Teach what you know, and let the course look after your students

Structure · parts, lessons and notes

A course is parts, lessons and notes, in the order you teach them

Tracy's main course, Throwing on the Wheel, has nine lessons in parts: wedging, centring, opening and pulling walls, shaping a cylinder, trimming, common faults, and two knowledge checks. Each lesson can carry a video, written notes and a worksheet to download.

On this site

5 courses: Throwing on the Wheel, Glaze Explorers, Kiln Notes, the Raku Weekend Workshop and Clay Taster (free).

Free preview

One lesson per course can be watched without enrolling, so a visitor can try before they buy.

Other kinds

The same engine also makes a document library, a client hub or a handbook, each with its own wording and address.

• Lessons can sit inside parts, and parts can be reordered at any time.
• Duplicating a course copies its lessons, notes, videos, files and quizzes into a draft with no price, so nothing goes on sale by accident.
• Your written notes can have headings, tables and sections that fold away.

Video · captions, chapters and search

Upload a video, and the captions and transcript make themselves

Tracy drops a film of herself at the wheel onto the course. Captions, a cover picture and a transcript appear by themselves. Her students can turn captions on, follow the transcript as she talks, and search for the moment she explains how to open the clay.

• Chapters - suggested for you, or set by hand, so a student can jump to the part they need.
• Remove the umms - Bernard takes out long pauses and filler words. The original is kept.
• Trim - choose where the video starts and ends without cutting the file.
• Subtitles in other languages - with a language menu in the player.
• One long video into lessons - a whole workshop film becomes separate lessons, one per chapter, with no new upload.
• Clips and a trailer - a short clip with captions for social media, and a trailer for the course page.

• Video can come from your phone or laptop, from an Instagram reel, or from a direct link. A YouTube video is shown from YouTube.
• Subtitles in another language are machine translated. Nobody checks them, so ask a speaker to look if it matters.
• Students can search inside a lesson, and you can search across every lesson you have made.

Quizzes · marked the moment they are sent

A knowledge check that marks itself and tells the student why

Throwing on the Wheel has two knowledge checks: one after centring and one at the end. A student answers, presses Submit and sees their score at once, with a short note on every question they got wrong. They can try again as often as they like, and their best score counts.

On this site

2 quizzes of 5 questions each. Both must be passed to finish the course.

Pass mark

80%. You choose the mark for each quiz.

Attempts

As many as they like, and the best one counts. You can set a limit.

Feedback

Shown after every attempt. You can show it only after a pass, or never.

• Bernard writes the questions from your lesson's transcript and notes. You check every answer before the quiz goes up.
• The right answers are never in the page. The marking happens on bernard's side, so nobody can look them up.
• Questions can have one right answer, or several to tick. A question can also have no right answer, to ask an opinion.
• You can see each student's attempts: their score, and whether they passed.

Certificates · printed when they finish

A certificate the moment they finish, and a link anyone can use to check it

When a student finishes the last lesson and passes both knowledge checks, their certificate prints straight away. It arrives by email as a PDF, it waits in their course home, and its link and QR code let an employer or a guild check it is real.

Design

Glaze of Glory - studio: the site's own colours and type, with Tracy's sign-off.

Number

Every certificate has its own number, starting GOG on this site.

Finishing means

Every lesson done and every required quiz passed. You can choose "required quizzes only" instead.

Issued here so far

None. Nobody has enrolled.

• Each course chooses: print automatically, wait for you to approve each one, or no certificate.
• The check page shows the name, the course, the date and whether it is still valid. It cannot be searched or found on Google.
• A certificate is never changed or deleted. To fix one, you replace it with a new number, or withdraw it with a reason. The check page then says so.
• A design can have two pages, for example a certificate and a transcript of results. Each prints as its own PDF with the same number.
• You can also give a certificate for something that is not a course, such as a workshop day, to one person or a whole list.

Students · no passwords

Students sign in with a link, and pick up where they left off

There is no password to forget. A student types their email, gets a personal link and stays signed in for months. My courses lists everything they have, and their certificates.

• Lessons tick themselves. A lesson is done when the video plays to the end, the notes are read to the end, or the quiz is passed.
• They carry on where they stopped. The video starts from the last place they watched, and the next lesson is offered when they finish.
• Deadlines that do not lock anyone out. Give a course a finish-by date, or one date per student, and move it when life gets in the way.
• Worksheets download through a private link that runs out, so they are not passed around.

• There is no profile to fill in and no dashboard to learn. The student sees their courses, and that is all.

Selling · your Stripe, no cut

Sell a course any way you like, and keep every pound

A course can be paid once and kept, paid for a fixed time, free, or by invitation. It can come with months of the club, have a member price, sit in a bundle, or have a limited number of places. The Pricing page shows every one of these on this site.

Payments

Go to your own Stripe account. bernard takes no cut of a sale.

By hand

You can enrol a student yourself, or give a whole list of students their courses in one go.

Codes

Discount codes work on course pages, with an end date and a limit per person.

• Bernard shows you every price and email before anything changes. Nothing goes on sale until you publish.

Emails · they follow each student

The right email at the right point in the course

A new student gets a welcome with their sign-in link. After that, emails can go when they finish a lesson or a part, pass a quiz, finish the course or get their certificate, and before a deadline. A student who goes quiet gets a friendly nudge.

• Course emails come from the site's own address once email is set up.
• The Email page shows the journey that follows students on Throwing on the Wheel.

Community · one room per course

A private room where students of a course talk to each other

Each course can have its own room in the site's forum, open only to its students. Members of the Pottery Club can have a room of their own as well. Questions get answered once, where everybody can see them.

• Who can enter a room follows a tag on each contact. Bernard adds the tag when you ask him to.
• The bernard team switches the forum on for a site. Ask Bernard and he passes on the request.
• There is no forum on this demonstration site.