How To Make Your Own Online Courses Super Fast!

If you're still paying a separate monthly fee to Kajabi or Teachable to host your online courses, GoHighLevel eliminates that expense entirely — the Memberships tab is a complete LMS that handles everything from video lessons to certificates, all inside the platform you already use for funnels and CRM. Here's exactly how to create online courses in GoHighLevel, step by step.

GoHighLevel's Memberships tab is a full LMS platform where you can create online courses, build student communities, and issue certificates without any third-party course tool. The course builder supports sprint, marathon, and membership-style programs, plus direct import from Kajabi. You sell via free or paid offers, add upsells, track individual student completion percentages, and manage custom domains — all inside one GoHighLevel account, with no external integration required.

The Memberships Dashboard: Your Course Control Center

Every course you build lives inside the Memberships tab. Open it and the dashboard immediately shows four live metrics: opt-ins in the last 30 days, new members, recent sales, and checkouts. That's your at-a-glance read on course performance before you've clicked a single setting.

The main navigation breaks into Products (your actual course content), Offers (how you sell or give away that content), Analytics, and Settings. This separation between product and offer is deliberate — it means you can create one course and package it under multiple offer structures (free, paid, discounted) without duplicating content. The architecture matters when you're managing more than one course at a time.

Four Course Types: How to Choose the Right Starting Structure

When you click Create Product, GoHighLevel gives you four starting options: sprint course, marathon course, membership course, or build your own. Selecting sprint course — which works best for short, outcome-focused content — immediately generates a default product structure with a starter category already in place. You don't start from a blank page.

• Sprint course — Short, single-skill deliverable. Default skeleton generated on selection.
• Marathon course — Multi-module program spanning weeks or months.
• Membership course — Recurring access model for subscription or community content.
• Build your own — Blank slate for fully custom structures.

There's a fifth option the interface doesn't prominently advertise: importing directly from Kajabi. If you have an existing course catalog there, GoHighLevel pulls it across without you rebuilding every lesson manually. That single feature removes the main migration friction that keeps creators locked into Kajabi.

Building Course Structure: Categories, Lessons, and Subcategories

Once you've selected a course type and named it — say, sprint course test — GoHighLevel creates a default product structure with one starter category. You can rename it, add more categories, and nest subcategories inside any category. For each category, you have three content options: add a lesson, add a subcategory, or add an assessment.

Adding a lesson is the most frequent action. Name it (for example, intro), save it, and click edit to open the full lesson editor. Inside, you can upload a video or audio file, set the lesson title and description, assign it to a category, attach downloadable files for students, add a thumbnail image, and publish or save as draft — all from one screen. Each lesson stands alone as a complete content unit.

Subcategories let you group related lessons together so students see a clean, logical progression rather than a flat list. On the GoHighLevel course I walked through — which included introduction sections, multiple technique lessons, and a final assessment — the category tree made navigation self-explanatory.

Task-Based Assessments: What Most LMS Platforms Still Get Wrong

GoHighLevel's assessment tool handles task-based submissions, not just multiple-choice quizzes. When I built a design theory reflection assessment inside a course, the setup included written instructions for the student, an option to upload reference templates, and a confirmation page shown after submission. Students click Start Assignment, complete the work, then upload and submit directly inside the platform.

From the instructor side, all submitted assignments are visible under Analytics — no exporting, no inbox checking. This matters for any course teaching a practical skill — design, business automation, financial systems — where you need evidence of application, not just a quiz score. Having trained over 79,000 students across 74+ courses, the absence of credible assessment infrastructure has been the most consistent weakness of third-party LMS platforms. GoHighLevel solves it natively.

Creating Offers: Free, Paid, and Upsell Logic

A course product in GoHighLevel doesn't go live until you attach an offer to it. The offer is the commercial layer — it's what you share with students. To create one: click Create Offer, name it, select the product (for example, Canva course), choose free or paid, set the payment mode to live, and publish.

The offer page students land on includes an intro video, course description, and a checkout form collecting full name, email, and phone number. After submission, they go through the payment flow if it's a paid offer. The offer link is what you paste into emails, funnels, and ad campaigns.

One feature worth using from day one: upsells. After a student enrolls in one course, GoHighLevel automatically surfaces a second offer. You configure this inside the offer settings — no Zapier connection, no webhook. You also control access start dates, so you can sell a course before the launch date and control when content becomes available.

Analytics: Reading Completion Rates and Student Behavior

The Analytics section inside Memberships has four tabs: course progress, assessment results, member analytics, and revenue analytics. Course progress, filtered to a specific course, shows each student's login count and completion percentage as individual records.

Real numbers from the Canva Master Course dashboard: one student has logged in 13 times and is at 14% completion. Others are at 11%, 3%, and 10%. Those numbers tell you exactly where your course is failing. High login frequency paired with low completion points to a content structure problem — a module that's too long, a section that loses momentum. Low logins means the enrollment-to-first-session handoff isn't working.

Member analytics goes deeper: you can pull individual learner profiles, see how many products each student has access to, and track engagement across their full account history. Assessment results shows all uploaded student submissions in one view.

Domain, Branding, and Email Notification Settings

Under Settings, GoHighLevel lets you connect a custom domain for your course portal, separate from your main site. You can update site title, upload branding assets, enable or disable portal apps for your client portal, and configure email notification templates. The email system covers every student touchpoint — general course notifications plus certificate-specific templates for issued, renewed, and expired certificates.

Custom JavaScript and CSS injection is available for adding tracking pixels or overriding default styles. Between the course builder, offer system, analytics suite, certificate infrastructure, and custom domain support, GoHighLevel replaces what previously required a separate Kajabi subscription, a standalone email tool, and manual certificate software. You no longer need Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, or any other dedicated LMS — every piece is already inside the platform.

GoHighLevel's Memberships tab is a complete course creation and delivery system that consolidates your entire LMS stack into one platform. Open the Memberships tab today, click Create Product, and select sprint course — the default structure is already waiting for you.

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Platform	Monthly Cost	CRM Included	Transaction Fee	Time to Launch
GoHighLevel	$97 (Starter)	Yes (full)	0%	1-2 hours
Kajabi	$149 (Basic)	Partial	0%	1-2 days
Teachable	$59 (Basic)	No	5% (Basic plan)	4-8 hours
Thinkific	$49 (Basic)	No	0%	4-8 hours
LearnWorlds	$29 + $5/sale	No	$5 per sale	1-2 days

Source: Vendor pricing pages as of May 2026 — GoHighLevel, Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, LearnWorlds.