# Shipped — what’s new in Knola Every customer-facing change to Knola, the AI course creator and course platform, as it ships. Up to the 100 most recent updates, newest first, grouped by week (weeks start on Monday, UTC). On the web: https://www.knola.ai/shipped. Also as a [JSON Feed](https://www.knola.ai/shipped.json) and [RSS](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/rss.xml). ## Week of 5 Oct 2026 ### [Track new features and fixes on our public changelog](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/track-new-features-and-fixes-on-our-publ) 11 Oct 2026 · Platform Visit knola.ai/shipped to see the latest improvements to Knola in one place. Filter updates by category to find what matters to your school, or subscribe via RSS to stay in the loop. ### [Turn your slide PDF into the lesson's slides](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/slides-from-your-pdf) 11 Oct 2026 · Create Drop a PDF of your slides on a lesson and each page becomes a slide, exactly as you designed it. In our test a 41-page deck was ready in about 20 seconds, with no AI and no credits used. Students page through it in the slide viewer, on a phone too. How it works: 1. Export your deck from PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides as a PDF. 2. Open a lesson and choose Upload a PDF in the Slides section. 3. Watch the pages arrive, usually in under a minute. 4. Check them, then switch on In the lesson so students see them. Good to know: - No AI runs and no credits are used. What you upload is what students see. - Pages are kept sharp and uncropped. Only blank paper around a slide is trimmed. - Need a change? Edit the PDF and use Replace. Your earlier version stays in History. - A portrait document, like a worksheet, can stay a PDF inside the lesson text instead. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/slides/show-slides-to-students) · [AI presentation maker](https://www.knola.ai/features/ai-presentation-maker) ### [Use a YouTube or Vimeo video as your lesson video](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/youtube-and-vimeo-in-lessons) 11 Oct 2026 · Teach Paste a link and it becomes the video students watch first, with its title and thumbnail shown so you know it's the right one. To put a player inside the lesson text, type /video or paste the link on a line of its own. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/lessons/upload-video) ### [Edit slides with every tool beside the slide](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/new-slide-editor) 11 Oct 2026 · Create The new slide editor is now on for every school. Layouts, Improve with AI and the words you'll say sit next to the slide you're working on. Anything that costs credits shows its price and your balance before you click. Every existing presentation opens in it. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/slides/edit-your-slides) ### [See what students get from each lesson at a glance](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/lesson-watch-slides-read) 10 Oct 2026 · Create The top of every lesson page now shows what students get: Watch, Slides, Read, Quiz and Resources. Below that, the lesson is laid out in the order students meet it, and each part has its own buttons, from Paste a link to Write it with Knola. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/lessons/lesson-editor) ### [Removed slides can be brought back](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/bring-back-removed-slides) 10 Oct 2026 · Create Removing a lesson's slides now keeps a copy. Press Undo straight away, or Bring back later from the lesson page. History shows each earlier version with its first slide and a plain label such as “Before your edits”, so you can restore the one you want. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/lessons/version-history) ### [Import a whole course from Word, PDF or Markdown](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/import-a-course) 10 Oct 2026 · Create Bring a course you've already written and Knola reads its headings to set out the modules and lessons, word for word. Check the structure, rename or leave out lessons, then import. No AI, no credits, and the course stays a draft until you publish it. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/courses/import-a-course) ### [Watch your new lesson video about a minute after it's made](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/instant-video-preview) 10 Oct 2026 · AI You used to wait for a finished video to be prepared for streaming before you could watch it, sometimes 15 minutes or more. Now it plays as soon as it's made, while the versions that play smoothly on any phone finish in the background. You can publish once those are ready. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/video/make-a-narrated-video) ### [Invite a teammate to one course, and only that course](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/collaborators) 10 Oct 2026 · Platform A collaborator can build their course, see its students, answer their questions and sell it with their own offers and pages. They can't see your other courses, your other students or the rest of your revenue. Invite them from Settings ▸ Team and choose One course. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/account/team-and-roles) ### [Slides made from your lesson, in your own words](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/keep-my-words) 9 Oct 2026 · AI When you make slides from a lesson you wrote or imported, Knola now asks whose words to use. Choose Keep my words and everything on the slides and in the script comes from your lesson: headings become slides, bullet points go on screen and paragraphs become what's said. Knola still handles the layout, icons and photos. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/slides/build-slides) ### [The AI tutor now answers from your written lessons](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/tutor-reads-written-lessons) 8 Oct 2026 · AI The tutor used to learn only from uploaded video transcripts, so a course built from written lessons or AI videos often got “This course doesn't cover that yet”. It now reads your written lessons, your video narration and attached documents. If it still has nothing to learn from, the tutor card tells you what to add. [About the AI tutor](https://www.knola.ai/features/ai-course-tutor) ### [Try new features early in Settings ▸ Labs](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/labs) 6 Oct 2026 · Platform Labs lists features we're still building that you can switch on for your own school. The first one connects an AI app you already use, such as Claude or ChatGPT, so it can build and edit your courses, slides and pages. Switching it off takes one click. ### [Students stay on your own domain](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/white-label-students) 5 Oct 2026 · Sell · For Pro schools with their own domain If your Pro school has its own domain, students now stay on it after checkout, sign-up and sign-out, and arrive signed in. Emails about access, downloads and answered questions link to your domain too, and Google sign-in works there. [Course hosting and branding](https://www.knola.ai/features/course-hosting) ### [Sell the ebooks and checklists you make in Studio](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/sell-studio-documents) 5 Oct 2026 · Sell Turn any Studio document into a product with its own price, buy link and checkout, and add an order bump if you like. Buyers get the download as soon as they've paid. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/studio/sell-a-document) Also improved: - History no longer stacks identical copies of the same slides. (Create, 11 Oct 2026) - Course import keeps the spaces in PDF text, and words split by ligatures, like “brie fing”, join up again. (Create, 11 Oct 2026) - Accented titles make clean web addresses: “lección” becomes “leccion”. (Platform, 11 Oct 2026) - The notifications bell says “1 new question”, not “1 new questions”. (Teach, 11 Oct 2026) - An imported text file’s first line now names the course. (Create, 11 Oct 2026) - The Offers page no longer scrolls sideways on a phone. (Sell, 11 Oct 2026) - At the end of a lesson, students see the quiz and their written response first. “Have a question?” now starts closed. (Teach, 9 Oct 2026) - “Start learning” on a school’s home page opens sign-up instead of a missing page. (Teach, 5 Oct 2026) ## Week of 28 Sep 2026 ### [Discount links now work in funnel checkouts](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/funnel-discount-links) 3 Oct 2026 · Sell Add ?code= and your discount code to any funnel link, and the discount is already applied when the buyer reaches checkout. Before, buyers had to type funnel codes, and that often failed. A code that has expired or isn't for this offer is ignored, so the buyer still pays the full price. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/payments/coupons) ### [Remove an offer you no longer sell](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/remove-an-offer) 1 Oct 2026 · Sell Each offer now has a bin icon. An offer nobody has bought is deleted. One with sales is archived instead, so its orders and buyers stay and you can restore it later. If a funnel still sells it, Knola tells you which funnel to change first. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/payments/offers) ### [Bring your team into your school](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/team-seats) 1 Oct 2026 · Platform · For Pro schools Invite teammates as an Owner, Admin or Instructor, and give each one a monthly limit on AI credits. If your school leaves Pro, their seats are paused, not deleted. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/account/team-and-roles) ### [Give away a free download in return for an email address](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/giveaways) 1 Oct 2026 · Sell Upload a file or pick a Studio document, and Knola sends it to everyone who signs up, on the page and by email. Add a thank-you page and it becomes a two-step funnel that doesn't count towards your plan's funnel limit. [How funnels work](https://www.knola.ai/guides/funnels/what-is-a-funnel) ### [Your lesson video now uses your slides as you made them](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/video-keeps-your-slides) 30 Sep 2026 · AI When you make a video from your slides, Knola keeps every slide as you designed it and only writes narration where a slide has none. Before, it could swap some slides for stock photos while you were reading the script. Now nothing changes a slide unless you click. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/video/edit-and-remake-a-video) ### [Turn any lesson's slides into a narrated video](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/narrated-video-every-school) 29 Sep 2026 · AI Every school can now make a lesson video from its slides. Knola writes the script, voices it and puts it with your slides. You pay only for new words, 1 credit per 1,000 characters, and making the video itself is free. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/video/make-a-narrated-video) ### [Share a lesson video with a link, or embed it](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/share-a-video) 29 Sep 2026 · Teach Switch on “Anyone with the link can watch” for a published lesson video and it gets its own page in your school's branding, plus a code to embed it on your website. It stays off for every video until you switch it on. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/video/publish-share-download) ### [Narrate your videos in your own voice](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/your-own-voice) 29 Sep 2026 · AI Connect your ElevenLabs account in Settings ▸ Your voice and choose a voice you've cloned there to narrate your lesson videos. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/video/use-your-elevenlabs-voice) ### [Free accounts can now try the AI tools on their credits](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/free-accounts-try-ai) 29 Sep 2026 · Platform A free account's 10 credits now work on slides for any lesson, videos, ebooks, quizzes and lesson writing. A licence is needed when you're ready to publish, share or download. [Compare plans](https://www.knola.ai/#offer) ### [See what something costs before you spend a credit](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/price-before-you-spend) 29 Sep 2026 · Platform Every button that uses credits now shows its price, and your balance sits in the sidebar. If you're about to run out, Knola tells you before you start, not halfway through. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/account/plan-billing-and-credits) ### [Start a new lesson the way that suits you](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/four-ways-into-a-lesson) 29 Sep 2026 · Create An empty lesson now asks how you'd like to begin: create it with AI, upload a video, import a document or write it yourself. Create with AI can teach from files you attach, and shows you a short brief to edit before it spends a credit on the full lesson. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/lessons/create-a-lesson-with-ai) ### [Writing your sales pages no longer costs credits](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/free-page-writing) 28 Sep 2026 · Sell · For Schools with a licence or Pro The AI that writes and edits your pages and sales copy is now free on a licence or Pro, within a monthly limit. Your credits go further on lessons, slides and videos. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/pages/create-a-page) Also improved: - Connecting your own ElevenLabs key now checks that it can speak, and says how to fix it if not. (AI, 4 Oct 2026) - Long words on your pages wrap instead of running off the screen on a phone. (Sell, 4 Oct 2026) - A new offer shows the real number of modules in each course. (Sell, 2 Oct 2026) - “Checkout” on a funnel sales page now goes to the checkout. (Sell, 2 Oct 2026) - If lesson research hits a busy moment, Knola tries again instead of stopping. (AI, 2 Oct 2026) - A new course draft is saved as you go, so a reload or sign-out doesn’t lose it. (Create, 30 Sep 2026) - Listen to a slide, then make the video, and that slide is voiced and charged only once. (AI, 29 Sep 2026) ## Week of 21 Sep 2026 Also improved: - Ask AI to shorten a slide and it can only get shorter, never longer. (AI, 21 Sep 2026) ## Week of 14 Sep 2026 ### [Studio: turn your lessons into ebooks, checklists and worksheets](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/studio-for-everyone) 14 Sep 2026 · Create Studio is now on for every school. Pick a course and it makes an ebook, checklist, worksheet, swipe file, glossary or mini guide from your lessons, in one of eight looks. Give it to students or sell it. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/studio/what-the-studio-makes) Also improved: - A mistyped or broken link shows a “not found” page instead of an error. (Platform, 14 Sep 2026) ## Week of 7 Sep 2026 ### [Faster video uploads: your file is sent once, not twice](https://www.knola.ai/shipped/video-uploads-once) 11 Sep 2026 · Teach Your browser used to send every uploaded video twice, once to the player and once to a backup copy nothing used. Now it goes once. The uploader also tells you when a file is much bigger than it needs to be for its length, so you can export a smaller one. [See the guide](https://www.knola.ai/guides/lessons/upload-video) Also improved: - Admin pages respond faster now that Knola runs in the same region as its database. (Platform, 13 Sep 2026) - Lesson topics and summaries now show everything you typed instead of cutting it off. (Create, 11 Sep 2026)