In this article you'll learn the difference between draft and published, and how to update a live course without interrupting learners.

Every section and lesson in a Beeline has a status — Draft or Published. The status controls who can see it, which makes it your safety net for building and for making changes later.

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What each status means

• Draft — visible only to builders and admins, never to learners. It's your safe space to build, edit, and test content without anyone seeing work in progress.
• Published — finalised and ready for learners. Once a section or lesson is published, assigned learners can see it.

Set the status on each section and lesson in Build Mode. A whole course can sit in Draft while you build it, then be published piece by piece.

💡 Pro tip: Publishing is not the same as assigning. A Beeline only appears for learners once it's assigned to a group or user — so publishing a lesson makes it ready, and assigning the Beeline makes it available.

Update a live course without interrupting learners

Draft really shines when you need to maintain a course that learners are already working through. Instead of editing a live lesson (and disrupting anyone mid-course), use this pattern:

1. Duplicate the lesson you want to change.
2. Set the duplicate to Draft and make your edits there. The original stays Published, so learners carry on uninterrupted.
3. When you're happy with the new version, set the old lesson to Draft — it disappears from the learner's view but stays in your course as a version history — and set the updated lesson to Published.

The result: no interruption to learners, a clean swap to the latest content, and a record of the previous version if you ever need to refer back to it.

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