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Getting started

Your first course in 30 minutes

Create your account, work through the start card, understand the home page and the sample course.

Create your account

Your first course in under two minutes: from the empty home page to a published course – with sound and captions.

You choose the name of your member area and a subdomain – that becomes the address yourname.coursekit.de. The account is created when you sign up, or CourseKit sets it up for you; either way you get an e-mail with your first sign-in link as the owner.

After that you sign in with Google or with a one-time link, and in the team also with a passkey (see the article “My account: language, profile and passkey”). CourseKit does not issue or store a password. When you first open the admin, you may be asked to accept the terms and the data processing agreement – you cannot go on without it.

Note: The trial lasts 14 days, needs no payment details and has the feature set of Growth. Only video is tighter: up to 3 hours stored, 5 GB per file. Nothing is locked after the 14 days – you then choose a plan under “Plan & billing”.

The start card

On “Home”, the “Set up your member area” card walks you through the essentials and shows how many steps are done. It recognises finished steps by itself – wherever you finished them – and locks nothing.

The start card on day one: 0 of 3 done, the first step open. The numbers match the steps below.
  1. Create and publish your first course: you name the course, CourseKit creates a draft with a module and an example lesson. The step is done once a course is published and has a lesson.
  2. Choose the look: done once you have saved your own look (Settings → “Appearance”).
  3. Connect sales: CopeCart, ThriveCart or Stripe. Done only when a purchase of a mapped product has reached us – a saved key alone proves nothing.
  4. Optional: your own address. Done once the domain is active.

Under each step, “Explained in detail in the help” leads to the article that describes it. Once the first three steps are done, the card says “Ready to go”. “Hide setup” hides the card, “Show again” brings it back. Inviting a team is not a step – you do that when you need it.

The admin home page

Below the card, “Home” shows what is next: “Members at a glance” (with access, access ending soon, not started yet – each number opens the member list with exactly that filter), “Needs you” (for example a purchase without a mapped course or an import you have not announced yet), “Quick actions” (create a course, give access, import members) and “Recently” (purchases, new members, certificates issued). Usage numbers live under “Analytics”.

“Home” below the card: “Members at a glance” (1), “Needs you” (2), “Quick actions” (3) and “Recently” (4).

The sample course

The sample course “Sample course: how a course is structured” is created when you sign up, or on request through the start card (“Rather look at a finished sample course first”). It has two modules with four lessons – one of them a short quiz – and a sample material, and it is a draft: members do not see it, and on the start card it does not count as your course.

Look at the structure and change it as you like. There is no delete button of its own: you delete it like any course under “Settings” → “Delete”. It then stays in the archive for 90 days and can be restored until then.