Drip content

Drip content decides when each module and each lesson opens for the student. For example: module 2 opens 7 days after the purchase. It does not decide who has access to the course; that is the enrollment.

The idea in one minute

Think of the course as a building. The product is the door of the building. Each module is the door of a floor. Each lesson is the door of a room.

• A rule tells when a door opens. For example: "7 days after purchase" or "on March 10".
• A schedule is a set of rules with a name, such as "March cohort".
• A delivery is what the student buys. It tells which schedule applies to them.

To open a room, the door of the building, the door of the floor and the door of the room must all be open.

The most important rule: a schedule alone does nothing. It applies to the student only when their delivery uses that schedule. If the delivery has no schedule, the student sees all the lessons on the same day.

The rule types

You choose a rule for the product, for each module and for each lesson. The window is When does this open for the student?.

Before you save, the window shows a sentence with the result. For example: "7 days after purchase" or "passing: Final exam". The same sentence shows in the list of modules and lessons.

How Cademí decides if a lesson opens

Cademí checks three doors, in this order: the product, the module and the lesson. If a door has no rule of its own, it follows the door above. The list shows this in italics. For example: "Follows the module: opens on 03/10/26". If a door has its own rule and the door above also has a lock, the list adds "plus the module rule".

What this means in practice:

• Open on a lesson does not open that lesson before its module. The door of the floor stays closed.
• A rule on the product applies to the whole course.
• A rule on a module applies to the lessons directly in it. The lessons of a submodule follow the product and their own submodule.
• Hidden is the exception: a hidden module hides everything in it.

When it opens and when it closes

Days after purchase

• The count starts at the student's purchase, with the time. A purchase at 3:00 PM with "7 days" opens at 3:00 PM on the seventh day.
• The count uses the oldest purchase that still counts. A new purchase does not restart the count and does not close what is already open.
• Closes after also counts from the purchase, not from the opening. The content stays open until the end of that day. The closing day must be after the opening day.
• If the student's enrollment has its own end date, that date applies. Closes after does not count.

On a date

• It opens on the date and at the time you set.
• A closing with a time closes at that minute. A closing with only the date closes at the end of the day.
• A closing date on the product ends the access to the product. On a module or a lesson, it closes only that part.

Passing an exam

• It opens when the student passes the exam.
• A fail completes the exam lesson, but it does not open the lock.
• An exam with no minimum score opens the lock when the attempt ends. See Exams.

When the student has two purchases of the same course

Each purchase brings the schedule of its own delivery. Cademí uses the most open rule, in this order:

1. Open (or a delivery with no schedule)
2. Days after purchase
3. On a date
4. Passing an exam
5. Coming soon
6. Hidden

Cademí compares the rule type, not the date. "7 days after purchase" wins over "opens on March 10", even if March 10 comes first. Hidden applies only if all the purchases hide.

Heads up: this is where most errors happen. Ana buys the course with the weekly schedule. Then she gets a bonus. The bonus delivery includes the same course, but it uses no schedule. Result: on the day of the bonus, Ana sees all the modules. To prevent this, use the same schedule in every delivery that includes the course.

Step by step

Create a schedule

1. Open Content → Drip content.
2. Click New schedule.
3. In Tag, choose a tag or click Create tag. The tag name is the schedule name.
4. In Product, choose the product.
5. Click Create schedule.

The screen opens the product with the list of modules and lessons. At the start, everything is Open.

You can also start in the product, in the Drip content tab. Click New schedule and choose the tag. If this schedule already exists in this product, the screen opens the one that exists.

Set the rules

1. In the Schedules panel, click the schedule.
2. In the list, click the row of the product, the module or the lesson.
3. In the When does this open for the student? window, choose the rule and fill in the fields.
4. Check the result sentence.
5. Click Save. Each row saves on its own.

To use the same schedule in another product, go back to Content → Drip content. Expand the schedule and click Add product.

Link the schedule to a delivery

Without this step, nothing changes for the students. Choose one of the two ways:

• From the delivery. Open the delivery in Sales → Deliveries. On the row of the product, choose the schedule in the Release selector. See Deliveries.
• From the schedule. In the menu of the schedule, click Use in deliveries. In the product, the name is Use in a delivery. Tick the deliveries and click Apply to N deliveries.

Before you apply, the screen shows what changes in each delivery: "already in this schedule", "replaces Cohort A with this schedule" or "not part of this delivery". Only active deliveries that include a product of the schedule show. The screen tells how many deliveries it left out.

The Also add the ... tag to the students of these deliveries option gives the tag to the buyers. Content release does not depend on this tag.

The change applies at once to students who already bought. If you change the schedule of a delivery, or change a rule, the calendar changes for all the students of that delivery.

Change one student only

In the student's profile, Products tab:

• Change release schedule puts only this student on another schedule of the same product.
• Release set to Immediate removes the days, date and exam rules for this student. Hidden and Coming soon stay.

See Enrollments and access.

Delete and restore

• Delete, in the menu of the schedule, sends the rules of all its products to the trash. The students keep their access.
• You cannot delete a schedule that an active delivery uses. Remove the schedule from the delivery first.
• Remove from schedule, in the menu of a product, removes only that product. In the product, the Delete button does the same.
• The Trash keeps what you deleted. Click Restore to bring it back.

What the student sees

Three ready examples

One module per week, for each student.

1. Product: Open.
2. Module 1: Open.
3. Module 2: Days after purchase, 7 days.
4. Module 3: Days after purchase, 14 days.
5. Use the schedule in every delivery that includes the course.

Each student gets one module per week, from their own purchase.

A cohort with dates.

1. Create a tag with the cohort name and a schedule with this tag.
2. On each module, use On a date. For example: module 1 on March 10 at 8:00 AM, module 2 on March 17.
3. On the modules with no date yet, use Coming soon.
4. Use the schedule in a new delivery, only for this cohort.

For the next cohort, create another tag, another schedule and another delivery. If you change this schedule, the current cohort changes too.

Hold a module during the refund period.

1. Product: Open.
2. On the module you want to hold, use Days after purchase with the number of days of the refund period.

The rest of the course opens at once.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions