Create and publish a course

Open the instructor workspace, select My Courses, and choose an existing course or
create a new one. The course workspace keeps the outline, content, preview, settings,
and publication steps together.

The Instructor workspace is available only to personal accounts. If your account is
linked to an organisation, an Admin must grant you Content Author access. You then
create organisation-owned courses from Business > Courses; those courses are
never published as personal courses. Read
Understand Business account boundaries
for details.

If you have a personal learner account and Instructor is not enabled yet, select
Instructor in the top navigation. The platform opens Profile > Workspaces and
focuses the Instructor setup action. After you enable it, use the Learning and
Instructor workspace chooser to move between taking and creating courses.

Plan the learning path

Start with the outcome learners should achieve. Divide the course into stages that
explain a concept, demonstrate a task, provide practice, or check understanding. Give
each stage a clear title so learners can understand their progress.

Add stages and activities

Use the course outline to add and arrange stages. Depending on the activity, you can
add written guidance, guided prompts, evaluation criteria, walkthrough steps, or
document-writing instructions.

Write instructions directly to the learner. Explain what they need to do, what a good
result looks like, and what they should do next. For AI activities, describe the
learning goal and the assistance the AI should provide. Do not include secrets or
customer-specific information in course content or prompts.

Save your changes before moving to another section.

For a Chat activity, the heading at the top of the instruction panel is the
activity title. This is the heading learners see in the player too. The text below
it contains the learner-facing task instructions, separate from the internal
evaluation criteria. Canvas activities keep a separate editable problem heading.
Changing either a title or the instructions updates your draft; learners already
taking a published release keep that release until an approved update is available
and they switch versions.

Ask the AI Assistant

The AI Assistant button at the bottom right of the workspace has two modes. Ask
answers questions about how the workspace works and can research subject material on
the web for you. Edit course applies a described change to the selected stage, the
current module, or the whole course, and reports what it changed so you can review it
before saving.

Assistant questions and edits use AI, so they draw on the Instructor allowance shown
under Profile > AI credits. Reviewing what the assistant produced is still your
responsibility: check its wording and any factual claim before learners see it.

Preview as a learner

Open the preview and complete the course as a learner would. Check that instructions
are clear, stages appear in the intended order, navigation works, and evaluations give
useful feedback. Test both successful and unsuccessful responses where appropriate.

Previewing does not publish the course or change a learner's real progress.

Check the course details

Before publishing, review the title, summary, audience, category, cover image, and
other course details. Make sure the description accurately explains what learners
will achieve and who the course is for.

Cover images are first resized in your browser to reduce the upload. The trusted
platform server then validates, decodes, and re-encodes every accepted cover as
compressed WebP, discarding embedded source metadata before sending the server-made
bytes to OpenAI for automated content-safety screening and public storage. A modified
client cannot bypass this server step. If validation, server compression, or OpenAI
safety screening is unavailable, the cover is not uploaded; try again rather than
bypassing the check. Animated images are stored as a static optimized image.

Upload attempts are protected before the platform reads the image: an account can
start up to 20 attempts in 10 minutes and 100 in a rolling 24-hour period. Shared
network limits are 60 attempts in 10 minutes and 300 in 24 hours. An account can
have at most four uploads, totalling 20 MB, in progress at once. If a limit is
reached, the message tells you to wait; the denied image is not screened or stored.
Interrupted and rejected uploads are removed automatically from their exact reserved
storage location.

Submit and publish

Resolve any validation messages shown in the workspace. When the course is ready,
follow the publication action shown for your account. If review is required, the
course remains unpublished until the review is complete.

For an existing learner release, Published identifies the version learners see
now. Use Submit public update or Submit private update to send your latest
draft for approval. The published version remains available while the update is
reviewed and is replaced automatically only after approval. Use Unpublish course
only when you want to remove the approved version from learner access.

Upload course videos and downloadable resources through this course workspace. A
review submission accepts only protected media belonging to the course owner or its
organisation; a copied storage path from another account is rejected and is never
opened by a reviewer.

After changing a published course, preview the affected stages again before submitting
the update. Keep learner-facing instructions and course details accurate as the
course evolves.