How to Create a New Course in Bridge Author Pro

Bridge Author Pro streamlines your authoring processes and keeps your eLearning content organized.

Read on below or take an interactive tour to learn how to navigate the interface, create a new course, and access your content.

This walkthrough demonstrates how to create a course in Bridge Author Pro. To access Author Pro, navigate to Author and select Gomo from the menu. This opens the welcome screen, which leads to the main dashboard showing account activity. The Courses section displays folders containing course content. New users see a blank area, while existing team environments show folders created by teammates. Folders can be managed through a three-dot menu offering options to pin to dashboard, rename, add subfolders, or delete. The Home button allows creation of new folders or courses directly. Creating a folder requires entering a title and clicking Create, after which it appears in the folder list. Empty folders display a Create a new course button. The course creation page offers four options: create a brand new course from scratch, create a course using AI if enabled for the account, import and convert a PowerPoint file, or generate a sample course. The brand new course option follows a three-step template process. Step 1 Details requires entering a course name and optional description. The system defaults to the preferred language with an option to add additional languages by scrolling or searching the language list and selecting checkboxes. Right-to-left languages automatically adjust the course preview layout. Step 2 Themes provides style templates for branding including colors and fonts. These pre-built templates can be customized using the Theme Editor for consistent branding across courses. Themes are selected by clicking, indicated by a red outline. Step 3 Extras controls course structure and supporting content. Toggles enable or disable introduction and menu elements. The default three topics can be increased or decreased. Support resources for learners can be enabled or disabled. Clicking Create processes and generates the course based on applied settings. The generated structure displays menu options across the top. The Actions menu includes a Preview course option showing the learner perspective. The preview displays an introduction with a Start button. Navigation arrows move through pages and sections. The main menu shows topics and video content. A question mark icon opens a help screen with default text in a pop-up box closed via an X in the top right. A glossary icon opens a pop-up for adding glossary terms related to the course or company, unpopulated by default. Topics added during creation appear in the menu. Clicking a topic shows current setup with sample text. Navigation arrows move between pages within topics. A Home button returns to the main menu screen. A globe icon switches between added course languages via a pop-up selection box. A view switcher button toggles between desktop, tablet, and mobile views to preview learner experience across devices and verify layout. A dropdown menu selects device preference reflected in the view. Language can be switched and portrait or landscape orientation toggled. Clicking the X in the top right exits the preview and returns to the main course structure screen.

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Accessing Your Content

Open the primary navigation in Bridge and go to Author > Gomo.

Click +Create a new course from the Courses screen, or select a folder to see existing courses and add a new one inside the folder. +Create a new course is also available from the dashboard when you first log into Author Pro.

Tip: Learn more about navigating Bridge Author Pro.

Creating a New Course in Author Pro

Select from one of the following four options:

Brand new course: Build your own custom course from scratch.
AI course: Generate an entire course using a prompt.
PowerPoint import: Convert your PowerPoint or Google Slides file.
See an example: Generate a sample course to get started with.

Click Create and follow the setup steps:

Details

Define the following information:

Course name: Give your course a title. This is pulled into your Bridge content library upon publication.
Course description: Add a description to help learners understand what your course is about.
Resource folder: Select the default folder where your resources (e.g., images, audio, and video files) will be uploaded to be used in your course.
Default language: Click Select Languages to change the default language and add multiple languages and dialects to a course.

Tip: In Author Pro, you can create a single course that contains multiple languages and dialects, allowing learners to switch as they progress through the course.

Themes

A theme is a style template that reflects your brand's style, including its fonts, colors, and logos.

Use a pre-built theme as your starting point, duplicate it, and customize it to reflect your company branding. Applying a customized theme speeds up your course creation process and ensures you achieve a consistent look and feel.

Click on a core theme to select it. If you’ve already created a customized theme, it will be available for you to select.

Extras

Choose the default configuration of your course.

Content structure: Toggle the introduction and menu on or off.
Supporting content: Add elements to the toolbar that learners can access as they navigate a course (e.g., a glossary, table of contents, and language selector).
Number of topics: Each topic consists of a sequence of screens. By default, your course includes three topics. Use the dropdown menu to customize based on your requirements.

Click Create to build a course.

Viewing Your Course Structure

You’ll be directed to the Structure tab, where you’ll see a high-level overview of the topics, screens, and the introduction and menu if you choose to include them.

Select one of the thumbnails to open the course editor. There, you can add screens to a topic, change the sample content, and add assets. Click Close to return to the overview screen.

Tip: Learn how to navigate the editor and add assets to a course.

Previewing a Course

Click Actions > Preview course in the top-right corner of the Structure tab to preview the look and feel of your course, or use the split view to preview your course in the editor.

Your selected theme controls how your course looks, including the colors, buttons, and font.

Use the left and right arrows at the bottom of the screen to move between screens and see how many screens are in a topic.

The bar at the top of the page shows you any supporting elements you choose to add to the course.

You can also use the options at the top of the screen to preview your course on different screen sizes and preview your chosen languages and dialects.

Click the X to exit the preview screen and return to the main course structure.

Related to

How to Create a New Course in Bridge Author Pro

Accessing Your Content

Creating a New Course in Author Pro

Details

Themes

Extras

Viewing Your Course Structure

Previewing a Course

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