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title: "Creating a Publishing Group"
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# Creating a Publishing Group

Publishing Groups are the way to grant access for other Organizations to consume your content for their training. Creating a publishing group and making it available to others is a multi-step process that will include coordination with our help desk. This article will cover how to build a basic publishing group with no content or published organizations; adding Courses and published organizations will be covered in other articles.

To create a publishing group:

1. Select **Publishing Groups** in the **Courses** group on the **Admin** menu. This opens the Find Publishing Groups page.
2. Select **Create Publishing Group** in the upper right corner.
3. On the **Basic Information** tab,
  1. Type the **Name** of the publishing group.
  2. Type a **Description**. This is visible to administrators only.
  3. Set the **Organization** that will own the publishing Group. This will default to the organization in your profile.
4. On the **Availability** tab, select **Add Organizations**, select your sub-organizations that will be able to put their courses in this publishing group, and select **OK**.
5. Select **Save** to save the publishing group.

The next Best Practice steps for creating a publishing group are:

1. Add courses (see [Adding Courses to Publishing Groups](/v1/docs/add-courses-to-publishing-group))
2. Add organizations you manage as Published Organizations. For those organizations you do not manage, an authorization form needs to be completed with your sales person for the organization, and our Operations team will add them as a Published Organization.

## Related Articles

For more information on Publishing Groups, please see:

- [Learning about Publishing Groups](/v1/docs/what-is-publishing-group)
- [Finding Organizations with Access to a Publishing Group](/v1/docs/pg-add-pg-error-resolution)
- [Finding Courses in a Publishing Group](/v1/docs/pg-add-org-error-resolution)

Publishing groups are applied to courses to create different catalogs of content which you can make available exclusively to specific customers by publishing to organizations. A publishing group must be added to make the course available to schedule. Organizations can have one or multiple publishing groups to operate.

An organization is assigned to each entity in the TMS, such as, users, classes, subscriptions, and courses. The organization is a basis to determine access given based on roles within the organization and management over the organization.

Bundles together content to then be set up for training through classes, subscriptions, and course assignments. Courses can include labs, videos, SCORM, LTI, external links, assessments, and documents. Courses must be assigned to a Content Provider and a Publishing Group to be available to set up for training.