Folders for courses and lessons
Course libraries get big sooner than they look. Ten courses with 40 lessons each already means 400 lessons in wp-admin — before quizzes, certificates, drafts, and material from older cohorts.
Plathix PRO adds a private folder tree to the course, lesson and quiz lists. Separate current work by course, cohort, or stage without deleting what you still need. What students see does not change.
One course is easy. Ten are a long list.
Learning plugins keep courses, lessons, topics and quizzes as WordPress lists. Inside one course the builder keeps order; the admin list still shows every lesson of every course in one column.
Older cohorts and older versions stay, because students still use them. Deleting them is not an option, and finding the current ones gets harder every term.
Folders by course, cohort or stage put each group of lessons in one place in wp-admin.
Folders that match how a course team works
By course
Every lesson and quiz of one course together, across topics.
By cohort
The current cohort in front, older cohorts kept and out of the way.
Draft lessons
Lessons still being written, separate from published ones.
Previous versions
Last year’s version of a course, for students who still use it.
Courses, lessons and members
Each list gets its own tree: courses, lessons, topics and quizzes each have their own. Turn on the lists you need in Settings.
Learning
Membership and community
Students never see your folders
| What you do | What changes | What stays as it is |
|---|---|---|
| Put a lesson in a folder | Its Plathix folder | Course, order in the course, access, URL |
| Move last year’s lessons to “Previous cohort” | The folder tree in wp-admin | What enrolled students see |
| Publish a draft lesson | Its WordPress status | Its folder |
| Turn Plathix PRO off | The lists look like plain WordPress | Your folders wait in the database and come back |
Folders have no URLs and never appear in a course or on the site.
How we test Content Folders for learning sites
We run each check on a live site with Plathix PRO, on the real course and lesson screens.
Status 4 of 5 passed
Passed checks link to their results in Plathix Lab. The others are in progress.
| Check | What we verify | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Enable a type | Turn on Posts, Pages, Products, Events or Courses: the folder panel appears on each list. | Passed |
| Core Posts and Pages | Create folders, file content, switch folders, and confirm the list changes correctly. | Passed |
| Quick Edit | Change a folder from Quick Edit and confirm the assignment saves. | Passed |
| PRO off and on | Deactivate PRO, then reactivate it. Folder structure and assignments return. | Passed |
| Lessons and quizzes | Folders on the lesson, topic and quiz lists of each learning plugin. | In progress |
Content Folders for learning sites FAQ
Do folders change course structure or access?
Can students see the folders?
Which learning plugins work?
Can I keep old cohorts without deleting them?
Is this in Plathix Free?
Related pages
Keep courses as students know them. Keep the lesson library in order.
Courses, lessons and quizzes in folders by course, cohort or stage.