Nobody sees them. A lesson note is stored against your account and readable only by you: not by the course author, not by other learners, not by the organization running the course. That holds until you make a note public yourself, one note at a time.
Private is the default, and it is the whole default
Every read of your notes is scoped to your account, so there is no view anywhere, the course author's included, that lists what learners wrote. Editing and deleting are yours alone. The notes panel says "Private to you" for that reason.
Only a timestamped note can be made public
Arm the clock button before you add a note and it captures the exact second you were at. A note added without it is a general note, attached to the lesson rather than to a moment in it.
That distinction decides what can be shared. A note with no timestamp cannot be made public at all, because the public form of a note is a marker on the seek bar and a marker needs a position. The toggle appears only on timestamped notes.
Who sees a note you make public
Anyone signed in who can open that lesson. In practice:
- Other learners with access to the lesson. On a free course, or on a free preview lesson, that means any signed-in member of UNI. On a paid or members-only course it means people holding that access.
- The course author, and anyone who manages the course, who can also unpublish it.
- Not signed-out visitors. Reading public notes requires an account, so a public note is not exposed to the open web or to search engines.
A public note is not anonymous. It carries the note text, its timestamp, and your display name and profile picture, linked to your profile.
Turning it back
Select the toggle again and the note is private from that moment: the marker disappears and the text stops being readable by anyone else. A course manager can also unpublish your note, which removes it from the seek bar without editing or deleting it. Either way the note stays in your own list.
Limits worth knowing
A note holds up to 2,000 characters and cannot be blank. Timestamped notes are listed in video order with general notes after them. Markers within 10 seconds of each other group into one, so a busy moment shows a single marker holding several notes.
Notes are also the reliable way to mark a spot you want to return to, since resuming a video only stores one point per lesson.