Recreate a Course from an outline

Create a Private Course and rebuild a prepared or exported curriculum as draft video and quiz placeholders. This workflow covers the Course structure. Video uploads, quiz questions, Student and progress transfers, and publication are outside this Recipe. Run the requests as an Administrator. Use the IDs returned by each step in the next request. The IDs in the examples are illustrative.

Prepare the outline

For example:

{
  "name": "Drawing Essentials",
  "defaultOfferPrice": 49,
  "modules": [
    {
      "name": "Foundations",
      "contents": [
        {
          "name": "Drawing basic shapes",
          "variant": "videoLesson"
        },
        {
          "name": "Check your understanding",
          "variant": "quiz"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Create the Course

mutation {
  createCourse(name: "Drawing Essentials", defaultOfferPrice: 49) {
    id name status defaultOffer { id price }
  }
}

Illustrative response

{
  "data": {
    "createCourse": {
      "id": "22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222",
      "name": "Drawing Essentials",
      "status": "private",
      "defaultOffer": {
        "id": "44444444-4444-4444-8444-444444444444",
        "price": 49.0
      }
    }
  }
}

The returned Course is Private and has an automatic base Offer. Keep its id.

Create a module

mutation {
  createCourseModule(courseId: "22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222", name: "Foundations", status: draft) {
    id name status index
  }
}

Illustrative response

{
  "data": {
    "createCourseModule": {
      "id": "66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666",
      "name": "Foundations",
      "status": "draft",
      "index": 0
    }
  }
}

Create the content placeholders

mutation {
  video: createCourseModuleContent(moduleId: "66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666", name: "Drawing basic shapes", variant: videoLesson, status: draft) {
    id name status variant
  }
  quiz: createCourseModuleContent(moduleId: "66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666", name: "Check your understanding", variant: quiz, status: draft) {
    id name status variant
  }
}

Illustrative response

{
  "data": {
    "video": {
      "id": "77777777-7777-4777-8777-777777777777",
      "name": "Drawing basic shapes",
      "status": "draft",
      "variant": "videoLesson"
    },
    "quiz": {
      "id": "99999999-9999-4999-8999-999999999999",
      "name": "Check your understanding",
      "status": "draft",
      "variant": "quiz"
    }
  }
}

Repeat module and content creation in the order of your outline, keeping a mapping from source IDs to returned Creatora IDs. Use a new request when the next mutation needs an ID returned by the previous one; GraphQL mutation fields run in order, but cannot pass returned IDs between fields in the same request.

Check the rebuilt curriculum

{
  courseById(courseId: "22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222") {
    id name status
    modules { id name index status contents { id name index status variant } }
  }
}

Illustrative response

{
  "data": {
    "courseById": {
      "id": "22222222-2222-4222-8222-222222222222",
      "name": "Drawing Essentials",
      "status": "private",
      "modules": [
        {
          "id": "66666666-6666-4666-8666-666666666666",
          "name": "Foundations",
          "index": 0,
          "status": "draft",
          "contents": [
            {
              "id": "77777777-7777-4777-8777-777777777777",
              "name": "Drawing basic shapes",
              "index": 0,
              "status": "draft",
              "variant": "videoLesson"
            },
            {
              "id": "99999999-9999-4999-8999-999999999999",
              "name": "Check your understanding",
              "index": 1,
              "status": "draft",
              "variant": "quiz"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Compare names, variants and ordering with the source outline. Finish media, quiz questions, access settings and sales setup before publishing through your normal workflow. The content creation example covers video and quiz placeholders. After an interrupted or unclear creation request, read the saved curriculum and match its IDs to your outline before retrying. Earlier steps may already be saved; repeating them can create duplicates.

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Recreate a Course from an outline

Prepare the outline

Create the Course

Create a module

Create the content placeholders

Check the rebuilt curriculum

​Prepare the outline

​Create the Course

​Create a module

​Create the content placeholders

​Check the rebuilt curriculum

Prepare the outline

Create the Course

Create a module

Create the content placeholders

Check the rebuilt curriculum