in their name over here once they are here but currently it's me because of course I'm the owner but there's a settings option that would allow you to modify or like
• 06:00 - 06:30 change of course the condition so that they could actually access our Java course over here so let's open this again edit course such as you can see to give access or to give member access uh member tab then find the specific member then add them to the or give them access to the course which is as instructed over here then you could choose or you could create as many courses as you want uh it depends on how creative or how
• 06:30 - 07:00 much you have a actually how much information you have and if you don't like the course you can simply click on delete and you will be able to delete it just like that and then you create or add your own uh however or whenever you want as you can see so that's basically it guys so there are many other things or many other parts in school that you could actually try out and check out I have your calendars over here your members of course this is where you will be able to have people
• 07:00 - 07:30 or this is where you will be able to find the people who could access your course of course from school over here you could either invite them by giving them a link to the community that you're currently in or of course you could simply create any type of courses that you want and people could actually visit or view your community so people could view communities over here uh people could search you up if your community actually has enough uh popularity people could be joining your community themselves aside
• 07:30 - 08:00 or instead of you uh inviting them also they could view it just like this one just like how I am seeing the different uh courses over here this is what your users or people under your community will be able to see they will be able to see the name the description the cover up over here the progress they could open it and then you know learn and check out the different content as you can see this is how it would look like you have your text over
• 08:00 - 08:30 here uh your links you have your uh pages over here some would have many many folders and stuff like that anyway and that's basically it guys so if you enjoy this video leave a like And subscribe thanks for watching