Creating a Course in an Organization or Group

This section describes how to create a new empty course on Exercode. After creation, you can immediately add lessons and materials, making it suitable for editing directly on Exercode.

If you want to import materials from a repository on GitHub, see Importing Materials.

Required Permissions

• Organization administrators
• Group administrators

How to Open the Course Creation Page

The course creation page is shared. Both entry points lead to the same page. The visibility scope is determined by the Group selection on the page.

Opening from the Organization's Course List

1. Open Affiliations.
2. Open the organization name.
3. Open Courses.
4. Click Create Course.

When an organization administrator opens the page via this route, Group is initially set to None (i.e., visible to the entire organization).

Opening from the Group's Course List

1. Open Affiliations.
2. Open the organization name.
3. Open Groups.
4. Open the target group.
5. Open Courses.
6. Click Create Course.

When opened via this route, that group is initially selected as the Group. If you want to change it to another group or make the course visible to the entire organization, reselect it using the steps below.

Steps

1. Enter the Course Name.
2. Enter the Course Description.
3. Select a Group. This determines the course's visibility scope.
   • Selecting a specific group: Only members belonging to that group can use the course.
   • Selecting None (organization administrators only): All members belonging to the organization can use the course.
   • Group administrators cannot select None. They must choose from the groups they manage.
4. Click Create.

Once creation is complete, you will be taken to the course's edit screen, where you can continue adding lessons and materials.

How Visibility Works

Since most courses are intended for a limited audience, such as a class or grade level, we generally recommend creating courses with a group selected. Making a course visible to the entire organization by selecting None should be limited to courses that are safe to publish to all members (such as university-wide materials).

Notes

• Organization administrators can create courses in both organizations and groups.
• Group administrators can create courses only in the groups they manage.

Related Links

• Importing Materials
• Adding Courses to an Organization or Group