The COMPLETE Guide To Setting Up Your Course 👩‍🎓 in Squarespace (2023!)

[@getzillion]

incredible video - 2 questions: 1. Anyway to have video progress shown for members? Ex: they're going through a course, they'd see a checkmark or "completed" so they know where they're at when they return. 2. Anyway to have quizzes or questions accompany the videos?

[@BigCatCreative]

Thanks! I don't believe either of those are available natively yet. Really, member areas is just a way to gate part of your website behind a password, but, they don't really have any extra "course" features like this. If you want to embed a quiz, you could use something like Interact, but it's not something that is natively available in Squarespace!

[@jenniferoeland]

What a comprehensive video! This is awesome!

[@stevegaskins8722]

Great video! Just what I was looking for. You have a new sub.

[@BigCatCreative]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it

[@valentinarideaux6042]

Excellent Video!!! I purchased the membership site and started playing around with it but you made it all make sense in this short video. I'm ready!!! Thank You :)

[@BigCatCreative]

Yay so glad it helped!

[@rumble.sky.designs]

Thank you so much! This is exactly what I was looking for, really well explained.

[@StephanieCornell]

Thank you so much, Erica! This answered so many questions for me. I have a couple of clients who are interested in setting up gated content / courses and have been using 3rd party platforms, but I've wanted to pull them over to Member Spaces to keep things on the site. The biggest thing Squarespace is still missing is a forum - this is a request from everyone who asks! Thank you thank you

[@BigCatCreative]

Yes so handy to have everything all together! But yes, that is something there missing! Not sure if it’s in the pipeline. Make sure you reach out to squarespace and request, this is the best way to get things in the works!

[@sdot7117]

This has been the most valuable piece of content I’ve received this year for my business. THANK YOU.

[@BigCatCreative]

So happy to hear that!

[@Whatevertheheck]

This is amazing, THANK YOU for making this!!! You’ll be surprised how hard it is to find a straight to the point video on this haha

[@JasonPhillip303]

you are amazing this has been the best video about this topic i've seen so far. i have one question when i am setting up the course can i copy and past like from a word document to squuarespace

[@BigCatCreative]

Hey! Yes for sure. On any squarespace page you can add a “text block” then you can paste content from anywhere into the block. You might have to tweak the formatting a bit but it should be ok.

[@Sarah-cd1mm]

How does the person paying go about receiving their password? Will there be a settings area for them to change it?

[@madebydesignwithleanne6882]

Hi great tutorial. Thanks. I have a question. I already have a store set up with my description of what my program is. How do I connect that already what's there to the course of I use blog?

[@BigCatCreative]

Hey! It depends how you have it set up already. If you want us to help you through it you can email our extra support service bigcatcreative.com/extra-support :)

[@madebydesignwithleanne6882]

@@BigCatCreative my website is Squarespace. My course is not on a website but I bought the program. I just can add or edit my own way and add it to a format.

[@with_joyy]

Hey Cat, do you know if I'm able to drip feed content and have this set up for future members? E.g. I have a course that's launching in a few weeks. Aiming to have people live & a facebook group. Wondering for people that join in the future if they could have Module 1 - Week 1 and then automatically release Module 2 and 3 the weeks after? This was super super helpful.

[@BigCatCreative]

Hey Josie! I don't think it's possible to drip feed content based on when people join. Definitely message Squarespace and request this, I think a lot of others already have :) But don't think it's in the pipeline. If you had a set start date you could 'enable' the content yourself as the weeks go, but it's not ideal if you want it to release as people join.

[@creativebodycoach]

@bigcatcreative the way you lay out that blog page...is that not possible in 7.0? Thank you.

[@BigCatCreative]

It depends on your template. Do you know what 7.0 template you're using? Different 7.0 templates offer different blog layouts :)

[@creativebodycoach]

@@BigCatCreative I'm using Hayden. Thank you.

[@BigCatCreative]

@@creativebodycoach Here's info about Hayden/Bedford blog pages, looks like it's most of a List than a Grid view, so I would recommend using Summary Blocks or just Image Blocks to create that style, and link to your blog posts from there. support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205825968-Bedford-template-family?platform=v6&websiteId=615ad094ed590a052868fe10#toc-blog-pages

[@creativebodycoach]

@@BigCatCreative you are the best. Thank you.

[@madebydesignwithleanne6882]

How do we transfer our course information to our website. I have a course now.

[@geneva_ellis]

Hi Erica, thank you for this - so helpful! What video recording system do you use? I've been using Zoom or Simple practice to record, download and then upload video content and it sounds like Descript might be a great alternative for this. What are your thoughts?

[@BigCatCreative]

Hey! For courses I generally use QuickTime to screenrecord (mac) and Descript to edit and host. I used to edit in iMovie but editing course content in Descript has been a game changer.

[@klaudiawos94]

Hello, great video as always :) I love your content I always learn a ton. I have a question in regard to fonts I hope someone can point me in the right direction. So I have chosen a font for my website (Squarespace ) headings, my paragraphs, buttons and Miscellaneous. I would like to have the same font for the subheading as well as a button. how do I go about this?

[@BigCatCreative]

Hey Klaudia! Are you saying you want a different for different headings? Just trying to understand your question so I can point you in the right direction :)

[@klaudiawos94]

@@BigCatCreative Yes sorry, that did not make too much sense :D So what I want to do is to have two different fonts in the heading section alone. so one for let's say H1 and a different font for subheading. I hope this makes sense. Thank you for your help

[@BigCatCreative]

@@klaudiawos94 Yes so you can do this with CSS! Here's our tutorial www.bigcatcreative.com/blog/upload-fonts-squarespace If you don't want to actually upload a font file, but just change one of your headings to a font that already exists in the Squarespace library, you can skip the Upload font file step and just added the code eg h3 {font-family: 'font-name'} You just have to know the name of the font code. Usually it's just the name of the font eg 'Arial'

[@klaudiawos94]

@@BigCatCreative wow thank you so much for your help. I will try that . :)

[@derekkelly485]

If I have two members areas will the customer have two separate logins for each member area?

[@BigCatCreative]

I believe they have 1 login and can access whatever you have given them access to under 1 account. This might be helpful: support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050367312-How-members-access-their-customer-account?platform=v6&websiteId=615ad094ed590a052868fe10

[@pazikperformancegroup]

Hi! What template are you using in SquareSpace?

[@BigCatCreative]

Do you mean for our bigcatcreative.com site? we're using Squarespace 7.1, but lots of it is custom coded.

[@pazikperformancegroup]

After digging around I realized I’m using squarespace 7.0 and need to move everything over. Time to update!

[@madebydesignwithleanne6882]

Oh man I'm still struggling to put my course that I already have into the members group. How much does it cost to get soneone to do it?

[@BigCatCreative]

It should be pretty easy and quick for us to help you figure out! Flick us a message bigcatcreative.com/extra-support