Welcome
Open Learning Studio is a free tool for making online courses. You build slides with text, pictures, videos, buttons and quiz questions right in your browser. At the end you download one file and upload it to Moodle (or another learning platform), where your learners take the course. You need no account and no programming skills.
What you get:
- My courses: your list of courses, stored in this browser.
- The editor: where you design slides, much like in a presentation program.
- The preview: plays your course exactly as learners will see it.
- Publish: packs the course into a file for Moodle or for a normal website.
Get going in 3 steps
Open My courses
Open the Studio in your browser and click My courses at the top. This page lists every course stored in this browser.
Create a course
Click New course, give it a name and pick a template. If you just want to look around, choose Example: IT basics: a finished sample course with 7 chapters.
Try it out
The editor opens. Click Preview at the top right to play the course like a learner. Close the preview and change something on a slide. Everything is saved automatically.
What you can build
Slides with content
Branching and logic
Quizzes with scoring
Packages for Moodle
Five words you will meet
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Scene | A chapter of your course. Every scene holds slides. |
| Slide | One screen of your course, like a slide in a presentation. |
| Object | Anything on a slide: a text box, a picture, a button, a question. |
| Layer | An extra sheet on top of a slide, for example a pop-up with details or the feedback "Correct!". The slide itself is the bottom layer, called Slide. |
| Trigger | A rule of the form "when this happens, do that", for example "when the button is clicked, go to the next slide". Triggers belong to the slide, a layer or the whole course. |
One more: SCORM is a standard file format for online courses. Moodle and other learning platforms read it and remember who finished the course and with which score.
Where your courses are stored
Your courses are stored in this browser only. There is no cloud and no account. That keeps your data private, but it also means: if the browser data is deleted, the courses are gone.
| Element on My courses | What it does |
|---|---|
| Browser storage | Shows how much space your courses use. |
| Protect data | Asks the browser to keep your courses even when space runs low. Until the browser agrees, the box says Not protected. |
| Workbench menu | Back up everything (.olsw) saves all courses in one file. Restore backup brings them back, for example on another computer. |
| Course menu (right-click a course) | Export saves a single course, for example As .olsx archive. |
Work with AI if you like
You can let an AI app such as Claude or ChatGPT help you. It can read, build, check and export courses, even live in the course you have open. Every AI change is one step you can undo. See Working with AI.
If something doesn't work
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| My courses are gone | You are probably in another browser, another browser profile or a private window. Courses only exist where you created them. Restore a workbench backup with Workbench, Restore backup. |
| The Studio cannot open the course storage | Private windows and some privacy settings block the browser storage. Open the Studio in a normal window. |
| I don't know where to start | Create the sample course Example: IT basics and click through it in the preview. Then read the Editor tour. |