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title: "Create an Empty Course Shell"
canonical: "https://helpcentre.macewan.ca/space/ETS/1871053499/Create%20an%20Empty%20Course%20Shell"
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### By creating an **Empty Course Shell**, you are building your own course instead of using content from an already existing course. You can create an **Empty Course Shell** for any course type: **Scheduled**, **Unscheduled**, **Template**, and **Sandbox**. 

### Please follow the steps below:


1. Select ***Do not initialize content*** and then ***Next Step***.

![image](media://818e2ff2-f400-43e0-b5e2-7cf4bc2c7fca)


2. Please fill in the course information:

- **Full name of Course**
- **Short name of Course**
- **Summary of Course**

Then select ***Next Step***.

![image](media://f3d1e526-2a1a-4c28-8510-3acdb4809ec0)


3. Click ***Confirm***** **to create your course. You can also select*** Previous Step*** if there is anything you wish to change/adjust. 

![image](media://82b019ba-720d-4478-8ffc-6f3d55e5e4e4)


> ⚠️ Please note that if the course creation was not successful, then after selecting ***Confirm ***you will be taken to a page informing you that it was unsuccessful. A common error will be that the course name is already in use by another instructor.


## Changed Your Mind on Your Course Set up? Click below:** **

[https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ETS/pages/1871053600](https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ETS/pages/1871053600)

## Want to Add Another Instructor to Your Course? Click below: 

[https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ETS/pages/1874297159](https://macewan.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ETS/pages/1874297159)