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title: Creating a course
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## Creating a course

Courses are the core teaching content in eProfessor. This article walks through the All Courses view and the step-by-step wizard you'll use to create a new one.

## The All Courses view

Navigate to **Content > Courses** to see every course you've created. Each course appears as a card showing its thumbnail, title, price, and status, with a search bar to find a specific course quickly and a **Status** filter to narrow the list down.

You can switch between **Cards** and **Table** view using the toggle in the top right, depending on whether you prefer a visual layout or a more compact list.

Each course card shows one of the following statuses:

- Active — the course is live and visible to students in your portal
- Inactive — the course has been published before but is currently hidden from students. A banner reading "Activate to show in your portal" appears on inactive course cards as a reminder
- Draft (shown as "Not Published" on the card) — the course hasn't been published yet at all, separate from being toggled active or inactive afterward

Click the **Actions** dropdown on any course card to manage that course, including making it active or inactive.

To start building a new one, click **New Course** in the top right of the All Courses page.

## Step 1: Title & Pricing

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/new-course-2.png)

The course creation wizard opens on the **Title & Pricing** tab.

**Title** — give your course a name. This is required and is what students will see in your portal (for example, "Business Coaching 101").

**Pricing** — choose how students will access the course:

- Price — students need to pay to enroll and access the course
- Free — students need to enroll, but there's no charge to access the course

A note on this screen lets you know that your pricing choice isn't locked in. You can change it later if you decide to sell the course individually, as part of a membership, or switch between paid and free.

## Step 2: Thumbnail

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/new-course-3.png)

The second tab lets you set the image students will see representing your course in the portal. You have two options:

**I have a thumbnail** — drag and drop an image file directly onto the upload area, or click it to browse and select a file from your device. Accepted formats are PNG, JPG, or GIF.

**I don't have a thumbnail** — if you don't have an image ready, you can skip this step entirely and set a thumbnail later. There's also a **"give me some options"** button, which generates AI thumbnail suggestions for you if you'd rather not source an image yourself.

![](https://assets.eprofessor.com/content/help/new-course-4.png)

## Saving your course

Once you've filled in the title, chosen your pricing, and set a thumbnail (or skipped it), click **Save** in the bottom right to create the course. You'll be able to add lessons, modules, and other content to it from there.

If you need to step away before finishing, **Back to listing** in the bottom left returns you to the All Courses view without saving your changes.

## Tips

You don't need a finished thumbnail to get a course off the ground. Skip it during creation and come back to it later. A course's status, Draft, Active, or Inactive, is independent from whether your title and pricing are filled in, so a Draft course with all its details set is perfectly normal while you're still building out lessons.

If you're testing a course you've already published before but aren't ready to show again, set its status to **Inactive** rather than leaving it as a Draft. Inactive keeps the course built and ready, just hidden from students until you reactivate it.

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