# Organize courses in a library

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/organize-courses-in-a-library/767086>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [December 29, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/organize-courses-in-a-library/767086 "2021-12-29T10:13:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Romanodio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/romanodio/32/265202_2.png) [@Romanodio](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Romanodio)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/organize-courses-in-a-library/767086/1 "2021-12-29T10:13:39Z")

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Hello everyone,

I have several video training courses that I want to organize in a dedicated library according to the following model:

- training  
– Guitar  
---- Cursus\_1  
------ Video\_1  
------ Video\_2  
------Video\_…  
---- Cursus\_2  
------ Video\_1  
------ Video\_2  
------Video\_…  
– Development  
---- Cursus\_1  
------ Video\_1  
------ Video\_2  
------Video\_…  
---- Cursus\_2  
------ Video\_1  
------ Video\_2  
------Video\_…

I should therefore be able to manage a hierarchy of 2 levels in a library.  
Is it feasible?

Thanks for your help 🙂

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**Author:** ![OttoKerner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/ottokerner/32/10079_2.png) [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2021, 11:13am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/organize-courses-in-a-library/767086/2 "2021-12-29T11:13:41Z")

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Plex has no direct support for courses. You can try to use the hierarchy model for tv shows though.

> **[Naming Home Series Media | Plex Support](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265256-naming-home-series-media/)**
>
> Standard Naming For this type of organization you must make a “TV” Library, not a “Home Videos” Library, though you can...

It is beneficial if your files are using the mp4/m4v container format. Because Plex can read certain embedded meta tags from these. Most importantly the `title` tag.  
Prepare to use these embedded tags extensively. Because it is of course a workaround to put a course into a tv show structure.  
While Plex can go out to [TheMovieDB.org](http://TheMovieDB.org) and [TheTVDB.com](http://TheTVDB.com) to fetch information about tv shows (like posters and descriptions) it cannot do the same when it comes to training courses.

So:

- embed descriptions and the title of each “episode” into the files (on Windows and Mac, you can use e.g. [mp3tag](http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html "mp3tag") to do so)
- supply posters as [local assets](https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/)

I recommend you to create a separate library for this type of content. i.e. don’t use your regular “tv shows” library.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/organize-courses-in-a-library/767086/3 "2022-03-29T11:14:36Z")

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