LMS Course Creation 

Organization accounts have access to the Manage courses where they can start the LMS Course Creation process. Courses are units that may contain multiple lessons in which you can enroll your participants in. One of the first steps to providing learning content for your students is to create a course. The steps below will show you how to create a course in the LMS.

Accessing the course management menu

LMS Course Creation: Go to the menu on your left side and select the Courses menu
LMS Course Creation: Go to the menu on your left side and click on Courses

In order to create a course, log in to your learning management system and select the Courses menu which you can find on the left-hand side of your screen.

After selecting Courses you will notice that new menus appear, named Courses list, Packages, and Reviews.

LMS Course Creation: Navigate to the Courses list to view and edit all courses
LMS Course Creation: Navigate to the Courses list to view and edit all courses

Select Courses list and a new window will open. The window will display a list of every created course and an array of buttons and filters which aim to make browsing and searching through courses easier.

Click on + New Course to create a new course.

LMS Course Creation: Click +New Course to start the LMS course creation process
LMS Course Creation: Click on the + New Course button to begin creating your course

Create a course

When clicking on + New course a new window will open which would require you to fill in the following details:

You will have to enter the name of the course, a brief description (optional), and the number of online sessions/lessons it is going to include. Make sure that the Is Active box is ticked so your course will be listed as an active one. The next step is to add a Teacher. For this purpose, click on + Add new teacher.

LMS Course Creation: Input the necessary and click "Create" to create your course
LMS Course Creation: Type in a name for your course and continue to add details, number of lessons and teachers to it

A new window will open and will contain a list of users with the Teacher role to choose from.

You can type the name of the teacher you wish to enroll for this course and then press + Add to the lesson.

LMS Course Creation: You can have a few different schedules for the same course
LMS Course Creation: You can have several different schedules for the same course

When you are done with adding a Name, Description, Number of online sessions and Teacher, click on Create.

Clicking on Create will create the course and you will also see a notification informing you of the update. Additionally, you will see three new tabs appear.

LMS Course Creation: Once you've saved all the course's details, move on to the second tab Lessons in the course to continue editing your course
LMS Course Creation: Once you’ve saved all the course’s details, move on to the second tab Lessons in the course to continue editing

Now that your course is ready, you may want to review the process of adding it to a package in the previous article.

If you have already packaged the course, you may proceed with adding teachers and content to the lessons.

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