How to Use the Course Block in UniLink (Sell Online Courses From Your Page)

A step-by-step guide to setting up the Course block in UniLink so you can sell and deliver structured online courses directly from your link-in-bio page.

Creating a course and selling it used to mean a separate platform — Teachable, Kajabi, Thinkific — plus a sales page, email sequences, and a separate link to manage. If you're a coach, educator, or creator whose audience already lives in your link-in-bio, routing them through three different tools before they can enroll is unnecessary friction. The Course block in UniLink puts enrollment, content delivery, and student progress tracking in one place, on the same page where your audience already lands. You build the curriculum once, set your price, and let people join directly.

What the Course block does

The Course block is a full course delivery system embedded in your UniLink page. Visitors see a course card with a title, cover image, short description, and an enrollment button. When they click Enroll, they're taken through a simple checkout flow (for paid courses) or directly into the student dashboard (for free courses). From there, they access lessons inside UniLink's Course app — no external platform, no separate login if they already have a UniLink account.

The curriculum is structured in modules and lessons. A module is a grouping (e.g., "Week 1: Foundations") and each module contains individual lessons. Lessons can include video, text, downloadable files, or a combination. You control what format each lesson takes when you build the course. Students track their progress through a completion checklist, and when they finish all required lessons, they receive a completion certificate if you have that feature enabled on your plan.

Drip content is one of the most useful features inside the Course block. Instead of releasing all lessons at once, you can schedule them to unlock on a day-by-day basis after enrollment — for example, Day 1 unlocks the introduction, Day 3 unlocks the first module, Day 7 unlocks the homework assignment. This is useful for cohort-style courses where you want everyone progressing at roughly the same pace, or for challenge-format content where the sequence matters. The student dashboard always shows what's unlocked, what's coming, and when.

How to add the Course block

1. Open your page in the Dashboard: Log in to UniLink, go to My Pages, and click Edit on the page where you want the course to appear.
2. Add the Course block: Click + Add Block, scroll to the Education section in the block picker, and select Course.
3. Fill in the course overview: Enter a course title, a short description (2–3 sentences shown on the card), a longer sales description, and upload a cover image. This is what visitors see before enrolling.
4. Set enrollment type and price: Choose Free, Paid (one-time), or Paid (drip/subscription). If paid, enter the price. For paid courses, make sure your payment processor is connected under Settings → Payments.
5. Build your curriculum: Click Add Module to create your first module. Inside each module, click Add Lesson and enter the lesson title, content type (video, text, file), and content. Repeat for all modules and lessons.
6. Configure drip schedule (if applicable): If you want to release lessons over time, open each lesson's settings and set the Unlock After day number — how many days after enrollment that lesson becomes available.
7. Enable certificates (optional): In the block settings panel, toggle Completion Certificate on. Students who finish all required lessons will receive a downloadable certificate with your course name and their name.
8. Preview and publish: Click Preview to see the course card as visitors will see it, then click Publish when you're ready to start accepting students.

Key settings to configure

Best practices for the Course block

Structure your curriculum from the student's perspective, not your own. It's tempting to organize modules by how you think about the subject matter, but students are always asking "what will I be able to do after this?" — not "how does this fit into the theoretical framework?" Start with a quick win: a first lesson or module that delivers something immediately useful so students feel momentum within the first 10 minutes. Courses with high early completion rates on Module 1 see significantly better overall finish rates.

Keep lessons short and single-purpose. A lesson titled "Everything About Instagram Hashtags" covering 8 subtopics will lose students halfway through. A lesson titled "How to find hashtags your competitors are missing" covering exactly that topic will be watched to completion. Aim for 5–12 minutes per video lesson, or 300–600 words per text lesson. If a topic genuinely needs more space, split it into two lessons rather than stretching one. This also makes the curriculum look more substantial in the student dashboard — 20 short focused lessons reads as a better value than 5 long ones.

Use the drip schedule strategically, not as a default. Drip content is powerful for challenge-style courses or cohorts where pacing and community momentum matter. For self-paced courses — especially ones your students are buying because they need to solve a specific problem now — drip is actively harmful. A student who bought a course on fixing a WordPress error does not want to wait until Day 7 to see the fix. Only use drip when the sequence genuinely requires it.

Build a habit of checking your student dashboard data weekly after launch. UniLink shows you which lessons have the highest drop-off rate. A lesson where 60% of students never complete it is either too long, covering something your audience doesn't care about, or has a technical problem (missing video, broken file link). Those lessons are worth revising. A course that improves based on real student behavior over time will generate better reviews and referrals than one that's just set and forgotten.

Common mistakes and how to fix them

Frequently asked questions