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.

If your organization has in-person Lessons turned on, you can also choose whether the Course is Online or In person.

Check the box next to each Student and Tutor you want on the Course — up to 50 of each. Every Tutor you add gets full control of the Course (see What Tutors can do on a Course below).

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

A Course's page has tabs for its Summary, Course outline (once it has a plan), Lessons, Resources and Homework.

Every Tutor on a Course has full control of it. They can add, edit, delete and mark Lessons complete, set homework, edit the Course's details, change who's on it, and delete the Course.

To stop a Tutor working on a Course, remove them from it. Removing a Tutor genuinely revokes their access, including to Lessons on that Course they were previously teaching.

When a Course changes Tutor, the new Tutor normally only sees the Lessons they teach themselves. To let Tutors on a Course read its earlier Lessons, go to Organization > Settings > Lessons and turn on Let tutors read completed lesson reports on their courses. It's off by default.

With it on, a Tutor on a Course can open the completed Lessons another Tutor taught on it, from the Course's Lessons tab, and read their summary, insights, Tutor notes and Lesson plan. The Lesson shows Taught by the other Tutor and explains why it's read-only. They can't see its recording, transcript, chat or attendance, can't change anything on it, and never see the other Tutor's teaching feedback.

On the Course page, find the Student or Tutor under the Course's people and click the X next to their name. Before you confirm, you'll see an Also remove from future lessons checkbox, which is ticked by default.

Adding someone to a Course doesn't add them to Lessons that already exist.

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. If no plan exists yet, the Course's Summary tab offers two starting options:

Click Browse plans to open the template browser. Bobbin looks at the Course and shows up to five plans that suit it best under Suggested for this course. Click Show all plans to see the full list. If Bobbin can't find a confident match, it opens straight on the full list.

Use the Search, Subject, Key stage and Exam Board filters to narrow the list to the curriculum you want. Searching or filtering always looks through every plan, not just the suggestions.

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 and the full list of modules and topics.

An outline built from a curriculum shows where it came from, for example Physics · A-Level · AQA. This stays even after you edit the outline.

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

If a topic was marked as covered in a particular Lesson, unchecking it asks you to confirm first, because it also removes the topic from that Lesson's record.

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. Each Course's progress also shows on the Linked courses card on Student, Tutor and Client profiles.

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.

The Homework tab is where Tutors and Administrators set homework for everyone on the Course, attach worksheets, and see who has handed it in. Students hand in their work from their own Homework page. See Homework for the full walkthrough.

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.

When you click New lesson from the Lessons page or calendar, the Course picker starts with up to five Suggested Courses, based on your recent activity. If you click a time slot on the calendar, the Course that usually meets at that time comes first. Click Show all courses to see the rest, or type to search every Course.

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