Blended courses combine scheduled sessions with self-paced learning content. The scheduled sessions can be in-person, online or hybrid. Learners book, or are added to, a course date. You can host the learning content in Cademy or provide access instructions for another platform.
A Registration is one learner’s place on the course. An Order records the booking and its payment. A block is a set of scheduled sessions booked together; a block alone does not require the Blended course type.
Permission needed: You need System Admin access or Course Owner access to the course. Facilitators cannot open the course editor. Ask a System Admin to check your access if an action is missing.
Create a blended course
Open the Cademy admin dashboard and select Courses.
Select Create New.
Under Which keyword best describes this service?, choose the word your business uses for courses. This is the course’s service keyword. Then select Blended course under What is the format?
In Description, enter the course title where you see Add your title here. Use Add Course Images to choose images, then replace the description placeholder with the details customers need before booking.
Select Save and check for Course saved. The course is saved but remains unpublished.
Continue through Pricing & Delivery, Dates, Contents, Settings and Share as described below. Share appears after the course has been saved.
To return later, open Courses, select the course and select Edit Course. In the course list you can also open the course’s menu and select Edit or Settings. Changing tabs on a new course also attempts to save it; navigating within an existing course editor can save outstanding changes. Review your choices before switching pages.
Set the default price and delivery
In the course editor, open Pricing & Delivery.
Under Delivery Method, select In-person, Online or Hybrid.
Set the address or online hosting details shown for that delivery method. Online hosting offers Add Join URL Manually or Use Zoom App; the Zoom option needs a connected account.
Enter the default Max Spaces, which is the total number of places.
Enter the Price and check the currency shown. Use 0 for a free offer. If offer cards are already shown, select an offer to edit its price.
For another offer, select Custom Offers & Add-ons if the expanded list is not shown, then Add Price → Create an Offer. Enter the Name and Price. Select Create Price; when editing an existing offer, select Update Price.
Select Save and check for Course saved.
These are defaults for new dates.
You can give a particular date or date block a different delivery method, location, capacity, price or facilitator when you add or edit its dates. For how the default prices and places work with the values saved on a date, see Set Course Prices and Places: Defaults and Date Overrides.
Add the course dates
Open Dates in the course editor. If the course has no saved dates, the calendar opens automatically. If you see a saved-date list, select Add dates.
Select each required day in the calendar. The selected dates appear in the editing list.
Review each date’s start time, end time and time zone.
Under How are the dates booked?, choose Individually, Block or Block or Individually. The block choices become available after at least two dates have been added.
To override the defaults, select Change Default Settings, Spaces, Location or Price, or Change Defaults on smaller screens. Review the delivery, capacity, price, facilitators and visibility for these dates.
Select Save Date or Save Dates. Check for Updates saved and confirm the dates appear in the returned date list. This saves the dates separately from the course’s general Save action.
Individually: customers choose and book one date.
Block: customers book all dates in the block together.
Block or Individually: customers can book the complete block or an individual date.
Normal booking needs an available date. If there are no bookable dates, the page can show a waitlist, date requests or group requests according to the course settings. If none of these options is enabled, it shows No upcoming dates. Publishing without dates does not guarantee a waitlist.
For detailed capacity guidance, read Add and Edit Course Dates and Blocks.
Add lessons and course content
In the course editor, open Contents to create the Cademy-hosted part of the course. Learners on different course dates use the same sections and lessons for that course.
You can set a lesson to open or fall due before or after each learner’s booked course starts or ends. For example, make preparation due two days before the course starts and open a follow-up lesson one day after it ends. Learners booked on different dates receive different lesson timings from the same lesson settings.
Open the lesson and select Schedule, or its saved timing summary, to set Opens and Due. Course-date options use the first and last sessions of a whole-block booking. A lesson that opens relative to a course date stays locked until the learner has a usable booked date and its opening time is reached. Any required earlier work must also be complete. See Schedule Lesson Access and Due Dates for the complete setup, examples and rescheduling rules.
Use Build Lessons and Organise Course Content for the complete editor workflow. It covers sections, lessons, rich content blocks, quizzes, SCORM packages (learning content made with an external authoring tool), lesson schedules, saving, previewing and copying a lesson to another course.
Use a Form block to collect General or Feedback responses inside an online lesson. Feedback forms are listed when feedback is enabled for your business account. Follow Add Forms to Lessons for setup and submission requirements. Submitting a form or completing an online lesson does not replace the blended course’s required attendance. If the course has no published lesson, attending every session of the booked date completes the learner’s Registration.
Course and lesson publishing are separate.
The course must be available to the correct audience, and each lesson must be Published before eligible learners can see it. Opening times and required earlier lessons still control when a learner can open a lesson. A Blended lesson’s opening time or due date can be tied to the learner’s booked course date.
If your learning content is hosted elsewhere
In the course editor, open Settings → Advanced Settings.
Turn on Host Externally.
Under Content Access Details, enter the external website link, login steps and other learner instructions.
Select Save and check for Course saved.
This changes where learners complete the content. It is separate from External Bookings, which sends customers to another website to book. For external booking setup, read Send Customers to an External Booking Website.
For a place linked to an order, approval alone does not make these instructions available: the order must also meet the payment requirement for course access. This can include a paid deposit or first monthly instalment, or access before invoice or in-person payment when the provider permits it. Cancelled places and orders refunded in full do not grant access. See Find Course Dates, Locations, Joining Instructions and Content for the conditions and learner steps.
Set course-content access and publish
Choose how long learners have access
In the course editor, open Settings, then Access Options.
Under Students should have access to the course, choose Indefinitely / until removed by you or For a limited time. The last word of that label follows the course’s service keyword.
For limited access, enter the Number of days.
Select Save and check for Course saved.
This is the course-wide access rule. Changing it can affect existing learners who do not have a separate expiry set for their Registration or Order. To set a different expiry for one learner, open their Registration and edit Access expires. For the full workflow, read Set and Change Course Access Expiry.
Publish and share the course
To help customers find the course, open Settings → Advanced Settings and review Categories & Tags and Search Details. Search Details holds the course level and the description shown on search engines and social media. See Course Categories and Course Tags.
Before changing visibility, follow Publish and Share a Course to check your account’s allowance, any required payment setup and the complete publishing procedure.
In the course editor, open Share.
Use the visibility control to choose Public, Private or Unpublished. Public is visible to all; Private is hidden and accessible with a direct link, on plans that include private courses (see Understand Cademy Plans, Limits and Fees); Unpublished remains available to you and enrolled users.
For a published course, use the course link or the available sharing and embed options.
Test the learner experience
Open Edit Course → Contents and use Preview as Student in the current content editor. The course must be saved first; the older editor does not show this button. If Save Before Previewing? appears, choose Save & Preview for your changes or Preview Without Saving for the last saved version. Choose Cancel to stay in the editor. Check the new tab for Previewing as admin. Progress is not tracked. For a System Admin or Course Owner with access to this course, Preview as Student opens admin preview even if the same login also has a Registration. If the banner is missing, stop and check which page and login you are using before interacting.
Admin preview does not prove a learner’s scheduled access, a course-date booking or its joining details. A complete test needs a real Registration, Order or public booking for the chosen course date, using a separate learner email without administrator access. These routes create records and can use spaces or send messages, so follow the test guide before starting.
Follow Test a Course Before Launch for the complete test process. For learner-facing date, venue, joining and content guidance, read Find Course Dates, Locations, Joining Instructions and Content.
Review registrations and lesson progress
Open Registrants on the course dashboard to review people registered for the course dates.
Open Lesson Progress to review learners across the course content.
To review one learner, select their Registration and expand Lesson Progress.
Before changing lesson progress, follow Correct a Learner’s Lesson Progress. It covers the complete correction procedure and the effect on completion, certificates and CPD (continuing professional development).
Frequently asked questions
How is a blended course different from other course types?
A blended course combines scheduled sessions with self-paced learning content. An On-demand online course has no required attendance date. On set dates is for scheduled sessions without a Contents area. Hybrid describes a mix of in-person and online delivery; it does not by itself mean the course is Blended.
Why can I not see Create New or Edit Course?
System Admins and Course Owners can create and edit blended courses. Facilitators cannot open the course editor. Ask a System Admin for your business account to check your access.
Why does the public course page show a waitlist?
The waitlist can appear when it is enabled and there are no bookable dates or the available dates are full. Check the dates, their booking availability and spaces. Date and group request buttons can also appear when enabled; a course with no bookable dates does not always show a waitlist.
Can different dates have different prices, locations or capacity?
Yes. The values in Pricing & Delivery are defaults. Add or edit the dates, then use Change Default Settings, Spaces, Location or Price to set different values for that date or block.
Why can a registered learner not see a lesson?
Check that the learner has the correct Registration for the course date, the lesson is Published, its release schedule has been reached, any previous-lesson requirement is complete, their course access has not expired, and the course is not archived. If a lesson opens relative to the booked course date and the Registration has no valid course date, it stays locked: the content outline shows Awaiting Date and the lesson shows Waiting for your course date. Check the Registration’s date and whether that date still exists.
Can I reuse a lesson in another blended or on-demand course?
Yes. Open the lesson’s actions and select Copy to Course…. The copy arrives as a Draft in the destination course. Follow Build Lessons and Organise Course Content for the complete steps and warnings before copying.
Can I change an existing course to or from Blended?
Yes, if the course has no registrations or orders. If it already has them, duplicate the course and change the copy’s type instead. Read Change a Course Type before changing it.