Upgrade Your Coursera Course with Real Development Tools

Turn your programming course into practice-oriented learning by integrating hands-on coding tasks in professional JetBrains IDEs.

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What this guide covers

This guide explains how to connect your Coursera course with JetBrains IDEs using the Apps (LTI) feature – from creating the App to publishing coding exercises that sync progress automatically.

Using Coursera's Apps (LTI) feature, you can easily embed coding exercises right into your course, giving your students a chance to apply what they've learned in real development environments.

Before you start

To use this integration, you'll need:

A published or in-progress Coursera course.
- Coursera's course creation guide

A course created in a JetBrains IDE with coding tasks.
- How to create a course in JetBrains IDE
- Free coding exercises from our library

Free access to JetBrains IDEs for you and your students.
- How to request free access for educators and students

Need help creating your JetBrains IDE course?
Reach out to us at academy@jetbrains.com – we’re happy to help!

How to use this guide

Open the Coursera Apps page in one browser window.
Open this guide side-by-side. This way, it will be convenient for you to copy values from the guide into Coursera and double-check that each step is done correctly.
Follow the steps in the guide to connect JetBrains IDEs via the Apps page.