Quick-start guide

1. Introduction to the quick-start guide

What is a course? 

There's no easy answer. A course could be a piece of workplace training that lasts half an hour or a degree that's completed over several years. 

However long it is, an engaging course draws a learner in and keeps them interested, challenged and enthusiastic about what they're learning.

If it's a well-integrated course, the learning outcomes – a list of what your learners are going to learn – will be met by the activities and learning material in the course itself. Your learners will then be able to demonstrate what they've learnt in the course in an assessment.

The purpose of this quick-start guide is to give you a simple pathway for creating a course on OpenLearn Create. 

If you follow this guide, you will: 

• plan and build a course
• create a quiz (and a statement of participation for when your learners pass it)
• know what you need to check before it can go live
• submit your course to the OpenLearn Create team for publication.

At the bottom of most of the pages in this guide you'll see the following box: