“How do I share a course with only my own students?”

A lot of private tutors assume putting a course online means putting it on display for the whole world. It doesn't. A course's visibility is separate from whether it's published — you can have a fully working, paid course that never appears in any public list.

Which one for which situation

• Public — you want new students to discover and buy it. The normal storefront case.
• Unlisted — you'll share a link in your group chat or class, but don't want strangers stumbling onto it.
• Password — same as unlisted, but with an extra password gate you give only to your own students.
• Private — a closed course for a named set of students you enroll yourself; nobody else can reach it.

Example

A math tutor with a fixed group of 20 makes the course Unlisted and drops the link in the group's chat. The 20 enroll; the course never shows up in any public catalog or on Google. When she later builds a beginner course to attract new students, she makes that one Public.