Content365 Authoring: create a course from scratch

Introduction

When you create a Content365 Authoring course from scratch, you have full control over course content and structure. Using this method, you manually create a course, give it a title, choose a theme, add screens, populate screens with content, then finalize the course.

You might choose this method if you have a clear idea of how you’re going to build your course, including what elements you want and the content you want to add. For example, if you have a policy document or existing training materials that you want to include word for word, you should create a course from scratch. This ensures AI isn't used to build your course, so none of your content will be summarized or omitted.

Create a course from scratch

Required role: catalog admin. Course admin can edit and manage the course after it's created.

1. Go to the Learn365 Admin Center > Training Management. The Training Management page opens.

2. Select Content365 Authoring > Create training. The Create Course panel opens.

Here, you'll see your start and end screens, with options to add and edit screens, edit the course layout, change the theme, and so on.

3. On the first screen of your course, click the Course title text and enter a new name.

4. Before you add any screens, choose a course theme that best suits your brand. To do this, select the cog icon () near the top of the screen. The Course settings dialog opens on the Course theme section. Select the required theme.

You can now build your course by adding and populating screens. 

5. Select Add screen button on the left-hand navigation menu.

Here, you can select the type of screen you want to add to your course, then customize it.

6. Repeat step 5 until you've added all the required screens for your course and customized them.

7. You can set the Preview toggle to On, so you can navigate through the screens to see what your new course would look like to your learners. We advise you to look around the course, check the course content and quiz questions, think about whether the content matches the intended audience, and so on.

8. Now that you've created the structure of the course, select Create at the bottom of the panel to save the course in the current catalog. By default, newly created courses are unpublished. The Create Course panel closes and you return to the Training Management page, where your new course is displayed.

Alternatively, select Discard to cancel course creation without saving then confirm this action.

If you select the X icon at the top of the Create Course panel, you're warned that all unsaved changes will be lost. Here, you can choose to Create or Discard your course before closing the panel.

For more information about what happens when you select Create, see this article.

Next steps

Once you've created a course, you can return to it and further edit the content, configure course settings, and publish the course.

Edit Content365 Authoring courses

Required role: catalog admin or course admin.

After you create a course, you can edit your course and the Content365 Authoring course settings. For more information, see this article.

Add screens to your course

Required role: catalog admin. Course admin can add screens to the course after it's created.

After you create a course, you can continue to add and edit screens. For more information, see this article.

Configure courses in Learn365

Required role: catalog admin or course admin.

Once the Content365 Authoring course is created in Learn365, you can configure your new e-learning course in the usual way. For more information, see this article.

Publish your courses in Learn365

Required role: catalog admin. Course admin can manage the publishing status and dates of the course after the course is created.

Once you've configured your course in Learn365, you can publish it in the usual way. For more information, see the Publish the course section of this article.

Content365 Authoring data handling, AI usage, and compliance

For information about data storage, subcontractors, data flows, and AI usage in Content365 Authoring, see this article on the Trust Center.