Platform guide

Lessons & blocks

The main areas of the system, creating a course, the block system, the text editor, and the Library.

Section videos

Walkthrough videos for Lessons & blocks

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Opens on the Courses dashboard, where each course card carries its lesson completion, assessment score and average time spent. Create Course opens a dialog for the title, description, subject and difficulty, and the new course then appears in the grid.

A course opened at its dashboard, with the header counting lessons, assessments, average completion and enrolled students. Invite is used to add students to that course.

From the “What would you like to create?” panel on the course dashboard, picks “Create a Lesson from your sources”. Most of this one — it runs about a minute — is the four-step wizard behind that choice: Upload Materials, Learning Objectives, Messages, and Custom Instructions, the last with a long panel of guidance on what to write, with Continue between the steps. The finished lesson appears under Course content.

Inside the lesson editor. The Pages rail on the left lists the concepts and exercises, the panel on the right offers Text, Callout, Cards, Table and Mind Map blocks, and the formatting toolbar edits the text on the canvas.

Renames a lesson using the pencil beside the title in the editor header, while the lesson is still marked Draft.

A draft lesson taken to Publish from the editor header, showing the settings that decide when students can open it.

Written guides

Courses are the top-level container in Collage AI - everything you build lives inside one, following the structure course → unit → lesson → block. Before you sign in and start authoring, you need a course to hold your work, so this is the first thing to set up.

From any course card you can Invite to enroll learners, Edit to revise the title, description, or tags later, and View to open a course you don’t own. Once created, select the course from the switcher to make it active - every screen in Collage AI is scoped to the course selected there.

Open the course switcher. At the top of the left navigation, open the course dropdown and choose Manage Courses.
Add the course. Give it a clear title (e.g. “Biology 101”) and a short description of what it covers.
Classify it. Tag the course with a difficulty level - Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced, or Graduate - and a subject area such as STEM or Humanities.
Tip: what comes next
With your course created, sign in and get oriented on the dashboard, then build your first lesson with blocks.

The 14 blocks in Collage AI

Meet the blocks

Click a block to see what it is best for. Blocks are grouped by how they are used in a lesson.

Basics

Content & Media

Understanding & Practice

Advanced