# Change Course Author

The **Change Author** option allows the **admin** of the website to **redefine** the certain **course's author**.

To change the course's author go to the courses page  **STM LMS > Courses**. On opposite to each course name, you can see the field with the course's initial author name and the **Change Author** button. 

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Click the field with the author-name and you will see a list of available instructors' usernames.

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Select your needed instructor's username, click the **Change Author** button and you will get a notification on the screen.

![](https://2021837383-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MDO9V_qgvV5cQdw04iz%2F-MWd5VSke0imZ6h_c5Te%2F-MWdHkg0ZW_EoCu_Z5Iv%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=f8a346db-9985-416a-84e8-92ad5455b7e4)

{% hint style="danger" %}
**Important:** If you change the course's author, all the lessons, quizzes, and assignments related to this course also will be automatically assigned to this author. 

If these lessons, quizzes, and assignments were added to other courses, they will be unavailable for those courses. 
{% endhint %}