Content365 Authoring: create a course from a prompt

Introduction

Creating a course with AI assistance using Content365 Authoring enables catalog admins to quickly generate engaging content from an initial prompt. They also define the intended audience, optionally add language preferences, select the tone and ideal course length, review the generated outline, and then create and finalize the course.

You might choose this method if you have a course subject in mind, or a specific learning outcome you want to achieve, but want our AI assistant to help you bring your ideas to life.

Create a course from a prompt

Required role: catalog admin. Course admin can edit and manage the course after it's imported into Learn365.

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

2. Select Content365 Authoring. The Import Content365 Authoring courses panel opens.

3. Select Generate with AI. The Create Course panel opens.

4. Under Generate using a prompt, describe the course you want to create in as much detail as possible to help AI generate relevant and appropriate content. You can include learning goals, topics to cover, and any other information about the content you want to generate.

For guidance on how to build effective AI prompts, see this article.

5. When you’re ready, select Submit.

6. Select the intended audience for the course. The option you choose determines the complexity of the course content.

• Beginners. This is the first time they are learning about the subject.
• Intermediate. They know the basics about the subject.
• Advanced. They are already knowledgeable about the subject.​

7. Optionally, you can provide additional context about the intended audience. The option you choose helps to set the tone of the course and the examples presented to learners. Select the relevant option.

Alternatively, select No thanks, I'm ready to move to the next step to continue without providing any more information.

8. Select the output language of your course. The AI assistant detects the language you used in your prompt and asks if you want your course be in that language or a different one. If you want to use a different language for the course, select No, I'd like to use a different language then select the language from the drop-down list.

9. Choose the tone for the course.

• Informal & Conversational. This uses a casual and friendly tone.
• Academic & Research-Based. This uses a formal tone, focused on research.
• Motivational & Persuasive. This uses an inspiring and encouraging tone.

For help with choosing a tone, select What tone should I choose?

10. Choose the intended length of the course, in terms of the number of screens.

• 4–6 screens
• 5–10 screens
• 10–15 screens
• More than 20 screens.

For courses with more than 20 screens, we advise you break the content down into smaller, more manageable courses.

You're now ready to generate and review the course outline.

11. If you want to return to a previous step in this process, select Go back a step and make your changes.

12. When you're ready, select Generate course outline.

The AI assistant generates a course outline based on the information you provided. The course content itself is generated when you choose to create the course.

Here, you can:

• Change the default course title.
• Change the default screen titles.
• Add more screens by selecting + at the bottom of the course outline and entering a screen title.
• Remove unwanted screens by hovering over a screen and selecting -.
• Change the display order of the screens by dragging the vertical ellipsis icon of the required screen to a new position. The generated quiz is added as the last content screen of your course and can't be moved.

13. If you aren't happy with the course outline and want the AI assistant to try again, select Regenerate. Repeat this until you're happy with the general course outline.

14. If you're happy with the course outline, select Create course.

The course builds on the Create Course panel.

When the course is built, the "Generation complete!" message is displayed near the top of the Create Course panel.

15. When the course is built, 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

16. Choose what you want to do next:

• If you're happy with the general course structure, content, and layout, and want to proceed to the editing stage of your course, select Done near the top right-hand corner of the page.
• If you aren't happy with the course, you can ask the AI assistant to generate it again by selecting Retry near the top right-hand corner of the page. Repeat this until you're happy with the general course structure, content, and layout, or cancel and try again with a different prompt.

17. Now that you've generated a course, you can edit the content, change the layout, add screens to your course, and so on, before importing it into Learn365.

• For information about how to add screens to your Content365 Authoring course, see this article.
• For information about how to import Content365 Authoring courses into Learn365, see 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.