How to Get Started on Authura (Educator)

Authura is a course builder that helps educators customize their content, adapt to student performance, and gain real visibility into progress

Written By Maya

Last updated 14 days ago

Authura homepage

What You’ll Do

Get oriented on the educator Dashboard and find where to build content, deliver it, invite people, review progress, and get help. You’ll leave with a clear path for creating your first Playbook and Course.

Before You Start

  • You are on the educator Dashboard with the left navigation visible

Steps

  1. Start on your Dashboard. This is your home base after signing in. Use the quick-access buttons for Courses, Playbooks, and profile settings, or ask Authura’s built-in AI assistant for help. The left navigation contains Dashboard, Analytics, Courses, Playbooks, and Settings.

Authura educator dashboard
Authura educator dashboard

Learn more: How to Navigate Your Dashboard (Educator)

  1. Build your content in Playbooks. A Playbook is the learning content, including its Quests. Start from a Playbook Template, then complete the approval process before using it. As part of your first Playbook, sign the NILE agreement in Settings under Contract Manager.

Important: Your NILE agreement must be signed before you can publish or earn on Authura.

Authura menu for creating a Playbook from scratch or using an existing template
Authura menu for creating a Playbook from scratch or using an existing template

Learn more: How to Create a Playbook; How to Sign Your NILE Agreement

  1. Deliver your content with a Course. A Course delivers a Playbook to a group of learners on a schedule. Courses and Playbooks are managed in separate sections.

Authura Courses dashboard
Authura Courses dashboard

Learn more: How to Create a Course

  1. Invite collaborators and teaching assistants. Add collaborators and TAs who will help build your content or run the Course.

  1. Invite your students. Add students to the Course so they can join it. Share the learner getting-started guide at the beginning of class so they know how to use Authura.

Learn more: How to Get Started on Authura (Learner)

  1. Check your Analytics. Review course and student metrics, including completion, progress, engagement, and mastery. Analytics fills in once you have Courses, students, and learning activity.

Authura Analytics dashboard
Authura Analytics dashboard

Learn more: What Is an Engagement Score?; What Is a Mastery Score?

  1. Get help when you need it. Open the Getting Help section, use Help Center or Contact Support from the bottom-left user menu, or open the support widget from the Authura icon in the bottom-right. You can also replay the built-in onboarding tutorial.

Authura dashboard with highlighted customer support panel
Authura dashboard with highlighted customer support panel

Learn more: How to Contact Support

What You Should See

  • A Dashboard you can move around confidently

  • A clear path from building Playbooks to delivering them through Courses

  • Access to invite collaborators, TAs, and students

  • Analytics for student progress, engagement, and mastery

  • Contract Manager for your NILE agreement

Common Issues

I’m not sure whether to create a Playbook or a Course
Build the content as a Playbook first, then deliver it through a Course. Each is managed in a separate section.

My Playbook is not ready to use
Playbooks must complete the approval process before they can be used.

I cannot publish my Playbook
Confirm that you have signed the NILE agreement in Settings under Contract Manager.

My students do not know where to start
Invite them to the Course, then share How to Get Started on Authura (Learner).

What’s Next