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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.
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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Small factual errors and outdated screenshots are patch updates.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.