How to Create a Course with AI Studio

AI Studio lets you generate a full course — structure, content, and assessment questions — from a simple description or an existing document, through a guided conversation with the AI.

Step 1: Start a new AI Studio course

1. From the left navigation, click AI Studio.

[AI Studio landing page: “Create Engaging Courses Using AI” heading, the prompt box with placeholder text, and the Upload button]

2. In the prompt box, either:

   1. Type a description of your course — e.g. “create a simple course on digital marketing”, or

   2. Click Upload to attach a source document (PDF, DOCX, or PPTX) for the AI to build the course from.

3. Click the send arrow to submit.

Tip: You can combine both — describe what you want and upload a reference document — for the most accurate result.

Step 2: Confirm the course brief

The AI proposes a course brief covering:

• Topic

• Target Audience

• Proficiency (e.g. Beginner)

• Language

• Tone (e.g. Technical Training)

This appears both in the chat and in the Course Brief checklist on the right, which fills in with a green checkmark as each item is confirmed.

[The course brief moment: AI’s proposed brief in the chat on the left, Course Brief checklist on the right with green checkmarks, and the Looks good / I’d like to change something buttons]

Review it and choose:

• Looks good — to continue, or

• I’d like to change something — to adjust before moving on

Step 3: Answer the guided setup questions

The AI will walk you through a few more choices, one at a time:

Question	Example options
How should this course teach the content?	Explain then Practice, Problem First, Narrative Scenario
What kinds of components should this course include?	Text, Video, etc.
What kinds of questions should this course include?	Multiple Choice,Multi select,Short Answer,Dropdown,Numerical (skippable)
What visual style should the course use?	Default/Custom
Recommended or custom course size?	Recommended / Custom
(if Custom) How many sections?	2–6 sections
(if Custom) How many subsections per section?	2–5 subsections
(if Custom) How many units per subsection?	2-4 units / your choice

Note: You can type a custom answer into the chat box at any point instead of picking a suggested option.

Step 4: Review and edit the course outline

Once setup is complete, the AI generates a full Course Outline in the right-hand panel — Sections, Subsections, and Units, each with its content components already mapped out.

At this stage you can:

• Click any title (Section, Subsection, or Unit) to edit it directly

• Click the + on a Unit to add a component — Image, Video, Multiple Choice, Multiple Select, Short Answer, Dropdown, Numerical, or Interactive

• Remove a component by clicking the × next to it

• Use + Add Unit / + Add Subsection to expand the structure

[The Course Outline panel populated, with a Unit expanded showing its component chips and the + button visible]

Step 5: Generate the content

1. Once you’re happy with the outline, click Generate Script (bottom right).

2. The panel switches to Script Generation, showing each component’s status (queued → generated).

3. As each script completes, you can read and edit the generated text directly before finalizing.

*[*Script Generation screen mid-run: some components showing generated with checkmarks, others still queued. Capture it partway so the progressive state is visible]

Step 6: Create the course

Once all components have finished generating (each shows a green checkmark), click Create Course.

Your course is built and ready — you can now open it in the regular Course Outline editor to fine-tune structure, add certificates, set up grading, and publish.

[All components complete with green checkmarks and the Create Course button now active]

What’s next

• Fine-tune structure: Understanding Course Structure (Studio Basics)

• Set up grading before certifying learners: Setting Up Grading

• Add a certificate: Adding a Certificate to Your Course