Thanks @Charles
This is huge for me!! Courses and lessons will be immensely helpful. I am an author, I write books on how to use software, and I created a community so people could ask their questions. I will now be able to offer an accompanying online course to my community.
I intend to create different modules for different topics.
For me, the most important capabilities would be:
A clear course outline in the sidebar where the students knows where they are in the course and checkmarks for lessons that were already completed (for example currently viewing Lesson 3/10, checkmarks for Lesson 1 and Lesson 2).
Progress tracking so students know how much of the course they've completed (for example course 28% completed).
The possibility to ask questions about a course item, that automatically flags the specific course lesson in the notification sent to the teacher.
Integration with Commerce.
Once the foundation is built, some enhancements could be:
Learning path (a series of courses to take to complete a specific career path).
Integration with Live Topics.
Gamification.
Automated notifications (i.e. "Looks like you haven't completed your course, you took the last lesson a week ago...").
Basically the main idea would be to make it easy enough for the student to keep track of their progress to engage them to want to learn more and complete their course or their full learning path.