Put one lesson back to how it was
Someone rewrote a lesson and you preferred it as it was. Perhaps that someone was an AI you asked to tidy the formatting, and it tidied a sentence you meant.
Every lesson keeps a record of what it said before each edit - who made the change, when, and the reason they gave. You can read that record and put the lesson back.
See what changed first
Show me what changed in the Recording an incident lesson, and when.
Bernard lists the earlier versions newest first, with the reason given for each edit, and can set any of them beside the current wording so you can read the difference rather than guess at it.
This step matters more than it sounds. Restoring puts back everything from that point - so if three edits happened and you only dislike the second, restoring undoes all three. Read first, then decide.
Putting it back
Put that lesson back to how it was before yesterday's edit.
The title, summary, notes and runtime return to what that version held. The video, the worksheets, the running order and the free-taster flag are untouched - this is about the words.
Restoring is itself recorded, so it can be undone. Bernard notes what the lesson says now before replacing it, and you can go forward again if you restore the wrong version.
Why this is separate from approving changes
Most changes to your site wait in a draft until you approve them (How do I approve or undo changes?). The words inside a lesson do not: an edit to an existing lesson reaches the students already enrolled the next time they open it, with no preview and no Approve button.
That is why this history exists. It is the safety net for the one part of your site that has no approval step, and it is worth knowing about before you need it.
A whole course at once
If the same unwanted change went through every lesson - a formatting pass you've thought better of - undo it as one job rather than lesson by lesson (Change the same thing in every lesson of my course).
What it can't reach
Deleting a lesson takes its history with it, so a deleted lesson cannot be recovered this way (Remove a lesson from my course). And nothing before August 2026 was recorded - an empty history means no edit since then, not an unchanged lesson.
The prompt
“Show me what changed in the [lesson name] lesson in my [course name] course, and put it back to how it was before the last edit.”
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
- Why doesn't the usual approve-and-undo apply here?
- Because the words inside a lesson aren't held on a draft. Editing what an existing lesson says reaches enrolled students the next time they open it, with no approval step. This history is the route back instead - it exists precisely because the usual one doesn't apply.
- Can I see what changed before I undo it?
- Yes, and you should. Ask Bernard to show you the earlier version against what's there now, and he'll set them side by side. Read it before restoring - a restore puts back everything from that point, not just the bit you object to.
- Is restoring itself undoable?
- Yes. Bernard records what the lesson says now before he puts the older version back, so if you restore the wrong one you can go forward again. Nothing is destroyed by restoring.
- Does it bring back the video too?
- No. The history covers the written side - the title, summary, notes and the runtime you'd typed. The video, worksheets, running order and the free-taster flag are left exactly as they are.
- How far back does it go?
- To August 2026, when Bernard started recording. A lesson with an empty history hasn't been edited since then - it doesn't mean the lesson is new.