The launch to-do list
Every course has a Launch to-do list on its page at /teach/<course>. It holds what has to happen
before and after the course goes live: record the welcome video, tell the department, publish the post
about it on your blog. Everyone who edits the course sees the same list: its teacher, the school's admin
and the platform owner.
Adding an item
Under Add to the list, pick:
- Task or Blog post. A blog post asks for the blog's name (so nobody has to guess where it goes), and the post's or the blog's URL if you have it.
- When it falls due: Before it goes live (from the moment the course is scheduled), Once it is live (when learners can take it), or Now.
The warning
Whenever someone signals that the course should go live, the open items appear as a warning first, so the real launch date can be planned around them. That happens when you:
- save settings that schedule the course, make it public or members, publish it, or release its hold;
- press Release the review hold;
- (platform owner) mark the course vetted.
The warning never blocks you. Go ahead does exactly what you asked; Not yet goes back.
Closing an item
Mark done asks what was done: a link to the live post, what changed, or why you are not doing it. An item cannot be closed without that note, because "done" with nothing written down hides whether it really happened. Items you added can also be removed.
Items added by Claude
On the platform owner's own courses, some items are written in by Claude (for example the blog post that announces a course, or a step to re-check once it is released). They show "added by Claude", and only the platform owner closes them.
What the platform owner sees
When a course is scheduled or made live with items still open, the platform owner sees it under Release follow-ups in Admin, with a count on the Admin home page. It is a to-do list, not a message: nobody is notified, and nothing is sent.