Editing published content

A live course is not frozen. When a policy changes or a check needs sharpening, change the module in the chat, where you tell Vidext's agents what you want, then build it again and publish an update of the course. Until you publish the update, learners keep the version they have. See Draft, built, and live.

Find the course againCopy Anchor Link

Open the chat and find the conversation the course was built in under Conversations: Today, Older, or Shared with you if a colleague shared it with you. The list beside the conversation shows the course under Courses.

You can also start a New conversation and say which course you want to change. Vidext's agents know the courses your organization already has, and when a request matches one, they offer to improve that course rather than start another. A colleague's conversation is only in your list if they shared it with you; see Work together.

What you can changeCopy Anchor Link

• The script, the words and screens of a module. Ask in the chat, for example "make the second chapter shorter" or "add a check about refunds", and the agents rewrite it. The new script is checked against the course, the module's plan, your request, and your sources, like the first one.
• Any text of a module. Type over it in the module's studio, the panel in the chat where you watch and adjust a module: what a screen shows on its stage, what the voice says in its Script drawer. See Change a text.
• Pictures. Redraw, remove, or restore them on the studio's stage. See Pictures.
• The voice and the presenter. Choose them in the studio. See Voices and narration.
• The course's modules. Ask to add, remove, rename, or reorder modules.

Narration is kept by its words and its voice, so only the screens whose words changed are recorded again. Changing the voice records all the narration again.

Build, preview, then publish an updateCopy Anchor Link

1. Choose Build again on the module line, on top of the message field of the module's conversation beside its studio, or ask in the chat for the module to be built again. See Build a module.
2. Choose Preview in the studio to play the new build as a learner gets it.
3. Once the new version is built, the module reads Live · update pending in its course, and its module line reads Built · learners still see the earlier build until the update is published.
4. Publish the update from the publish strip above the message field in the chat, or from Modules and courses. See Publish a course.

Publishing an update moves learners to every newer built version at once. Modules you did not rebuild keep the version they have. Learners who completed a module stay completed, those in the middle keep their place, and nobody is emailed about an update.

A published course keeps following its structureCopy Anchor Link

Vidext keeps a published course in step with its structure, but only names and order apply at once:

• Names and order apply at once. Renaming the course or a module, or reordering modules, changes them straight away, for learners too. A module's name follows its title in the course's structure, live or not. Renaming a module from Modules and courses renames its title in the structure and on its cover too, up to 120 characters, through your Main conversation in the chat; while it is paused, the title changes the next time it picks up. If the title was changed in the chat in the meantime, the rename is refused and the module keeps that title.
• Content waits for the update. A module you build again waits as its built version, and learners get it with the next update.
• A new module stays hidden. A module added to the structure stays hidden in the course until it is built and the course is published again.
• Nothing live is taken away. Removing a module from the structure, or moving it to another course, never takes a live module from learners. The module stays where it is, live, until someone withdraws it from learners; the next time the structure is saved, the change applies. A module that is not live follows the structure at once.

Vidext's agents never archive a course that was ever published. Archiving it, unpublishing it, or withdrawing one of its modules is always a person's decision; see Publish a course.