Course Explorer

Read a course before you take it. This side panel shows what a course is for, what you will be able to do when you finish it, and every lesson on the way there.

What you can do

• See the course goal and the outcomes it claims, stated as things you will do.
• Check whether you are ready for it: who it is written for, and what it assumes.
• Read the full lesson path, module by module, with each lesson's own goal and length.
• See what it runs on: extensions, kernels, and packages.
• List the published versions of a course and when each came out.
• Download the course from the preview when you opened it from the Course Market.

Getting started

In the Course Market, click any course card. The preview opens in a side panel, with a Download button when the course is not in your workspace yet. Press Esc to close the panel. It works in both the browser and the desktop app.

Requirements

• Course Market, which is where previews are opened from. The explorer never fetches a course on its own.

Good to know

• The explorer never writes a file and never reaches the network. Downloading a course belongs to the Course Market, which is where you asked for it.
• The packages a course lists are for information only. Nothing checks that they are installed, so a course may still ask you to install one when you run it.
• The versions list appears only when a course has more than one version.

Status

• Course: Preview an Installed Course reads a course folder that is already in your workspace, but nothing in Studio passes it a folder yet. Run from the command palette on its own, it says no course was passed.