Edushade Knowledge Base
A plain-language guide to running your academy on Edushade — courses, learners, selling, certificates, your website, and more.
Welcome to the Edushade Knowledge Base — your step-by-step guide to running your academy. Every page is written in plain language, with no technical know-how needed. Whether you're building your first course, taking payments, or sending your first announcement, you'll find the what, the why, and the exact steps here.
Teaching
Courses & Content
Build courses, learning paths, and cohorts — lessons, videos, live sessions, files, and instructors.
Enrollment & Access
Enroll learners, release content on a schedule, set prerequisites, and decide who can see what.
Progress & Grading
Track progress, set completion rules, grade with weights, and produce marksheets and GPAs.
Assessments & Quizzes
Create quizzes and exams with many question types, auto and manual grading, proctoring, and leaderboards.
Certificates
Award verifiable certificates when learners finish, submit a form, or earn an approved review.
Running the business
Selling & Payments
Price your courses, run bundles, subscriptions, installments, coupons, and scholarships — and take payments.
Website & Pages
Build your public site with pages, blocks, themes, menus, forms, a blog, and search-friendly settings.
Engaging your learners
Communication
Post announcements and send notifications and campaigns by email, SMS, push, and chat apps.
Community & Feedback
Let learners take part with discussions, comments, star reviews, and reactions.
Bookings & Appointments
Offer bookable meetings and office hours with availability rules, payments, and calendar links.
Your platform
Files & Media
Upload, organize, and preview the files and media you use across courses, pages, and products.
Search & Discovery
Help learners find courses fast with search, filters, autocomplete, and trending suggestions.
Account & People
Manage your platform settings, accounts and sign-in, roles, categories, and activity history.
How to use these guides
- Use the sidebar on the left to browse by section.
- Use the search bar (
⌘K/Ctrl+K) at the top to jump straight to any topic. - Use the list on the right of each page to skim its sections.
- Every link is shareable — send a teammate straight to the page they need.
Where to start
| If you want to… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Build your first course | Creating a course |
| Group courses into a track | Learning paths |
| Run a scheduled class group | Cohorts |
| Add learners to a course | How learners enroll · Admin & bulk enrollment |
| Release content week by week | Drip scheduling |
| Require one lesson before another | Prerequisites |
| Decide what counts as "finished" | Completion rules |
| Grade and produce report cards | Weighted grading · Marksheets |
| Quiz and test your learners | Creating quizzes · Question types |
| Award a certificate | Certificate requirements |
| Sell a course | Pricing · Checkout |
| Offer discounts or free seats | Coupons & offers · Scholarships |
| Collect payments | Payment methods |
| Build your public website | Pages & blocks |
| Announce news to learners | Announcements |
| Send an email or SMS campaign | Campaigns |
| Manage your team and their access | People & roles |