Quickstart
Create and publish your first Vidext module from your own material.
This guide walks the fastest path from your existing material to a published, assignable learning module. No instructional-design experience required — Vidext plans and builds; you review the real draft and decide when to publish.
Before you start
- A Vidext account and an organization (created on first sign-in — see Set up your organization).
- At least one piece of source material: a PDF, a slide deck, a Word document — or just a public website URL. One good document is enough for a first module.
Create your first module
Add your sources
From your Vidext home, attach your files before sending the creation request — use the composer's add (+) menu, drag them in, or include a public website URL in the prompt. Each file uploads as you add it and is processed in the background; you can watch its status on the attachment right in the composer. See Adding your sources for supported formats and limits.
Describe what you want
Write a short prompt: who the training is for and what they should be able to do afterwards. One or two sentences is enough. An explicit creation request starts immediately — Vidext plans the structure internally and opens the module build without showing a separate outline or asking for a second confirmation.
Watch the draft take shape
Vidext shows the useful parts first: narrative, on-screen text, layouts, and knowledge checks appear in the module while imagery and voice narration continue generating. The build runs in the background, so you can leave the page and come back without losing progress.
Review and edit the draft
Review the content as it arrives. When the build completes successfully and Studio editing unlocks, play the draft like a learner would — hit Preview on the module canvas to watch it in the real learner player. Ask for changes in chat or select an element in the module and describe the adjustment. Your draft is saved automatically.
Publish when it is ready
Choose Publish only after the draft reads and plays correctly. Publishing starts the talking-presenter avatar render, verifies the resulting version, and only then points learners at it. Until that process succeeds, the previous published version stays live — or the module remains unpublished if this is its first version.
Put it in a course, and release it
A published module is not yet reachable: modules live in your library, and learners are assigned courses. In Content → Courses, create a course, add your module to it, assign the course to a team, and release it.
All four matter. A course that is assigned but still in preparation reaches nobody, and a team member only sees what their team is assigned. Once it is released, members are enrolled automatically and notified by email.
Draft first, always
Building never publishes anything. The build produces a review-ready draft that stays autosaved as you edit; publishing is your explicit decision. See Draft and published.
Next steps
How Vidext works
Understand the full lifecycle you just ran.
Build, review, and publish
Understand the progressive build and the publication gate.
Editing published content
Change a live module by conversation — no rebuild needed.
Connect your knowledge
Ground modules in Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, or Notion content.
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