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“How do I share a course with only my own students?”

You don't have to list a course publicly to sell or share it. Four visibility settings let you keep a course off the catalogue and hand it to exactly the people you choose.

Last updated May 31, 2026

A lot of private tutors assume putting a course online means putting it on display for the whole world. It doesn't. A course's visibility is separate from whether it's published — you can have a fully working, paid course that never appears in any public list.

Public Listed in your catalogue and found by search engines. Unlisted Hidden from the catalogue — only people with the direct link can open it. Password Hidden — visitors must type the password you set before they can view it. Private Invite-only — just the students you enrol and you can see it.
Four visibility settings, from fully public to invite-only.

Which one for which situation

  • Public — you want new students to discover and buy it. The normal storefront case.
  • Unlisted — you'll share a link in your WhatsApp group or class, but don't want strangers stumbling onto it.
  • Password — same as unlisted, but with an extra password gate you give only to your batch.
  • Private — a closed course for a named set of students you enrol yourself; nobody else can reach it.

Example

A maths tutor with a fixed batch of 20 makes the course Unlisted and drops the link in the batch's WhatsApp group. The 20 enrol; the course never shows up in any public catalogue or on Google. When she later builds a beginner course to attract new students, she makes that one Public.

Visibility only matters once a course is Published. A Draft is invisible to everyone but you, no matter which visibility you pick.

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