Create a course and describe it

Start a new course and give it enough detail that the AI prompts LMSable generates for you make sense.

Before you start

Sign in at /course first - see Sign in with an email code.

Steps

  1. On your course list, click New course.
  2. Type a Course title.
  3. Pick a Format: Interactive book (scrolling lessons) or Presentation (PDF-based slides).
    New course dialog with Workplace safety basics as the course title, Interactive book selected as the format, the collapsed Branding section, English as the content language and the Create course button
    The New course dialog. Branding is collapsed until you open it.
  4. Optional: open the Branding section and set a Primary color, Accent color, a Logo URL (HTTPS) and a Font. You can change all of this later on the course's Branding step - see Brand your course.
  5. Choose the Content language.
  6. Click Create course. The course opens on the Course step, the first of five: Course, Branding, Lessons, Settings and Export. A Presentation course has Slides instead of Lessons: Course, Branding, Slides, Settings and Export.
  7. Check the Course title and the Language, and confirm the Format under "How should this course be built?". Switching the format later clears every lesson, so decide here.
  8. Under Course brief, fill in Target audience and Goal (both optional but recommended), pick a Difficulty level and, optionally, a Style.
    Course brief panel on the Course step with the Target audience, Goal, Difficulty level and Style fields, the Source material switch set to No source and the Also draft lesson content checkbox
    The Course brief lives on the Course step.
  9. Under Source material, choose No source, Paste text (up to 60,000 characters) or I will attach a file - if you attach a file, the generated prompt asks you to attach it inside your AI chat; nothing is uploaded to LMSable.
  10. If you picked a source, set Fidelity between "Strictly from material" and "Free interpretation".
  11. Optionally tick Also draft lesson content, so the AI adds working draft text when it builds the table of contents. Only lessons of type Lesson get the draft; interaction, quiz, test and video lessons still need filling.
  12. Click Continue to Branding when you are done.

Note

There is no Save button on this step. Every field saves when you leave it, and the panel shows "Saved - every field saves when you leave it." once it has.

What you should see

Once the brief has a target audience, a goal or pasted source text, the panel collapses into chips - audience, level, style, source and "Draft content: on" - with an Edit brief button to open it again. Continue to Branding stays greyed out until the course has a title; the hint "Add a title to continue." tells you why.

Course step with the Course title and Language fields, the Interactive book format selected, and the Course brief collapsed into an audience chip with an Edit brief button and the Continue to Branding button
A filled brief collapses into chips.

Several documents?

Choose I will attach a file and attach all of them in your AI chat - a handbook, a checklist and a presentation can become one course. After you paste the prompt, add one sentence of your own with the decisions only you can make:

  • which file wins when they disagree, for example "Where the files disagree, follow the handbook", and
  • how to order the lessons, for example "Order the lessons as a new starter needs them: first day, first week, first month".

If the files disagree and you did not say which one wins, your AI chat asks you about each conflict before it builds the outline. Answer, and it replies with the outline to paste back.

Transcribe a recording

Have a recorded webinar, lecture or talk? Click Transcribe a recording under Source material, then drop a video or audio file (MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, MP3, M4A, WAV or OGG) into the window. LMSable extracts the audio track in your browser ("Extracting audio…"), sends only that track for transcription ("Transcribing…") and adds the text to Paste text. If the field already holds text, the transcript goes below it after an empty line.

  • Recording language: above the drop area, pick the language spoken in the recording - it can differ from the course language, and the course language is selected by default. Polish, English, Czech, Spanish, German, French and Portuguese are set directly; for any other language choose Other - detect automatically (the transcription service recognises many other languages automatically). If the transcript looks unreliable, the window warns you to check that you picked the language actually spoken in the recording.
  • Plan and limits: transcription is part of the Pro plan - on the Free plan the button is greyed out. Pro includes 300 minutes a month, and one recording can be up to 90 minutes long. After each transcript the window shows how many minutes you have used this month.
  • From a link: instead of a file, paste a direct link to a video or audio file into Paste a direct link to a video or audio file and click Transcribe from link. The link must be public and point to the file itself (ending in, for example, .mp4 or .mp3) - a YouTube or Vimeo page will not work. For your own YouTube video, download it from YouTube Studio and drop the file into the window instead. If the recording cannot be fetched, the window tells you to check the link.
  • Privacy: your video stays on your computer - only the audio track is uploaded and processed by our speech-to-text provider; it is deleted from our server right after transcription, and only the text is kept. With a link, the recording never goes through our server at all - the speech-to-text provider fetches it directly. See the Privacy notice.
  • Captions: when the transcript is ready, click Download captions (SRT) to save subtitles for the same recording (named after your file, or captions.srt for a link). Upload them to your video platform or LMS together with the video.
  • Length: the transcript counts toward the 60,000-character limit. Anything longer is trimmed, and you see "Trimmed to fit the 60,000 character limit.".
  • Treat it as raw material: a transcript keeps every "um", repetition and digression. You do not need to clean it up - the AI rewrites it into structured lessons anyway. Set Fidelity closer to "Strictly from material" if the lessons should stick to what the speaker said.

Tip

Free alternative: upload the recording to your own AI chat (for example Gemini), ask it for a plain transcript without timestamps, and paste the result into Paste text. This works on any plan; how long a recording the chat accepts depends on that chat.

If the audio cannot be extracted (some unusual video formats), save the recording's audio as MP3 or M4A - most recording and video apps can export it - and upload that file instead.

If something goes wrong

  • Logo or font fields are locked: those are part of the Pro plan. Your entry is saved and applies automatically once the plan covers it. See Free and Pro: what is included.
  • Pasted source text is cut short: the limit is 60,000 characters, and LMSable trims anything longer; paste a shorter excerpt or switch to "I will attach a file" and let your AI chat read the whole document.
  • You changed the format on a course that already has lessons: LMSable asks you to confirm first, because preview and export fail until you rebuild the content in the other format.

Next

Set the colours: Brand your course, then turn the brief into a table of contents with Import the table of contents from your AI.

If your AI chat is connected to LMSable, it can also create an Interactive book course for you: What your AI can do with your course.