Self-Paced Courses

Overview

Alongside live one-to-one sessions, Tuitionable offers self-paced courses — pre-recorded, mentor-led material you can study through on your own schedule. Each course is organised into sections and lectures, mixes video, reading and file content, and tracks how far you have progressed every time you mark a lecture complete.

This page is for students. It walks through discovering courses in the public catalog, enrolling (free or paid from your wallet), navigating the curriculum, and completing lectures. You do not need a tutor to schedule anything — once you enroll, the course is available to you immediately under My Courses.

Courses are separate from booked sessions. Enrolling in a course is not booking a live lesson, and your course progress is independent of any session history.

Browsing the catalog

The course catalog lives at /courses and is fully public — you can browse it while logged out or signed in.

Searching and filtering

The search bar at the top of the catalog lets you narrow results by:

• Keyword (q) — matches against a course's title and short description.
• Subject (subject_id) — pick from the list of active subjects.
• Level (level) — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or All.

Results are shown 12 per page, newest first, and your filters are preserved as you page through. Each card shows the subject, title, price (or Free), short description, lecture count and total duration.

The course detail page

Selecting a card opens the course page at /courses/{slug}. Here you can review everything before committing:

• Rating, number of students enrolled, and the tutor's name.
• What you'll learn — the course's stated learning outcomes.
• About this course — the full description.
• Curriculum — an expandable list of every section and lecture, each tagged by type (video, reading, assignment or file) with its duration. Lectures flagged as Preview are highlighted here.

The sticky enrollment card on the right shows the price, the lecture count, total minutes, and whether a certificate of completion is offered for the course.

Enrolling in a course

To enroll you need a student account. On the course page, the enrollment card adapts to who you are:

Free courses

A course is free when its pricing type is free. Enrolling is instant — no payment, and you are taken straight into the course.

Paid courses (from your wallet)

Paid course enrollment is settled from your wallet balance. When you enroll, Tuitionable checks that your wallet holds at least the course price, records the payment, debits your wallet, and creates your enrollment in one atomic step.

If your wallet balance is below the course price, enrollment is declined with an "Insufficient wallet balance" message. Top up your wallet first, then enroll again. See Wallet, Coupons & Invoices for how to add funds.

One enrollment per course

If you press Enroll on a course you already belong to, Tuitionable simply returns you to the course with an "You are already enrolled" note rather than charging you twice. Your enrollment carries a status of active, and it switches to completed automatically once you finish every lecture.

Paid course charges come from your wallet, so make sure it is funded before enrolling. The course price is charged once at enrollment — there is no recurring billing for course access.

Finding your enrolled courses

Everything you have enrolled in appears under My Courses at /student/courses. The list shows your active and completed enrollments, most recent first, 12 per page.

Each card displays the course subject, title, tutor, and a progress bar with your completion percentage. Finished courses are stamped with a Completed badge. Select any card to resume exactly where you left off. The Browse more button takes you back to the public catalog to find your next course.

Working through lectures

Opening a course launches the learning player at /student/courses/{slug}/learn. The layout has two parts: a curriculum sidebar on the left listing every section and lecture, and the lecture viewer on the right. A header bar across the top shows your overall progress percentage. When you open a course, it starts you on the first lecture.

Lecture content types

The viewer renders each lecture according to its type:

Assignments inside a course are shown as reference material only. They describe what to do, but there is no in-course form to upload or submit your work. If your tutor wants you to hand something in, follow the channel they specify (for example, Messaging).

Marking a lecture complete

Each lecture has a Mark completed button at the bottom of the viewer. Pressing it records your completion, and the lecture's dot in the sidebar fills in with a check mark. Already-completed lectures show a Completed badge instead of the button.

How progress is calculated

Your course progress percentage is the share of the course's lectures you have completed, rounded to a whole number. When every lecture is done, your progress reaches 100%, your enrollment is marked completed, and a completion timestamp is recorded.

Troubleshooting & tips

Related pages

• Wallet, Coupons & Invoices — how to fund your wallet to pay for paid courses.
• AI Learning Roadmap — build a personalised, phased study plan.
• Student Dashboard — your learning home, streak and progress at a glance.
• Booking a Session — arrange live one-to-one lessons with a tutor.