A course that is a single video

Not every course needs modules. A single talk, a briefing, one thing to watch — Grapevine handles that shape deliberately, and it is worth knowing the trick.

Making one

1. Create the course and give it a name and a description.
2. Add one lesson, and in the module dropdown choose no module.
3. Put the video in it.
4. Stop. Do not add a module.

Why it matters that there is exactly one

A course with exactly one lesson opens straight into it. The learner enrols and the video is there, rather than an outline with a single row in it and a click that carries no decision.

Add a second lesson and that stops — the course now has an outline worth reading, so the learner gets one. That is correct, and it means the behaviour follows the shape of the course rather than a setting you have to remember.

It applies to students only. If you open your own one-lesson course you still see the outline and your editing tools, because you came to work on it rather than to watch it.

Adding the odd extra

Lessons with no module sit directly in the course outline with no heading above them. So you can start with a standalone “Watch this first” lesson and add modules below it later; the standalone one stays at the top.

The moment you have two lessons, the auto-open stops. If keeping it matters more than the second lesson, put the extra material in the course description instead — that is on the page before anybody enrols, which for a short course is often the better place anyway.

Pacing one of these

You can, but there is little point: scheduled release works by module, and a course with no modules has one implicit container holding everything. It is all or nothing, which for a single video is simply the course being open or not.