Getting started

Here's how to set yourself up as a trainer or instructor in online:academy and create your first course.

Signing in

Just like every other user, you'll receive an invitation email. Click the link and set your password. Your account is marked as a trainer from the start; after logging in you'll see additional areas that other learners don't see.

Completing your profile

1. Avatar in the top right → Profile.
2. Upload a profile picture (max. 2 MB) and check your first/last name.
3. Optional: add contact details and job title.
4. In your profile you can also download your stored data as a PDF, or as JSON for other providers, and request the deletion of your account.

Your profile picture appears in your avatar in the top right.

Trainer areas you now also see

In the main navigation, as a trainer you'll additionally find the following sections:

• Enrollments — an overview of your company's course enrollments, including approving requests
• Media library — upload and version files for your courses
• In the menu section Administration: Course management (creating and maintaining courses), Mandatory assignments, Learning groups, AI gradings and Instructor Dashboard (statistics for your courses)

(By the way, "My courses" shows — as for all users — your own enrollments as a learner, not the courses you've created.)

Creating your first course

Ready to create your first course? It pays to sort out a few things beforehand:

• What should learners be able to do after the course? — formulate the learning objectives
• How long should the course be? — typically 30 min to 4 h
• What content do you already have? — videos, PDFs, slides, your own texts
• How do you check that the content has stuck? — quiz, peer review, free-text task

Once that's reasonably clear, continue here:

→ Creating a course

What else you should know

• New courses are active by default — switch off the "Active" toggle if you want to build in peace first. Learners don't see inactive courses; your colleagues with course management rights still see them in Course management.
• Courses belong to your company — they are only visible to users of your company. Courses from other companies reach you only through the marketplace (licence).
• Aids for course quality: the AI quality check and the AI tutor are interesting both for you as a trainer and for your learners.
• Co-authors: if you work on a course as a team, coordinate with each other so that your work doesn't overlap.

Help & support

• On the start page for trainers / lecturers you'll find guides on creating courses
• FAQ for trainers — the most common questions from practice
• For technical problems or questions about the feature set: contact your company's administrators or the generation:l team