Creating a space

This optional setting usually relates to an organisation providing several courses. If you’re not creating a course on behalf of one of the organisations in the drop-down list, you can ignore this.

If you would like a provider to be added, please email openlearncreate@open.ac.uk to ask the OpenLearn Create team.

Choose the level that is most appropriate for your content from the drop-down list.

Level 0: Beginner is equivalent to up to high school level.

Level 1: Introductory is equivalent to advanced high school or early university undergraduate study.

Level 2: Intermediate is equivalent to university undergraduate level study.

Level 3: Advanced is equivalent to postgraduate university study.

Assuming you don’t select ‘Public domain’ (no copyright) or ‘All Rights Reserved’ (your copyright) from the drop-down list, there are various OER and non-OER licences to choose.

OER licences:

• Attribution: CC BY: Others can use, share, change, or build on your work, including for commercial purposes. They just need to give you credit.
• Attribution-ShareAlike: CC BY-SA: Others can use, share, change, or build on your work, including for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and share their new work under the same licence.
• Attribution-NonCommercial: CC BY-NC: Others can use, share, change, or build on your work for non-commercial purposes only. They must credit you, but they don’t need to use the same licence for their versions.
• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA: Others can use, share, change, or build on your work for non-commercial purposes only. They must credit you and share their new work under the same licence.

Non-OER licences:

• Attribution-NoDerivs: CC BY-ND: Others can copy and share your work (for commercial or non-commercial use) if they give you credit, but they cannot change it.
• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs: CC BY-NC-ND: Others can only download and share your work if they credit you. They cannot change it or use it commercially.

Please select the language in which your course will be taught. For example, if the primary language of your course is Spanish, select Spanish. If you are teaching a language (e.g. German) but the primary language used for explaining and teaching is a different language (e.g. English), then select the primary teaching language (English) rather than the language you are teaching (German).

Note that this field is used for categorising your course in searches; it does not automatically translate headings and buttons. To do that, you will need to apply a language pack (which is set in the Appearance section under Force language).

For more information about the language packs on OpenLearn Create see ‘Language: can I change the language of my course navigation menus to the language of my choice?’ in the FAQs.

Similar to the Provider option above, if you’re not creating a course that is part of a larger collection, you can ignore this.

All courses are by default OER. If you create more than one course you can email openlearncreate@open.ac.uk to ask the OpenLearn Create team to set up a collection for your courses.

This course code is automatically created when you set up your course in the format PUB_1234_1.0. It is also used in the subject line of course email messages.

You will not be able to change it unless you have Course Manager permissions for your course. If you want to change it, please email openlearncreate@open.ac.uk with the short name you would prefer and the reason for the change.

You need to add learning outcomes to explain what learners should expect to learn from your course. You won’t be able to save the Edit course settings form for the course without adding them: they are displayed on the course homepage and are required on a statement of participation.

Learning outcomes should start with a sentence like ‘As a result of studying this course, learners will be able to …’, followed by the list of learning outcomes.

A good way of writing learning outcomes is to think about them as what the learner will be able to do as a result of studying your course. Guidance on how to write learning outcomes can be found in an author guide also on OpenLearn Create.

There is a limit of 1000 characters, including spaces, for the learning outcomes. This means that they must be succinct and to the point – especially if the course is to be translated into other languages that might require more characters when translated.

Several languages are available in OpenLearn Create. Selecting anything other than the default English translates some of the back-end menus and some of the front-end layout text to the chosen language.

Please note that some language packs are more complete than others.

Choose the language you need for your course from the drop-down list.

For more information about the language packs on OpenLearn Create see ‘Language: can I change the language of my course navigation menus to the language of my choice?’ in the FAQs.

This gives you the option to divide your learners into groups.

• No groups: There are no sub-groups; all your learners are part of one big community.
• Separate groups: Each group member can only see their own group; others are invisible.
• Visible groups: Each group member works in their own group but can also see other groups. 

This setting allows the displayed names for roles used in the course to be changed. Only the name is changed; each role’s permissions are not affected. New role names will appear on the learner’s page and elsewhere within the course.

If the renamed role is one that the administrator has selected as a Course Manager role, then the new role name will also appear as part of the course listings.

If your course features a forum, blog or other collaborative activity, you need to agree to moderate it – and to close it down if you are no longer able to do so.

At least one collaborator in this course must agree to moderate public contributions. If no one agrees, then activities that allow public contributions, like forums, will not be available. Your consent is required before publishing the course.

Don’t change this until you’re happy that your course is complete.

Changing this from Draft to Published and clicking on either Save and return or Save and display will automatically send our team an email to let us know that your course is ready for us to check.