Learn to customize the look and feel of your course according to your brand and create a unique experience across your Course Product for your customers with Premier.
In this article:
- What is Premier?
- How to install Premier
- How to customize with Premier
- Premier sections
- Premier page settings
- Customize your Course Lesson
- Course Lesson editor
What is Premier?
With Premier, you get access to the Premier editor to customize sections and content blocks throughout your course pages.
There are a multitude of user experience options, including showing course progress, cross-sells, instructor visibility, modules or lesson visibility, and much more.
Tap into the ultimate appearance and utilize background images on a product level with Premier.
How to install Premier
Get started by first installing Premier to your course.
Installing Premier allows you to design your course pages, but they will not be visible to your customers.
This allows you to design and update your course behind-the-scenes until you are ready to make it visible to your customers.
To install Premier:
- Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
- Select the Course Product you wish to design.
- Click Customize.
- Select Install Template.
- Select the Premier Template to preview.
- Click Install Template:
Customize the pages that make up your course
After installing your template, navigate through the various Course Pages from the top dropdown menu in the page editor:
Learn to customize the Course Lesson page with the Premier Product template.
Once you have finished customizing and designing your Course Product, you are ready to activate it! Learn to activate your template.
How to customize with Premier
Customize your course with Kajabi's click-to-edit system. Simply locate the section you wish to customize and make your desired changes in the sidebar control panel.
Or select the different sections from the sidebar control panel to edit the various sections that make up your Course page.
With the Premier Template, you can customize the various Sections of your page and the Page Settings.
Premier sections
Header
Customize the look and feel of your Course header with your logo and user menu. And with the Header editor, choose to add an announcement or a call to action to the forefront of your page:
Search Bar
Choose to hide or include a search link in the header menu and customize the language and appearance of your search link:
Hero
Customize the hero section of your Course page to change the appearance of the top-most section of your page.
Choose to show or hide the Hero section and configure its appearance by including any additional blocks:
- Product Info
- Start Button
- Call to Action
- Text
Learn to customize Hero sections with Premier.
Welcome Body
Customize the Welcome Body section to choose to hide or include a welcome body directly above your course content.
Configure the text alignment and add additional blocks to design your welcome body:
- Call to Action
- Code
- Course Progress
- Image
- Product Info
- Start Button
- Text
- Video
Course Syllabus
The Course Syllabus is the outline of your Course Modules and Lessons.
Customize your Syllabus section to show or hide the syllabus, display the syllabus by Modules or by Lessons, truncate the number of Modules or Lessons displayed on a single page, and change the language for your Modules, Coming Soon, and Show More text:
Community Widget
If you've created a Kajabi Community Product on the same site as your Course Product, you'll have the option to add a Community Widget to your Course template to embed a Community Circle in your Course:
Before adding a Community Widget, you'll need to link a Community Access Group in your Course Settings (and make sure the Access Group is added to your Course Offers). Learn how to embed a Community Circle in your Course.
Course Sidebar
Customize the Course Sidebar by choosing to show or hide the sidebar and including any combination of blocks to optimize your customer's experience with the page.
Course Sidebar blocks:
- Course Progress: Display the lessons completed with an image of the Course Product Thumbnail
The progress bar color is controlled by the primary color configured in your Page Settings. Adjust your Accent Color Override to change the color for the progress bar independently from the accent color of your page.
- Cross Sell: Promote another Offer directly from your Course Product to encourage your existing customers to purchase. Customize the appearance of your Offer within the Cross Sell block in your Sidebar:
- Custom Block: Add a custom block onto your Sidebar to build in another Offer, display a promotion, communicate an announcement, and more! The custom block is yours to design. With the custom block you can choose to include an image, text, and/or add a Call to Action:
- Image: Add an image to your Course Sidebar and choose to include an Image Action or keep the Image Action blank to simply communicate a message to your customers:
- Instructor: Include instructor information for your Course by adding an Instructor section(s) to your Course Page:
Learn more
Footer
Customize the Footer section of your Course page.
Choose to show or hide the Footer, include the Copyright, add your Logo, show a Menu, and/or add Social Icons:
To add Social Icons to your Footer:
- Under the Social Icons header, check the Show Social Icons box.
- Then, enter the full URL for your social media accounts.
- Customize the appearance of your social icons.
- Click Save to keep your changes:
Premier page settings
The page settings for your template streamline the build and design of your entire Course Product by generating your configured page settings across every page of your Course.
With Premier, this will update your favicon, typography, color scheme, and general settings across your:
- Main Course page
- Announcements page
- Module page
- Lesson page
- Comment page
- Search page
Customize the settings for your Course page by opening the Settings tab from the sidebar control panel:
Favicon: a small icon on a website tab or window in your browser.
You're probably familiar with the favicon for the sites you frequently visit, such as the blue Kajabi favicon for this very page:
While adding a favicon is simple, it's just one more way you can signal your business's professionalism and reinforce your brand.
The ideal image file size for favicons is 32x32 PNG.
However, if you upload a bigger image Kajabi will help you resize it.
Upload your favicon by clicking Select Image and uploading a new file or by selecting a recent file.
Typography allows you to customize the font and text color across your Course Page.
Use the dropdown menus to change the font for your heading and body text:
Color Scheme is your overall color scheme across all of the pages in your Course Product.
Message Colors are the colors for your text when different messages appear for your customers:
- Success
- Info
- Warning
- Danger
General Settings allow you to customize the overall background color for Course pages and you can choose to include a background image.
Customize the color of your Background by clicking the color wheel.
If you prefer to use a custom color, click the color wheel and then either enter your RGB color code or use the sliders to choose your color.
- The vertical bar allows you to select the hue.
- The square box allows you to adjust the brightness and saturation.
- The horizontal bar allows you to select the opacity of your color.
The template applied to your Course Product will activate across all the Lessons within your Course to create a seamless experience for your customers to easily navigate through your Product.
Learn more about customizing the appearance of your entire Course Product.
Customize your Course Lesson
To customize your Course Lesson:
- Open the Products tab from your Dashboard.
- Select your Course Product.
- Click Customize.
- Open the Installed Templates folder.
- Select the Template you wish to customize.
- Click Customize.
- Navigate to the Lesson page in the editor by clicking the dropdown in the top bar.
- Select Lesson from the dropdown menu:
Course Lesson editor
The Lesson design page is very similar to the Course design page with a few additions:
- Breadcrumbs can be displayed to act as a trail leading back to the Course homepage.
- Lesson Player can be used to customize the Video Player Layout and Color, Language, Player Pagination Design, and the Auto Advance feature. Learn about the Lesson Player Auto Advance feature.
- Lesson Body allows you to configure the appearance of your Lesson Body to adjust the text alignment, the Mark as Complete button, allow Lesson and Video Downloads, include a Call to Action (CTA), and add custom Code. Note: If you choose to remove the Mark as Complete button, product progress can only be tracked by the progress of a Video or an Assessment uploaded into the Lesson.
- Lesson Comments can be configured to customize the text and button color of your Course Lesson comments section.
- Lesson Sidebar allows you to add static or clickable images, instructor information across all Lessons, allow Lesson and Video Downloads, and provide a space to Cross Sell other products within your Lessons.
- Course Complete Message can be utilized to display a message at the completion of the Course and redirect your customers to a Landing Page, a Checkout Page, another URL, or provide a downloadable file.
And that's how to customize your Course Product with Premier! Please vote below and let us know if you found this article helpful. We value your feedback. Thanks for being the best part of Kajabi!