Courses and training

A website for your course or training programme

Somebody deciding on a course wants to know what they will be able to do afterwards, what it takes, and what it costs. A curriculum written as outcomes sells; a curriculum written as topics does not.

Describe your site

Try something like this

A site for a six-week photography course. What you will be able to do at the end, the weekly outline, who teaches it, the price, and enrolment. Editorial and specific.

The more of it that is true of your business, the less of the result you will have to change. Hexvor never invents a phone number, an address, a price or a review — anything you leave out comes back as an obvious placeholder rather than as a plausible lie.

20 rules the engine applies to this kind of site

Not a feature list. These are the actual instructions sent with your request when Hexvor recognises the trade, on top of the 647 that apply to every site.

Say what they will be able to do

State the outcome of the course, not its syllabus.

Courses form a path

Organise by what leads to what, not alphabetically.

Make courses findable

Search and browse that match how somebody chooses.

State the level

Beginner, intermediate, expected background. Wasting an application is worse than losing one.

State the time

Duration and weekly effort, where they are known.

The instructor is visible

People choose a teacher as much as a subject.

Concrete outcomes

What somebody can do afterwards, in specifics.

Show progress

Inside a course, always say how far along somebody is.

Predictable lesson movement

Next and previous behave the same way everywhere.

Mark completion

Say clearly when a lesson or milestone is finished.

Make the content searchable

Once there is a lot of it, search is how it is used.

Meaningful categories

Group by subject and level, not by arbitrary tags.

Explain access

What the price includes, for how long, and what happens after.

Learning works on a phone

Much of it happens in gaps in a day.

Long-form readability

Educational text is read for a long time. Set it accordingly.

Explain assessments

Say what a quiz expects before somebody starts it.

Feedback after interaction

Say what was right, what was not, and what to do next.

Accessible to different learners

Captions, transcripts, contrast and structure.

Never invent credentials

No accreditation, affiliation or instructor qualification that was not provided.

Encourage without noise

Progress and encouragement, without turning learning into a slot machine.

Describe yours

Free to start, no card. Publish when it looks right.

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