A closer look at the semester-aware course guide.
The homepage shows you the idea. This is the whole of it, how you start, how you build, how it stays live, and how it scales from one course to an institution. Configured once before semester begins, running from there.
Start from a shape that fits your course.
Begin from a template built around how your course actually runs. A standard lecture course with weekly readings and assessments. A fully online self-paced course with checkpoints students work through at their own pace. A paired lab and tutorial course with a lab schedule ready to go. Prefer to shape it yourself? Start from a blank course and build the structure from scratch.
Either way, you name the course and its first offering, and Thredly sets up the scaffold you fill in.
Enter your course once. Everything else draws from it.
Thredly holds your course as structured content, your course details, your schedule, your assessments, your reading list, your key terms in a glossary, and the questions students always ask in an FAQ. You fill each area once, guided by a completion state that shows what is essential and marks each area done as you go, so setup is a guided fill rather than a blank page. Already have this content elsewhere? Import it rather than retyping it.
This structured layer is the source every page draws from, which is why a change in one place reaches every page at once.
One course, as many pages as it needs.
A course is rarely a single page. Build a course home, a weekly overview, a resources page, a timeline of the whole journey, each one its own view, each published and embeddable on its own. Compose every view by dropping in blocks and arranging them the way your course reads, then preview it, publish it, and place it where it belongs in Canvas.
Change it once. It changes everywhere.
The blocks that carry your course content are live, your assessments, your schedule, your teaching team, your reading list. Enter an assessment once and every page showing it stays current, so when a due date moves you change it in one place and the countdown, the checklist and the readiness all follow.
This is the line between Thredly and a page you build by hand. It is the only course page that knows what week it is.
Build from a library that covers the whole of a course.
The live course-content blocks bring in your course info, teaching team, information cards, schedule, assessments, FAQ, glossary, reading list and a full course timeline, each staying current on its own. Text blocks give you headings, rich text and callouts for the words only you can write. Media blocks add a full-width banner, images, video, and a resource list of downloadable files and links. Action blocks bring a page to life with buttons, a row of key figures, an accordion for collapsible questions, and a checklist students can work through. And the this-week blocks surface what matters in the current week, which is the heart of a semester-aware guide.
The page keeps pace with the semester.
This is what makes Thredly a semester-aware course guide rather than a set of pages. The timeline shows each student where they are, with a marker pinned to the current week and assessments hanging off the weeks they fall in. The this-week blocks surface the focus, the next assessment, and the steps that matter now. Week 1 orients, mid-semester focuses, assessment weeks prepare.
You set none of this up week by week. You configured the course once, and the page moves through the semester on its own.
Make it look like your institution, not like us.
Every view takes a theme, so what students see carries your institution’s colour and type rather than a generic house style. Set a theme once and apply it across your views, so a student moving between your course home, your weekly overview and your timeline sees one consistent course, recognisably yours.
Built for one educator, ready for the whole institution.
Courses live inside a workspace, so a single educator can hold their courses in one place, and an institution can hold many teams and many courses in theirs. Each course runs across offerings, so the same course carries from one semester to the next without rebuilding, with a switcher to move between runs and mark the current one.
It is the same guide whether you are one educator with one course or a faculty with hundreds.
Checked, themed, and embedded where students already go.
Before a view goes live it carries an accessibility check, so what you publish is ready for every student. Preview it exactly as students will see it, then embed it in Canvas, either the whole guide or just a part, so a schedule can sit on one page and the full guide on another. A link manager keeps the links across your views healthy, so nothing quietly breaks mid-semester. And once a view is live, you can see which views students are opening, so you know the guide is being used.
All of this runs inside your LMS two ways. Standard is a no-approval embed you can start today. LTI is an institutional integration with learner progress tied to each student’s account. See the full comparison on the deploy page.
Configured once. Running all semester.
Start free in your own Canvas course, or book a walk-through and we will show you the whole of it.