Learn the desks before you size them.
Academy is a full school inside GEM Hunter: paths, courses, a lesson player, quizzes, live sessions, certificates, and an instructor payout rail. It sits beside both the DEX scanner and the Futures desk — not inside either menu. Public pages will not stream lesson video.
Student desk and instructor desk.
Paths & courses
Curated multi-course paths, featured rails, categories that only appear when they have published work, syllabus, reviews, enroll. Empty shelves stay empty.
Live sessions
Upcoming classes at /academy/live and the session room at /academy/live/[id]. Instructors configure live from the course editor. Distinct from War Rooms.
Teach
Create courses, quizzes, live setup, earnings, refunds, payouts. Instructors are a product, not a blog. Admin can feature or unpublish from the academy CMS.
Learner rail and instructor rail.
Same school. Two kill-switches. A student does not inherit the payout UI; an instructor does not skip enroll.
Enroll, play, prove
Continue-learning, featured paths, course syllabus, lesson player, quizzes, certificates, faculty browse.
- · My learning: in-progress, completed, notes, stats
- · Lesson types: video, audio, document, article, live
- · Public verify link by certificate code
Build, examine, get paid
Course editor, quizzes, live setup, earnings, refunds, payout setup. Admin CMS can feature or unpublish.
- · Create from /academy/create
- · Quizzes: questions, settings, attempts
- · Payout rail is first-class — not a DM
Path → course → lesson → quiz → cert.
A path is a sequence of courses. A course has a syllabus. A lesson is one of five types. A cert is a path finish — not a win-rate badge.
Multi-course track. Featured on academy home.
Overview, syllabus, reviews, instructor, enroll.
Video, audio, document, article, or live slot.
Attempts and settings live on the course, not a public dump.
Earned cert + public verify by code.
If you publish, the instructor rail opens.
What you open after enroll.
Home
Continue-learning rail (only if you have in-progress), featured paths, featured courses, categories with published work, newest list.
My learning
In-progress, completed, notes, stats at /academy/my-learning. Your book, not a vanity streak.
Course
Overview, syllabus, reviews, instructor at /academy/course/[slug]. Enroll or checkout when the course is paid.
Lesson player
Video, audio, document, article, or live at /academy/lesson/[id]. Progress, notes, discussion, mark complete.
Quizzes
Instructors build quizzes per course (questions, settings, attempts). Learner taking is wired through the course, not a public exam dump.
Certificates
Earned certs at /academy/certificate plus a public verify link at /academy/certificate/verify/[code].
Instructors
Browse faculty and open /academy/instructor/[username].
Academy notices
A dedicated notification lane at /academy/notifications so course mail does not drown in the hunter feed.
Five ContentType values. One player.
The player is /academy/lesson/[id]. Live is a slot, not a War Room.
| Type | What members see | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| video | On-demand lesson video inside the player | Not an unlisted YouTube dump |
| audio | Audio lesson in the same player shell | Not a War Room replay |
| document | Attached document (instructor upload cap 25MB) | Not a drive folder |
| article | Written lesson, notes, mark complete | Not a blog post on /blog |
| live | A live slot on the school timetable | Not hunter audio around a setup |
A school versus three archetypes.
| Surface | GEM Hunter academy | YouTube playlist | Paid newsletter | Twitter thread |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-course paths | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| Syllabus + reviews + enroll | Yes | No | No | No |
| Quizzes with attempt stats | Yes | No | No | No |
| Certificate with public verify | Yes | No | No | No |
| Instructor payout + refunds | Yes | Partial | Partial | No |
| Live as a lesson type | Yes | Partial | No | No |
| Empty categories hidden | Yes | No | No | No |
| Public site streams the lesson | No | Yes | Partial | Yes |
Courses live inside the app.
Syllabus, player, quizzes, and certificates are membership surfaces. Public pages will not stream lesson video.