Dashboard

The Dashboard is the landing page of the Online Course app — a quick overview of your courses and students with shortcuts to the most common tasks.

How to Access

1. Open the Online Course app from your Shopify Admin
2. The Dashboard page appears at /app

Page Sections

Quick Actions

Three buttons at the top of the page for the most common tasks. Best for: starting a new task without navigating through menus.

• Create course — opens the Create course form
• View all courses — goes to the Courses list
• Enroll student — goes to the Students page where you can manually enroll

Statistics

A row of four cards showing the current state of your courses and students. Best for: a quick health check at the start of your day.

• Total Courses — count of all courses, including Draft and Published
• Total Students — count of unique students who have enrolled in any course
• Enrollments This Month — number of new enrollments since the first day of the current month
• Completion Rate — percentage of enrollments where the student has finished all lessons

Empty State

A welcome message that appears when the shop has no courses yet. Best for: first-time merchants who have just installed the app.

• Title: "Welcome to Online Course!"
• Description: "Get started by creating your first course."
• A single CTA button that opens the Create course form

Reading the Numbers

1. Open the Dashboard
2. Wait for the statistics cards to finish loading (they show a skeleton while loading)
3. Compare the four numbers to gauge how your courses are doing
4. Click any Quick Action button to take the next step

Important Rules

• Statistics are calculated in real time from your courses and enrollments
• A new shop with no data shows zero on every card — this is expected
• If a card fails to load, a small error banner appears but the rest of the page still works
• The Dashboard does not include charts or onboarding checklists in the current version; those are planned for a later release