Creating Your First Course

This guide walks you through creating a course from scratch — from the settings page to your first published lesson.

Step 1: Create a new course

From your dashboard you have three ways to start:

• Create with AI (recommended) — describe your course in the chat box at the top of the dashboard ("What do you want to teach?") and let the conversational wizard build it with you.
• Create manually — start from a blank course and fill everything in yourself.
• Import — bring in an existing course (LearnBuilder or Rise export).

Create with AI (recommended)

Type what you want to teach into the dashboard chat box and send it. Instead of one long form, the wizard holds a short conversation: it proposes sensible defaults and you confirm them one at a time.

1. Topic — describe the course in a sentence or two (e.g. "Recognising phishing attacks at work, for non-technical staff"). Attach knowledge files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, EPUB, images) with the paperclip so generation is grounded in your own material.
2. Audience — if you named an audience in your topic, the wizard picks it up automatically; otherwise it asks for an experience level (New to it / Some experience / Experienced / Mixed) and lets you add specifics.
3. Shape — the wizard reads your topic and proposes the course shape, then confirms each setting as a quick choice (press the arrow to move on). Answered settings lock, so you can scroll back without losing them:

   Setting	Choices
   Length	Short / Medium / Long (shown with lesson counts)
   Detail	Concise / Balanced / Detailed
   Tone	Professional, Friendly, Academic, Playful, Direct, Empathetic — or a custom description
   How it's taught	Whether to use a story or case study
   Instructional approach	Standard, Action-first, Objective-first, Story-driven — or custom
   Activity mix	Balanced, Quiz-heavy, Scenario-based, Minimal
   Image style	Photorealistic, Illustration, Flat design… or custom
   Cultural setting	Optional free text (e.g. "a UK workplace") — asked before drafting because it shapes both the story and the cast

4. Draft & review — the wizard drafts the course right in the chat: title, description, a cover image (generated while you review), and your learning objectives. If you opted for a story, you can Keep it or Amend it with a quick instruction. When a story is used, it also proposes a cast — each character with a name, gender, cultural origin, role, a text-to-speech voice, and a generated portrait you can swap (upload, media library, stock photo, or regenerate) or click to enlarge.
5. Create — click Create course. You land in the course editor, where lesson content and media generate from your approved outline.

Prefer fields to chat? A link beneath the chat box opens the original step-by-step wizard, with the same options laid out as a form.

Manual flow

Click Create manually, enter a title, and click Create — you'll land on an empty course you can fill in yourself.

After creation you'll land on the course page, which has four tabs: Lessons, Learners, Settings, and Analytics. The Lessons tab is open by default.

Step 2: Configure course settings

Course settings are organized into four sections: Basics, AI Content, Experience, and Pricing. Access settings by clicking the Settings tab on the course overview page. On wider screens a side navigation lets you jump directly to each section.

Basics

• Title — clear and descriptive
• URL Slug — the short identifier used in the course URL (auto-generated from the title; editable). The course link is /learn/{yourAccountSlug}/{courseSlug}
• Description — what learners will achieve
• Cover image — upload, pick from the media library, choose a Stock Photo (Freepik), or generate with AI
• Tags — help learners find your course

AI Content

• Target audience — who this course is for
• Learning objectives — what learners will be able to do
• Story / case study framing — optional narrative context
• Language — 60+ content languages supported, including regional variants (e.g. English UK / US / AU / CA, Spanish ES / MX / AR, Portuguese BR / PT)
• Image style — photorealistic, illustration, flat design, and more
• Main character — name, photo, and description for visual consistency across AI-generated images
• Knowledge Files — reference documents the AI uses to generate content and answer learner questions

Experience

• AI Tutor — enable or disable the chat assistant for learners
• Sequential Progress — require learners to complete lessons in order
• Passing Score — minimum assessment score to pass the course
• Certificate — issue a certificate when learners finish
• Password gate — optionally require an enrollment password before learners can join

Access level (who can see and enroll — Private, People I invite, Anyone in this account, Anyone with the link, or Public on the web) is set on the Learners tab, not here. See Enrolling Learners.

Pricing

• Toggle This is a paid course to require payment before enrollment
• Set a price and currency (EUR, USD, GBP)
• Requires a connected Stripe account — see Integrations

Tip: Use AI generation to draft a full course outline from your objectives — see AI Generation.

Step 3: Add lessons

1. In the Lessons panel, click Add Lesson
2. Give the lesson a title
3. Click into the lesson to open the lesson editor

Step 4: Add content blocks

Inside a lesson, click Add Block to insert content. Block types include:

• Text, Video, Slideshow (for content delivery)
• Quiz, Flashcard, Drag & Drop (for practice and assessment)
• AI Dialogue, Hotspot Image, Process Flow (for interactive learning)

See Blocks Overview for the full list.

Step 5: Publish

When ready, click Publish on the course overview page.

Your course is now live. Share the course link or your learner portal URL with your audience.

Updating a published course

Once a course is published, any edits you make to lessons are saved as drafts — they don't go live immediately. When you're ready to push changes to learners:

1. On the course page, click Publish Changes (N) (appears when there are pending drafts)
2. Review the summary of what changed in each lesson
3. Click Publish All Changes

To discard pending edits without publishing, click Discard Changes.

Next steps

• Manage lessons
• Explore block types
• Set up enrollment