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title: "Prompts that work"
description: "Ready-made requests to copy for building, changing, checking, translating and exporting courses with an AI app."
canonical_url: "https://docs.ols.yonn.online/en/ai/prompts"
---
# Prompts that work

> Ready-made requests to copy for building, changing, checking, translating and exporting courses with an AI app.

A **prompt** is simply what you write to the AI. You don't need special words: write as you would to a colleague who knows the Studio well. The requests on this page are tested; click **Copy**, paste them into your AI chat and change the details.

- **Build** a new course or new slides from a short description.
- **Change** texts, layouts, interactions and quizzes.
- **Check** the course for errors and fix them.
- **Publish** the course for Moodle.

All requests assume that your chat is connected to the Studio (see [Connect your AI app](https://docs.ols.yonn.online/en/ai/connect-your-app)).

## A good request in 3 steps

<procedure>

### Say what you want

"Add a quiz", "Shorten the texts", "Build a slide that shows our process".

### Say where it goes

Use the names you see in the editor: slide titles, scene names, button labels. For example "on the slide **Equipment**" or "after the first slide".

### Say how it should be

Number of questions, tone, length, target group. For example "five questions, plain language, for new employees".

</procedure>

<tip>

Big changes work best one at a time. Let the AI finish, look at the result in the editor, then ask for the next step.

</tip>

## Get to know a course

<copy-prompt label="Summarize">

Read my course in Open Learning Studio and summarize what it contains. Suggest three improvements.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Outline first, change nothing">

Show me the outline of my course: scenes, slides and which slides have questions or layers. Don't change anything yet.

</copy-prompt>

## Build a new course

<copy-prompt label="New course from a description">

Build a new course "Fire safety basics" for new employees, about 15 minutes: welcome, three short chapters with one interaction each, a final test with a results slide. Use plain language and address learners directly. Check the course before you hand it to me.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="From my notes">

Here are my notes for a training session (attached). Turn them into a course with one slide per topic, short texts, and a question after every chapter.

</copy-prompt>

## Add content

<copy-prompt label="Learning objectives">

After the first slide, add a slide with three learning objectives that fit the topic of the course.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Quiz">

At the end of the course, create a quiz with five questions (single choice, multiple choice and matching) and a results slide with a passing score of 80 percent.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Summary slide">

Before the quiz, add a slide "In a nutshell" with the five most important points of the course.

</copy-prompt>

## Layout and diagrams

<copy-prompt label="Process diagram">

Build a slide that shows our ordering process as four connected steps with a short note under each. Then look at the slide as a picture and fix anything that overlaps.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Tidy a slide">

On the slide "Overview", put the three cards in one row with equal gaps, make them the same size and show me how the slide looks.

</copy-prompt>

## Make it interactive

<copy-prompt label="Pop-up with details">

On the slide "Equipment", add a "Learn more" button that opens a layer with details, and a close button on the layer.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Decision with two paths">

Add a decision slide after "Scenario": two buttons lead to two different follow-up slides, and both paths meet again at "Summary".

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Personal greeting">

Ask for the learner's name on the second slide and greet them by name on the slide after it.

</copy-prompt>

## Check and fix

<copy-prompt label="Check">

Check my course for errors and accessibility issues and fix what you can fix safely. Tell me what you could not fix.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Check one scene">

Check only the scene "Basics" of my course, give me a short summary of the problems and then fix them one by one.

</copy-prompt>

## Texts, media and translation

<copy-prompt label="Replace a word">

Replace "customer" with "client" everywhere in the course.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Simpler language">

Rewrite the texts in chapter 2 in plain language: short sentences, no technical terms, address the learner as "you".

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Picture next to the text">

Put this diagram (attached) on the second slide next to the text.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Questions from Moodle">

Import these Moodle GIFT questions into a question bank and draw five of them in the final test.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Translate">

Translate the course into French as a new course.

</copy-prompt>

## Settings, versions and export

<copy-prompt label="Player and reporting">

Switch the player to the dark color scheme, add a glossary with the key terms and report to Moodle as passed or failed.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Safety net">

Save a version called "Before rework", then rewrite chapter 2. If I don't like it, restore the version.

</copy-prompt>

<copy-prompt label="Export for Moodle">

Export the course as SCORM 1.2 for Moodle.

</copy-prompt>

When the AI exports, the file appears in <ui-path path="View > Connect AI">



</ui-path>

 under **Files created by the AI**. Click **Download**. How to upload it to Moodle: [SCORM and Moodle](https://docs.ols.yonn.online/en/ship/scorm-and-moodle).

## Ask the guide

If your AI app also has this guide connected (`https://docs.ols.yonn.online/mcp`, see [Working with AI](https://docs.ols.yonn.online/en/ai/three-ways)), it can look things up before it answers:

<copy-prompt label="Look it up first">

Look up in the Open Learning Studio guide how triggers and variables work, then add a counter to my course that counts how many hotspots the learner has clicked.

</copy-prompt>

## If something doesn't work

**The AI answers but changes nothing.**
Your chat is not connected to the Studio. Paste the sentence with the code from **Connect AI** again.

**The result is not what I wanted.**
Press <key-combo keys="Ctrl+Z">



</key-combo>

 to undo it, then ask again with more detail: where, how many, how long.

**The AI changed too much at once.**
Ask for one thing per message. Before big rewrites, ask it to save a version first.


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