As I mentioned in the overview page I won’t be covering the installation of the Adapt Authoring Tool as the documentation{.aioseop-link} covers it thoroughly.

With the Authoring Tool started navigate to the Dashboard which will probably be at http://localhost:5000 if you have followed the installation defaults.

If this is the first time starting it up the Dashboard will be blank.

Click the green Add new course button in the top left.

This takes you to the General settings for the course. Set the following values

Title

Hello World

Subtitle

Welcome to the Adapt Authoring Tool Hello World elearning course.

Body

Why are we saying Hello to the World?

Hello World! Is often the simplest tutorial when learning to create computer programs. Just because we’re using a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to create this course doesn’t mean we can’t stick with convention.

Everything else we will leave as the defaults.

Click the green Save button in the top left which will take you to the Course structure page.

On the Course structure page you will see a single page titled New Menu/Page Title. Click on the cog icon in the top left of the New Menu/Page Title box and select Edit.

Set the title to 

Take the test and say “Hello World”

Then click the green Save button in the top left.

We are now in a position to preview our course so far. Click the green Preview course button in the top left. This will open up a new tab with our course menu page.

In the next post we will look at adding some questions to our course{.aioseop-link}.