A Course in Bobbin groups related Lessons into a structured learning program. Every Lesson belongs to a Course. As a Tutor, you can see all the Courses you are assigned to teach, along with their Lessons and Course Outlines.

From the left-hand navigation, select Courses to see every Course you are assigned to. Click any Course to open its detail page, which has tabs for its Summary, Course outline (once it has a plan), Lessons, Resources and Homework.

If your agency uses in-person recording, the Courses list has a Delivery filter so you can show only online or only in-person Courses.

On the Courses you teach, you 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 edit a Course, open it and click Actions in the top-right corner, then choose Edit course. If your agency uses in-person recording, you can also set whether the Course is Online or In person here. Changing it on a Course only updates the Lessons you teach. A Course can't be deleted once any of its Lessons has started, and deleting a Course removes its upcoming Lessons from everyone's calendar.

When you click New lesson, the Course picker starts with up to five Suggested Courses. 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.

A Course Outline gives a Course its structured plan - a set of modules, each broken down into topics that you can tick off as they are covered in Lessons.

Both Tutors and Administrators can create, edit, and manage Course Outlines.

The browser opens on the plans for the Course's country, so the Subject, Key stage and Exam Board options 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.

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.

Choose Describe your own, tell us what the Course should cover, and AI will draft a structured plan of modules and topics. Always review each module before using it with Students.

Click the More button (three dots) on the Course Outline header, then select Edit. In editing mode you can:

Click Save Changes when finished, or Cancel to discard your edits.

Each Course has a single Course Outline, and your edits are made to it in place. Editing an AI-generated or template-based plan marks it as manually edited.

Click the More button and select History to see a record of the changes made to the outline. It's there for reference - a read-only log of what changed and when, rather than something you can roll back.

Because removed modules and topics can't be brought back from here, it's worth being deliberate about what you remove. If you're unsure, editing a module's description or leaving a topic unticked is safer than deleting it.

Once an outline is in place, you can track progress as you teach through it.

If your agency has the Objectives Covered panel switched on, a completed Lesson's insights also show which of these objectives that Lesson covered, grouped by module - a useful cross-check against what you've ticked off by hand.

Use the thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons on the Course Outline header to rate the quality of the plan. A short feedback dialog will appear where you can optionally add a comment before clicking Submit feedback.

You can attach files and folders to a Course so the material you teach from sits alongside the outline, ready to open in the Lesson. As well as your own library, you can use your agency's shared files and folders and attach those to the Courses you teach.

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

Use the Course's Homework tab to set homework for everyone on the Course and see who has handed it in. See Setting homework.

Open the Course's Lessons tab to see all Lessons linked to that Course.

When a Lesson is created from a Course, the objectives from the outline can be pre-selected so Bobbin drafts the Lesson plan around them.

If you've taken over a Course from another Tutor, your agency may let you read the Course's earlier Lessons. When it does, the completed Lessons they taught appear on the Course's Lessons tab. Opening one shows Taught by the other Tutor, and you can read its summary, insights, Tutor notes and Lesson plan to see what's already been covered. These Lessons are read-only, and their recording, transcript, chat and attendance aren't shared with you.