A Course in Bobbin organizes related Lessons into a structured learning program. Courses group lessons by subject area and connect specific Students with their Tutors across multiple sessions.

Every Lesson in the system belongs to a Course, making it easy to track progress and maintain consistency across teaching sessions.

A Course's page has tabs for its Summary, Course outline (once it has a plan), Lessons, Resources and Homework.

The Course Outline gives every Course a structured plan: a set of modules, each broken down into topics that Tutors and Administrators can tick off as they are covered.

You can start from a curriculum-aligned AI-built plan (matched to a Subject, Level and Exam board), or have AI generate a free-form plan from the Course description.

Once the plan is in place, you can edit it, regenerate it, leave feedback on it, track Course coverage as topics are completed, and review a log of the changes that have been made to it.

From the left-hand navigation, select Courses to see every Course in your organization.

Click the Course you want to plan. If no plan exists yet, the Course's Summary tab offers two starting options:

Click Browse plans to open the template browser. Bobbin looks at the Course and shows up to five plans that suit it best under Suggested for this course. Click Show all plans to see the full list. If Bobbin can't find a confident match, it opens straight on the full list.

Use the Search, Country, Subject, Level and Exam board filters to narrow the list to the curriculum you want. Searching or filtering always looks through every plan, not just the suggestions.

The browser opens on the plans for the Course's country, so the Country, Subject, Level and Exam board options you see match that curriculum. To teach from another country's curriculum, use the Country picker to switch - the other filters update to match the country you choose.

Select a template from the left-hand list. Its modules, module descriptions and topics appear on the right so you can confirm it matches what you want to teach before committing.

Click Use this template. The template is copied onto the Course as the active Course Outline, and the page refreshes to show Course Coverage and the full list of modules and topics.

An outline built from a curriculum shows where it came from, for example Physics · A-Level · AQA. This stays even after you edit the outline.

Tick the checkbox next to a topic to mark it as covered. Covered topics are shown with a strikethrough.

If a topic was marked as covered in a particular Lesson, unchecking it asks you to confirm first, because it also removes the topic from that Lesson's record.

The Course Coverage bar at the top of the outline updates automatically as topics are ticked, showing the percentage of topics covered and the count out of the total.

Click the More button (the three dots) on the Course Outline header to access History (a read-only log of the changes made to the outline), Change template (switch to a different curriculum-aligned template) and Describe your own (have AI generate a free-form plan instead).

Open a module and click Edit module to change it. You can rename modules, reorder them, edit their descriptions and add or remove topics. Changes are made inline; click Done when finished.

Use the thumbs-up or thumbs-down buttons on the Course Outline header to record your view of the plan's quality. A short feedback dialog opens where you can optionally add a comment before clicking Submit feedback.

Curriculum-aligned plans are available for several countries, and you can browse any of them using the Country picker in the template browser:

If you don't see a curriculum you expect for a country, get in touch with the support team and we can check what's loaded for that region.

You can attach files and folders from your document library to a Course, so the material you teach from sits alongside the Course Outline and is ready to open in the Lesson.

Tutors can see and use your organization's shared files and folders as well as their own library, and can attach them to the Courses they teach. Inside a live Lesson, the library panel gives Tutors access to the organization's shared files, the Course's own files and their personal library without leaving the whiteboard.

Every document and folder shows the name of the person who added it, and the documents list can be narrowed by author, upload date, whether a file is shared across the organization, and whether it sits in a folder. Each folder shows how many files it holds.

The Homework tab is where Tutors and Administrators set homework for everyone on the Course, attach worksheets, and see who has handed it in. Students hand in their work from their own Homework page. See Homework for the full walkthrough.

You can see all of the Lessons linked to this Course on the Course's Lessons tab.

When you create a Lesson from a Course, you can pre-select the objectives from the Course Outline that the Lesson should cover, and have Bobbin draft the Lesson plan from them.

If your organization uses TutorCruncher for scheduling, Administrators can also book Lessons on those Courses directly in Bobbin. When you click New lesson, the Course picker starts with up to five Suggested Courses, based on your recent activity. If you click a time slot on the calendar, the Course that usually meets at that time comes first. Click Show all courses to see the rest, or type to search every Course.

When a Course changes Tutor, the new Tutor normally only sees the Lessons they teach themselves. If Tutors can view other Tutors' reports is turned on in TutorCruncher, Tutors on a Course can also open the Course's completed Lessons that another Tutor taught.

In Bobbin, this shows under Organization > Settings > Lessons as Let tutors read completed lesson reports on their courses, marked as managed in TutorCruncher. Change it in TutorCruncher and it syncs across.

With it on, a Tutor can read those Lessons' summary, insights, Tutor notes and Lesson plan. The Lesson shows Taught by the other Tutor and explains why it's read-only. They can't see its recording, transcript, chat or attendance, can't change anything on it, and never see the other Tutor's teaching feedback.