Customize a Course with Premier

Premier is a powerful Course template that lets you customize the look and feel of a Course to match a brand and create a unique experience for customers.

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What is Premier?

The Premier editor allows you to customize sections and content blocks throughout your course pages. There are a multitude of user experience options, including course progress, cross-sells, Instructor visibility, Modules or Lesson visibility, and much more. Tap into the ultimate appearance and utilize background images on a product level with Premier.

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Install Premier

Installing Premier allows you to design Course pages, but they will not be visible to customers. Design and update the Course behind-the-scenes until you are ready to make it visible to customers.

1. Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
2. Select the **Course **you wish to design.
3. Click the Customize tab.
4. Select Install Template.
5. Select the **Premier Template **to preview.
6. Click Install Template.

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Customize Course pages

After installing the template, navigate through the various Course pages from the top dropdown menu in the page editor: Learn to customize the Course lesson page with the Premier template. Once you have finished customizing and designing the Course, you are ready to activate it. Learn to activate a template.

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Customize with Premier

Customize the Course with Kajabi’s click-to-edit system. Simply locate the section you wish to customize and make desired changes in the sidebar control panel. Or select the different sections from the sidebar control panel to edit the various sections that make up the Course page. With the Premier Template, you can customize the various Sections of your page and the Page Settings.

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Premier sections

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Header

Customize the look and feel of the Course header with a logo and user menu. And with the Header editor, choose to add an announcement or a call to action to the forefront of the page:

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Search Bar

Choose to hide or include a search link in the header menu and customize the language and appearance of the search link:

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Hero

Customize the hero section of the Course page to change the appearance of the top-most section of the page. Choose to show or hide the Hero section and configure its appearance by including any additional blocks:

• Product Info
• Start Button
• Call to Action
• Text

Learn to customize Hero sections with Premier.

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Welcome Body

Customize the Welcome Body section to choose to hide or include a welcome body directly above the Course content. Configure the text alignment and add additional blocks to design the welcome body:

• Call to Action
• Code
• Course Progress
• Image
• Product Info
• Start Button
• Text
• Video

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Course Syllabus

The Course Syllabus is the outline of your Course Modules and Lessons. Customize the Syllabus section to show or hide the syllabus, display the syllabus by Modules or by Lessons, truncate the number of Modules or Lessons displayed on a single page, and change the language for Modules, Coming Soon, and Show More text:

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Community Widget

If you’ve created a Kajabi Community Product on the same site as the Course, you’ll have the option to add a Community Widget to the Course template to embed a Community Circle in the Course: Before adding a Community Widget, you’ll need to link a Community Access Group in the Course Settings (and make sure the Access Group is added to the Course Offers). Learn how to embed a Community Circle in a Course.

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Course Sidebar

Customize the Course Sidebar by choosing to show or hide the sidebar and including any combination of blocks to optimize the customer’s experience with the page. Course Sidebar blocks:

• Course Progress: Display the lessons completed with an image of the Course Thumbnail

The progress bar color is controlled by the primary color configured in the Page Settings. Adjust the Accent Color Override to change the color for the progress bar independently from the accent color of the page.

• Cross Sell: Promote another Offer directly from the Course to encourage existing customers to purchase. Customize the appearance of the Offer within the Cross Sell block in the Sidebar:

• Custom Block: Add a custom block onto the Sidebar to build in another Offer, display a promotion, communicate an announcement, and more. The custom block is fully customizable. With the custom block you can choose to include an image, text, and/or add a Call to Action:

• Image: Add an image to the Course Sidebar and choose to include an Image Action or keep the Image Action blank to simply communicate a message to customers:

• Instructor: Include instructor information for the Course by adding an Instructor section(s) to the Course Page.

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Footer

Customize the Footer section of the Course page. Choose to show or hide the Footer, include the Copyright, add a Logo, show a Menu, and/or add Social Icons:

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Add Social Icons to the Footer

1. Under the Social Icons header, check the Show Social Icons box.
2. Then, enter the full URL for your social media accounts.
3. Customize the appearance of the social icons.
4. Click Save to keep the changes:

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Premier page settings

The page settings for the template streamline the build and design of the entire Course by generating configured page settings across every page of the Course. With Premier, this will update your favicon, typography, color scheme, and general settings across your:

• Main Course page
• Announcements page
• Module page
• Lesson page
• Comment page
• Search page

Customize the settings for the Course page by opening the Settings tab from the sidebar control panel: Favicon: a small icon on a website tab or window in a browser. You’re probably familiar with the favicon for the sites you frequently visit, such as the blue Kajabi favicon for this very page: While adding a favicon is simple, it’s just one more way you can signal professionalism and reinforce a brand. The ideal image file size for favicons is 32x32 PNG. However, if you upload a bigger image Kajabi will help you resize it. Upload the favicon by clicking Select Image and uploading a file or by selecting a recent file. Typography allows you to customize the font and text color across the Course Page. Use the dropdown menus to change the font for heading and body text: Color Scheme is the overall color scheme across all of the pages in the Course. Message Colors are the colors for text when different messages appear for customers:

• Success
• Info
• Warning
• Danger

General Settings allow you to customize the overall background color for Course pages and you can choose to include a background image. Customize the color of the Background by clicking the color wheel. If you prefer to use a custom color, click the color wheel and then either enter the RGB color code or use the sliders to choose a color.

• The vertical bar allows you to select the hue.
• The square box allows you to adjust the brightness and saturation.
• The horizontal bar allows you to select the opacity of the color.

The template applied to the Course will activate across all the Lessons within the Course to create a seamless experience for customers to easily navigate through the Product. Learn more about customizing the appearance of a Course.

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Customize the Course lesson

1. Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
2. Select the Course.
3. Click Customize.
4. Open the Installed Templates folder.
5. Select the Template you wish to customize.
6. Click Customize.
7. Navigate to the Lesson page in the editor by clicking the dropdown in the top bar.
8. Select Lesson from the dropdown menu:

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Course Lesson editor

The Lesson design page is very similar to the Course design page with a few additions:

• Breadcrumbs can be displayed to act as a trail leading back to the Course homepage.
• Lesson Player can be used to customize the Video Player Layout and Color, Language, Player Pagination Design, and the Auto Advance feature. Learn about the Lesson Player Auto Advance feature.
• Lesson Body allows you to configure the appearance of your Lesson Body to adjust the text alignment, the Mark as Complete button, allow Lesson and Video Downloads, include a Call to Action (CTA), and add custom Code. Note: If you choose to remove the Mark as Complete button, product progress can only be tracked by the progress of a Video or an Assessment uploaded into the Lesson.
• Lesson Comments can be configured to customize the text and button color of your Course Lesson comments section.
• Lesson Sidebar allows you to add static or clickable images, instructor information across all Lessons, allow Lesson and Video Downloads, and more.

Customizing the appearance of the Course lesson template applies to all Lessons in the Course to create a seamless experience for customers throughout a single Product.