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url: /courses/course-settings.md
description: >-
  Set a RootWright LMS course's price, discount, enrollment cap, open and close
  dates, instructors and certificate in the course editor.
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# Course settings and access in RootWright LMS

Course settings control who can take a course, when, and at what price. They live in the course editor, on the **Pricing & Access**, **Instructors** and **Certificate** sections.

## Pricing & Access

![The Pricing & Access section](/images/courses/course-settings-01-pricing.jpg)

*Pricing & Access. A course with no price enrolls students for free.*

* **Price.** Click **Add a price** to set what the course costs. Without a price, students enroll for free.
* **Discount.** Choose a discount for this course from the dropdown, if you have created one under **Commerce → Discounts**.
* **Maximum enrollments.** Caps the number of students. Leave it empty for unlimited.
* **Schedule.** Set **Opens to students** and **Closes to new students**. Leave them empty to open the course as soon as it is published. After the close date, nobody new can enroll, but current students keep access.

::: pro
Prices are charged through Stripe or PayPal, or through a connected store. See [Payment gateways](/commerce/payment-gateways).
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## Instructors

![The Instructors section](/images/courses/course-settings-02-instructors.jpg)

*The Instructors section lists the Lead Instructor. Add co-teachers with **Add Instructor**.*

* The person who created the course is the **Lead Instructor**.
* **Add Instructor** adds a co-teacher from existing accounts. Each instructor gets a role.
* The adjust icon on a row opens that instructor's permissions for this course.

For roles, commission and per-course permissions, see [Add co-instructors to a course](/courses/course-team).

## Certificate

![The Certificate section with Automatically, on completion selected](/images/certificates/award-01-course-certificate.jpg)

*The Certificate section. The default is **No certificate**.*

Under **Award a certificate**, choose **No certificate**, **Automatically, on completion**, **Only when an instructor issues it** or **Automatically, if the student meets my criteria**. Then pick the design for this course. Under **Who signs this certificate**, each instructor must add a signature before approving certificates. See [Design certificates](/certificates/certificate-studio#award-a-certificate-in-a-course).

## Other settings

* **Details** holds the title, description, level, duration, format, category and tags. See [Add a course](/courses/add-a-course).
* **Publishing** lives in the top bar. Publish, Save draft and Update are all there.