Catalog order & categories

On Admin → Courses, the Catalog categories card is where you create the sections your public catalog is grouped into — for example AI READY, CyberSecurity, General. Type a name, press Add category, and it appears as a heading on your storefront as soon as a course is filed under it.

Use the arrows on each row to set the order the sections appear in, the pencil to rename one, and the count on the right to see how many courses it holds. Names are unique per institute — “AI Ready” and “AI READY” can’t both exist, so you never end up with two sections that look the same.

Each row of the course table has a Category dropdown — pick one and it saves immediately. You can also set it inside a course, on the builder’s Details step. A course with no category is fine: uncategorized courses appear together at the end of the catalog, under “More courses”.

A course belongs to exactly one category, so nothing ever shows up twice on the catalog.

The arrows at the left of the course table move a course up or down. That table is your catalog running order: within each section, courses appear in exactly the order shown there.

Drafts and archived courses sit in the same list so you can park a course where you want it before it goes live — students only ever see published ones, in the same relative order. New courses (including ones created through the API) land at the bottom, so adding one never reshuffles an arrangement you set.

Deleting a category never deletes courses. Anything filed under it simply becomes uncategorized and moves to the end of the catalog — re-file it whenever you like.

Catalog cards show the whole thumbnail — nothing is cropped off the top or bottom. A 16:9 image (2560×1440 is ideal) fills the card edge to edge; any other shape sits letterboxed on a plain background. The uploader in the builder’s Details step tells you the moment an image isn’t 16:9, so you can re-crop before it reaches your catalog.

Categories and ordering are both available to a course:write API key: GET/POST /admin/categories, PATCH and DELETE /admin/categories/{id}, and POST /admin/categories/{id}/move or /admin/courses/{id}/move with { direction: "up" | "down" }. A course import can pass category: "AI READY" to file itself as it’s built. See the API keys guide.