Writing a course quickstart

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Writing a course quickstart

Quickstart: Writing Great Courses

A course on GitHub Learning Lab is an individual unit of interactive study. Learners complete a course by taking steps in a GitHub repository. When a learner takes a step, the Learning Lab bot responds and moves the course forward.

1. Plan your course

Learning Lab courses are designed around hands-on application of the skills being taught. We've distilled the process we use to build courses into a step-by-step planning guide.

2. Build your course

Once you have a plan, it's time to bring it to life. First, use the course builder to create the necessary boilerplate and repositories. Then substitute the template created by the course builder with your own starter code for learners. Finally, use the course builder to design the interaction with the learner. To edit the course once created:

Navigate to your Learning Lab dashboard https://lab.github.com/:owner/admin
Select the course from the list (it should be pending) to access the course dashboard
Click Edit course

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3. Test your course

While your course is pending, you and other administrators of the course repository will be able to test the course. To access the pending version of the course, click View course page from the course dashboard.

4. Publish your course

When you're happy with your course, make it visible on Learning Lab by clicking Publish this course on the course dashboard. Public courses are available to everyone, private courses are available to organizations.