CourseInstance

A Schema.org Type

Usage: (Google - May 2026)

Thing > Event > CourseInstance

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Canonical URL: https://schema.org/CourseInstance
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An instance of a Course which is distinct from other instances because it is offered at a different time or location or through different media or modes of study or to a specific section of students.

Property	Expected Type	Description
Properties from CourseInstance
`courseMode`	Text or URL	The medium or means of delivery of the course instance or the mode of study, either as a text label (e.g. "online", "onsite" or "blended"; "synchronous" or "asynchronous"; "full-time" or "part-time") or as a URL reference to a term from a controlled vocabulary (e.g. https://ceds.ed.gov/element/001311#Asynchronous).
`courseSchedule`	Schedule	Represents the length and pace of a course, expressed as a Schedule.
`courseWorkload`	Text	The amount of work expected of students taking the course, often provided as a figure per week or per month, and may be broken down by type. For example, "2 hours of lectures, 1 hour of lab work and 3 hours of independent study per week".
`instructor`	Person	A person assigned to instruct or provide instructional assistance for the CourseInstance.
Properties from Event
`about`	Thing	The subject matter of an object. Inverse property: subjectOf
`actor`	PerformingGroup or Person	An actor (individual or a group), e.g. in TV, radio, movie, video games etc., or in an event. Actors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. Supersedes actors.
`aggregateRating`	AggregateRating	The overall rating, based on a collection of reviews or ratings, of the item.
`attendee`	Organization or Person	A person or organization attending the event. Supersedes attendees.
`audience`	Audience	An intended audience, i.e. a group for whom something was created. Supersedes serviceAudience.
`composer`	Organization or Person	The person or organization who wrote a composition, or who is the composer of a work performed at some event.
`contributor`	Organization or Person	A secondary contributor to the CreativeWork or Event.
`director`	Person	A director of e.g. TV, radio, movie, video gaming etc. content, or of an event. Directors can be associated with individual items or with a series, episode, clip. Supersedes directors.
`doorTime`	DateTime or Time	The time admission will commence.
`duration`	Duration or QuantitativeValue	The duration of the item (movie, audio recording, event, etc.) in ISO 8601 duration format.
`endDate`	Date or DateTime	The end date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
`eventAttendanceMode`	EventAttendanceModeEnumeration	The eventAttendanceMode of an event indicates whether it occurs online, offline, or a mix.
`eventSchedule`	Schedule	Associates an Event with a Schedule. There are circumstances where it is preferable to share a schedule for a series of repeating events rather than data on the individual events themselves. For example, a website or application might prefer to publish a schedule for a weekly gym class rather than provide data on every event. A schedule could be processed by applications to add forthcoming events to a calendar. An Event that is associated with a Schedule using this property should not have startDate or endDate properties. These are instead defined within the associated Schedule, this avoids any ambiguity for clients using the data. The property might have repeated values to specify different schedules, e.g. for different months or seasons.
`eventStatus`	EventStatusType	An eventStatus of an event represents its status; particularly useful when an event is cancelled or rescheduled.
`funder`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports (sponsors) something through some kind of financial contribution.
`funding`	Grant	A Grant that directly or indirectly provide funding or sponsorship for this item. See also ownershipFundingInfo. Inverse property: fundedItem
`hasParticipationOffer`	Offer	An offer to participate in the event, for example, Call for Proposals, Call for Speakers, or Call for Performers.
`hasSponsorshipOffer`	Offer	An offer to sponsor the event, for example, Sponsorship Prospectus, Sponsorship Opportunities, or Sponsor Packages.
`inLanguage`	Language or Text	The language of the content or performance or used in an action. Please use one of the language codes from the IETF BCP 47 standard. See also availableLanguage. Supersedes language.
`isAccessibleForFree`	Boolean	A flag to signal that the item, event, or place is accessible for free. Supersedes free.
`keywords`	DefinedTerm or Text or URL	Keywords or tags used to describe some item. Multiple textual entries in a keywords list are typically delimited by commas, or by repeating the property.
`location`	Place or PostalAddress or Text or VirtualLocation	The location of, for example, where an event is happening, where an organization is located, or where an action takes place.
`maximumAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The total number of individuals that may attend an event or venue.
`maximumPhysicalAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The maximum physical attendee capacity of an Event whose eventAttendanceMode is OfflineEventAttendanceMode (or the offline aspects, in the case of a MixedEventAttendanceMode).
`maximumVirtualAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The maximum virtual attendee capacity of an Event whose eventAttendanceMode is OnlineEventAttendanceMode (or the online aspects, in the case of a MixedEventAttendanceMode).
`offers`	Demand or Offer	An offer to provide this item—for example, an offer to sell a product, rent the DVD of a movie, perform a service, or give away tickets to an event. Use businessFunction to indicate the kind of transaction offered, i.e. sell, lease, etc. This property can also be used to describe a Demand. While this property is listed as expected on a number of common types, it can be used in others. In that case, using a second type, such as Product or a subtype of Product, can clarify the nature of the offer. Inverse property: itemOffered
`organizer`	Organization or Person	An organizer of an Event.
`performer`	Organization or Person	A performer at the event—for example, a presenter, musician, musical group or actor. Supersedes performers.
`previousStartDate`	Date or DateTime	Used in conjunction with eventStatus for rescheduled or cancelled events. This property contains the previously scheduled start date. For rescheduled events, the startDate property should be used for the newly scheduled start date. In the (rare) case of an event that has been postponed and rescheduled multiple times, this field may be repeated.
`recordedIn`	CreativeWork	The CreativeWork that captured all or part of this Event. Inverse property: recordedAt
`remainingAttendeeCapacity`	Integer	The number of attendee places for an event that remain unallocated.
`review`	Review	A review of the item. Supersedes reviews.
`sponsor`	Organization or Person	A person or organization that supports a thing through a pledge, promise, or financial contribution. E.g. a sponsor of a Medical Study or a corporate sponsor of an event.
`startDate`	Date or DateTime	The start date and time of the item (in ISO 8601 date format).
`subEvent`	Event	An Event that is part of this event. For example, a conference event includes many presentations, each of which is a subEvent of the conference. Supersedes subEvents. Inverse property: superEvent
`superEvent`	Event	An event that this event is a part of. For example, a collection of individual music performances might each have a music festival as their superEvent. Inverse property: subEvent
`translator`	Organization or Person	Organization or person who adapts a creative work to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market, or that translates during some event.
`typicalAgeRange`	Text	The typical expected age range, e.g. '7-9', '11-'.
`workFeatured`	CreativeWork	A work featured in some event, e.g. exhibited in an ExhibitionEvent. Specific subproperties are available for workPerformed (e.g. a play), or a workPresented (a Movie at a ScreeningEvent).
`workPerformed`	CreativeWork	A work performed in some event, for example a play performed in a TheaterEvent.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType`	Text or URL	An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. Typically the value is a URI-identified RDF class, and in this case corresponds to the use of rdf:type in RDF. Text values can be used sparingly, for cases where useful information can be added without their being an appropriate schema to reference. In the case of text values, the class label should follow the schema.org style guide.
`alternateName`	Text	An alias for the item.
`description`	Text or TextObject	A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription`	Text	A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`identifier`	PropertyValue or Text or URL	The identifier property represents any kind of identifier for any kind of Thing, such as ISBNs, GTIN codes, UUIDs etc. Schema.org provides dedicated properties for representing many of these, either as textual strings or as URL (URI) links. See background notes for more details.
`image`	ImageObject or URL	An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage`	CreativeWork or URL	Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity
`name`	Text	The name of the item.
`owner`	Organization or Person	A person or organization who owns this Thing. Inverse property: owns
`potentialAction`	Action	Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs`	URL	URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.
`subjectOf`	CreativeWork or Event	A CreativeWork or Event about this Thing. Inverse property: about
`url`	URL	URL of the item.

Instances of CourseInstance may appear as a value for the following properties

Property	On Types	Description
hasCourseInstance	Course	An offering of the course at a specific time and place or through specific media or mode of study or to a specific section of students.

Examples

Example 1

No Markup RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<body vocab="https://schema.org/">
<!-- A MOOC / free online course. As a simple one-off course -->
<!-- Based on https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox -->

<main>
  <h1>The Data Scientist's Toolbox</h1>
  <h2>About this Course</h2>
  <p>In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the
       data scientist's toolbox...</p>
  <div>
    <h2>Session dates</h2>
    <span>February 15</span> -
    <span>March 21</span>
  </div>
</main>
</body>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<body vocab="https://schema.org/">
<!-- A MOOC / free online course. As a simple one-off course -->
<!-- Based on https://www.coursera.org/course/datascitoolbox -->

<main typeof="Course">
  <h1 property="name">The Data Scientist's Toolbox</h1>
  <h2>About this Course</h2>
  <p property="description">
       In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the
       data scientist's toolbox...</p>
  <div rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
    <meta property="courseMode" content="MOOC" />
    <meta property="courseMode" content="online" />
    <h2>Session dates</h2>
    <span property="startDate" content="2019-02-15">February 15</span> -
    <span property="endDate" content="2019-03-21">March 21</span>
  </div>
</main>
</body>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Course",
  "description": "In this course you will get an introduction to the main tools and ideas in the data scientist's toolbox...",
  "hasCourseInstance": {
    "@type": "CourseInstance",
    "courseMode": ["MOOC","online"],
    "endDate": "2019-03-21",
    "startDate": "2019-02-15"
  }
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 2

No Markup RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<body vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Course">
<!-- A college course offered at several locations -->
<!-- based on http://www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC -->
  <h1>Course Details</h1>
  <h2>HNC Accounting</h2>
    <p>This course is designed for those wishing to take up
       a career in Accounting and Financial Administration within a range of
       organisations....</p>
  <h2>This course is currently offered on the date(s) and venue(s) listed below.</h2>
    <table >
      <tbody>
        <tr >
          <th scope="col" >Method of Study</th>
          <th scope="col" >Starts</th>
          <th scope="col" >Ends</th>
          <th scope="col" >Based at</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Full-time</td>
          <td>29 Aug 2016</td>
          <td>23 Jun 2017</td>
          <td>St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Full-time</td>
          <td>29 Aug 2016</td>
          <td>23 Jun 2017</td>
          <td>Halbeath Campus Dunfermline</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Evenings only and weekends</td>
          <td>31 Aug 2016</td>
          <td>21 Jun 2017</td>
          <td>St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
</body>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<body vocab="https://schema.org/" typeof="Course">
<!-- A college course offered at several locations -->
<!-- based on http://www.fife.ac.uk/student/courses/course/HCACC -->
  <h1>Course Details</h1>
  <h2 property="name">HNC Accounting</h2>
    <p property="description">This course is designed for those wishing to take up
       a career in Accounting and Financial Administration within a range of
       organisations....</p>
  <h2>This course is currently offered on the date(s) and venue(s) listed below.</h2>
    <table >
      <tbody>
        <tr >
          <th scope="col" >Method of Study</th>
          <th scope="col" >Starts</th>
          <th scope="col" >Ends</th>
          <th scope="col" >Based at</th>
        </tr>
        <tr rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
          <td property="courseMode">full-time</td>
          <td property="startDate" content="2016-08-29" datatype="schema:date">29 Aug 2016</td>
          <td property="endDate" content="2017-06-23" datatype="schema:date">23 Jun 2017</td>
          <td property="location">St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy</td>
        </tr>
        <tr rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
          <td property="courseMode">full-time</td>
          <td property="startDate" content="2016-08-29" datatype="schema:date">29 Aug 2016</td>
          <td property="endDate" content="2017-06-23" datatype="schema:date">23 Jun 2017</td>
          <td  property="location">Halbeath Campus Dunfermline</td>
        </tr>
        <tr rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
          <td><meta property="courseMode" content="part-time">
              Evenings only and weekends</td>
          <td property="startDate" content="2016-08-31" datatype="schema:date">31 Aug 2016</td>
          <td property="endDate" content="2017-06-21" datatype="schema:date">21 Jun 2017</td>
          <td  property="location">St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>
</body>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@id": "./",
  "@type": "Course",
  "name": "HNC Accounting",
  "description": "This course is designed for those wishing to take up \r\n       a career in Accounting and Financial Administration within a range of \r\n       organisations....",
  "hasCourseInstance": [
    {
      "@type": "CourseInstance",
      "courseMode": "part-time",
      "endDate": "2017-06-21",
      "location": "St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy",
      "startDate": "2016-08-31"
    },
    {
      "@type": "CourseInstance",
      "courseMode": "full-time",
      "endDate": "2017-06-23",
      "location": "Halbeath Campus Dunfermline",
      "startDate": "2016-08-29"
    },
    {
      "courseMode": "full-time",
      "endDate": "2017-06-23",
      "location": "St Brycedale Campus Kirkcaldy",
      "startDate": "2016-08-29"
    }
  ]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.

Example 3

No Markup RDFa JSON-LD Structure

Example notes or example HTML without markup.

<body>
<!--A self-paced distance learning course (no events)-->
<!--Based on http://www.train4publishing.co.uk/courses/distance-learning/basic-proofreading -->
<div>
  <h1>Basic Proofreading</h1>
  <p>The distance learning training course that takes you
        from complete beginner to PQB qualified proofreader in one step.</p>
  <div>
    Online, cost: £395
  </div>
  <div>
    Posted, cost:£440
  </div>
</div>
</body>

Example encoded as RDFa embedded in HTML.

<body vocab="https://schema.org/">
<!--A self-paced distance learning course (no events)-->
<!--Based on http://www.train4publishing.co.uk/courses/distance-learning/basic-proofreading -->
<div typeof="Course">
  <h1 property="name">Basic Proofreading</h1>
  <p property="description">The distance learning training course that takes you
        from complete beginner to PQB qualified proofreader in one step.</p>
  <div rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
    <meta property="courseMode" content="distance learning" />
    <span property="courseMode">Online</span>,
    <div rel="offers" typeof="Offer">
      cost:<meta property="priceCurrency" content="GBP" />
           £<span property="price">395</span>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div rel="hasCourseInstance" typeof="CourseInstance">
    <meta property="courseMode" content="distance learning" />
    <span property="courseMode">Posted</span>,
    <div rel="offers" typeof="Offer">
      cost:<meta property="priceCurrency" content="GBP" />
           £<span property="price">440</span>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
</body>

Example encoded as JSON-LD in a HTML script tag.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org/",
  "@type": "Course",
  "name": "Basic Proofreading",
  "description": "The distance learning training course that takes you \r\n        from complete beginner to PQB qualified proofreader in one step.",
  "hasCourseInstance": [
    {
      "@type": "CourseInstance",
      "courseMode": [
        "distance learning",
        "Online"
      ],
      "offers": {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "price": "395",
        "priceCurrency": "GBP"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "CourseInstance",
      "courseMode": [
        "Posted",
        "distance learning"
      ],
      "offers": {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "price": "440",
        "priceCurrency": "GBP"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

Structured representation of the JSON-LD example.