Going live is the moment a learning journey stops being a draft and starts reaching real people. There's no single launch button, though — a journey goes live activity by activity, so the real work before launch is making sure every activity, recipient, and sender detail is ready.
There's no one "publish" button
Each activity is sent or scheduled on its own. For every activity you choose whether to Send an invitation (participants get a notification) or Publish silently (it appears with no notification), and whether to send it now or schedule it for later. That means a journey can be part live and part still in draft — the first activity you send is the moment it goes live for those participants. For how this works step by step, see Scheduling and publishing a learning journey.
Check before you send the first activity
Walk through the journey once with fresh eyes:
The activities are in the right order and nothing is missing.
The right participants and managers are connected, and each activity's recipient list is correct.
Each activity is scheduled for the date and time you want, in the right time zone for your audience — see Time zones in Knowly.
Notifications use the channel and sender you intend.
Deadlines and visibility are set, so participants see what you want them to before an activity opens — see Deadlines, hidden, and locked activities.
See it the way participants will
Before anyone receives anything, preview the journey as a participant to catch confusing text or missing context, and send a test to check how the emails actually land. See Previewing the participant view of your journey and Sending a test of a learning journey before you publish.
Once an activity is live, treat anything already sent as real communication — you can still adjust future activities, but changes to what participants have received are visible to them right away.