Publishing creates a scheduled course from your course template. It sets up all the lessons, assigns the instructor and the location, and makes the course available for pet enrolments.

Before you publish, you need:

The form has three steps: Course Setup, Scheduling and Review & Publish.

The link Create New Course opens the same form, and Publish New Course in a course template's Manage menu opens it with the template chosen.

The Course Template, such as Puppy School or Puppy High School, sets the course name and structure, the number of lessons, the lesson duration, the capacity and the service requirements.

The Team Member list shows the template's eligible instructors, marked Eligible only. If the template has none, the form says This template has no eligible instructors and offers Manage Team Members. Choose someone comfortable with group instruction, available for every lesson date, and with capacity for another course.

For the Location, choose Choose a room or area you have saved to pick one of your resources, such as a training room or an outdoor space. It brings its address, is checked for clashes when you check availability, and each lesson blocks that resource's other bookings, which show on its calendar column. Choose Manually Enter Street Address for a special venue or an off-site location; a typed address is not checked for availability and blocks nothing. Use saved locations where you can, so resource use is tracked and clashes are caught.

To block another resource as well, such as the groomer whose table the class uses, open Advanced options at the bottom of Course Setup and pick it under Also blocks. Each lesson blocks those resources' other bookings the same way as the location, and Check Availability checks them too. Keep the venue as the Location so customers still see its address.

The Start Date starts on today and the Start Time on 10:00 am. The time applies to every lesson, the duration comes from the template, and the end time is worked out for you: a 10:00 AM start with a one-hour duration runs from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Leave time for enrolments, and allow for holidays and your instructor's availability.

Petboost lists every lesson date from the start date and time, the template's recurrence pattern, such as weekly or fortnightly, and its number of lessons. Select Edit on a lesson to move its date or time, for example to skip a holiday week.

Check Availability checks the team member and the resource for every lesson, finds conflicts and suggests another time. Once it has run, the button reads Re-check Availability; run it again after you change a lesson. Skip Check & Create Course creates the course without checking: its dialog, Skip availability check and create course?, lists the whole schedule for you to check that no lesson falls on a closure and that the instructor and resource are free, then Skip Check & Create Course creates it. Any conflicts are then yours to resolve later.

When the check finds conflicts, the form shows how many under Availability Conflicts, and each lesson with a problem carries a Clash badge, the reason (for example, a team member not available that day), a suggested date and time, and how much later it is, such as 3 days later.

To publish with the conflicts in place, select Publish Even with Clashes. The Create course with scheduling conflicts? dialog lists the schedule, and Create with Conflicts creates the course straight away, clashes included.

Review & Publish shows the course as it will be created: the template, the team member, the location and every lesson date. If the form flags Required fields, fill them before it lets you publish. If the lesson dates do not follow the template's regular cadence, tick Yes, these dates & times are correct to confirm them.

Once published, the course appears on Courses as Upcoming, with no pets enrolled, every lesson scheduled on the calendar and places open for enrolment.

Each course shows its status (Upcoming or In Progress, and completed once it finishes), its first or next lesson and its end date, the places left, such as 4 Places Remaining (Course Full when there are none), and the pets enrolled. Move Pet appears once a pet is enrolled.

The New menu on Courses also holds Enrol pet(s), to add pets to an existing course, and Publish New Course, for another course from any template.

Publish two to four weeks ahead, to leave time for promotion and enrolments and give customers notice. Choose days and times that suit your customers' working week, and avoid holiday periods for start dates. Start a new programme with a conservative capacity and raise it as demand shows.

To run a programme more than once, publish several courses from the same template, on different days or times, or with different instructors:

Before the first lesson, dates, times, the instructor and the location are easy to change with Reschedule Course. Once the course has started, a change affects every enrolled pet, so tell each customer what is changing.

The template may be missing, archived or not set up. Create one from Courses with New, then New Course Template, and check it is active.

Check Availability flags a team member who is not working at the lesson's time, is teaching another course's lesson, or has another appointment. Check their working hours and bookings on Team Members, and that they are an eligible instructor on the template.

Check Availability flags a location already in use at the lesson's time, by another course's lesson or a booking. Choose another time or location, and check the resource's set-up on Resources.

Course lessons also show as appointments on Appointments. Course booking rules sit under Booking Settings, messages under Notifications, and automated steps under Automatic Actions.