Build a Uscreen course collection with week dividers and drip

1. Open Content > Collections in the Uscreen admin, click Add New Collection, enter the title and description, assign at least one category and click Save Changes.
2. Scroll to the Playlist section of the collection editor, add the processed lessons one by one and drag them into the order viewers should watch.
3. Click Add Divider for every week or module, name it ("Week 1", "Module A") and drag the right lessons under it.
4. Set the collection Access to Gated, then fill in the Drip settings next to each video with the number of days before it becomes available.
5. Open Pricing and Access to choose the plans or one-time price, set Publication Status to Published and save. Every week of the course repeats the same drags and drip fields, and a lesson dropped under the wrong divider stays unnoticed until a member asks where it went.

Build a Mobility Basics course from my uploaded Mobility lessons: one divider per week, two lessons a week, and each week dripping 7 days after the one before.

1. 01

   Collect the lessons in course order

   The agent searches list_videos for the course name and sorts the matches by the lesson number in each title. A lesson that is still processing, or a number that is missing from the sequence, stops the run with a question, because a course with a hole in week 3 is worse than a course built a day later.

2. 02

   Avoid a second copy of the course

   Before creating anything it looks for a collection with the same title in list_collections. When one exists, get_collection shows its current playlist and the agent asks whether to rebuild that one instead of adding a duplicate to the catalog.

3. 03

   Create it hidden, with a category

   create_collection gets the lessons in order plus the category you name, so the course can appear in the catalog the moment you publish it. The collection is saved unpublished, which keeps half-built courses away from members.

4. 04

   Lay out the weeks and the drip

   The playlist is written as dividers and lessons, with the drip days worked out from your rule (two lessons a week, 7 days apart). If the collection Access is Free for all users, the agent writes the dividers without drip and tells you to switch Access to Gated, since Uscreen turns drip off for free collections.

5. 05

   Hand back the publish checklist

   Pricing, plan access and the Published switch stay with you. The agent ends with what is left to click in Uscreen and the collection ID, so a later run can add the next block of weeks to the same course.

Mobility Basics created as collection 118204, unpublished, category Mobility.
Playlist: 4 dividers, 8 lessons, Week 1 to Week 4.
Drip: Week 1 at 0 days, Week 2 at 7, Week 3 at 14, Week 4 at 21.
Access is Gated, so drip is active.
Skipped: "Mobility 9: Shoulders" is still processing; add it next run.
Still to do in Uscreen: Pricing and Access (pick the plans), then set Publication Status to Published.

• Uscreen starts a drip timer when a viewer first visits the collection, not when they buy it, so a member who opens the course a month after joining starts at week one then.
• Uscreen releases dripped videos in a cycle that runs about every 2 hours once the delay has passed, so a lesson does not open at the exact minute.
• Uscreen disables drip for every playlist video when the collection Access is Free for all users; drip needs Access set to Gated.
• A Uscreen collection appears in the catalog only with at least one category and Published status, while its lessons can stay unpublished and still play inside it.
• Uscreen sets no hard cap on dividers or videos per collection, but its help center advises against more than 50 videos in one collection.

create_collection and set_collection_playlist change only your own Uscreen data and reach no one else, so they run without asking first.

Sources: Uscreen Help Center: Creating Courses on Uscreen Using Collections · Uscreen Help Center: Collections Overview · Uscreen Help Center: Collection Playlist Page

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/uscreen/set_collection_playlist \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"collection_id":"118204","items":[{"divider":"Week 1"},{"video_id":"2390417","drip_days":0},{"divider":"Week 2"},{"video_id":"2390418","drip_days":7}]}'

{
  "collection_id": "118204",
  "title": "Mobility Basics",
  "status": "unpublished",
  "access": "gated",
  "playlist_items": 4,
  "videos": 2,
  "dividers": 2
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is uscreen_set_collection_playlist. Example data.

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