# Courses integration

> Showcase your ESTAGE Courses on your site — catalogs, category filters, course cards.

Source: https://knowledge.estage.com/elements/courses/
Part of the ESTAGE knowledge base (https://knowledge.estage.com). Full corpus: https://knowledge.estage.com/llms-full.txt

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Sell or share courses on ESTAGE? The **Courses integration** puts your live course catalog on
your Genesis site.

## How to trigger it

Pick **/estage Courses** in the `/` menu (type `/courses` to find it). It starts an
`[Estage Courses: …]` request you finish in your own words. Or just describe it. For example:

- *"add a course catalog from my ESTAGE library with category filters, 3 per row"*
- *"add a featured courses section for the home page"*
- *"add a searchable list of all my courses with covers and lesson counts"*

## What happens

Genesis builds a section that **fetches your real courses** — names, descriptions, covers,
categories, lesson counts — and renders the catalog you described. It's live data:

- **Publish a new course → it appears on the site** automatically.
- Category filters and search work against your actual catalog.

## Tweaking without chat

A catalog built from the **/estage Courses** entry usually exposes its options (how many courses
show, category, search) as [Live Controls](/elements/live-controls/), so you adjust them
in the sidebar without an AI request. If yours has none, select it and pick
**/controls Live Controls**.

## Where the courses come from

The catalog shows the **public courses of the ESTAGE community behind your site** — the one
live data source, read on every visit:

- **The project's own community** (the **Community app**, turned on in Settings → Overview) —
  this is what a website's catalog reads.
- **A community linked to the site** through the Community toolkit (Web apps) — the catalog
  reads that community instead, even when it lives in a different ESTAGE project.

A community that lives in a **different ESTAGE project** and is not linked to the site is not
read. That is the usual reason a catalog of a community you own comes back empty.

Only courses marked **public** are listed. Day-challenges and courses that need approval never
appear.

## Seeing "No public courses yet"?

1. Check that your courses are **public** in that community.
2. Check that the courses are in **this project's** community (or in the community linked to
   the site), not in a community of another ESTAGE project.
3. If you added the catalog before linking the community, ask the AI to *"reload the course
   catalog from my community"* so the section picks up the linked community.

## What a click on a course does

Each course card opens that course **in your community** (its preview lesson if it has one,
otherwise the first lesson). Signing in, buying a paid course and taking the lessons all happen
there — your site never asks visitors to register or log in. If the cards of an older catalog
don't open the course, ask the AI: *"make each course card open the course in my community"*.

## Notes

- The catalog links visitors to the courses; the course experience itself (lessons, progress,
  payment) runs on ESTAGE.