# Schedule Program Course Releases

## 📌 Overview

A [program](/help/create-and-assign-programs) normally makes all of its courses available the moment it's assigned. With the program's **Delivery** timeline you can drip them out instead — release the first course right away, the next a week later, the one after that a few days behind it — and add your own emails and texts between them, so learners hear from you as each course opens.

Every date is relative to the date the program was assigned to that learner, so the same timeline works no matter when someone joins. Saving a Delivery timeline also replaces the generic assignment notification, so learners get your message instead of Quinn's default one.

### Step 1: Open Delivery

Open the program from the **Programs** page and click **Delivery** in the top-right.

![Program detail page with the Delivery and Settings buttons in the top-right](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_01.png)

💡 Tip: Course release rules used to live on the settings page — they're now on this **Delivery** timeline, alongside your messages.

### Step 2: Read the timeline

The timeline is a numbered list of steps in the order learners experience them. **Course** steps control when a course becomes available, **Message** steps are the emails and texts you send along the way. The first step is a **Message** marked **Required first touch** — the one that goes out when the program starts.

![Delivery timeline showing the first touch Message step and the first Course step](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_02.png)

### Step 3: Choose when each course becomes available

On a **Course** step, pick a rule from the **Make available** dropdown:

- **On the assignment date** — available as soon as the program is assigned.
- **Days after the assignment date** — a fixed number of days after the program lands.
- **Days after the previous course** — chained to the course above it, so shifting one course moves everything after it.

![Make available dropdown open with the three release rule options](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_03.png)

### Step 4: Set the number of days

For either of the "days after" rules, enter the number of **days** next to the dropdown. The badge on the course reads back what you chose — **Available immediately**, **Available day 7** — so you can read the whole rollout down the timeline.

![Course steps showing Available immediately and Available day 7 badges](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_04.png)

💡 Tip: Drag the handle on the left of any step to reorder your timeline — course availability and message timing follow the step you move.

### Step 5: Write the message learners get

Expand a **Message** step to write it. Switch between **Email** and **SMS**, set the subject and body, and drop in tokens like `{{learner.firstName}}`, `{{program.name}}`, `{{course.name}}` and `{{course.link}}` so each learner gets their own details. **Upload** adds an image or GIF, the preview on the right shows the result, and **Send test** sends it to you before anyone else sees it.

![Message step expanded with the Email tab, subject, body, tokens, and email preview](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_05.png)

💡 Tip: Turn **Sending Email** off on a step to pause that message without deleting the copy you've written.

### Step 6: Add more steps

**Add another step** at the bottom of the timeline gives you **Add Course** to bring in more content, or **Add Message** to send an extra email, SMS, or both — a nudge halfway through, or a congratulations at the end.

![Add another step menu showing Add Course and Add Message](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_06.png)

### Step 7: Save the timeline

Click **Save Delivery** at the top of the page. The timeline applies to everyone the program is assigned to, including members assigned later. **Cancel** discards your edits.

### Step 8: Set the message delivery window

Messages don't go out at all hours. Click **Change in Settings** on the Delivery page to open **Message delivery window**, where you choose the **Timezone**, **Send messages at** time, and which days under **Send messages on** — weekdays at 9:00 AM by default. Course availability ignores this window and always follows the **Course** steps.

![Message delivery window settings with timezone, send time, weekdays, and Avoid duplicate reminders](https://assets.meetquinn.ai/website/Help/program-course-schedule_delivery_v2_step_07.png)

💡 Tip: Leave **Avoid duplicate reminders** on so Quinn skips its own generic course reminder when your Delivery timeline already has a message going to that learner the same day on the same channel.

## 💡 Tips

- Courses you add to the program after saving default to releasing on the assignment date — revisit **Delivery** to give them their own rule.
- Setting every course back to **On the assignment date** releases the whole program immediately again.
- **Edit Delivery timeline** on the settings page takes you back to the timeline without going through the program page.
- Course releases pair well with [Score-Gated Course Progression](/help/score-gated-course-progression) when you want both a release date and a passing score before learners move on.