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What is a Course?
A Course is a structured collection of lessons (videos) and modules (groups of lessons). Courses help deliver a cohesive learning experience, allowing you to guide learners through content step-by-step, assess their progress, and measure skill acquisition.
How to create a Course
Click Create a Course from the Synthesia homepage.
Choose how you want to start:
Via Copilot:
Start by describing your course in the prompt box. You can also set a duration and attach a supporting document. To help Copilot generate the best results, include key details such as the topic, audience, and learning objectives.
Copilot will ask follow-up questions to better understand your needs and build out the course structure.
Based on your input, it will automatically generate modules, lessons, and write titles and descriptions for each.
Start from blank:
Opens the Course Builder in an empty state, giving you full control to design your course from scratch.
You can manually add new modules to group related content and create individual lessons by building videos directly within each module.
Start from existing content:
Choose the videos you want to include in your course. Each selected video will be duplicated and added as a separate lesson in the Course Builder.
The original videos remain unchanged in your library, ensuring your course content is organized without affecting existing projects.
How to create a lesson video
In the Course Builder, click Create video on a lesson thumbnail.
The video opens in the Storyboard editor by default.
If Copilot created the lesson title and description, it auto-generates the script.
Otherwise, you can prompt Copilot to write a script for you.
Use the Canvas view to manually create visuals.
Add interactivity and agents as needed.
Click Generate to render the video.
How to create and assign Skills
Skills help you measure learner proficiency using scored questions or agent evaluations.
Open the Logic modal for questions or the Topics modal on agents.
Click Create new skill, then name and describe it.
Skills are shared across all lessons in the same workspace.
Scores are calculated as a percentage of total points earned vs. available.
Example:
4 questions (1 point each) + 2 agent evaluations (3 points each) = 10 total points.
Learner scores 6 → Skill score is 60%.
How to version and review a Course
Click Create version in the Course Builder.
All lesson videos must be in a generated state to proceed.
You’ll be redirected to the Course Review page:
Watch the course in the Course Player.
Collaborate using comments.
Share via the Share modal.
How to share a Course
You can share your course in three ways:
Course page – with branding and custom CTA
Embed – with domain restrictions
SCORM package – integrates with LMS
All methods support SSO and password protection. SCORM courses are marked complete when all lessons are completed.
How to access Course analytics
Click Analytics in the Course Review page or the 3-dot menu on the course card.
Explore 4 analytics tabs:
Adoption: Overall reach, starts, completions, avg. watch time
Lessons: Drop-off rates, detailed per-lesson analytics
Results: Learner-level progress
Skills: Skill scores by learner
What learners experience
Learners see a progress bar at the top left, which updates as they complete lessons.
Progress is automatically saved across sessions—persistently with SSO or SCORM, or locally via the browser if neither is enabled.
When a lesson finishes, the next one autoplays after 5 seconds, or learners can click Next lesson to continue sooner.
At the end of the course, learners see a “Congratulations” screen, confirming they’ve completed all lessons.