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url: /settings/courses-and-lessons.md
description: >-
  Site-wide course settings in RootWright LMS: who can publish, review and
  comment moderation, enrolment redirects and renewal reminders, catalogue size
  and file limits.
---

# Courses & lessons settings in RootWright LMS

**Settings → Courses & lessons** holds the site-wide rules for publishing, reviews, enrolment, the catalogue and course files. It has five sections: **Publishing**, **Reviews & comments**, **Enrolment**, **Catalogue** and **Files**.

## Publishing

Who can put a course live, and take it down again.

| Setting | Options | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Who can publish a course** | **Require admin approval**, **Instructors publish directly** | With approval required, an instructor's **Publish** submits the course to [Publish requests](/students/instructors#publish-requests). It goes live once an administrator approves it. Individual courses can override this. |
| **Creators can unpublish their courses** | On or off | Applies to the instructor who submitted the course. Off: only an administrator can take it off the catalogue. |
| **Creators can delete their courses** | On or off | Deleting removes the course with its enrolments and student progress, so this is off until you turn it on. |

![The Publishing section](/images/settings/courses-lessons-04-publishing.jpg)

## Reviews & comments

| Setting | Options |
|---|---|
| **Student review approval** | **Hold for moderation** or **Publish immediately**. See [Course reviews](/community/reviews). |
| **Lesson comments** | **Hold for approval**, **Publish immediately** or **Turn lesson comments off**. See [Lesson comments](/community/lesson-comments). |

## Enrolment

What happens once a student is in, and before their access runs out.

![The Enrolment section](/images/settings/courses-lessons-03-enrolment.jpg)

| Setting | Options or format | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **After enrolling in a free course** | **Stay on the course page**, **Start learning**, **Go to the dashboard** | Where a student goes once they enroll. |
| **After a successful purchase** | Same three options | Where a buyer goes once their payment goes through. A bundle always goes to the dashboard. |
| **Renewal reminders: days before** | Comma-separated days, for example `7,1,0` | Days before access ends. 0 is the day it ends. For subscription and payment-plan options sold through WooCommerce or Easy Digital Downloads, which students renew by hand. |
| **Renewal reminders: days after** | Comma-separated days, for example `3` | Days after access ends. Leave empty to send none. |

## Catalogue

| Setting | Example | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Thumbnail size** | 480 × 270 | Pixel dimensions used for course and category cards. |
| **Courses per page** | 12 | Inside category pages and search results. |

## Files

What course and lesson files may weigh. Other uploads use the defaults under [Quizzes & assessments](/settings/quizzes-and-assessments).

![The Files section](/images/settings/courses-lessons-02-files.jpg)

| Setting | Example | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| **Course file size limit** | 25 MB | Applies to course cover images and downloadable assets, not the intro video, which only PHP's limit governs. 0 removes the plugin's own cap. |
| **Lesson attachment size limit** | 25 MB | Per file, across all lesson attachments. 0 removes the plugin's own cap. |
| **Max files per lesson** | 5 | How many attachments a single lesson can hold. |

The help text under each size limit shows the most your server accepts per upload, whatever the setting says.

## Related

* [Course settings and access](/courses/course-settings) for per-course settings.
* [Settings overview](/settings/overview)