Are you curious how your videos are performing?

How to view your Course Video Stats

1. Login with your Mavenseed account and head over to your Site Admin,

2. Clicking on Content then Courses in the left hand menu will display all of your created Courses,

3. Click on the drop-down menu on the course you'd like to review statistics on and choose Stats.

This will bring up an array of data regarding the performance of the video content on your course.

This includes:

• Video Views

• Load Count

• Play Count

• Play Rate

Updating stats

To update the stats, click the sync button at the bottom of the list.

Once you have your course created, you may begin adding content to your course. Each piece of content lives within a Chapter, or grouping.

Editing a Chapter within a Course

The first chapter of any new course has been automatically created for you. Though you'll likely want to rename this when you're building your content on Mavenseed.

1. Click the three dot menu icon in the upper right hand corner of the content block.

2. Click Edit Chapter. This will bring in a side panel allowing you to edit the name and description of the chapter.

3. After updating your Chapter, or grouping of content. Click Update Chapter.

Sorting Content Within a Chapter

Once you've created your chapter, you're able to rearrange the order of the content within a chapter. To do so, Left Click and Drag on the three dot grip menu to the left of the lesson title to the spot you'd prefer.

When creating a Course it will begin in Draft, meaning it's not publicly visible on the site. Under settings you have the ability to schedule the release date and time of the course in the future, enable questions and control if you'd prefer paid or free access to the course.

• Publish Late: Choose a specific date in the future to have a course published,

• Enable Questions for this course: If checked customers will be able to ask questions on this particular course that will populate within your community forum.

Adding a Quiz to a Chapter

An incredible powerful tool available to you is to create Exercises to have your customers test their knowledge learned from your content. Exercises are a great way to promote community engagement.

To add an Exercise to your Course

1. Click the three dot menu icon in the upper right hand corner of the content block. Choose Add Exercise from the drop-down menu. This will slide out the Create Exercise panel on the right hand side of your browser.

• Exercise Title: Be descriptive and compelling

• Content, or Description of the Exercise: Here is where you can go into detail about what you'd like to see your customers accomplish.

There are five different types of Exercises that you can create. These determine what type of submission the customer will submit.

Image

Examples of this would be if you're running a photography class and would like your students to submit their homework as an image to the site. Or if you're running a 3D Modeling class and would like to have your students submit their still frame renders.

When submitting to an exercise, the customer will be able to upload an image (5MB limit) with the submission.

File

This allows customers to submit files with their submission. The uploader supports multiple, large files at a single time.

Text

Text Submissions enable you to have students submit things such as code, or narrative for a writing class.

Video

In this type of Exercise, customers will be able to supply a link to any public video on YouTube, Vimeo, or Wistia.

Sketchfab

With Sketchfab based exercise submissions, customers can submit a link to any public Sketchfab model.

To review and Grade Exercises

As your students submit their exercise submissions, those will show up in your Activity tab. Additionally, if you are listed as an author on the course, then you will be send an in-app notification when a student submits their assignment.

Grading exercises is done by viewing the associated with the exercise submission. From here you can either pass, or fail the submission and supply any notes. The staff member who grades the submission is then listed as the instructor.

The customer will receive a notification of their grade, and at this point a private comment system will be opened between the submission, and the customer (any author can respond in the comments).

Setting up your first course

Courses are like the fruit on your tree. Self contained symptoms of hard work and growth of your tree here at Mavenseed. 😎

Courses contain Chapters, Chapters contain Lessons, Exercises, and Quizzes. A Chapter is required to add a Lesson, Exercise or Quiz to a course.

Creating a course is a powerful feature of Mavenseed. You have a lot of flexibility on how you choose to set up your course; from the content it contains, if you're selling it as a single product, bundling it or including it within your subscription.

To get started, head over to your site and click on Content and then Courses on the left hand menu, and then New Course

• Title: Enter in your descriptive title

• Description: If you're just getting started, it's okay to not get your final description at this point. Enter a quick blurb and click the Create & Continue.

Congrats your course is now created. It's now time to fill it with Content, adjust the details of your course, and how you'd like Mavenseed to present your course on the site.

Sometimes it's better to leave a trail of breadcrumbs or notes to help your brain out in the future. If there is something you'd like to leave for your future self, or for a collaborator leave a note!

It's easier to collaborate when you know who to talk if you have a question about an edit, or to be aware of the edit in the first place!

While viewing a course click on the Revisions tab to see when the course was last updated.

Adding lessons to your course.

Depending on the type of course you're building, you are able to add multiple types of lessons to the chapters within your course.

Customers of your site are able to submit a submission to exercises they have access to. While they may only submit one submission per exercise, they have the ability to edit the submission up until it is graded.

How Customers Submit Exercise Submissions to your Exercise.

Once logged in and with access, viewing the exercise will display a exercise submission button (Folder with + on it).

Adjusting your Course Details directly affects how your course is viewed publicly on your site. Take a moment to write efficiently and compelling text to communicate what value your customers will gain if they were to Subscribe or Purchase this piece of digital content from you.

• Title: This is the Title of your Course displayed on the site.

• Excerpt: Think of this as your elevator pitch. A brief paragraph summarizing what your course is all about. The excerpt is typically displayed alongside the course thumbnail

By default all of your products may be purchased individually.

Additionally you may create a subscription that would include access to your products. Enabling customers to subscribe to your site at a recurring period to retain access to your content.

Enabling Free Access to your course.

If you choose to Enable free access, you'll be given an additional option to require the viewer to be logged in to access it.

On the product, if the Sign in Required is checked, they will be presented with a button to create a free account.

When choosing to sell a product

you have a few options to consider: price, single purchase or bundled, and whether or not to include in the MavenFeed.

1. Price: Choose the price you'd like to sell this piece of content individually. If you're not sure what to price it out as, email us at [email protected] and we'll do our best to assist.

2. Product Type:

   1. Single Purchase: Meaning you're selling this product as an individual product

Content Accessible only with a Subscription?

Check this box if you're not interested in selling your product individually through your Mavenseed site. Instead of an Add to Cart, logged out, not subscribed members will see a Subscribe button.

For members which are subscribed, they will see a View button when logged in and active.

Add product to a subscription plan

After you've decided to sell the product, added a price and saved it. You'll have the ability to also assign the product to an existing subscription plan directly from the sell tab on the product.

Show in the Mavenfeed?

One of the most challenging things about starting an online business is distribution, and growing the audience to distribute to. We've created Mavenfeed as an opportunity to increase awareness of your hard work. Checking the box will populate your product publicly in this feed.

Depending on the type of course you're offering. Having the ability to attach files to it will be important. E.g. Including student starter sheets, or work files to get started.

To add new files

Drag and drop the files onto the site, or click the browse link to locate them on your local computer.

You'll see a file uploader displayed. Once the file is successfully uploaded it will appear in your course files list.

How they are displayed

As someone who manages the site, course files won't be visible to you, but they are visible to the customer when viewing a course, or lesson within the course.

When the "Course Files" button is clicked, it slides open to reveal the list of files.

When they are displayed

First and foremost, access to the files hinge on the course. If the course is free, then the files are free to download.

If the course is not free, and it's a digital purchase only, we check their record of purchases. If it's a subscription only thing, we check to see if the subscription plan that's attached to their subscription, has file downloads enabled. If it's a team we check the team access.

In all cases above, the customer won't be able to download the file unless they have a subscription (or if the course is free).

They will see the files, but when they attempt to download it, the following prompt will be shown: