✨ Quick Start Guide

Welcome to CourseConverter. This guide gets you from a blank dashboard to a finished, exportable course — and it should take about ten minutes. You don't need any instructional-design background. If you can write a Word document, you can build a course here.

Pick how you want to start

There are four ways to create a course. Start with whichever matches what you already have.

Start from a Word document (the fastest route)

This is what CourseConverter does best. If your content already lives in a Word doc — a guide, a policy, training notes — you can turn it into a course in minutes.

• Import a structured Word doc. If you format your doc with our simple tagging system, the importer converts it faithfully — headings become modules, and tags create quizzes, flip cards, accordions, images, and more. From the dashboard, choose New course → Import from Word doc, and download the template and block reference from inside that screen if you want the exact tag format.
• Create a course from any document with AI (Pro). Have an unstructured doc and don't want to tag anything? Choose New course → Create from any document with AI. Upload it, and the AI proposes a course outline for you to approve, then builds each module — structuring your content into blocks and adding knowledge checks. You review the outline and the full course before anything is created.

Start from a template

Choose New course → From template (Pro) to clone one of our ready-made, professionally designed courses. Everything is fully editable — change the content, swap the branding, and publish under your own name. It's the quickest way to skip the blank page.

Start from scratch

Choose New course → Blank course to build from an empty canvas. You add and arrange every block yourself. This gives you the most control and is a good way to learn how the editor works.

Make it interactive

However you started, you'll land in the block editor. Modules are on the left; the blocks that make up each module are on the right.

• Add a block with the add button, then pick a type. You have headings, rich text, images, video, quotes, callouts, accordions, tabs, flip cards, knowledge checks, and compliance confirmations — plus row, process, and carousel layouts.
• Reorder modules and blocks by dragging them.
• Edit inline — click any block to change it. Everything saves automatically as you go.

A good course isn't a wall of text. Break ideas up: turn definitions into flip cards, a sequence of steps into a process block, and key warnings into callouts. Add a knowledge check at the end of a module to help the content stick.

If you're on Pro, look for the AI helpers throughout the editor — they can draft blocks, write a knowledge-check question from your module, rewrite text, and generate images, all running on your own API key.

Brand it

Open Course settings to make the course look like yours. Add your logo and choose where it appears, pick a colour theme (or set custom colours), and choose a font. Branding applies across the whole course, in both the preview and your exports.

Preview and export

• Preview at any time to see exactly what your learners will see.
• Export when you're ready. You can download a SCORM 1.2 package for any LMS (Moodle, Canvas, TalentLMS, and the rest), a standalone HTML bundle that runs on any website or intranet, or a Word (.docx) file you can edit offline and re-import later. SCORM and Word export are available on the Solo and Pro plans.

That's the whole loop: start, build, brand, export. Your first course doesn't need to be perfect — get something finished, then refine it.

Where to go next

• Browse the rest of the Getting Started articles for more detail on each step.
• The Blocks section explains every block type and when to use it.
• Stuck on something? Contact support — every message comes to us directly, and we're happy to help.