Start with a topic or source material. The Workspace Assistant asks for the missing setup decisions, proposes an outline, and starts generating the content after you approve it. Reviewing the finished lessons is a separate step in the course editor.
For a screenshot walkthrough, follow Create your first course.
1. Start with what you want to teach
Open Home and ask the Workspace Assistant to create a course. You do not need to specify the whole course in the first message.
For example:
Teach new team members how to use our customer onboarding checklist.
Attach the checklist if the course should follow that document. Your source material gives the assistant the context to teach your organization's procedures. See Attach course materials.
You can also include decisions you have already made, such as the intended audience or a specific number of units. A named template can supply instructions, source folders, structure, and its own setup questions.
2. Answer the setup questions
The assistant asks one missing question at a time. There is no fixed number of questions: your brief, sources, selected template, and previous answers determine what remains to be decided.
For a Course, setup covers:
| Decision | What to tell the assistant |
|---|---|
| Topic and scope | What the course should teach and what to leave out. |
| Audience | Whether it is for you, your team, or students. |
| Experience | What the learners already know. |
| Learning structure | Whether to emphasize lessons and quizzes, projects, or another combination. |
| Course size | How many units and topics you want, or the offered size that fits. |
Choose an offered answer or type your own. State the desired unit count, project count, or source structure when it matters. The assistant asks only for missing information. Available scope depends on your plan.
A detailed brief can answer some of these decisions in advance, helping you move into outline review with your preferences already in place.
3. Review and approve the proposed outline
The outline is the plan for the content that will be generated. Check the title, units, topics, learning goals, activity formats, projects, and tests.
Long outlines save in batches. You can refresh the page while the assistant works. Approve & Build appears after the complete outline is saved.
The course checklist shows Prepare outline, Approve or make changes, and Build course. It updates as work finishes and restores progress when you reopen the chat. Build course stays in progress until the activities and tests are ready.
Request changes in the conversation while it is still a proposal. For example:
Use two units. Put the checklist steps in the first unit and a customer handoff scenario in the second.
When the revised plan is right, approve it. Honen generates the activities in the outline and prepares them for your content review.
4. Wait for generation
The editing tabs stay hidden while generation runs.
Follow the build as Honen creates your course structure and requested activities. Each activity shows its status, so you can begin exploring ready content while the rest of the course takes shape.
If the connection drops, Reconnecting… appears while Honen reconnects to the same run. If generation reaches a step or output limit, select Continue to resume from the saved progress.
Unit tests have separate progress. Lessons can be ready while a test is still generating or being saved.
5. Review the generated course
The Start course and Review & edit buttons stay at the bottom of the build panel when available.
Once content is ready, open Review & edit and use Preview to inspect the actual learner experience. Read the lessons, try the activities, and verify answers and source use. You can ask the Workspace Assistant for specific changes to existing content or use Edit directly.
Edit and review a course explains the working draft and applying changes. Edit readings and add images covers direct text and media editing. Configure course settings covers learner and tutor options.
6. Prepare delivery
Publishing, catalog review, and learner access are separate from creating the course. Follow Publishing and review after you have checked the generated content.
Wait until every comic page has an image before publishing. A comic script without page images is not ready for learners.
For a smaller deliverable, see Choose Course, Assessment, or Atom. Assessment and Atom have different setup questions and do not use the Course length and structure flow.