The onboarding course, already written
Onboarding is the course every organisation needs and nobody has time to build. It gets scoped in January, half-drafted in March, and new starters keep arriving to a PDF and a calendar invitation in the meantime. This is 23 modules of it already written — a complete Word document you import, personalise and publish under your own name.
Free, no email required. Use it as your onboarding course, or read it to see what yours is missing.
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Employee Onboarding
23 modules · 327 blocks
This is the template itself, published and running. Read the whole thing in your browser — no signup, no email.
What is in it
Twenty-two learner modules, grouped into the five stages the course moves through. Module 0 is a twenty-third module written for the administrator — the setup guide, the placeholder list and the cut list. You delete it before you publish.
Welcome
The days either side of starting, when nobody knows what to expect.
- Welcome and about the organisation
- Before your first day
- Your first day
- Building access and workplace safety
Get connected
Everything a new starter needs working before they can do anything else.
- Getting your technology working — laptop, logins, MFA, password resets, IT help
- Microsoft 365 essentials
- Files, OneDrive and SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Outlook and email
- Using Copilot at work
Find your way
The unwritten parts — where things live and how the place actually runs.
- Finding information — the intranet, and finding people
- How work gets done here
- Hybrid working
Start working
The obligations. The modules your risk and compliance people will ask about.
- HR self-service
- Required learning and compliance
- Cybersecurity and information protection
- Policies you should know
- Expenses, purchasing and travel
Grow
Where the first week turns into a job.
- Learning and development
- Your first 30 days
- Who can help me
- New starter toolkit
How you make it yours
The document is generic on purpose. These five steps are what turn it into your organisation’s course.
- 1
Download the document
An ordinary Word file. Open it in Word, Google Docs or Pages and read the whole course before you decide anything. Module 0 is an administrator guide written for you rather than for new starters — it lists every placeholder and every decision you need to make.
- 2
Import it to CourseConverter
Create a free account, choose New course and upload the file. The headings become 23 modules and the content comes across as blocks, callouts and knowledge checks. You are looking at a working course before you have edited a word of it.
- 3
Replace the placeholders
There are 174, each written in double curly braces. Search the course for the opening brace pair and you will find every one. Two of them — organisation name and manager name — account for well over half the instances, so a find and replace on those two does most of the work in a minute.
- 4
Cut what does not apply
Delete Module 0 before you publish. After that the admin guide tells you honestly what else to remove: if you are not a Microsoft organisation, four modules go. If you are fully remote, the office and building modules go. A shorter course that is true beats a complete one that is not.
- 5
Theme it and publish
Set your colours and logo, add the assets the setup callouts ask for — a welcome video from your chief executive, an organisation chart — then export SCORM 1.2 for your LMS or a standalone HTML bundle for anywhere else.
A placeholder looks like {{ORGANISATION NAME}} or {{IT SERVICE DESK NUMBER}}. Setup callouts mark the handful of places you need to supply something the document cannot contain, such as a welcome video or an organisation chart.
What you are not writing
Your system names and your leave policy are quick to add. They are not where the time goes. The time goes into the explanations that are the same in every organisation, and those are already here.
- What multi-factor authentication is, why it exists and what to do when a prompt appears you did not trigger
- How to spot a phishing email, and what to do after you have clicked one
- Where to save a file so a colleague can find it, and why the desktop is not that place
- What to do when the fire alarm sounds, and how to find your assembly point
- How to book leave, update your details and read a payslip in a self-service system
- Meeting etiquette, calendar hygiene and when a message should not be a meeting
- What confidential information means in practice, and how to handle it
- How to ask for help without knowing the right team's name yet
Anything specific to you is a placeholder rather than a guess. That is deliberate. A confidently wrong system name reads as authoritative and quietly teaches a new starter something untrue, while an obvious blank gets filled before the course goes anywhere near them.
Publish it before your next starter
Download the document, import it, and spend the afternoon on the two hundred words that are actually about your organisation. The free plan is enough to get the course built and see it running.