Your Purchased Lessons Keep Improving
When you buy a lesson on the marketplace, you automatically get every future improvement the publisher makes — and you can see exactly what changed in the version history.
When you buy a lesson on the Berdee marketplace, you don't get a frozen copy. You get the living lesson — and every time the publisher improves it, you get the newer version automatically, at no extra cost. Fix a typo, add a scene, sharpen a question: the next time you assign the lesson, your students get the publisher's latest work.
This is the opposite of buying a static download that goes stale the moment the publisher revises it.
Where to find it
Open My Library. Each lesson card shows a small version label (like v3) next to its title — that's the version your students get right now. Click into any purchased lesson's welcome page and, if the publisher has released more than one version, you'll see a Version history section you can expand.
Reading the version history
Each entry shows:
- The version number (for example,
v3) and when it was published. - A short release note from the publisher describing what changed — like "Added a warm-up scene" or "Fixed the answer key on question 4." (Some versions may not have a note.)
- A Latest badge on the version you're currently served. This is the one your students get when you assign the lesson.
Older versions are listed for reference so you can see how the lesson has evolved. They're view-only — you can read the changelog, but you always assign the latest version. There's no way (and no need) to assign an older one.
What you see is what you'd assign
The preview on a purchased lesson's page is the published version you're currently served — the same one your students would get if you assigned it today.
It is not the publisher's work in progress. Publishers edit their lessons continuously, and none of that reaches you until they publish it deliberately. So a preview that looks finished is finished: you're never looking at a half-built scene someone happens to be in the middle of.
What this means for assigning
- Assigning always delivers the latest version. You don't have to do anything to stay current — just assign as usual.
- Want to roll your already-assigned students forward to a brand-new version? See Push a new version to your students.
"Temporarily unavailable"
If every published version of a lesson has been withdrawn (for example while our team reviews it), the lesson's page shows Temporarily unavailable and the Assign button is paused. The lesson stays in your library, and assigning becomes available again if a new version is published. If it can't come back, see When students can't open a purchased lesson any more.
While that is the case, the lesson's detail page shows the same Temporarily unavailable note in place of the preview, rather than falling back to something else — the only other thing to show would be the publisher's unpublished draft, and that is not what you bought.
When students can't open a purchased lesson any more
Rarely, a lesson you bought stops reaching your students. It happens when:
- Your purchase was refunded. The lesson leaves your library and your students can no longer open it.
- The lesson was removed from the marketplace, for example after a copyright complaint, or because its publisher closed their account.
- The version your students were given was withdrawn by the publisher or by our team.
Your students still see the lesson on their list, with the message "This lesson isn't available any more. Ask your teacher." — no error, and nothing to click. On the lesson's page, your Assignments card tells you how many students can't open it and why, and marks each of them Can't open.
When only the version was withdrawn and the publisher has a newer one, the card offers Update students to latest: one click moves every affected classroom to the newest version, and your students can open the lesson again. Work a student already finished is kept either way.