Finding your way around the workspace
A sidebar on the left, the client grid in the middle, and panels that slide in from the right. How the three parts relate, and why your layout sometimes resets.
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Coaching on the web
Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches. What it does, how the workspace is laid out, and what differs from the phone apps.
Courses
Guided paths that end somewhere.
- Course · For coaches
Get started in Coaching on the web
What Coaching on the web is for, how the workspace is arranged, and how to read a whole roster from one screen. It is the orientation to do before you start working in it.5 lessons · 35 min - Course · For coaches
Programme from your desk
Building a training block with a keyboard. This course covers workouts, exercises, the two exercise styles, both clipboards, and the folders that keep a year of work readable.5 lessons · 55 min - Course · For coaches
Run check-ins with forms
Check-in forms in Coaching on the web, from building one to reading the answers. It covers the six question types and whether a form should be public. It also covers getting a form to the right clients and reading responses as a series rather than one at a time.4 lessons · 40 min - Course · For coaches
Track client progress
What Coaching on the web shows you about how a client is doing: a whole week of nutrition, weight and measurement trends, and four weeks of habits on one heatmap. This course covers what each view shows and what it leaves out.3 lessons · 30 min
23 articles
Getting started
Coaching on the web is the browser workspace for coaches. What it does, how it differs from the phone app, and how to find your way around it.
2 articles
Explainer·2 min read
What Coaching on the web is, and what only it does
The same coaching account in a browser, with a screen big enough to show a whole roster at once. What is only here, and when the phone is still the better tool.
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Clients & the grid
The client grid in Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches: what each figure on a client card means, who is online, sticky notes and archiving.
6 articles
Archiving a client, and the Foundation wait
Archiving is reversible everywhere except on the free plan, where a 14-day wait applies before you can bring someone back. Know that before you archive anyone.
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Managing a client from Coaching on the web
Notes, preferences, assigned forms and the fields you cannot change. Everything about one person, in one panel, on a screen big enough to read it.
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Seeing who is online
Coaching on the web shows which clients are in the app right now, how long they have been there, and when you last saw everyone else. Useful, and worth using carefully.
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Programming
Building workouts and exercises in Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches: keyboard entry, copying work between clients, and folders.
5 articles
Adding and editing exercises
Every field on an exercise, with clearer explanations than the phone gives. Two switches decide what your client can log back, and both are worth setting deliberately.
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Building a workout in Coaching on the web
A title, a numeric order and notes. Faster than the phone for building a whole block, and it shows you when the client last looked at each workout.
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Copying workouts and exercises
Two separate clipboards: one for a whole workout, one for a single exercise. Both expire, and a pasted workout still needs adjusting to the person receiving it.
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Forms
Building check-in forms in Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches: the six question types, public links, assigning forms and reading responses.
4 articles
Building a check-in form
A title, a schedule and your questions. Six question types, each markable required or optional, plus one setting you can never change afterwards.
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Assigning a form to clients
Switch clients on or off and apply. Assignment is per client and per form, and the first one arrives immediately whatever schedule you set.
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Reading form responses
Every submission, labelled by who sent it and whether it came in privately or through a public link. What an unanswered question means, and what deleting one destroys.
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Videos
Uploading videos from a desktop in Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches, writing descriptions a screen reader can read aloud, and managing your library.
3 articles
Uploading a video
Drag a file in from your desktop, give it a title and a description, and wait for processing. Talk over the video if you can, because speech is captioned automatically.
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Writing a video description
The description is not a summary. For a client who cannot see the video it replaces watching entirely. That is why it is required, and why a title is not enough.
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Managing your video library
Views, likes and caption status on every clip. What the four caption badges mean, and why deleting a video is the one action here you cannot take back.
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Client health
What Coaching on the web, the browser workspace for coaches, shows about a client's nutrition, weight, measurements and habits.
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Habits and the heatmap
Four weeks of completion at a glance, a 30-day rate, and habits your client created themselves. The heatmap answers a question a tick list cannot.
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The nutrition week view
A client's whole week of food as a chart and a meal-by-meal matrix. The richest nutrition view in the product, and the two states that explain an empty one.
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Weight and measurement history
Trends with direction, on a screen big enough to read them. Everything is converted to kilograms and centimetres for the chart, whatever units it was entered in.
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