For academies

Delegate the teaching. Keep the school.

An academy runs on delegation: someone else records the lessons, someone else answers the threads. Coursio assigns an instructor to a course — never to the school — measures what learners actually completed, and issues the credential in the school's name.

Create your school See the ownership terms

One record chain · sample school

Assignment → completion → proof

Owner
Alex Johnson
Aug 10, 2026 · 09:12
Maria Garcia assigned to Editorial Systems for Creators
The assignment is scoped to one course. Maria can author its curriculum, replace its lesson media and answer its community. Offers, orders, revenue, staff, branding and billing are not in her navigation at all.
Scope · 1 courseRole · Instructor
Learner
Daniel Chen
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 hours ago
18 of 18 lessons complete · final assessment passed
Completion is written per lesson and per attempt, from the enrollment record. Nothing here is a self-report: the score below is attempt 2 of a 12-question assessment.
Score 86%Attempt 2Completed
School
Northstar Studio
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 hours ago
Certificate NS-4821-KQ issued
The proof belongs to the school, not to the instructor who taught the course. Its public page states the course, the school and the issue date — the learner's email never appears on it.

Sample data for design review. This is one chain — an assignment, a completion, a proof — not a summary of school performance. Coursio does not publish outcome statistics it did not measure.

A teaching team is a list of ceilings

Adding a person to your school is not a trust exercise. Every role resolves to a fixed set of things it can and cannot reach, and the product shows that set instead of describing it in a help article.

Staff · Northstar Studio

Manage staff

AJAlex Johnsonalex@example.comOwner
MGMaria Garciamaria@example.com · 2 assigned coursesInstructor
?instructor@example.comInvited Aug 11, 2026 · no courses yetInvite pending

An invited instructor holds no access until the invite is accepted and a course is assigned. A school with no staff yet shows “No instructors yet — invite the first”, never a blank panel.

What each role can reach

Instructor entries apply to assigned courses only.

Capability ceiling by role in a Coursio school
Capability	Owner	Instructor
Author and edit curriculum	✓	Assigned
Upload and replace lesson media	✓	Assigned
Answer course community threads	✓	Assigned
See progress and quiz attempts	✓	Assigned
Publish or unpublish a course	✓	—
Create and edit offers	✓	—
See orders and revenue	✓	—
Invite staff and assign courses	✓	—
Change branding or domain	✓	—
Open school billing	✓	—

Staff roles and assigned instructors are a Growth capability. On Launch the school has one owner and no delegation.

Assign a course, not the school

See the staff surface

Courses and assignments — sample school

Every state this table renders, including the ones that failed.

Course	Instructor	Course state	Action
Editorial Systems for Creators4 modules · 18 lessons	MGMaria Garcia	Published
Field Recording Fundamentals3 modules · 11 lessons	MGMaria Garcia	Draft
Studio Light and Sound2 modules · 6 lessons	No instructor assigned	Draft
Interview Craft1 module · 4 lessons	Saving assignment…	Draft	Loading
Archive and Metadata2 modules · 9 lessons	Assignment failed to save	Draft

A school with no courses yet renders “No courses yet — create the first”, with the create action attached. A failed read of the course list says so and offers a retry; it never renders an empty table as if the school were empty.

Assessment

Completion is measured, not assumed

Progress is written per lesson from real playback and per attempt from real answers. Where a learner stopped is a fact the school can read, so a stalled module is visible while it can still be fixed.

Completion by module

Editorial Systems · sample

Module 196%
Module 288%
Module 368%
Module 441%

Sample cohort. The drop at Module 4 is the kind of thing an academy wants to see before the certificate queue dries up — the school reads it, the assigned instructor reads it for that course, nobody outside the school reads it at all.

Final assessment · 12 questions

Attempts are recorded per learner, including the ones that did not pass.

Learner	Attempt	Score	State
Daniel Chen	2	86%	Passed
learner-2@example.com	1	54%	Failed
learner-3@example.com	1	—	In progress
learner-4@example.com	—	—	Not started

Scope, stated plainly: assessments here are Coursio quizzes attached to a recorded course. There is no proctoring, no essay marking queue and no import of an assessment authored somewhere else.

Open the course surface

The proof outlives the enrollment

A certificate that stops resolving the day a learner's access ends is not a credential, it is a receipt. Coursio issues the proof in the school's name and keeps the public code resolving after the course is retired, the instructor moves on or the tenant is exported.

Issued by the school: Northstar Studio appears on the proof. An assigned instructor never issues a credential in their own name, and removing them does not invalidate one.
Immutable completion record: The lessons and attempt that earned it are frozen at issue time. Editing the course afterwards changes what future learners do, not what a past learner completed.
Revocation is a visible state: A revoked certificate resolves to Revoked, with its date. Nothing is deleted quietly and no code silently starts returning nothing.
Survives export: Certificate codes keep verifying after a tenant export. Continuity is part of what you take with you, not something you lose by leaving.

Read the credential terms

Public verification

Valid

/verify/NS-4821-KQ

Editorial Systems for Creators

Issued by: Northstar Studio
Issued on: Aug 12, 2026
Assessment: Passed · 86%
Learner identity: Not shown publicly

A code that does not exist returns “No certificate matches this code”, not a blank page. An unreachable verification service says it is unreachable rather than reporting the certificate invalid.

Open decision

Certificate signing-key custody is not settled

Who holds the key that signs a Coursio certificate — the platform, the school, or both — is still being decided. Until it is, the product labels the custody state on the certificate surface instead of implying a guarantee it cannot yet make.

Every school is a tenant. Reporting stops at the boundary.

An academy that runs several schools gets several isolated schools — not one shared pool with filters over it. There is no report that merges two schools' learners, because there is no place where those learners meet.

Northstar Studio

learn.northstar.example

Plan: Growth
Courses: 3
Enrollments: 186

Field Notes Academy

school.fieldnotes.example

Plan: Scale
Courses: 7
Enrollments: 1,234

Atlas Sound School

Domain not connected yet

Plan: Launch
Courses: None yet
Enrollments: 0

Reads across schools

Which schools exist, and their plan and platform-fee state
Provisioning and suspension of a school you own
A full export of any one tenant, on request

Never crosses a school boundary

Students, email lists and community threads
Orders, revenue and affiliate commissions
Playback identity and per-learner progress

Tenant export · Field Notes Academy

Processing

Requested Aug 12, 2026 · 2 hours ago. The school list itself renders placeholder rows while it loads, says “Only one school so far” when there is one, and reports a failed read with a retry — it never shows an empty roster as if schools had been removed.

What Coursio does not do

Said here rather than discovered in month two. If one of these is a requirement, Coursio is the wrong platform for that part of your academy.

Recorded courses onlyNo live classes, cohorts with scheduled sessions, or webinar hosting.
No SIS integrationNo roster sync with a student-information system, and no automated enrolment feed from one.
No SCORM, xAPI or LTI importCurriculum is authored in Coursio. Packaged courseware from another system does not import.
No accreditationA certificate proves completion inside your school. Coursio does not confer or broker any accredited qualification.
No cross-school discoveryThere is no Coursio marketplace. Learners arrive through your own storefront and nowhere else.
Provider allowances unresolvedVideo, storage and email allowances read Configuration required after provider PoC until that decision lands.

Evaluate it with one course and one instructor.

You do not need to migrate an academy to find out whether the ceilings hold. Open a school, publish one course, assign one instructor and watch a single completion turn into a proof.

Create your school Compare plans

Step 1Open the schoolBrand it, connect a domain, keep it unlisted while you look.
Step 2Publish one courseFour modules is enough to see the drip and publish rules behave.
Step 3Assign one instructorSign in as them and confirm the ceiling matches the table above.
Step 4Read one proofComplete the course yourself and verify the code that comes out.

Plan pricing is read from the live plan record at checkout, never from this page.