Building a Course From Scratch: The 3-Step Curriculum Workflow
· 6 min read · OneRange Product Team
How admins author a new training course in Vero — pick a starting point, shape the outline with AI, and publish when it's ready
Authoring a course in Vero is intentionally a three-step workflow: pick a starting point, shape the curriculum with AI, then confirm and publish. The whole flow runs on local state — nothing gets written to the database until you click Confirm & Publish. That means you can experiment freely without leaving half-finished courses cluttering your library.
Step 1 — Pick a starting point
Vero ships with 15 folders and 180 templates covering common roles and topics — Sales, Engineering, People Ops, Leadership, AI Skills, and more. You can start from one of those templates, or start from a blank course. Either way, you'll choose the folder where the course will live so it's easy to find later.
If you want the AI to use specific source material — a sales playbook, a product spec, a company policy doc — you can attach those reference documents now. The tutor will ground its examples and explanations in what you upload, not in generic web content.
Step 2 — Shape the curriculum
This is where the AI does the heavy lifting. Vero generates a draft topic outline — usually 4 to 8 topics — based on your starting point and any reference docs you attached. You can edit any topic inline, reorder them, delete the ones that don't fit, or regenerate the whole outline with a new prompt. A confirmation dialog protects you from accidentally throwing away edits when regenerating.
You'll also pick exactly five skills the course teaches, mapped to Vero's 10,000-skill taxonomy. Five is the limit on purpose: a course that claims to teach 12 different skills doesn't actually teach any of them well. The skills you pick are what learners get credited for on completion, and what shows up in workforce analytics.
Duration is set with a smart stepper that adapts its increments based on the current value — small jumps at low durations, bigger jumps higher up — so you get to a sensible number quickly without typing a free-form integer.
Step 3 — Confirm and publish
The final step shows you everything the course will contain — name, folder, topics, skills, duration, reference documents — in a single review screen. Until you hit Confirm & Publish, nothing has been saved. Once you do, the course is live and assignable. From this point forward, any further edits run through the versioning system: meaningful changes create a new snapshot, and learners mid-course stay on the version they started.
Why ephemeral local state matters
Most LMS authoring tools save drafts constantly, which sounds helpful until your library fills with abandoned half-courses nobody can clean up. Vero's local-state approach trades autosave for a clean library. If you close the tab mid-create, the draft is gone — which is exactly what you wanted.