💾 How to Save Your Course Progress
Building a course is exciting — but losing your hard work to an unexpected refresh or closed tab? Not so much. The good news is that WithMe gives you the tools to protect your progress every step of the way. Let's walk through exactly how saving works so you never lose a single lesson again! 🎉
⚠️ The Most Important Thing to Know
Here's the key thing to understand about course creation on WithMe: your work is not automatically saved as you type. Unlike a Google Doc, the course builder requires you to actively save your progress. If you refresh your browser, close the tab, or navigate away before saving, any unsaved changes will be lost.
📝 Note:
Think of it like writing an email — if you close the window before hitting send (or save), it's gone. Always save before stepping away!
📝 How to Save: Draft Mode vs. Publish
You have two ways to save your course content, and both protect your work:
1. Save as Draft
Draft mode is your best friend when you're still building! When you save a lesson or module as a Draft, your content is safely stored on WithMe's servers — but it won't be visible to your audience yet. This means you can:
Work on your course over multiple sessions
Come back and pick up exactly where you left off
Make edits and revisions without anything going live
Note: You need to at least add one chapter and lesson to enable the draft option
2. Publish
When you're happy with a lesson, hit Publish to make it live. Published content is also saved — so publishing is saving too! The difference is simply that your audience can now see it.
✅ Building Your Course: When to Use Draft vs Publish
Started building your course but don't have all the content ready yet?
No worries — you don't have to publish it until you're ready.
📝 Start with Draft Mode
You can safely build your course using the "Draft" option.
Important:
You need at least 1 chapter and 1 lesson to enable draft
Don't have content yet?
Add a simple placeholder (like a random image or text)
You can replace it later with your actual content
📍 Where to Find Your Drafted Course
Once saved as draft:
Go to My Hub. If your course is a draft associated with a landing page, check the Landing Pages tab instead.
In My Hub, your course will appear greyed out (not visible to users). Drafts associated with a landing page appear under the Landing Pages tab instead.
From here:
Click the 3 dots (⋯) on the course
To edit course details (title, landing page, settings):
→ Click Edit
To add or manage lessons:
→ Click View Product
💡 Note: Clicking View Product takes you to the same place where you can add, edit, and manage your course lessons.
You can continue adding lessons normally —
👉 nothing will go live unless you publish it.
🎨 If you see Credits in Billing, you can use the Design Agent to build a landing page: click the "Save Draft" button to save your work. To view or reopen a saved landing page draft, go to Des and then Tools, which lists all saved drafts. You can also ask Des directly to pull up a saved landing page draft.
🚀 When You're Ready to Publish
Once your course is complete:
Go to My Hub (or the Landing Pages tab, if your course is associated with a landing page).
Click the 3 dots (⋯) on the course
Click Publish
Your course will then become visible to your audience.
🔄 Want to Make Changes After Publishing?
No worries — you can always go back and edit your course.
To unpublish:
Go to My Hub
Click the 3 dots (⋯) on the course
Click Unpublish
This makes the course a private draft: the link shows "This page isn't available" to everyone except you and anyone with admin access. If you want to restrict purchase while still letting members you've granted access use the course normally, move it to Landing Pages instead of unpublishing it.
Note:
Unpublishing removes the course from the hub entirely, rather than selectively restricting who can purchase it. To restrict a course to only members you've granted access to, without unpublishing it, move it to Landing Pages instead: those members still see and access the course normally on their page.
To remove access, go to the Customers tab and remove course access for that user
💡 Pro Tip
Build at your own pace using drafts.
You can keep editing and refining your course without worrying about users seeing incomplete content.
💡 Pro Tips to Protect Your Work
Don't refresh mid-edit — if you haven't saved, refreshing the page will erase your unsaved changes
Work in a text editor first — for long-form written lessons, consider drafting in Google Docs or Notes first, then paste into WithMe once you're ready
Check your upload status — if a video upload is still processing, wait for it to complete before navigating away
📝 Note:
If you ever run into a stuck upload or something doesn't seem to be saving properly, don't panic! Reach out to our human support team and we'll assist you with troubleshoot and best practises. You're not just another ticket — you're a partner. 💬