Course sections provide an additional way to organize your content. You can still structure your course into lessons and/or topics, but now you can add optional sections as well.

What Are Course Sections?
Sections are simple, text-only headings that can be used to break your course content into… sections. They can only be added at the top-level within a course. In other words, sections must be placed before (and outside of) lessons.
✅ Course → Section → Lesson → Topic
❌ Course → Lesson → Section → Topic
Other important notes regarding sections:
- Sections are text-only headings. They do not directly contain content. All content is still placed within lessons and/or topics.
- There is no limit to the number of sections you use.
- Sections are unique to every course. They cannot be shared across multiple courses.
Example
It might be helpful to look at a few situations where you might want to use a course section. Here are a few examples:
- Your course only consists of lessons (you’re not using topics at all)
- You have 40 total lessons
- Those 40 lessons discuss 4 main themes, each theme consisting of 10 lessons
In this example, you might want to use a section before each group of 10 lessons that relate to a particular theme. Your setup might look like this:
Theme 1 (section)
- Lesson 1
- …
- Lesson 10
Theme 2 (section)
- Lesson 1
- …
- Lesson 10
… and so on.
How to Use Sections
Add New Section
Before adding a section, you can click on an existing lesson to select it (it will be outlined in blue). Now, when you add a new section heading, it will be placed immediately after the lesson you have selected.
Within the course builder (below any lessons or topics you have already added):
- Click the + New Section Heading link
- Type the name of your heading
- Hit Enter, or click the Add Section Heading button

Move Sections
To drag & drop a heading:
- Immediately preceding the section heading, look for an icon with 6 dots
- Hover over that icon
- Click and hold down your mouse
- Drag the section to its new location
- Release your mouse

To move a section up or down one level at a time:
- Locate the up and down arrows immediately preceding the section heading
- Click either arrow to move the section in your desired direction
Remove Sections
To remove a section:
- Hover over the section you’d like to remove
- Click the red Remove link