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Which class type should you run?

Creating a class asks you four questions before you have any feel for the answers. Here is what each one changes once the term is running.

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Create a Class

ⓘ  New to this? How creating a class works

Format  ⓘ Which one?

Coaching

Full, intensive training.

Ministry

Lighter, for small groups and churches.

How you'll run it  ⓘ What's the difference?

Free-flowing

The coach proposes each day.

Curriculum

A term plan you approve up front.

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The two decisions

Format, then how content gets made

Everything else on the create screen is detail. These two choices set the shape of your term: the format decides how heavy a week is, and how you'll run it decides who chooses what the class works on.

Neither is locked to a subject or an age group. Pick for the people you actually have.

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A week in each format

Coaching

7 days
Coursework Ancient biography, not legend
Debate "The Gospels are folklore"
Coursework Who were the eyewitnesses?
Debate "The accounts contradict"
Debate "Copied and recopied"
Debate "Written too late to trust"
Summary Week recap & verse

Ministry

4 days
Coursework Ancient biography, not legend
Debate "The Gospels are folklore"
Debate "The accounts contradict"
Summary Week recap & verse
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Debate
Family
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Format

Coaching is seven days. Ministry is four.

Coaching runs the full week — two coursework days, four debate days, and a summary. It suits a class that has committed to train: a school elective, a serious cohort, a discipleship intensive.

Ministry runs four days — one coursework day, two debate days, and a summary. It suits a group that meets weekly and has a life outside it, costs less per seat, and defaults to a smaller class.

A Ministry class that finishes beats a Coaching class that stalls in week three.

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Free-flowing
The coach proposes

Your class has argued design twice and lost ground both times on fine-tuning. Suggested next: "The constants are just what they are."

Use this
Change it

Curriculum

Week 1: What Are the Gospels?

Coursework Ancient biography, not legend
Debate "The Gospels are folklore"
Summary Week recap & verse

Weeks 2–6 planned. Tap any day to edit it.

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Debate
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Content mode

Follow the room, or follow a plan

Free-flowing has no plan up front. Each day the coach reads where your class actually is and proposes the next prompt, sketching the arc ahead — you approve or change anything before it goes out. Start here if you have no material and want to follow the room.

Curriculum builds the whole term first, from a preset, a topic, your own outline, or a document you upload. You read every day and edit anything before students see it. Start here if you already know where the class is going.

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Create a Class
Pace
LockstepSelf-paced

Lockstep keeps the whole class on the same day together. Self-paced lets students move at their own speed.

Length
Set weeksNo set date

Plan a set number of weeks up front. The class works through them and finishes.

Class size
10 seats20 seats30 seats50 seatsCustom
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Debate
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Pace and length

Together or at their own speed; a set term or an open one

Lockstep keeps the whole class on the same day, so a debate day is something everyone did this week. Self-paced lets each student move at their own speed — better for a class that cannot all show up on the same night.

Set weeks plans a fixed term that finishes. No set date keeps the class going: start with a few weeks and add more as you go. A single plan tops out at 16 weeks either way.

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Groups & Classes

ⓘ  How classes work — formats, sources, and running a term

+ Create a class

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Tuesday Night ApologeticsLEADER
COACHING CLASS

12 of 30 students

By creating a class, you take responsibility for the students you lead. Their privacy is protected — you only see what they choose to share. The Why does not endorse any class or its content.

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Cost

Who can create, and who pays

Creating a class needs the Leader plan. Joining one does not — a student needs only the app.

You can set a seat fee for your class. Students pay it securely on the web before the seat is claimed, and a church can cover seats in bulk from the class page. Whatever you charge, you take responsibility for the students you lead, and you only ever see what they choose to share.