Tell me how my courses are doing without me asking
A course quietly succeeds or quietly leaks. Students enrol, some finish, some drift - and the drift is invisible unless you go looking lesson by lesson. This job makes the drift visible on a schedule.
What the weekly note covers
- Arrivals and finishes. Who enrolled, who completed, and the trend against recent weeks.
- The stall map. Students who stopped partway, and whether they stopped at the same place - a shared sticking point is a lesson problem, and fixing one lesson recovers more students than any amount of chasing.
- A ready nudge. When someone has drifted long enough to matter, the note arrives with a suggested message for them, waiting on your yes.
Setting it up
Paste the brief into a chat with Bernard to see this week's picture immediately, then make it a standing job as described in Put an AI agent to work on my business. Course businesses usually pair it with Watch my shop and tell me when sales go quiet so enrolment money and teaching health arrive as one rhythm.
The prompt
“Watch my courses. Each [Friday], tell me: who enrolled this week, who finished something, and who has gone quiet partway through. If students are stalling at the same lesson, name the lesson. Keep it to a few lines.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- How do I know if students are actually finishing my online course?
- This brief has Bernard report completions and progress each week, so finishing - or stalling - becomes something you hear about, not something you dig for.
- Can it tell me where students give up?
- Yes. If several students go quiet at the same lesson, the note names it - that is usually a lesson that needs a tweak, not students who need chasing.
- Can it nudge the students who stalled?
- It can draft the nudge - a friendly note to the students who drifted - and show it to you first. Nothing is sent without your approval, and you can edit the wording before it goes.
- I teach on more than one site. One note or two?
- One note, with each site broken out - so the course business reads as one thing even when it lives in two places.