How to Create an Online Course and Community with Astro

Astro is a strong option for content-first websites that still need dynamic app sections.

With Embedin, you can keep Astro as your fast frontend layer and add a complete course and community experience in minutes.

What Embedin gives you

Course authoring and lesson structure
Video delivery and learner access
Embedded player for your Astro pages
Built-in community discussions

Step 1: Create your course in Embedin

Set up your course and publish your first lessons in Embedin.

Then copy your course ID from course settings.

Step 2: Add domain allowlist entries

Add your Astro domains in Embedin settings:

http://localhost:4321
https://yourdomain.com

Step 3: Embed in an Astro page

Create a page like src/pages/academy.astro:

---
const courseId = 'YOUR_COURSE_ID'
---

<html lang="en">
  <body>
    <main>
      <h1>Academy</h1>
      <div id={courseId} data-courseid={courseId}></div>
    </main>

    <script type="module" src="https://embed.embedin.com/course.js" data-courseid={courseId}></script>
  </body>
</html>

Replace YOUR_COURSE_ID with your course ID from Embedin course settings.

Step 4: Enable Community

Enable Community in course settings to activate learner conversations directly in the course experience.

This helps learners stay engaged and ask questions in context.

Step 5: Seed the community

Post three starter topics before launch:

Welcome post and community rules
Introductions
First milestone check-in

Final thought

Astro gives you speed and strong content ergonomics. Embedin adds the course and community infrastructure so you can launch faster with less complexity.