---
title: "Create an AI Labs course"
description: "Create a course in AI Labs, add modules of lecture files, add learners by group or email, and share a dataset every learner can mount."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "ai-labs"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/ai-labs/how-to/create-a-course/"
topic: ["courses"]
---

# Create an AI Labs course

Create a course to collect the material for one subject in one place. A course holds modules of files for each part of it, the learners who take it, and a shared dataset when everyone needs the same data.

## Before you begin

Make sure that you are an Admin or a Professor of the organization, and that the learners are already
[members of the organization](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/#add-a-member). Have the course
files, such as lecture PDFs, slides, or notes, ready on your computer.

## Create the course

1. In the organization, open **Courses** and select the option to add a course.
2. Enter the **Course name**. It can have up to 50 characters: letters, digits, spaces, underscores, and
   hyphens, starting and ending with a letter or a digit. Each course in the organization needs a different
   name.
3. Enter a description of up to 2,000 characters.
4. Enter the **Professor** details: a title (Prof., Dr., Mr., Mrs., or Ms.) and a name of up to 50 letters
   and spaces.
5. Create the course.

AI Labs also sets up the storage where the course's module files are kept. To change the name, description,
or Professor later, open the course and select **Edit**.

## Add modules

A module holds the files for one part of the course.

1. Open the course and select **Add Module**.
2. Enter a module name and choose the files to upload.
3. Select **Add**.

The module appears in the course's **Courseware**. Learners on the course can view the modules and download
their files.

## Add learners

Only the learners you add can open the course.

1. Open the course and select its **Settings** tab.
2. Choose how to add learners:
   - **By Group** adds every learner in the groups you choose. Use it for a whole class.
   - **By Student mail** adds the learners whose email addresses you enter. Use it for a few people.
3. Confirm.

Learners now find the course under **Courses**. See
[View your courses and course material](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/use-ai-labs-as-a-learner/#view-your-courses-and-course-material).
To take a learner off the course, remove them on the same **Settings** tab.

## Share a dataset with the course

Create a shared dataset when every learner needs the same data, such as a training set.

1. Open the course and select its **Shared Datasets** tab.
2. Select **Create Dataset**.
3. Enter a name of up to 50 characters and confirm.

Every learner on the course can mount the shared dataset on their instances. It is listed apart from each
learner's own datasets.

## Delete a course

Delete a course from its page when it is over. First ask learners to unmount the course's shared dataset from their instances. While it is mounted, AI Labs keeps the course and shows **Unable to delete course as one or more shared storage is mounted on notebook.** The same applies when you remove one learner from the course: ask the learner to unmount the dataset first.

## What to do next

Point your learners to the [learner guide](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/use-ai-labs-as-a-learner/). To see what they
launch and how much GPU capacity the course uses, see
[Monitor an organization](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-ai-labs-as-an-admin/#monitor-an-organization). For a
message about a name or a mounted dataset, see [Troubleshooting AI Labs](/tir/ai-labs/troubleshooting/ai-labs/).