Publish your saved course changes

Saving changes to a published course updates your draft, not the version learners
can access. Your approved release remains available while you prepare an update.

From Save to Publishing

1. Edit the course and select Save in Content.

2. A successful save shows a temporary Course saved. notification. When saved
   changes are confirmed against the approved release, that notification explains
   Your changes are saved, but learners can't see them yet. Submit them for
   review when ready; saving alone does not publish them.

3. Open Publishing from the section navigation. Nothing is submitted by
   navigating there.

4. Select Submit public update (or Submit private update for a private audience) and review
   the confirmation. Add optional release notes, then confirm.

There is no large saved-change banner in Content or Publishing. Reopening a course
does not replay the save notification. If the approved release cannot be checked,
the notification only confirms the save; normal publishing controls remain available.

Saved industry tags and instructor changes also update this guidance. Industry
tags save immediately; instructor edits count after you select Save in
Instructors. You do not need to change or resave the course text to see the
indicator for these updates. Automatic saves do not replay the Content save toast.

In Publishing, an Unpublished changes indicator above the update option
for the current audience highlights saved changes that are not yet live. The
i button beside it explains that saving does not make the changes available to
learners until review. Hover, focus, or click it to read the explanation; Escape
dismisses it. The existing publishing actions are unchanged. The indicator disappears
while changes are unsaved, while saving, or after the update is submitted for review.

When there are no changes

If your saved draft matches the live release and you have no unsaved edits, the
update action for that same audience is disabled and says No changes to publish.
The check includes course details, modules, categories, industries, and instructors.
Release notes and the notification checkbox alone do not count as a course update.
Creating and retiring a stage before it was ever published does not count either;
removing a stage learners can currently access still does.
First publication, changing the audience, and republishing a withdrawn course
remain available. Unpublishing is not blocked by this check.

If changes cannot be verified, publishing remains available; the server checks
again when you submit. It normally rejects an unchanged course before automated
moderation, and always checks the exact live release again before creating the
review. If another release is approved while you are submitting, reload the course
before trying again. Unsaved edits are still saved before submission and then
checked on the server.

If the server answers No changes to publish, the saved draft stays saved and
the update controls refresh. Any edits you make while that request is running
remain in your editor as unsaved changes; the refresh does not discard them.

Release versions and review

The publishing button shows the next release as Send version N for approval.
The first publication starts at version 1; later publications use the highest
published version plus one. Saving, withdrawing, rejection, and resubmission do
not consume release numbers. The final number is assigned when approval creates
the release. If the release history cannot be verified, the button shows
Send for approval without a number.

The Published · Version N status identifies the release learners currently
see. The save notification and info explanation do not repeat that number.

Update submitted. Awaiting approval. means your update has been sent for review.
Learners keep access to the existing approved version until the update is approved.
Saving alone never starts review or changes who can access the course. Further
edits are not automatically added to an already-submitted revision; follow the
review controls in Publishing.

See Create and publish a course for the full
authoring and review workflow.