An instructor’s guide, start to finish

Before you build

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   1. Get instructor access

   Apply from Promote a Course. Once approved, Instructor studio appears in the menu under your avatar.

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   2. Import your video

   Paste one playlist link — YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, or a shared Dropbox folder. Every video in it becomes selectable from a dropdown when you build lectures, so you paste one link rather than fifty.

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   3. Create the course

   Give it a working title. Nothing is public yet: a course stays a draft until you submit it and it is approved.

The course wizard

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   4. Intended learners

   What learners will be able to DO by the end, what they need before starting, and who it is for. These appear publicly and are what most people read before deciding.

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   5. Course structure and test video

   Plan the shape of the course and check one video plays correctly before you film the rest. Fixing a format problem now is cheaper than re-uploading forty lectures.

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   6. Build the curriculum

   Add sections, then lectures inside them, picking videos from your imported pool. Attach notes, infographics and downloads to individual lectures — infographics show inline for learners rather than as a download.

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   7. Add quizzes

   Paste a whole quiz as plain text — numbered questions, the options beneath each, and an Answer line — and it is turned into a working quiz. Attach one to a lecture as an end-of-lesson check, or leave it at course level to close the curriculum as a final assessment.

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   8. Captions and accessibility

   Optional, and worth doing. Captions widen who can take your course and help every learner in a noisy room.

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   9. Course landing page

   Title, subtitle, description, category, level, language and the course image. The SEO fields here decide how the course reads in search results — leave them blank and they are derived from what you wrote.

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   10. Pricing

   Free, one-off purchase, subscription-covered, or voucher-only. A sale price cannot exceed the regular price.

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   11. Course messages

   Optional welcome and congratulations messages. Learners read these in the Announcements tab under the player, so this is your channel to everyone on the course.

Publishing and after

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   12. Submit for review

   The checklist in the sidebar tells you exactly what is still missing, and the Submit button unlocks when nothing is. An admin reviews it and you are emailed the decision.

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   13. Going live

   Once approved the course appears in the catalogue and learners can enrol. If it is sent back instead, the reviewer’s notes appear on the wizard so you know what to change.

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   14. Editing a live course

   Curriculum edits — adding a lecture, replacing a dead video, fixing a lesson title — reach enrolled learners immediately. Changes to the title, description, images or price are reviewed first, and your course stays live with its current details until they are approved.

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   15. Marking coursework

   Assignments are accepted automatically a few minutes after a learner submits, so nobody is ever blocked waiting on you. Mark one yourself and your mark stands — automatic acceptance never overwrites real feedback.

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   16. Watch how it lands

   Your studio shows enrolments, progress and completions. Ratings can only be left by learners who actually worked through the course, so the number you see is worth reading.

Instructor questions