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Quickstart	Create a course and watch SensAI in action

Add your OpenAI API key

SensAI uses OpenAI (the company that created ChatGPT) for its AI capabilities. You need to add your OpenAI API key to SensAI to link your OpenAI account to SensAI. OpenAI charges money for every API call we make. This way you can manage your API usage and costs through your OpenAI account.

Open the admin panel by clicking on the `Admin Panel` button in the sidebar. You can find your OpenAI API keys [here](https://platform.openai.com/api-keys). Create a new API key from the same page if you don't have one. Make sure to add credits to your account from the [billing page](https://platform.openai.com/settings/organization/billing/overview) before adding the API key to SensAI. ## Create a course

Create a cohort, add learners to it, create a course, add tasks to it and group the tasks under a milestone.

The course that you will create later will be added to this cohort. A cohort can have learners, mentors and groups. Groups are a way to organize learners. Learn more in the [Glossary](/glossary) section. Only learners added to a cohort can access the course. You can assign the course to one or more cohorts at the time of creation. Then, you can see the list of cohorts the course is assigned to in the course page and the list of courses in a given cohort in the cohort page. Tasks will be added to the course in the next step. Tasks are the units of work that learners will complete. They are assigned to one or more courses. There are two types of tasks: `Reading Material` and `Question`. Learn more in the [Tasks](/teachers/tasks) page. We will create one `Reading Material` task and one `Question` task in this step.

While adding a `Question` type task, you can add a reference answer to it. This is the solution that the AI will use to check if the learner's response is correct. You can even use AI to generate the reference answer for you as shown in the video below.
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Milestones are used to group tasks together. You need to first create a milestone before you can add tasks to it. You can either assign tasks to a milestone at the time of creating them or you can assign them later by editing the tasks as shown below.

Phew! That was a lot of work. Congratulations! You have created your first course. 🎉

If you go back to your home page now, you will see the course you created along with the tasks grouped under the milestone you created.

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SensAI in action

The learner can simply read the content given and mark it as complete.

Before: When a learner attempts a question, they are simply told whether their response is correct or not. If they are feeling stuck, they need to find someone who can help them understand where they went wrong.

Now: With SensAI, you can let the AI do the heavy lifting for you. As shown in the video below, SensAI will provide a personalized feedback to the learner on their response and nudge them in the right direction. <video width="100%" height="315" controls title="Question type task"

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Insights and metrics

You can use AI to analyse the conversations of each learner across different tasks to identify their strengths and weaknesses. This will help you to provide them with targeted support. You can see engagement and progress metrics of your cohort for a given course from the `Analytics` section in the admin panel.

Next steps

Learn about the key concepts in SensAI in depth to get the most out of it

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Learn about the various features of the task builder to create more complex flows