Publish, drafts, private, and holds

• Draft (unpublished), only you and other editors can see it.
• Private, owner/instructor only, even hidden from brand admins.
• On hold, a course flagged with a hold reason can't be published until you clear the hold (use this for content that still needs vetting).
• Held for a reviewer, a course whose lessons are marked "Before release" is released from its hold on its own page once a qualified reviewer has cleared them: see Reviewer sign-off. A held course with no marked lessons clears its hold by hand. Releasing also opens the course's Sources page to learners.

Toggle publish per course from /teach (click the status pill), or in bulk by selecting several courses and choosing Publish / Unpublish. The same selection can also switch navigation between Linear and CYOA (see Keep your course's AI features current).

When you schedule, publish or release a course from its own page under Teach, a warning first lists its open launch to-dos and how many quizzes do not pass the length check yet; it is never a block.

See also Vetting a course, and the "Coming soon" page, for the separate review step that decides whether learners get the lessons or a coming-soon page.