Title, description and image

The parts of a course that behave like an ordinary page — and the parts students judge the course by before they enroll.

The title

Used on the course page, in the lesson subheader above every lesson, in the student's My courses table, and anywhere you link the course.

Guidance:

• Say what the student will be able to do, not what the material covers. Bake sourdough at home beats Sourdough fundamentals module.
• Keep it short. It appears above every lesson of the course, where a long title crowds the lesson's own title.
• Do not number it unless students refer to the number.
• Do not put the price or the year in it. Both change; the title should not.

The description

The course editor's content is the landing page. For a gated course it is what convinces someone to get access; for an open one it is the introduction.

Cover, in this order:

1. What the student will be able to do at the end.
2. Who it is for, and what it assumes they already know.
3. What it contains — how many lessons, roughly how long.
4. How it works — video, reading, practice.
5. What happens next — how to get access, if the course is gated.

Keep it readable. A student on a phone decides in the first two paragraphs.

What students see instead

An important interaction: when a student does not have access, the course page shows the Content if no access message rather than this description.

So a paid course needs both:

• a description that persuades — read by everyone who can already get in, and by search engines;
• a no-access message that instructs — read by everyone who cannot.

Do not put the sales pitch only in the description, or the people who most need it will never see it.

The featured image

Used in two places students actually see:

Set one on every course. Without it, the account area falls back to a placeholder image and the subheader has no background.

Choosing images

• One consistent style across the catalogue. A course list with mixed photography and illustration looks like several products.
• Landscape, subject centred. The subheader crops to a wide band and the account area to a small square.
• Nothing important at the edges, which both crops remove.
• Enough contrast for the title, which is printed over it in the subheader.
• Upload at publishing size; nothing is resized for you.

Comments

Courses support comments, and whether they are shown is a site-wide setting under Settings → POM LMS → Course.

Decide deliberately: comments on a course page are a small community feature, and an unmoderated one on a paid course is a support channel you did not plan for.

Verify

1. Publish and open the course as a student with access.
2. Confirm the title, image and description read as intended.
3. Open it as a student without access and confirm the no-access message appears instead.
4. Open My courses and confirm the thumbnail and title.
5. Open a lesson and confirm the course title reads well above it.
6. Check the course page on a phone.