Create Course & Session

Each course has 1 (or more) sessions which are stand-alone instances of the course, which allows you to offer the same course multiple times to different cohorts of users.

For example, if you are offering a "101: How to Teach Online" course and you want to make sure each instance has less than 100 users, you could decide to have four sessions for "101-winter", "101-spring", "101-summer", and "101-fall" to offer the course at different points in time.

You'll be able to modify course content between different sessions, as well as keep track of the different enrollments and user activity.

After you create a course or session, make sure to develop your enrollment strategy before moving on.

Create a Course

1. Navigate to the admin dashboard. (https:// [your_domain].course.tc/admin)
2. Click "Courses" in the left menu.
3. Click "Add New Course" in the dropdown menu. The main section will change to display course creation fields.
   1. Course Name: Enter your course's name.
   2. Course Slug: This field will auto-generate with your course name. Course slugs are unique strings of characters that refer to this course. While we recommend using the auto-generated slug, you can customize it by clicking the pencil icon beneath the field. Slugs must conform to the following rules:
      1. Slugs can only contain lowercase characters, numbers 0-9, underscores, and dashes.
      2. Slugs must be between 2-40 characters in length.

Every course requires at least one course session. Even if you only intend to deliver a course once, you must add a session following the instructions below.

Create a Course Session

Follow the instructions below to create the first session for a new course or to add a new session to an existing course.

1. Navigate to your course's admin dashboard.
   1. From the organization admin dashboard home:
      1. Click "Courses" from the left menu.
      2. Click "Course List" from the dropdown menu.
      3. Click on your course's slug or title.
   2. After creating a new course:
      1. The course admin dashboard will automatically open. You're set to proceed!
2. Click the "New Session" button in the top right corner, just below the course settings menu.The main section will change to display session creation fields.
   1. Session Name: Enter your session name. We recommend using the same name as your course with a number at the end to denote the iteration of the course.
      1. The first session of a course would be "Course Name 1"
      2. The second session of a course would be "Course Name 2"
   2. Session Slug: This field will auto-generate with your session name. Session slugs are unique strings of characters that are used to develop the URL to your course session. While we recommend using the auto-generated slug, you can customize it by clicking the pencil icon beneath the field. Slugs must conform to the following rules:
      1. Slugs can only contain lowercase characters, numbers 0-9, underscores, and dashes.
      2. Slugs must be between 2-40 characters in length.

Cloning

Once you start adding courses, you may find it useful to clone content from an existing course (or existing session) to a new one:

• Running additional sessions for the same course: If you would like to run an additional session of an existing course, you can clone the session so that you don't have to build it all from scratch again.
• Creating template courses: If the majority of your courses will have a common section (a section describing your organization's work, for example), you could create a template session and clone that session whenever you're creating new sessions in any course.
• Sharing courses/sessions across organizations: You can use cloning to share courses and sessions among different organizations. This can be useful if you want to share courses/sessions with your partners.