> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://fayneos.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Add, Organize, and Customize Courses in Your Academy

> Browse the pre-made course library, add courses to your academy, and customize them freely from the Explore Library.

Fayne ships with a curated library of professional business courses, organized into thematic Tracks. You do not start from a blank page. Every course in the library is fully written, structured, and ready to use. Your job is to pick what fits your audience, add it to your academy, and customize from there.

## How content is structured

Content in Fayne follows a four-level hierarchy:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Lesson" icon="file-text">
    The atomic unit. Each lesson is 10 to 20 minutes of focused content. Lessons are reusable across many courses.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Course" icon="book-open">
    A sequence of 5 to 15 lessons in a logical progression. For example, "Cold Outreach Mastery."
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track" icon="layers">
    A group of related courses covering a domain, such as the Sales Mastery Track or the Leadership Track.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Academy" icon="graduation-cap">
    Your complete branded product. What students see as one unified destination at your URL.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Browse and add courses from the library

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the course library">
    In your owner dashboard, click **Explore** in the left sidebar. Courses are organized by Track. You can filter by Track or search by keyword.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Preview a course before adding it">
    Click any course to open its detail view. You will see the full lesson outline, estimated duration, and lesson count. Scroll through the outline to confirm the course fits your audience before committing.

    <Tip>
      Preview a few courses in the same Track to compare outlines. Tracks are designed to work together, but you can add individual courses without adding the entire Track.
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add a course to your academy">
    Click **Add to my academy** on any course detail page. The course appears in your academy immediately. Students can see and enroll in it once you publish it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## The Explore library and your copy

When you add a course, Fayne copies its content into your academy as your own private version. This is what lets you customize freely.

Here is how it works:

* **Adding a course copies its content into your academy.** From that moment, every lesson is your own copy. You edit it in place, by hand or with AI.
* **Your edits never touch the Library or any other academy.** Each academy has its own independent copies.
* **Library improvements apply to future additions only.** When Fayne improves a course in the Explore library, those updates flow into academies that add the course afterward. Courses already in your academy are not changed.

<Info>
  Copies are made per lesson when you add a course. Every lesson in an added course is an independent copy that you own and can edit.
</Info>

This gives you professionally authored content as a starting point, with the freedom to make any lesson sound exactly like you.

## Organize your catalog into categories

Categories let you group and order the courses in your academy so students can browse by topic. They are purely organizational: a category groups and orders courses, it does not control who can access them (access is set by each course's pricing and your audiences).

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Courses page">
    Go to **Courses**. Your courses appear on a board, grouped by category.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create a category">
    Create a new category and give it a **name** (for example, "Getting Started"), a color, and an optional description. Names are up to 60 characters and must be unique within your academy.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add courses and set the order">
    Drag courses into a category, and drag the categories themselves to set the order students see. Courses you have not placed in a category appear under a **More courses** group at the end.
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Note>
  Categories only organize your catalog; they never grant access. To control who can open a course, set its price (see [Pricing Models](/payments/pricing-models)) or grant access through an [audience](/students/audiences). Students see your catalog grouped by these categories on your courses page.
</Note>

## Build your own course

You are not limited to the pre-built courses in the library. You can create your own course from scratch and write its lessons, by hand or with AI.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Can I write a lesson from scratch?">
    Yes. Inside any course, click **Add lesson** to open the block editor with a blank canvas. You can write entirely original lessons, use AI to help draft them, and mix them freely with library lessons in the same course.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What happens to my edits if Fayne improves a course in the Explore Library?">
    Nothing. The lessons in your academy are your own copies. Improvements Fayne makes to the Explore Library apply only to courses added after the update. Courses already in your academy stay exactly as you left them.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I remove a course from my academy?">
    Yes. Open the course in your dashboard and select **Delete course**. Students who are already enrolled lose access immediately.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>