How to create a course in Squarespace // Squarespace Courses Tutorial for Beginners

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Are you eager to share your expertise or knowledge with the world? In this tutorial, I'll guide you through the entire process of creating a captivating online course using Squarespace. Whether you're a complete beginner or a seasoned Squarespace user, this video has you covered.

📚 Key Points Covered:
- Course Structure: Understand how Squarespace courses are structured with sections and lessons. I'll break down the framework, making it easy for you to organize your course content.
- Adding and Editing Content: Dive into the heart of course creation by learning how to add, edit, and organize your course material inside the Squarespace Course interface.
- Layout and Design: Your course's visual appeal matters. You’ll learn about all your options for customizing the layout and design of your course & lessons.

📌 Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - How Squarespace Courses Are Structured
02:19 - Creating your first course in Squarespace
03:20 - Course Settings
05:04 - Squarespace Course Overview Page Options
11:19 - Squarespace Course Lesson Options
18:20 - Changing the color and fonts using the site styles menu
25:40 - Conclusion and Next Steps

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The term "Squarespace" is a trademark of Squarespace, Inc. This video was not approved or endorsed by Squarespace, Inc. I just really love their platform ♥

[coachellyn]

All of my favorite Squarespace trainers are all like "OMG Squarespace has Courses!" today! Super excited for this!

[Finewoodworkingofsc]

I figured this would be out after watching your collaboration with Kerstin Martin and Squarekicker last week, just reading between the lines. Thanks so much Becca for such a great tutorial. A lot of information packed into this one!

[cartereducation]

Great beginning from SQSP...but needs some work. I am M.Ed in curriculum design and been designing digital courses since 2005. (you may have some influence with them). 1) why??? is the lesson overview below the video? 2. Why???? is the complete button at the top of a lesson? 3. and most important - why??? is the no comment section (like a blog) ORRRR a community comment section? Food for thought!

[SoulWise-clce]

Very helpful, and clearly explained. Thank you.

[janelf.]

Thanks so much Becca for the tutorial 🙏

[TiberiousGreene]

Been WAITING for something like this!

How can we link it to open up to a member who purchases it from the store? And how will they be able to re access the course if it’s not in one sitting?

I mean this whole setup works if it’s free for public use, but this is ideal to charge for courses

[Pelvicdoctor]

In squarespace courses is there a way to send course emails when they finish the second video, like Keep going to week 3 you got this!

[roburbanhealer]

This is great thank you! x I haven't watched in full yet, but wondered if there's an option to change the currency from dollars to GPB?

[thehealprojectusa]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much for this very useful info. "Courses" is an exciting and powerful feature. I'm wondering if "Courses" will allow us to upload our courses as downloadable pdf files (We want to offer our lessons to teachers as downloads, get their basic information so we can follow up with them, so the "lessons" would be gated with a password, but provided free of charge). Do you have a tutorial or offer a course that shows us the download features of "Courses"? Please let me know. We are currently on Squarespace 7.0 so it looks like the hardest work will be in migrating to 7.1 to take advantage of "Courses." Thank you for your kind help. 🙂

[stephaniekeffer]

Is there anyway to change the layout of the video itself? For example, to make the video smaller and add spacers to the left and right of the video?

[rollieelle]

I love the layout of this video! Anyone know what platform was used for the recording/editing?

[JamieHartMusic]

i'm struggling to make my title fonts pop and look like real headings and titles. What is the font you're using for the "New Course" text?

[vivyh]

Am I correct in assuming that you can only add one "main" video per lesson unless you add a video to any sections you may add to the lesson page? Awesome tutorial, btw. Thank you so much!

[rollieelle]

The tutorial is well explained. However, as a teacher, there are a lot of features highlighted here that aren’t nearly as important to me as the ones that are missing. This course feature looks like it was designed for someone who is interested in design more than actual teaching. How do we assess course participants? (preferably more than just multiple choice quizzes, but even that seems to be missing.) Is there a way to set up video calls with them? Is there a way to attach PDFs to lessons? Is there a community board? Can we integrate with other platforms to assess the gamify the course? Etc

[BoostFutbol]

Amazing tutorial! Questions for you - do you know of any way to automatically keep that "Accordion" feature closed in the lessons shown under the chapters? If you have a lot of lessons under a chapter, it can be a lot.

[smcvirtualsolutions]

This is great ! How many courses can you create on a squarespace account?

[willarias]

Thanks for sharing all this SS knowledge. When it comes to online courses, apart from prices, what’s the main difference between Squarespace and Kajabi?

[streetphotostorytellers]

Very informative. Thanks! So did the old Member Areas organization structure go away? So now all memberships are hosted on some type of course page?

[houmankhalaj]

Hi ! How can I have a two different text color on course overview page? I only want to change the "course name / course title" color and keep the chapter name text colour as it is.

[ayurvedalearningcenterwith]

Hi Becky, I am looking how to offer my square space online courses as affilate program to massage schools and wondered if you know how to create an affiliate link to give to other schools? or do you have a course on it, or can you make one? Noone has this on youtube.