Build a course website

Tell Macaly what you teach and who it is for. You get a course page with the curriculum and the lesson pages behind it, and you keep shaping it by chat.

How do you teach it?

Sign in and the first draft starts building.

The Macaly mascot pointing at a board with a lesson list and a tick on it, a stack of books at its feet

An example course website

Pick a lesson in the curriculum and the page changes. Yours works the same way, with your curriculum and your own material in it.

Workshop CraftRunning a workshop people finish

Self-paced

Lesson 2 of 4

Build the session around a decision

Printed worksheets laid out on a table

People remember what they had to choose. Give them a real decision with a defensible answer on both sides, then let the material arrive while they argue about it.

Sample course. Progress here is just for this preview.

A sales page and a page for each lesson

Both come out of the same curriculum, so a lesson you rename changes its name in both places.

Course page
Workshop CraftSign up
A room laid out for a workshop, chairs facing a flip chart

Run a workshop people finish

Maya ChenRuns the sessions herself

Curriculum

  1. 1Pick the one thing they leave with
  2. 2Build the session around a decision
  3. 3Write the exercise before the slides
  4. 4Run it, then fix what dragged
Take the workshopNext group starts 4 March
Lesson page
Workshop CraftLesson 3 of 4

Curriculum

  1. 1. Pick the one thing they leave with
  2. 2. Build the session around a decision
  3. 3. Write the exercise before the slides
  4. 4. Run it, then fix what dragged

Back to the course

Write the exercise before the slides

A small projector on a desk

The exercise is the lesson. Once you know what people will make in the room, the talking part gets short on its own and you stop explaining things nobody asked about.

Notebook

Write the exercise brief in two sentences.

Mark as done

Sample pages from one course site. Sign-in and saved progress get added inside the project.

Sign-ups

All sign-ups in one list

The form on the course page saves every entry to the built-in database. There is nothing to install or set up. Open the list to see who is coming and what they wrote, and export it any time you want it somewhere else.

Cohorts

Course dates and a waiting list

Pick Cohort and the course page carries the dates people are signing up for, with the places left on each one. When a group fills up, the form under it becomes a waiting list for the next date. You add new dates by chat, like any other change to the site.

Your domain

Your own domain

Publishing puts the course site on a free address straight away, and every new version goes live at that same address. When you want your own name on it, connect a domain you already own or buy one in Macaly, and the secure connection is set up for you.

Questions about course websites

A course page that says what people will learn and who it is for, the curriculum under it, and a lesson page for each item in that curriculum. From there you keep talking to Macaly: change a title, add a module, rewrite a lesson, drop a section you do not need.

Into the built-in database. There is nothing to install or set up. The form on the course page saves every entry, so you open one list to see who is coming, which group they picked and what they wrote about why. You can export the whole thing any time you want it somewhere else.

You add checkout inside the project. Tell Macaly which payment service you already use and ask it to put the sign-up button on the course page. If you have not picked one yet, ask it to walk you through the options first.

You can ask Macaly to add sign-in and saved progress inside the project, and it builds the pages and the storage behind them. Nothing on this page saves anything: the example only moves its own preview, and the two cards under it are pictures of a sample site.

Yes. Pick Cohort in the form and the first draft comes with dates, session details and a shared pace instead of a lesson list people work through alone. The course page carries the dates people are signing up for, and when a group fills up the form under it becomes a waiting list for the next one. A workshop draft is shorter again: an agenda, what to bring, and the notes you send afterwards.

No. A lesson can be writing, a worksheet, an exercise or a recording, and most courses mix them. Start with the material you already have and add video later, once you record it.

Yes, any time. Ask for a new module, a different order or a rewritten lesson, and Macaly makes the change everywhere it shows up, so the curriculum on the course page and the lesson pages stay in step.

Yes. Ask for a second course and Macaly adds another course page with its own curriculum and lessons, plus a place that lists both of them.

The first draft and a published site on a free macaly.app address cost nothing. You pay once you want the course on your own domain or need a larger plan, and the pricing page says how much.

Yes. The course goes live on a free address as soon as you publish, and every change to the curriculum or a lesson shows up at that same address, so the link learners signed up from keeps working. When you want the course under your own name, connect a domain you already own or buy one in Macaly, and the secure connection is set up for you.

Put your course online

Describe the course once and you get the page that sells it and the lessons behind it. After that, you change things by chat.