Quick-start guide

This quick-start guide takes you through the simplest route to build a course on OpenLearn Create and features a series of checklists of what you need to include. There are also links to the platform's more complex features. 

4. Adding your course image

Having filled in the Resource metadata form, you're now in the back-end of your course's homepage.

You just need to make a few more adjustments before you start to add course content.

Go to the Administration block on the left-hand side of the screen and click on Settings.

This will take you to the Edit course settings screen, which includes many of the features that you added in the resource metadata form. All you need to add are two versions of the same image:

  • The image you upload in Course image appears as a 'thumbnail' when your course appears in the free course listing. The image you upload here should be 670 pixels wide and 500 pixels high.
  • The image in Course banner is what appears on the course homepage. You should upload an image that is 785 pixels wide and 350 pixels high.

In both fields you can add images in either of two ways:

  • You can drag an image saved on your computer into the area indicated. After that:
    • click on the image and update the Author details – these default to your name, which might not be correct
    • select the correct licence in the Licence chooser field
    • click on Update to confirm.
  • You can click on the Add... button at the top of the box. After that:
    • click on the Choose File button and navigate to where the image you want to use is saved on your computer
    • update the Author details, if necessary
    • select the correct licence in the Choose licence field
    • click on Upload this file to confirm.

If you change your mind about your course image you can return to Edit course settings, click on the images, click the Delete button and replace them with the images you'd prefer to use.

You don't need to add anything else in this form other than in the Tags drop-down area – adding tags will improve your course's SEO.

Before you move on
  • Make sure your course image and banner image are the correct dimensions.
  • Have you added tags?