A course is a folder with special properties:

• A course can only be created by a teacher and only within the teacher's home folder.
• A course can be divided into groups; a group can only be created inside of a course.
• A course automatically has its own knowledge building area.
• The course is listed inside the personal home folder of every member of the course.
• The teacher who creates the course is automatically a member of the course.

You can create a course in your home directory with menu item Main/New/Course. Enter in the form the name of the course and optionally a desciption. When a new course is defined, you can enroll people in it. The people must already be registered in Synergeia. At any time later, you can enroll more people with Main/Share/Enroll in the course. When people are enrolled, they are assigned a role, such as student or teacher. The different roles determine access to menu functions under various conditions. When users are enrolled in a course or group, they receive an email notifying them that they have been enrolled (if they have their own email address). The teacher enrolling them may want to write a special email message to let them know how to get started on the learning tasks of their course or group; the enrollment form includes a place for entering such a message.