Create a New Course
7.8.2026
This guide explains how to create a new course in Priima.
Go to the Courses View
- Sign in to the learning environment.
- In the left-hand menu, select Courses.
Create a New Course
- Click Create new course.
- Select the course template you want to use:
- Empty course (a standard course with the left-hand content menu visible)
- Micro course (suitable for one- or two-page courses; the left-hand content menu is not displayed)
- Create SCORM Micro Course (for courses that will contain a SCORM package)
- Create course from file (AI assistant; available if AI features are enabled)
- Organisation-specific course template (if one or more custom templates have been configured)
- Click Create course for the selected template.
Enter Course Details
- Enter a course name (required).
- Click Save.
A course draft is now created. You can continue developing the course by adding content and configuring settings.
When creating the course, or later in the Information view, you can define the following basic information:
- Add a course type (if the feature is enabled in your environment).
- Write a description.
- Add one or more tags.
- Define the target group.
- Add instructors.
- Select the language.
- Select the difficulty level.
- Enter the estimated duration.
Learners can view this information in the course’s Info view.
Note
- The course owner automatically receives course administration rights.
- New courses are created with the status Closed by default.
- Closed courses can be found in the Courses view. To view them, select Closed from the Status drop-down menu.
- If the course is displayed in the Explore courses view, it is recommended to add a course description.
- The course description can also be used on the course certificate.
- Tags help users find the course more easily in the My learning view.
- My learning is the learner-facing view and corresponds to the instructors’s Courses view.
- If you frequently create similar courses, consider creating a course template.