Introducing Course Customization
Course Customization lets district and school admins create modified versions of original courses — tailored to your local scope & sequence, state requirements, or instructional models like trimesters or A/B schedules. You can remove, rename, and reorder content without touching the original course. Student progress, pacing, locking, and grade rollups all automatically reflect your customizations.
Who this is for: District Admins and School Admins. Teachers have read-only access to published customizations assigned to them.
What You Can Do
Remove Content
Remove entire topics (all lessons included) or individual lessons. Removed content is fully hidden from teachers and students, but remains visible to you with a "Removed" indicator. Any historical student work is always preserved.
Rename Content
Rename the course title, topic titles, and lesson titles in your custom version. Renames appear in the catalog, enrollments, and the student view. You can restore original names at any time.
Note: Original course names cannot be renamed — only your custom version.
Reorder Content
Drag and drop topics or lessons, or use the ellipsis menu to reorder. Changes take effect for all enrolled students on their next page load.
Note: Lessons can only be reordered within their topic — content cannot be moved between topics.
Bulk Actions
Use checkboxes to multi-select content, filter by type (e.g., all quizzes) or keyword, or use Select All. Bulk Remove applies only to currently visible or filtered lessons.
Step-by-Step: Creating a Course Customization
Step 1: Access the Courses Page
In your left-hand navigation, click Courses. Here you'll see all original courses. You can search by name or filter by level, language, or visibility.
Tip: As an admin, you can hide any original course to prevent teachers from enrolling students in it directly.
Step 2: Review the Original Course (Optional)
Before customizing, you can explore the original course by clicking View Course Details. From here you can browse the full topic and lesson outline, filter by content type (assignments, videos, resources), search for specific lessons, and preview lesson content including answer keys, guided notes, and transcripts.
Step 3: Start a Customization
From the original course, click Customize using the ellipses (...) on the right of each course row. You'll be prompted to:
Set the access level — choose whether this customization applies to your whole school, a specific section, or (if you're a District Admin) your entire district.
Give the course a name — this is what students will see, so make it meaningful (e.g., English 1-A Custom).
Optionally, add a description.
Your customization will open in Draft mode and won't be visible to teachers or students until you publish it.
Step 4: Customize Your Course Content
Once inside the customization editor, you can:
Remove content
Check the box next to a topic or lesson and click Remove, or click directly into a topic to remove individual lessons.
To remove in bulk, use the search or filter bar to find a content type (e.g., search "warm-up"), select all results, and remove them at once.
Removed content stays visible to you with a "Removed" indicator but is fully hidden from teachers and students.
Rename content
Click the name of any topic or lesson to rename it. Changes appear in the catalog, enrollments, and the student view.
Reorder content
Drag and drop topics or lessons into a new order, or use the ellipsis (⋯) menu to reorder. Note that lessons can only be reordered within their topic — they cannot be moved between topics.
Step 5: Save and Publish
Click Save & Close at any time to save your work as a Draft without making it live.
When you're ready, click Publish to make the customization active and enrollable.
You can also change the access level (e.g., from school-wide to a specific section) at any time — existing enrollments won't be affected.
Step 6: Enroll Students
Once published, enroll students just like any other course. Go to your Roster, find the student, and add an enrollment — you'll see your custom course listed as a version of the original (e.g., English 1-A Custom shown as a subset of English 1).
Step 7: Pacing and Locking
Your custom course works with pacing and locking just like any other course. Navigate to Course Settings (formerly Course Manager) to set pacing and locking based on your customized outline. Renamed topics and lessons will retain their new names throughout.
Editing a Published Course
You can continue editing a customization after it's been published. Re-opening it creates a new Draft — changes won't go live until you publish again. Be aware that post-publish edits may impact enrolled students' scores and progress.
How It Works
Permission Levels
District Admins can create customizations that apply district-wide, to specific schools, or to targeted sections.
School Admins can create customizations scoped to their school and sections only.
Creating a Customization
From the Course Catalog, create a custom version of any original course. Original courses remain uneditable but can be hidden. All new customizations start in Draft status and require a name (description is optional).
Draft & Publishing Workflow
Draft customizations are invisible to teachers and students. Changes auto-save in Draft — nothing goes live until you hit Publish. Once published, the customization applies immediately to all existing and future enrollments. Any edits made after publishing also apply immediately.
There is no version history or rollback in the current release. You can manually re-include removed content or revert renames at any time.
Pacing, Locking & Scorebook
All three work against your customized course outline:
Removed content won't appear in pacing setup, locking tables, or the scorebook.
Progress percentages and grade rollups automatically recalculate to include only active content.
If content is re-added to a course on school-wide pacing, it will automatically receive a pacing date.
If a section or enrollment has overridden pacing, re-added content will not automatically receive pacing dates.
Grade Passback to SIS
Removed lessons produce no grades. Passback remains stable as content changes, and grade syncs will reflect updated rollups on the next scheduled sync for your district.
Known Limitations at Launch
Changes to a custom course require a hard refresh to take effect for students.
Topic numbering does not auto-adjust after reordering.
Midterms and finals do not auto-adjust when surrounding content is removed.
Syllabus documents are not updated to reflect customization changes.
Individual questions cannot be removed or edited.
Standards coverage warnings are not available in this release.
What's Out of Scope (For Now)
This release is focused on modifying existing content. The following are not yet supported:
Adding new content or merging courses
Moving content between topics
Teacher-level, section-specific customizations
Question-level edits
⚠️ Important: NCAA & UC A-G Approval Considerations
If your students are subject to NCAA or UC A-G requirements, please be aware of the following before removing course content:
NCAA Approval: Removing content may affect a course's NCAA approved status, which could impact student eligibility for NCAA athletic scholarships and college admissions. Feel free to ignore this warning if that is not required for your student group.
UC A-G Approval: Removing content may affect a course's UC A-G approved status, which could impact students' eligibility for UC and CSU admission. Feel free to ignore this warning if that is not required for your student group.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to student progress when I remove content? Removed lessons and topics no longer appear in navigation or count toward progress or grades. However, historical student work (attempts and scores) is never deleted. Progress percentages and grade rollups recalculate automatically.
Does a customization apply to students right away? Not until it's published. While in Draft, students see the original course. Once published, the customization applies immediately to all existing and future enrollments on their next load.
Can I undo changes or roll back to a previous version? There's no version history or rollback at this time. The last saved or published state is always the active one. You can manually re-include removed content or revert renames at any time.
Can I add content from other courses? No — this release is subtractive only (remove, reorder, rename). Adding content from other courses is not yet supported.
Can I rename the original courses? No. Only your custom version can be renamed. Original courses remain unchanged.