A schedule controls when lessons arrive, which delivery methods they arrive on, and what happens when a learner doesn't reply, so setting it up well decides how the course feels to take. This guide walks through every schedule setting for anyone who delivers courses in Arist, from creating the schedule to enrolling learners and confirming delivery. Partway through you choose one of two schedule types, Basic or Custom, and set up only that one.

A schedule holds the delivery settings for one course. One course can have many schedules, so the same content can run for different audiences on different rhythms. Select Delivery in the left navigation, then select Create new in the top right to open a blank schedule's settings.

The Delivery page also lists the schedules you already have, so check what is already running before you build another one. Each row reports one schedule's status, Channel, cohorts, cadence, and how many learners are enrolled. Use the three-dot menu at the end of a row to Analyze, Edit, Duplicate, Delete, or Deactivate that schedule, or Activate one that is already off. Switch to Calendar view to see the same schedules laid out by date instead.

The settings page opens with the fields that apply to both schedule types, so work through these first. The name follows the course into analytics, so a consistent pattern keeps the Delivery page readable as schedules multiply.

Delivery follows the most specific timezone Arist knows about. Check Deliver in learner's preferred timezone, if known and each learner receives lessons in their own timezone. Check Deliver in cohort's preferred timezone for cohort enrollment, if known and learners enrolled through a cohort follow that cohort's timezone. If both are checked, the learner's own timezone wins, and anyone Arist has no timezone for falls back to the schedule's.

The Schedule type field offers Basic and Custom, and they are alternatives rather than stages. You set up one of them, not both. Basic is where every new schedule starts and it suits most courses. Use the table to route yourself to the right one, then read only that section.

Two things shape that choice:

A Basic schedule sets one rhythm and every learner follows it. Four settings shape that rhythm.

Three toggles belong to a Basic schedule, on either cadence. They set required responses, Continue sending on weekends, and response reminders. A Custom schedule does not offer them.

The first, Do you want to turn on required responses?, decides whether a learner has to reply to a question before the next lesson is sent. Turn it on and the course waits for each learner. Leave it off and the course advances on its own, which is what Arist recommends, because it keeps everyone on roughly the same schedule.

The second toggle, Continue sending on weekends?, appears in one specific case, on an Instant cadence with required responses off. It decides whether those automatic advances happen on Saturdays and Sundays. Turn it on and lessons keep sending through the weekend. Leave it off and they wait for a weekday, though a learner reply still moves the course forward.

The third, response reminders, nudges a learner who has not answered yet, and the intervals beneath it set how long Arist waits before each nudge. Those intervals are set once for your whole organization rather than per schedule, so Configuring Response Reminders covers them end to end.

A Custom schedule times each lesson individually. Use it when a rollout has to land on particular dates, or when learners will join after it starts. Answer When to deliver to choose how that timing is set.

Required responses is not offered on a Custom schedule, so lessons follow the timing you set whether or not learners reply. Reminders still apply, and they are covered in the next step.

Catch-up mode is the other reason to reach for Custom. When you give each lesson its own date, Arist brings late enrollees up to speed on its own, with no second schedule to maintain:

This step applies to both schedule types. Do you want to remind learners to respond to their lessons? turns response reminders on or off for this schedule. Reminders encourage learners who have a question waiting. Arist's default sequence is built from engagement data across courses, so leave it on unless you have a reason not to.

Arist holds reminders back rather than sending them at awkward moments. Reminders are delayed on weekends and U.S. holidays unless you selected those delivery days, and go out at the appropriate time on the next valid day instead.

On an Instant cadence, reminders wait for business hours, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The sequence also resets as soon as a learner responds, so nobody is chased about a lesson they have already answered.

Enrollment starts delivery, and it happens from the schedule itself. Selecting Enroll learners at the top right gives you two paths:

Next to it, Share schedule lets learners enroll themselves when you'd rather not manage the list, using an enrollment link and QR code, a listing in your organization's course catalog, or code-based enrollment. Setting each one up is covered in Sharing Courses for Self-Enrollment.

Either path ends on a review step that shows the state each recipient will enroll in, so you can see what will happen before anything sends.

Every status a learner can hold from here on is defined in Understanding Enrollment Statuses.

Review the list, then select Enroll. Delivery now follows the schedule you built.

Once enrollment starts, open the schedule to confirm lessons are being delivered. The delivery tracker shows every learner's enrollment status, with bulk actions for anyone stuck.

What each status means, and how to act on it, lives in Understanding Enrollment Statuses. For the fuller picture of engagement and impact once delivery is confirmed, see Reviewing Analytics.