# Course workbooks and lead magnets for course creators Course creators use Chapbook to make a companion workbook students can fill in on screen and a free guide that builds the list before a launch. If the lessons already exist, bring them: “I have a draft” turns your Word, Markdown or text files into chapters word for word, free, and you choose the look. If they don't, Chapbook drafts from one paragraph and your notes. Updated 30 October 2026. Web page: https://chapbook.ink/for/course-creators/ ## What course creators make with Chapbook - Workbook: A companion to the course, one section per module, with exercises that use the student's own numbers and answer lines they can type on in the PDF. - Lead magnet: A free guide to the first problem your course solves, given away from its own page or embedded on your sales page before the launch opens. - Nonfiction book: The course as a book, for people who will never watch twelve hours of video, sold or given away wherever you already reach them. ## Made with Chapbook: Find Your First 100 Readers Find Your First 100 Readers: A 30-day workbook, by Maya Chen. Workbook, 5,850 words, 24 pages. A sample generated from one brief and exported unedited; it is not a customer's book. Read every page: https://chapbook.ink/examples/workbook/ The brief: > A 30-day plan to find the first hundred readers for a nonfiction book without paid advertising. Promise: By day 30 you will have a named reader, a one-sentence promise, a short list of places that reader already gathers, and either your first hundred readers or a routine that keeps adding them. Reader: Someone who wrote the book on evenings and weekends, dislikes self-promotion, and has fewer than two hundred followers anywhere. Voice: Second person, a coach at the kitchen table; a short lesson, then a fill-in exercise; checklists at the end of each week; no invented statistics. The outline the planner proposed: 1. How to Use This Workbook (466 words) 2. Week 1: Your Reader (1,142 words) 3. Week 2: Your Promise and Your Page (1,168 words) 4. Week 3: Where Your Readers Already Gather (1,294 words) 5. Week 4: Ask, Deliver, Repeat (1,200 words) 6. Day 30: The Review and the Routine (545 words) ## “I already have the content.” Most course creators do, which is why you don’t have to generate anything. Choose **I have a draft**, add your lesson scripts or notes, and each document splits into chapters at its main headings. You can rename, merge, split or leave out chapters before the book exists. Your words go in as you wrote them, and importing is free. The catch is that a lesson script reads like someone talking to a camera. You can edit it yourself in the manuscript, or ask the assistant to tighten a section for the page. That costs credits, the price shows before it runs, and each change arrives as a suggestion you accept or reject. A word for word import stays word for word until you say otherwise. ## “Students won’t do a PDF workbook.” They are more likely to if they can write in it without a printer. Turn on **Fillable answers** in the look and the answer lines and empty boxes become fields in the PDF. Nothing changes on the page until someone types, so the same file still prints cleanly for students who want paper. Fields work only in the digital PDF: the paperback interior, the EPUB and the Word file stay as they are. Fields are also not a course feature. You won’t see what a student wrote, and Chapbook doesn’t know who finished. ## “I need it before the launch, and I need it to bring people in.” A free guide can go on a public page, where a reader signs up to download the PDF. Paste the page’s embed code into your sales page and the same sign-up form sits there without sending anyone away. Give each affiliate, podcast or YouTube video its own named link and you can see which of them brought readers. Export the list as a CSV and import it into Kit, Mailchimp, Beehiiv, MailerLite or any other email tool, which can ask each reader to confirm. Sort that out before your launch sequence starts. ## The sample on this page Find Your First 100 Readers is a 30-day workbook: short lessons, a fill-in exercise after each, a checklist at the end of every week, and later exercises that use earlier answers. It was generated from one brief and exported without editing. It is not a companion to a course, but a section per module takes the same shape as its section per week. The brief beside this text starts one that is. ## What it does not do Chapbook does not host video, run quizzes, issue certificates, manage student logins or take payments. A book page is free to its reader, so it is the wrong place for anything students paid for. Chapbook doesn’t send email to anyone on your list, and it writes nonfiction only, in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian and Dutch. ## A brief for course creators > A companion workbook for a six-module online course that teaches freelance designers to raise their rates: one section per module, each with a short recap of the lesson, fill-in exercises using the student's own clients and numbers, and a checklist before the next module. Promise: a student who finishes has a new rate card and a script for telling current clients. Reader: a freelance designer partway through the course, watching lessons in the evening. Voice: second person, a friendly teacher who has done this; short sections and plenty of room to write; fictional examples, no invented statistics, no income promises. Open it in Chapbook: https://chapbook.ink/start/?type=workbook&topic=A+companion+workbook+for+a+six-module+online+course+that+teaches+freelance+designers+to+raise+their+rates%3A+one+section+per+module%2C+each+with+a+short+recap+of+the+lesson%2C+fill-in+exercises+using+the+student%27s+own+clients+and+numbers%2C+and+a+checklist+before+the+next+module.+Promise%3A+a+student+who+finishes+has+a+new+rate+card+and+a+script+for+telling+current+clients.+Reader%3A+a+freelance+designer+partway+through+the+course%2C+watching+lessons+in+the+evening.+Voice%3A+second+person%2C+a+friendly+teacher+who+has+done+this%3B+short+sections+and+plenty+of+room+to+write%3B+fictional+examples%2C+no+invented+statistics%2C+no+income+promises.&ref=for-course-creators ## Questions ### Can Chapbook use the course material I already wrote? Yes. Choose “I have a draft” and add up to 10 Word, Markdown or text files, or up to 20 links to blog posts. Each becomes chapters, your words exactly as written. Importing costs no credits. ### Can students fill in the workbook on screen? Yes. Turn on Fillable answers in a workbook's look and students can type on the answer lines and tick the boxes in the PDF, in any PDF app that fills in forms, including web browsers. ### Does Chapbook connect to Kajabi, Teachable or Skool? No. Chapbook has no connection to a course platform. You download the workbook as a PDF and attach it to a lesson, or post it to your community, the way you would any other file. ### Can I sell a workbook on a Chapbook book page? No. A book page gives the book away in exchange for an email address, and Chapbook takes no payments. Keep a paid companion inside your course and use the page for your free guide. ### Does Chapbook host lessons or track student progress? No. Chapbook makes the book and the page that collects its readers. Video, quizzes, logins and progress stay on your course platform.