# Course details and settings

> Change a course's title, address and cover, decide how lessons open and how students join, or delete the course.

Source: https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/course-settings  
Plans: Academy  
Last checked: 2026-10-27

When you're done, your course looks right on its page, opens its lessons the way you want, and lets the
right people in.

**Who can do this:** the account owner and editors, on the Academy plan. Only the account owner can
delete a course.

Open the course and click **Course details**.

## Title, address and cover

- **Title**, **Subtitle** (one line on what students get) and **Description** (who it's for, what
  they'll learn, how long it takes) appear on the course's page.
- **Address:** the end of the course's link, after your Academy's address. Changing it changes the link
  as soon as you save, and links with the old address stop working.
- **Cover:** click **Upload cover** to add a wide picture for the course's card and page. It's cropped
  to a 3 by 1 banner.

## How the course works

![The second card of Course details: Tutor, Lesson order (In order or Any order), How students join (You add them, They ask, you approve, or With a course code), and switches for the course list and certificates.](https://mjmtbasmrtksluvlnema.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/help-media/web-optimized/academy-educators/course-settings/SS-ACAD-040-01__course-settings__academy__detail__v01.webp?v=edd6f8aca1)

- **Tutor:** the Chirp that answers students' questions. See
  [Give a course an AI tutor](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/tutors).
- **Lesson order** (1):
  - **In order:** a lesson opens when the required lessons before it are complete.
  - **Any order:** students open any lesson.
- **How students join** (2):
  - **You add them:** you invite students by email, add them yourself or upload a list.
  - **They ask, you approve:** students request a place on the course's page.
  - **With a course code:** students who have the code join on their own. Make the code on the
    **Students** tab.

  See [Add and manage students](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/students).
- **Show in the Academy's course list** (3): off, the course isn't listed on your Academy's home page,
  but its page still works for anyone with the link.
- **Certificate on completion:** students who complete the course get a certificate. See
  [Certificates](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/certificates).

Click **Save details**. The **Address**, **How students join**, **Show in the Academy's course list**
and **Certificate on completion** work as soon as you save. If the course is already published, its
title, subtitle, description, cover, tutor and lesson order reach students when you
[publish the changes](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/publish).

## Delete a course

At the bottom of **Course details**, click **Delete course** and type the course's title to confirm. This
deletes its lessons, files and published versions for good, and students lose their places and progress
on it. Certificates already issued keep working. If the course was in a learning path, it no longer holds
anyone back there; remove it from the path to tidy up.

To take a course offline for a while instead, [unpublish it](https://www.chirpbuilder.com/help/academy-educators/publish).