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How the Atlas works: teams, profiles, courses and lessons
What the Atlas is, what appears on it, who decides, and the rules that keep unpublished work private.
Updated 5 September 20262 min readAI-assisted draft, reviewed by Jonah Cacioppe
The Atlas is the public side of Paldar. It is where practitioners, teams and their published work can be found by people who are not signed in. Nothing appears there by accident, and this page explains the rules.
Profiles
A practitioner profile is a public page for one person: a name, a headline, a short bio, a photo, and the lessons and courses that person has published. It has its own address under the Atlas.
A profile is only visible when its owner has published it, has not asked for it to be hidden from search, and belongs to an organisation that has chosen to be listed. Any one of those being off removes the page.
Teams
A team page groups the profiles of people who work together. It shows the team's name, a line about what they do, and the published lessons and courses of its members. A team page does not show a member whose own profile is not visible.
Lessons
A lesson is a document written in the content library. It has a title, a short description, a body, an optional image, and the capabilities it relates to. Read time is worked out from the text; it is not something you type in.
A document can be published to two places, independently: to programs, so your participants can read it, and to the Atlas, so anyone can. Publishing to the Atlas needs a web address that you choose. Paldar does not invent one from the title, because a public address is permanent and should be a deliberate choice.
Only an owner or admin of your organisation can publish a document to the Atlas or change its address.
Courses
A course is an ordered set of lessons with an introduction of its own. Like a lesson, it can be published to programs, to the Atlas, or both. A course on the Atlas shows its full list of lesson titles, but a lesson inside it that is not itself published appears as a title only, with no link and no text. The course's read time counts only the lessons a reader can actually open.
What is never shown
The Atlas never shows a draft, never shows which organisation owns a page in any technical sense, never shows a participant, and never shows any material that has only been published to programs. Images are served in a way that does not reveal who uploaded them.
Taking something down
Turning off Atlas publishing removes the page promptly. The address is kept, so publishing again later restores the same link.
Where the Atlas is going
Network-wide lists of all published lessons and courses, newest first, are being built for the public site. Paldar is pre-launch, and the Atlas will grow as practitioners publish.