Creating a course with AI

Lenni can write a first draft of a course from a description or from documents you already have. What comes back is an ordinary draft in the builder: nothing is published, and everything is editable.

Generating a course

1. Choose Library at the top of the page, then Courses.
2. Start a new course and choose to generate it rather than starting from a template or a blank canvas.
3. Describe the course in your own words. The more you say about the audience, the skills and the outcome, the closer the draft lands.
4. Choose a Level — Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Expert — and a Length. Both are required before Generate will do anything.
   1. Level does two things: it pitches the writing, and it sets how far the course claims to develop each skill it is tagged with. A Beginner course develops a skill to the bottom of its scale and an Expert course to the top, so choose it as you would describe the course to someone deciding whether to take it.
5. Switch on the assessment option if you want questions at the end of each module.
6. Open Advanced options if you want to set the audience, industry, tone, prior knowledge, learning objectives, things the course must include or avoid, or the Design the course is built in.
7. Choose Generate.

Building from your own documents

On the same screen you can attach up to five documents, and the draft is then written from their content rather than from a description alone.

Accepted types are pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf, ppt, pptx and odt.

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The course generation window with a topic description typed in, Level and Length both chosen, the assessment toggle switched on, Advanced options expanded to show audience and tone, and one attached document listed.

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What Length means

Length is a duration rather than a number of modules, and the number of modules follows from it.

Length	What you get
Brief	About 10 to 15 minutes, 2 to 4 modules, just the essentials
Balanced	About 25 to 35 minutes, 4 to 6 modules, with explanations and examples
Comprehensive	About 45 to 60 minutes, 6 to 9 modules, in depth with real-world application

Choosing the design a generated course is built in

Design sits in Advanced options and decides how the finished course looks — the page colour, how numbered steps are drawn, how round the corners are, and whether decoration is used. Your brand colour and brand fonts are used whichever you choose.

Left on Auto, the planner picks one from the subject and the audience, avoiding the style your last two courses used — so a library generated on Auto does not come out looking uniform. See examples draws all six in your own brand colour.

Nothing here is permanent. A generated course can be restyled afterwards from Design in its settings, and the pages keep their shape and content when you do. How course design styles work describes the six.

What happens while it writes

The course is created straight away and fills in behind the scenes, so you do not have to sit and watch. You can close the window and carry on, and Learnient tells you when the content is ready.

That message is a notification preference in its own right, AI course generation, under Admin, Workspace and Notifications. Switched off there, nothing tells you when a generation finishes.

When it finishes, the course becomes a draft and opens in the builder for you to edit, reorder and rewrite exactly as you would any other course. Each module there carries its own AI content generation control as well.

If you asked for assessments, the draft arrives with questions submitted at the end of the course and a pass mark already set, which you can change in Course settings.

Skills on an AI-generated course

A generated course arrives already tagged with the skills it develops — at most six — and you can change them on the Skills tab of Course settings like any other course. See Tagging a course with skills.

Learnient uses the skills you already have wherever one means the same thing, rather than matching on the words. A course about selling to suppliers is tagged with your existing Negotiation rather than adding “Supplier price negotiation” beside it, so your reporting keeps working and your library does not fill up with near-duplicates of itself.

A new skill is only created when nothing in your library means the same thing. Those arrive as Achieved (yes/no) skills, because nothing in a course tells Learnient how a scale for it should be worded — open the skill afterwards if it deserves one.

Two things it will never do:

• It never tags a course with a skill you have marked as one people are hired for rather than trained in, and it does not create a new skill that means the same as one of those either.
• It never switches on Auto-advance. A generated course records the level it develops a skill to, but nobody’s recorded level changes until you turn that on yourself.

Note: if the AI service cannot be reached while your course is being written, the course still arrives with no skills tagged rather than a guessed set. Add them on the Skills tab.

Read the list before publishing. The skills are a strong first pass, and they are the thing your reporting, job title requirements and recommendations all hang off, so a wrong one costs more than a clumsy sentence in a module.

Before you publish it

Publishing asks you to confirm that the course contains AI-generated content and that you have reviewed it for accuracy, checked it suits your learners, and made sure it meets your own standards. You remain responsible for what you publish.

Read it properly before that point. A generated draft is a strong starting position and it is not a reviewed course, and the confirmation you are asked for is the real thing rather than a formality.