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# Courses Category
All the courses on the website can be divided into categories. Course Categories can be created by both admins and instructors.
## Add a new category from the admin panel
To add a new course category, follow **Dashboard > STM LMS Settings > Courses Category.** There are already lots of categories coming with the demo content that you can use for your courses such as Art, Music, Photography with a variety of subcategories. Or you can also create a new one.
Enter the name for the new category. You can also upload an image for it, select the icon and color and provide the description.
Click the **Add New Course category** button to save the changes and add a new category.
Also, you can create a new category directly from the course editing page.
## Add a new category from the instructor account
Besides this, instructors are also allowed to add new categories for the courses. To enable this feature website admin need to go to LMS Settings > Course and enable the option Allow instructors to create new categories.
After this, instructors will be able to add categories via frontend course builder. Reveal the dropdown menu of the Category and choose the option **Add new category**.
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