Your First Course Product — Set Up Your Course in GoHighLevel

Head to your course area: Memberships > Courses dropdown > Products. Click the create button to start a new course product.

Basic Course Setup

Course name — This shows in your student portal and on any sales pages. Make it clear and benefit-focused. “Email Marketing for Course Creators” tells students exactly what they get. “Module 1” does not help anyone.

Description — One or two sentences about what students walk away with. This appears on the course card in the student portal, right under the name. Think of it as a quick pitch.

Course image — Upload a cover image. If you plan multiple courses, use a consistent style — same font treatment, similar colors. Recommended size: at least 1280x720 pixels.

Click Save to create the product. Now you are looking at an empty course shell.

The Module/Lesson Hierarchy

GHL organizes content in two levels:

A module (GHL calls these “categories”) is a section or chapter — e.g., “Module 1: Email Basics”
A lesson is a single piece of content inside a module — e.g., “Why Your List Matters”
You can have unlimited modules and unlimited lessons per module

Creating Your First Module

Click Add Category. Name it to match one section of your outline. Hit enter or click save. Add as many modules as your outline has sections. Drag them by the handle on the left to reorder.

Creating Your First Lesson

Click Add Content inside a module. Choose Post — this is your lesson. Give it a title that matches one topic from your outline. This post is where you add your video, text content, and downloads.

Build the Skeleton First

Create all your modules based on your outline sections, then add lesson posts for each topic. Do not fill in the content yet — that comes in the next lesson. Having the full structure built out lets you see the student experience from a high level and catch gaps before you start uploading.

Map your course one-to-one with the outline you created in Plan Your Course. Each module equals one section. Each lesson equals one topic. Keep the structure clean.