A Course in Bobbin organizes related Lessons into a structured learning program. Courses group Lessons by subject area and connect specific Students with their Tutors across multiple sessions.

Every Lesson in the system belongs to a Course, making it easy to track progress and maintain consistency across teaching sessions.

From the left-hand navigation, select Courses, then click New course. Creating a Course is a three-step process.

Give the Course a name (this is what Tutors, Students and Clients see everywhere in Bobbin) and an optional description of what it covers. Pick a color from the preset palette, or choose your own — this is the color the Course shows up as in the Course list and on the calendar.

Check the box next to each Student and Tutor you want on the Course — up to 50 of each. Once you check a Tutor, a permission dropdown appears next to their name; this sets what that Tutor can do on the Course (see Tutor permissions on a Course below). If you leave it alone, they get Full access, unless that Tutor has their own different default level set — in which case theirs is used instead.

Check the summary of the name, description, Students and Tutor permissions, then click Create course.

Each Tutor on a Course has one of four permission levels. The same level covers both what they can do with Lessons on the Course and with the Course itself:

A Tutor with none of these set has no scheduling permission on the Course at all. Because the level is set per Course, the same Tutor can have different access on different Courses — if one says an action is missing on a particular Course, that's usually why.

Removing a Tutor from a Course's roster genuinely revokes their access to it, including to Lessons on that Course they were previously teaching.

Each Tutor has their own default course permission, set on their profile: go to Tutors, open the Tutor, and use the Default course permission panel to pick a level and click Save default. This is the level they get whenever they're newly added to a Course without an explicit level chosen — it does not change their permission on Courses they're already on.

The Course Outline gives every Course a structured plan: a set of modules, each broken down into topics that Tutors and Administrators can tick off as they are covered.

You can start from a curriculum-aligned AI-built plan (matched to a Subject, Key Stage and Exam Board), or have AI generate a free-form plan from the Course description.

Once the plan is in place, you can edit it, regenerate it, leave feedback on it, track Course coverage as topics are completed, and review a log of the changes made to it.

From the left-hand navigation, select Courses to see every Course in your organization.

Click the Course you want to plan. The Course detail page opens on the Course Outline tab. If no plan exists yet you will see two starting options:

Click Browse plans to open the template browser. Use the Search, Subject, Key stage and Exam Board filters to narrow the list to the curriculum you want.

The browser opens on the plans for your organization's country, so those filters match that curriculum. To teach from another country's curriculum, use the Country picker to switch and the other filters update to match.

Curricula are available for England, the United States (including the ACT and SAT under Exam Boards), Ireland (Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate at Higher, Ordinary and Foundation level, plus primary maths, English and Irish) and Australia, from primary through to senior secondary.

Select a template from the left-hand list. Its modules, module descriptions and topics appear on the right so you can confirm it matches what you want to teach before committing.

Click Use this template. The template is copied onto the Course as the active Course Outline, and the page refreshes to show Course Coverage, the full list of modules and topics, Learning Outcomes and Prerequisites.

Tick the checkbox next to a topic to mark it as covered. Covered topics are shown with a strikethrough.

The Course Coverage bar at the top of the outline updates automatically as topics are ticked, showing the percentage of topics covered and the count out of the total.

Click the More button (the three dots) on the Course Outline header to access History (a read-only log of the changes made to the outline) and Edit (modify the outline).

Choose Edit to enter editing mode. You can rename modules, reorder them, edit their descriptions, add or remove topics, swap to a different template via Change template, or Cancel without saving. Click Save Changes when finished.

Use the thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons on the Course Outline header to record your view of the plan's quality. A short feedback dialog opens where you can optionally add a comment before clicking Submit feedback.

You can attach files and folders from your document library to a Course, so the material you teach from sits alongside the outline and is ready to open in the Lesson. Tutors can use your organization's shared files as well as their own library, and attach them to the Courses they teach.

Inside a live Lesson, the library panel gives the shared files, the Course's own files and the Tutor's personal library without leaving the whiteboard.

You can see every Lesson linked to this Course under its Lessons tab.

When you create a Lesson from a Course, you can pre-select the objectives from the outline it should cover and have Bobbin draft the Lesson plan around them. After the Lesson, its insights can show which of those objectives were actually covered, grouped by module — a cross-check against what's been ticked off by hand rather than a replacement for it. Course Coverage still moves when someone ticks a topic.

Open the Course and click Actions in the top-right corner.