# SimplyPrint Academy: Built-in 3D Printing Courses for Your Team Train operators, students and new hires with SimplyPrint Academy: in-panel video courses, quizzes and completion rewards. Enterprise and School plans can author custom courses; School unlocks a full e-learning workflow. **Categories:** organization *Turn your fleet into a teaching tool* ## Learn 3D printing inside the platform you already use SimplyPrint Academy is a course library built into the panel at /panel/academy: slides, videos, quizzes and a completion screen with optional rewards. Use the courses we ship, or (on Enterprise / School) author your own. ## One library, three audiences Academy is built for print farm operators learning a new workflow, students learning to 3D print for the first time, and partners certifying installer teams. Reading courses is included on every plan. ## What is SimplyPrint Academy? Academy is the in-panel course player at /panel/academy. Each course is a sequence of slides (text, images, videos and quizzes) with progress tracking and a completion screen that can unlock rewards configured per course. Open to every plan, no add-on needed. ## Author your own courses Enterprise and School plans unlock the course editor: write your own slides, embed YouTube videos, add quizzes and ship internal training your team can complete from the panel. Print Farm subscribers from before the Enterprise launch are grandfathered in. ## Sample courses you might author A starter set of courses most accounts end up running in some form. Use them as a starting point, edit slides to match your equipment and workflow:** - 3D printer safety essentials** (~15 min) - appropriate PPE, hot surfaces, what to never touch - **Slicer basics: from STL to G-code** (~25 min) - slicing settings, print orientation, supports - **Reading a failed print** (~20 min) - common failures, what they mean, what to do - **Loading and changing filament** (~15 min) - manual change flow, jams, swap procedures - **Maintaining your printer between prints** (~10 min) - bed cleaning, nozzle wiping, regular checks ## How the e-learning loop works in practice On the School plan with the e-learning space unlocked, the lifecycle of a student through Academy is a clean five-step loop:** - Student enrolls** in a course (or is enrolled automatically by their class assignment) - **Completes gated lessons** in order - quizzes confirm comprehension before the next slide unlocks - **Unlocks the next course** in the curriculum when they pass - **Unlocks printer access** once mandatory safety and slicer courses are complete - **Instructor sees the progress matrix** at any point - who's done what, who's stalled, where to intervene ## A full e-learning space for classrooms On the School plan, Academy becomes a structured e-learning environment: require a safety course before students can start a print, require a how-a-slicer-works course before they touch the slicer, gate the bed-clear step on a what-makes-a-good-print walkthrough. Teachers see a separate view with teacher notes; students see a polished course with a clear path through it. Auto-promote students into the next class or user rank when they pass. ## Completion screen and rewards Finishing a course shows a celebratory completion screen and can unlock rewards (badges, credits) configured per course. Useful for onboarding new operators, certifying student users before they can submit jobs, or running partner installer training. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I need a paid plan to use Academy? No. Every SimplyPrint account can browse and complete the public courses at /panel/academy. Only authoring custom courses and the e-learning workflow are plan-gated. ### Can I write my own courses? Yes, on the Enterprise and School plans (and on Print Farm if you subscribed before the Enterprise plan launched). Partners can also share authored courses with the accounts they manage. ### What happens when students finish a course? Completing a course marks the course done for that user, shows a celebratory completion screen, and can grant the rewards configured for the course (badges or credits). On the School plan, teachers see a separate view with teacher notes and can gate later content by completion. ### Can I embed an Academy course on my own site? Yes. Academy ships an embed endpoint at /academy-embed for surfacing specific courses outside the panel (used today on /features/autoprint, for example). --- **Learn more:** [Feature Page](https://simplyprint.io/features/academy)