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

> You don't have to list a course publicly to sell or share it. Four visibility settings let you keep a course off the catalog and hand it to exactly the people you choose.

Last updated 2026-05-31 · Source: https://prolaud.com/help/course-faq-private-share

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.

*Four visibility settings, from fully public to invite-only.*

## 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.

> **Note:** Visibility only matters once a course is Published. A Draft is invisible to everyone but you, no matter which visibility you pick.

## Related

- [Drafts, published, archived + visibility](https://prolaud.com/help/course-publish-vs-draft)
- [Bulk-import students via CSV](https://prolaud.com/help/course-bulk-import)