Program Customization

A Program is the individual learning experience you build inside your Academy, and customizing it means setting up the apps, dashboard, branded images, and notifications your Members will see.

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Overview

Every Program you create in Disco comes with a flexible dashboard, a left navigation, and a set of notification controls. You can add apps for curriculum, events, resources, and discussion channels, arrange content blocks on the dashboard, apply your brand colors to the cover and banner images, and decide which emails get sent to Members. The options below cover the most common customization tasks for Admins and Instructors running a Program.

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Open a Program to Customize It

1. Go to Admin Area → Products, or open the Learn section from your Academy sidebar.
2. Select the Program you want to customize.

Once the Program is open, you have access to the left navigation, the Program dashboard, Product Settings, and the overflow menu used for notifications.

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Add and Reorganize Apps

Apps are the building blocks of your Program. Each app gives Members a dedicated space for a type of content, such as curriculum, events, resources, or discussion channels.

1. Open the Program and locate the left navigation.
2. Select Add App and choose the app type you want to include.
3. Drag any app up or down in the list to reorder it.
4. Select an app to rename it or update its settings.

Reordering apps changes the order Members see in the Program navigation, so put the most important app at the top.

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Design the Program Dashboard

The Program dashboard is the first page Members land on when they open the Program. You control what appears there by editing the cover image and adding content blocks.

1. Open the Program and go to the dashboard view.
2. Select Edit Dashboard to enter editing mode.
3. Add blocks for the apps you want to surface, such as a hero banner, events, curriculum, posts, and discussions.
4. Drag blocks to reorder them on the page.
5. Select Save to publish your changes.

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Create Images for Your Program

You can generate on-brand cover images and banner images using your Academy’s brand colors and theme. Your brand color comes from Admin Area → Appearance → Theme → Primary Color. If you have not set a brand color yet, Disco applies a default theme color automatically.

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Program Cover Image

1. Open the Program and go to Product Settings.
2. Under General Details, select the cover image to edit it.
3. In the media picker, select Create an image using your brand asset, or open the Template tab.
4. Select Create Image. Your brand colors and Program title are applied automatically.
5. Preview the image and select Use Image.
6. Select Save as Draft or Publish Changes.

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Program Dashboard Banner Image

1. In the Program Banner block on the dashboard, select the three-dot menu in the top right.
2. Select Edit Block.
3. In the modal, select Create Image Using Template.
4. Preview the image and select Use Image.
5. Select Save.

POV: Use the Template tab for your first pass. It applies your brand color and Program title automatically, which keeps every Program in your Academy visually consistent without design work. Upload a custom image only when you want something unique for a flagship Program.

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Configure Notifications

Notifications keep Members in the loop on activity inside a Program. You control which emails get sent and which address Members reply to.

1. Open the Program.
2. Select the three-dot overflow menu on the Program.
3. Go to Settings → Notifications.
4. Toggle each notification on or off, and update the reply-to email as needed.
5. Select Save.

The available notifications are:

• New Comments & Replies. Triggered when a new comment or reply is made on posts, assignments, lessons, and similar content.
• Welcome Message. Triggered when someone registers for your Program.
• Early Access Started. Triggered when early access begins.
• Assignment Due Date Reminder. Triggered 24 hours before the due date.
• Reply-to Email. The email that replies from Members are sent to.

POV: Set the Reply-to Email to a real inbox that someone on your team monitors. Without it, Member replies land at a system address no one checks, and Members feel like they are shouting into the void.

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