Choose a clear title, make your course discoverable and decide whether to share source names or original documents.
A public course should give a visitor enough context to decide whether it answers their question. Before publishing, read its title and summary as if you had never opened the project. Would you know the subject, scope and intended starting point?
Name the subject, then narrow the scope
“History notes” gives a reader little to work with. “Napoleon: from the Egyptian campaign to the Consulate” describes a subject and a boundary. The summary can then explain which events, ideas or questions the modules cover.
Your public author name also helps readers find your work. Choose it carefully: the author handle is fixed once claimed and forms part of the public course URL.
Keywords should describe what is inside
Newly generated courses include keywords drawn from their source material. Useful keywords can name people, places, events or concepts. A phrase such as “Egyptian campaign” can be more informative than a broad label such as “education”.
The public catalogue searches course titles, author names, descriptions and keywords. Readers can also select a topic to narrow the results. A keyword should help someone find relevant material; it should not promise a subject the course does not cover.
Decide what readers can open
The default source setting shares document names only. Readers can see which materials were used without receiving access to the originals. You can edit those public labels to make them understandable: a document title is more helpful than an opaque upload filename.
Choose public document access only for sources you intend to share. Readers can then follow links or download the source files associated with that published plan. Review the source list before saving: it belongs to the selected course plan, rather than every source ever added to the project.
Check the published result
Open the public link and review the title, summary, modules, keywords and document section. A course without recorded sources should say so plainly. If you change the project and generate a new plan, publish the version you want visitors to read.
Unpublishing or archiving hides the course from the public catalogue. It also withdraws access through its public document links. It cannot remove a file someone already downloaded, so make the sharing choice before publishing.
Browse the course catalogue or return to your projects to review a course before sharing it.