Astrion Academy

How-to videos

Short films of the real product, one task each. Nothing is staged — every one is a recording of the working software, with a demo academy standing in for a real school.

For creators

Starting your own school: sign up, get paid, price your courses, and choose your plan. Building courses works the same as for workspace owners, below.

A two-minute tour 2:09

See the creator side from start to finish: sign up, give your school its look, build a course, set a price, and see the store your students see.

Start your school 0:54

Pick a plan and enter your details, and your school is ready. Free needs no card, and a link to set your password goes to your email.

Get paid: connect Stripe 0:41

Choose the country your business is based in, then connect your own Stripe account from Payouts so buyers pay you directly.

Sell in your currency 0:57

Price an offer in US, New Zealand, Australian or Canadian dollars, pounds or euros, and buyers pay in that currency.

Your plan 0:45

See your plan and CourseForge's fee, and move up to Creator or Pro through Stripe's checkout.

Turn a PowerPoint into a lesson 2:44

Export your narrated slides from PowerPoint as a video, add it to your course as a Video lesson, and give students the slides as a download.

For learners

Everything a student does inside an academy, one task at a time.

Pick up where you left off 0:31

My Learning lists every course you are enrolled in, and Continue Course takes you straight to the next lesson you have not finished.

Complete a lesson 0:28

Work through a lesson, mark it done, and watch your progress move.

Take a quiz 0:26

Answer, submit, and get your score back with the right answers marked.

Submit an assignment 0:27

Upload your work and see it recorded against the course.

Get your certificate 0:29

Finish the last lesson and collect the certificate the course issues.

Listen to course audio 0:30

Some courses carry a narrated track you can listen to instead of reading.

Your account 0:26

Change your name and find your sign-in details.

For workspace owners

Running your own academy — building courses, enrolling people, and selling.

Your workspace 0:27

Where everything lives, and where to start if you are new.

Create a course 0:33

A title, an address that fills itself in, and a summary. It saves as a draft.

Add a module 0:23

Courses are made of modules, and modules hold the lessons.

Build a quiz by pasting it 0:26

Write the questions as plain text and let the importer turn them into a quiz.

Publish a course 0:23

The one control that decides who can see it.

Enrol a learner 0:21

Put somebody on a course yourself, without waiting for them to buy.

Brand your academy 0:28

Your headline, your logo, and the two colours everything follows.

See how learners are doing 0:21

Progress by course and by learner — the page to open before you chase anybody.

Sell a course 0:25

An offer, a price, and the courses it unlocks.

Reach your learners 0:24

Automated messages, previewed before a single email leaves.