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Ship course updates without breaking existing students
Add new lessons carefully: keep URLs stable, mark changes, and avoid moving the goalposts mid-course.
CourseOS Team · The CourseOS team has spent five years helping independent creators turn their expertise into structured online courses and has worked directly with hundreds of course creators across design, coding, and business education.
When to do a full re-record vs. a patch update
Small factual errors and outdated screenshots are patch updates. A fundamentally wrong method or a module that loses most students is a re-record. See when to re-record your course for the decision framework.