A drag-and-drop builder for chapters and lessons, video streamed behind short-lived signed links, and assessments that grade themselves. Plan the path, protect the work, and keep students moving.
Free until you sell. 5% after. Never more than $29 a month.
Chapter 01 — Foundations
The builder
Every course is made of chapters, and every chapter holds lessons. Reorder anything by dragging — and because it's fully keyboard-accessible, you can grab a lesson with Space and move it with the arrow keys.
Streamed from Bunny's global CDN behind signed links.
A scheduled Zoom session students join from the lesson.
Rich HTML readings, notes, and resources between videos.
Three lesson types, one structure
Mix and match freely inside any chapter. A typical chapter might open with a Video, add a Text reading for context, host a Live Q&A, then close with a quiz. Want a final exam at the end? See examinations.
Bulk import
Already have your outline in a spreadsheet? Skip the re-typing. Chapters imports full curricula and question banks from Excel or CSV, and gives you the templates to start from.
| Chapter | Lesson | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 01 Foundations | Meet your materials | Video |
| 01 Foundations | Color theory basics | Text |
| 02 Washes | Wet-on-wet washes | Video |
| 02 Washes | Graded wash drills | Video |
| 03 Composition | Planning a landscape | Video |
| 03 Composition | Live critique session | Live |
Secure video
Your lessons stream from Bunny.net's global CDN, with playback gated by short-lived signed links so there are no public URLs floating around for students to copy.
No Vimeo, Wistia, YouTube, or separate video host to wire up or pay for. Just upload your lessons and Chapters hosts, protects, and streams them for you. Every store gets 30 GB of video storage free — past that, storage bills automatically at $0.16 per GB per month, and shrinks when you delete videos.
Bunny.net edge nodes serve video close to each student, wherever they're watching.
Playback is tied to the lesson through expiring tokens — nothing public to share or hotlink.
Each store's video lives separately, so your library is never mixed with anyone else's.
Playback adjusts to each connection, so students get smooth video on fast and slow networks alike.
Upload VTT files — or SRT, which converts to VTT automatically — to add caption tracks to any video lesson.
Upload your full-quality files and Chapters transcodes them on the server into multiple resolutions — no pre-compressing, no quality lost. You pick your own thumbnail for each lesson.
Every upload lands in a shared media library with live transcode-progress badges, so one video can serve any number of lessons. MP4 and most common formats work, and your library is limited only by your storage tier (see pricing).
Plain about what this is: protection here means token-based access — expiring signed links plus optional visual deterrents. It is not end-to-end file encryption or studio-grade DRM, and we don't claim it to be.
Content protection
Turn on deterrents per course to raise the friction on re-sharing your work — without getting in the way of the students who paid for it.
These are a strong deterrent, not unbreakable DRM. They make sharing inconvenient and traceable — a determined re-recorder can still capture a screen.
The player
The lesson page does the remembering, so students can pick up the moment they have ten free minutes.
Playback picks up exactly where each student left off — no scrubbing to find their place.
Watch progress is recorded lesson by lesson and feeds straight into completion gates.
A focus mode strips the page back to the lesson itself, so attention stays on the content.
Students bookmark key moments and keep personal notes alongside each lesson.
Drop a quiz right under a lesson to check understanding before students move on.
A Q&A thread under each lesson lets students ask, and you answer in context. More on engagement.
Video-first on phones. On mobile the player leads with the lesson itself — a compact header, the video up top, and the full course outline in a slide-in drawer. Progress syncs, so students move between phone and desktop without losing their place.
Drip & completion
Decide when content unlocks, and what a student has to do before a course counts as complete.
Choose how lessons become available to each student.
Set what counts as finishing each lesson — finish them all, and the course is complete.
Completion is what triggers a certificate — so the gate you set is the standard your students are held to.
Quizzes & assignments
Build quizzes that grade themselves the moment a student submits, and add assignments where you want a human touch.
One correct answer from a set of options.
A quick two-option check.
Several correct answers in one question.
Matched against the accepted answers you set.
A number, with a tolerance range you define.
Put items into the correct sequence.
Pair items across two columns.
Final exams too
Need timed sittings and paid retakes? See examinations.
Assignments are graded manually — they accept text submissions, and there's no per-question partial credit on auto-graded quizzes.
Atelier Lane — course page
24 lessons · certificate included
Previews & merchandising
The course page can do the selling for you: sample lessons, a trailer, and honest price anchoring — all set from the course editor.
Publish & sell
Chapters handles the product, the fulfillment, and the fine print of who gets access — and for how long.
Publishing creates the Shopify product for you — priced, marked digital, shipping switched off. Prefer a product you already have? Link it instead.
Course orders auto-fulfill the moment they're paid, and enrollment is instant — no manual steps between checkout and lesson one.
One Shopify product can unlock multiple courses — a natural fit for series, tracks, and all-access collections.
Cap enrollment and the storefront shows a live spots-left count, then Sold out. When an expired seat frees up, sales reopen on their own.
Lifetime access by default, or a set number of days per purchase. When a student buys again, the clock restarts.
Price a course at $0 and use it as a lead magnet. Free courses show a small "Powered by Chapters LMS" credit under the player — any paid course removes it.
Courses sell as native Shopify products at your normal checkout, in any store currency — see how selling works.
Install Chapters free from the Shopify App Store. Build your first course today.
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