2.2.3.2. Before Creating a Course

There are a few things you need to understand before creating a new course in Studio.

For starters, the course creation process will only create the empty container where your course contents will be placed. Users will see an empty page in Studio where the course outline will be created.

The course creation operation is difficult to undo. While deleting courses is possible, it requires the involvement of the technical support team.

A newly created course will have the default configurations, which can be changed after creation. Three properties cannot be changed after creation though, so they need to be carefully chosen.

1. Organization. Each course is defined to be part of one and only one organization. The organization is selected as part of the course creation process and will determine: The LMS site where the course will appear. The default certificate template that will be applied to the course.

2. Course number. This value is an alphanumeric code that identifies the course. It includes a way of identifying the course subject as well as its complexity level. For example, MATH101.

3. Course run. This value is an alphanumeric code that identifies the specific run or version of the course. When courses are scheduled periodically, the course run can be the year, month, or term when this specific version of the course will be executed.

These three values will build the course ID, identification, of the course in the platforms. A course ID will look like the following example:

course-v1:demo-site+DMS101+2017: where demo-site is the organization, DMS101 is the course number, and 2017 is the course run.