Build, review, and get ready to publish

This page covers what happens after you approve a course's structure in the chat, where you tell Vidext's agents what you want to teach. The agents write each module's script (its words and screens), check it, and build it into a module learners can play. Once a build finishes, the module is built: it has a version that is ready for its course. Learners see nothing until someone publishes the course; see Publish a course.

Build the courseCopy Anchor Link

Once you approve the course's structure, the agents offer to build the first module, build all the modules, or change the structure. A course of one module offers build the module or change the structure. After the first module, they offer to build the rest of the course.

The course overview offers the same first step. You open it from the course's title in the list beside the conversation. Once the structure is approved and no module has been started, it shows Build the first module, which sends that request as your own message, the same as picking it in the chat. While the course brief still waits for your approval, the overview shows no button.

From then on each module goes through the same steps without you asking: a plan for the module, its script, a review of that script, its narration, and its build. The agents work on up to three modules at a time. They stop only when a module needs you: a question, a review finding, or a document from your organization that is missing.

To approve each module's plan before its script is written, say so, for example "show me the plan first". Each module then stops after its plan until you approve it.

Follow the progressCopy Anchor Link

The list beside the conversation shows its Courses. Each course says how many modules are built (2 of 5 built), how many are being worked on, and how many need you. Open a course to see its modules. Each module's row has one line that says where it stands:

• the step it is at while it is being worked on, such as Building the module;
• Has a question, with Answer, when a question or a review finding is waiting for you;
• Not applied: and the reason, when the last attempt did not apply (see below);
• Out of date, or A kept draft is waiting for you, when it needs a decision from you;
• Planned, when nothing has been written yet;
• what it was made into, such as Module, once it is ready.

Click a module to open it in the studio, where you can watch its script being written.

Review findingsCopy Anchor Link

Every script is checked against the course, the module's plan, your request, and your sources. Each problem the review finds is a finding: something the script contradicts, leaves out, or repeats.

Findings appear as cards over the message field, one finding per card. Swipe or use the arrows to move between them. Each card offers:

• Fix it (recommended): changes the script to resolve the finding, and the module's other findings as well. The card says what it changes and why. The changed script is reviewed again.
• Keep mine: keeps the script as it is and records its narration.
• Review again: shown instead of Fix it when the review itself could not run. It runs the review once more.

Hide puts a card away without answering it. A module with an open finding is not built until you answer it; the other modules of the course carry on.

You do not have to answer every finding yourself. When the agent wrote the script, it corrects what the review found on its own, every finding in one change, and the corrected script is reviewed again. It asks you first only when correcting a finding means choosing between what you said and a source, or between two sources. If two reviews in a row still find something, the finding waits for you. When you asked for a course without stops, a script that relies on a document of yours that is not among your sources is rewritten so that it no longer depends on it, and the agent tells you the document is still missing. The finding's card stays visible while the agent corrects it.

When work on a module does not applyCopy Anchor Link

Sometimes the work on a module ends without changing anything. The module's row then says Not applied: and why, for example Not applied: the course changed while it was being written. The module keeps what it had before.

Ask in the chat for that module to be tried again. Only the part that did not apply is redone.

What a build makesCopy Anchor Link

A build turns each part of the script into a screen, speaks the narration in the module's voice, and adds the cover, chapter, check, and closing screens around them. See Screens, beats and forms.

Narration already recorded with the same words and the same voice is reused, so a build after a small change only records what changed. When a screen shows the presenter, the presenter's video is rendered after the build.

PicturesCopy Anchor Link

A course's modules get pictures unless you ask for none. To leave them out, ask in the chat for no pictures in the course, and ask again to turn them back on. Each module's next build follows that choice.

As soon as a module's screens are set, the agents draw a picture for each place a screen holds one (a card, a step, the object a screen breaks into parts) with OpenAI's image model. Pictures never carry text, letters, or logos: the words stay on the screen. When the agents change a screen's words, its picture is drawn again; a line you change yourself on the stage keeps its picture (see Pictures in the studio).

A build never waits for pictures. It includes every picture that is ready, and once the ones still being drawn are done, the module is built again on its own to carry them. A picture you redraw, remove, or restore in the studio reaches the module the same way. In a conversation that paused and was picked up again, such a change reaches the module with its next build instead. See Pictures in the studio.

To change one picture, ask in the chat and name the screen, or select it in the studio first:

• Another picture, or one that shows something you name, replaces it straight away.
• Options: three pictures appear in the chat, with a question asking which one to keep.
• An earlier picture: each place keeps up to eight pictures it showed before or was offered, so you can ask for the previous one back.
• Your own image: attach it and ask for it in that place. It is cropped to the frame and stays there when the screen's words or the course's look change later.

When a module is builtCopy Anchor Link

A module is built as soon as its build finishes. When a screen shows the presenter, the module is built only once the presenter's video has rendered; Vidext checks for the video every ten minutes. While it renders, the module line in the module's conversation reads Building · rendering the avatar video. If the video has not appeared after an hour, it reads Couldn't build · the avatar video didn't render, with Try again.

To build a module again after you change it, choose Build again on its module line, on top of the message field of the module's own conversation beside its studio; see Build a module. This builds the module straight away, without waiting for a reply in the chat. If the build cannot start, the line says why, for example Couldn't build · the script has open review issues. You can also ask in the chat for the module to be built again.

A module also has Build in its menu on Modules and courses. It makes a built version of the module as it currently stands, which for a module built in the chat is always its last build. It cannot render a presenter video again: when a video failed, use Try again on the module line.

See Draft, built, and live for what each state means.

Publish the courseCopy Anchor Link

Vidext's agents build modules but never publish them. Publishing the course is always a person's decision, made from the publish strip above the message field in the chat or from Modules and courses. See Publish a course.

Modules that can't be shownCopy Anchor Link

Modules stored before 29 September 2026 use a format Vidext no longer plays, and that includes their live version. On Modules and courses such a module reads Can't be shown, opening it says This module can't be shown, and learners see This module isn't available.

• Built in the chat: open its studio and build it again from the module line in its conversation, in the current format. If the studio says the script was made with an older version, first ask in the chat for the script to be written again.
• Built in the earlier chat that Home had before this one: it cannot be rebuilt. Build the course again in the chat, which makes new modules. Then take the old module away from learners; see Publish a course.