Lecture files & attachments
Give every online lesson its downloadable files delivered securely
Turn any lesson into a resource hub. Attach PDF worksheets, Word handouts, and text or Markdown notes to any course, then hand them over through short-lived signed links. Every file, across every course, sits in one dashboard.
- PDF · Word · TXT · MD
- Signed, private links
- One files dashboard
Attach the documents your lessons actually need
Downloadable course resources, done right
One home for the materials your learners download — labeled, measured, and served safely.
What it is
Some lessons are made to be downloaded
Not every lesson is a video. Sometimes the lesson is the worksheet, the handout, or the notes. Academz lets you add a document file to any lesson in any course — learners open it in the lesson or download a copy to keep, and you control who can reach it.
- Drop a file into any lesson, in any course
- PDF, Word, plain text, and Markdown supported
- Learners view in-lesson or download a copy
- Free or paid, tied to the lesson itself
Four document kinds
PDF and Word course handouts, plus notes
Four file kinds, each handled the right way and labeled with a clear badge so learners know exactly what they are getting.
Polished worksheets, printable handouts, and reports learners download and keep.
Word
Editable Word handouts and templates — delivered as a clean download, never run as a page.
Text
Plain-text notes and transcripts that open as clean, readable text inside the lesson.
Markdown
Markdown notes and cheat-sheets rendered as tidy formatted text — light and portable.
How it works
Attach a file in four steps
From picking the lesson to publishing, adding downloadable resources takes minutes.
Pick the lesson
Open any course and choose the lesson that should carry a downloadable file.
Attach the file
Upload a PDF, Word, text, or Markdown document — its kind and size are read automatically.
Set free or paid
Make it a free sample or lock it behind your paid lesson — the same gate as the lesson.
Publish
Go live when it is ready, or keep it in draft while you polish. Unpublish anytime.
Secure course file delivery
Served through signed links, never a public path
Your paid materials are only reachable through short-lived, academy-scoped signed URLs. There is no public path to copy, no hotlinking, and nothing another academy can ever see. Files are served safely by design.
- Short-lived signed download links
- Scoped to your academy — never cross-tenant
- Text opens as text; Word downloads as a file
- Nothing is ever executed as a web page
Free sample, paid rest
Give away a taste, sell the rest
Mark one handout as a free preview to hook prospective buyers, while the rest of your materials stay locked behind your paid lessons.
A free sample file
Offer a starter worksheet anyone can download — your best hook for turning visitors into buyers.
The full material set
Every other file follows the paid lesson — reachable only by enrolled, paying learners.
Free or paid is decided by the same gate that governs the lesson.
Online course resource management
One dashboard for every file
See every document lesson across all your courses in one searchable table — kind, size, course, and status at a glance, instead of hunting course by course.
Search & rich filters
Find any file fast
Search by lesson title, code, or course, then narrow with a full rack of filters until you land on exactly the attachment you want.
Filter to a single document type.
Spot bloated files, or keep it light.
Zoom into a course, section, or owner.
See what is live, drafted, free, or paid.
Storage-smart clean-up
Reference-aware deletes keep shared files safe
Removing a lesson releases the file it no longer needs — but a document you have reused across other lessons is kept safe, never deleted out from under them. Sizes stay visible so you always know what you are storing.
- Orphaned files are released automatically
- Reused files are kept for the lessons that need them
- Sizes stay visible for storage housekeeping
Preview & publish control
See exactly what learners download
Jump in as a student and experience the file the way your learners will, then control its visibility with a single publish switch.
Toggle a file live or back to draft in one click.
Complete the lesson
Files are one piece of the lesson
Round out the same course with every other content type — mix downloadable materials with media and rich text.
Video lessons
Add secure, multi-provider video to any lesson alongside its files.
Add video lessonsAudio lessons
Pair your notes with narrated audio your learners can stream.
Add audio lessonsText & image lessons
Write rich articles and image galleries in the same course.
Rich text & image lessonsEmbed / iframe
Bring an outside tool or page in as a lesson of its own.
Embed external contentThen test & reward
Teach with materials, then check they landed
Turn the resources they downloaded into practice, assessment, and proof of achievement.
Quizzes & exams
Test understanding after they read the handout with auto-graded quizzes.
Build quizzesHomework
Turn your materials into practice with graded assignment submissions.
Assign homeworkCertificates
Reward the learners who work through your materials with a verifiable certificate.
Award certificatesQuestions & answers
Lecture files, answered
PDF, Word documents, plain text (TXT), and Markdown (MD) — each shown with a clear kind badge so learners know exactly what they are downloading.
Both. Every attachment has a secure download link; text and Markdown files also open as clean, readable text in the lesson, while Word files download as attachments.
Files are served only through short-lived, signed links scoped to your academy. There is no public path to copy and nothing is exposed to other academies, so your paid materials stay protected.
Yes. Mark a file lesson as a free preview to attract buyers, and keep the rest of your materials behind your paid lessons.
Yes — a single cross-course dashboard lists every document lesson across all your courses, with search and filters by kind, size, course, section, owner, and status.
Deletion is reference-aware: the file is released when it is no longer needed, but any document you have reused in another lesson is kept safe.
Start attaching files today
Give your lessons the materials learners keep
Attach downloadable PDF, Word, text, and Markdown files to any lesson, deliver them through secure signed links, and manage them all from one dashboard.
No credit card required · Files private to your academy