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A course is a self-paced learning path that people work through at their own speed. You build it from lessons, each lesson is made of pages, and each page is made of blocks such as text, images, video and knowledge checks. When it is ready, you publish it and share one link with your learners.
This feature is currently rolling out and may not be available in your account yet.

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Create a course

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Start a new course

Open My files, click Create new and choose Course. You can also click Courses under My files in the sidebar, then click New course. AhaSlides opens the course editor with a new course called Untitled course.
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Name your course

Replace Untitled course with your own title and add a description if you want one. Learners see both on the course page.
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Add lessons

Your new course already has a First lesson. Click Add lesson to add another; each new lesson starts as Untitled lesson.

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Organise your lessons

Lessons appear as a list in the order learners will take them. Hover over a lesson to see its controls.
  1. To rename a lesson, click the pencil icon and type a new title.
  2. To change the order, drag a lesson by its handle.
  3. To delete a lesson, click the bin icon, then click Delete to confirm. Deleting a lesson deletes its content.
  4. To write a lesson, click Edit content on its row, or click the lesson’s title.

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Build a lesson with pages and blocks

Each lesson opens in its own editor. A lesson is a list of pages, shown in the Pages panel, and each page holds the blocks learners read and answer.
  • Pages: click Add page, give it a title, and drag pages to reorder them. Deleting a page also deletes every block on it.
  • Blocks: click Add block, then choose a family from the drawer or type in Search blocks. Each family offers different layouts.
  • Edit a block: click it to change its content. You can duplicate, move or remove a block from its controls.
You can upload images from your device or paste an image link. For video, audio and attachments, paste a link instead: YouTube, Vimeo or direct video URL for video, an audio URL for audio, and a file URL for attachments. Give every image alt text so learners who can’t see it still understand it, or mark it as a decorative image. Your changes save as you work. The editor shows Saved when everything is up to date.

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Build a course with AI

Click AI in the top bar of the course editor to open the AI course assistant. Describe what you want, and it adds and edits lessons in the course you have open. You can also start from a presentation you already have. In the presentation editor, click the presentation’s name at the top and choose Turn into a course. AhaSlides creates a new draft course and the AI course assistant converts your slides into it. Check the result before you publish.

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Preview your course

Click Preview in the top bar to see the course the way learners will before you release it. Use Back to editor to carry on building.

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Publish and share your course

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Check the course is ready

A course needs your own title (not Untitled course), at least one lesson, and some content in a lesson. If something is missing, Publish is greyed out and its tooltip tells you what to add.
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Publish

Click Publish. A Your course is live window opens with the learner link, and the course shows a Published tag.
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Share the link

Click Copy and send the link to your learners. They see Start course, then Continue course and Review course as they progress. View as learner opens the learner page in a new tab so you can check the result.
Share stays greyed out until the course is published, because learners can’t open an unpublished course. Once you have published, you can change the content at any time and learners see your changes without you publishing again. To take a course down, click Unpublish and confirm. Learners can’t open it until you publish again. To see how learners are doing, click Report. It shows an Overview, results By lesson, and a Learners tab.

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Invite collaborators

You can invite other AhaSlides users to build or review your course. In the course editor, click Invite, enter one or more email addresses, choose Can edit or Can view, then click Invite. Only the course owner can invite or remove people. Collaborators with Can edit can change the course. Collaborators with Can view can open and preview it, but cannot edit it. Invited people find the course under Shared with me. For the full steps, including changing or removing someone’s access, see Adding collaborators to a course.

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Frequently asked questions

No. Anyone with the link can open it, but they are asked to sign in or create an account first so their progress is saved to their account.
No. Only the course owner can publish or unpublish a course. Collaborators with Can edit can still change its content, and those changes reach learners straight away once the course is live.
It is kept. Learners can carry on from where they stopped once you publish the course again.
Have a question? Contact our support team — if you’re logged in, use the chat bubble in the bottom-right of your dashboard; otherwise contact us here or email hi@ahaslides.com. Want to connect with other users? Join the AhaSlides community to share tips, request features, and see how others engage their audiences.