Panova turns photographs of real places into things people can explore
and be assessed in. There are only three ideas to learn.

## Experience

An **experience** is the whole thing you publish and share — a kitchen
induction, a heritage trail, a room-setup check. It has a title, a set
of scenes, and one link.

It also has a **theme**: the colours and lettering a learner sees it
in. Every experience already has one, so this is never something you
have to do — see [Themes and
branding](/support/articles/themes-and-branding) if you want to change
it.

## Where an experience lives

Every experience lives in a **workspace**, and every workspace belongs
to your **organisation**. Signing up made you one of each, so both
already exist before you build anything.

- Your **organisation** is your school or institution. Billing and
  people live here, and nothing crosses from one organisation to
  another.
- A **workspace** is a team, a department or a course inside it. Work
  is shared with the people in that workspace — so Year 4 and Year 5
  can be two workspaces, or one.

See [Organisations, workspaces and
roles](/support/articles/organisations-workspaces-and-roles).

## Scene

A **scene** is one image inside an experience. It can be a **360°
spherical** photo that learners look around, or a **flat** image they
pan and zoom. Neither is second best: both hold pins and both publish
the same way. Most experiences are a handful of scenes. Your plan sets
a ceiling on how many scenes one experience may hold, alongside the
storage it uses — see [Plans, limits and
usage](/support/articles/plans-limits-and-usage).

Scenes carry more than the picture: a title overlay, an optional
narration recording, an ambient sound bed, and a backdrop colour for
the space around a flat image.

## Pin

A **pin** is a point of interest on a scene. Click it and a panel
opens with whatever you put inside — text, images, a quote, a
checklist, a callout, a link to another scene, an embed. Pins are the
content; scenes are just where they live.

Pins are grouped into **contexts**, which learners can switch between —
"Safety", "Service", "Front of house". Contexts belong to a scene, so
scene 1 and scene 4 can organise their pins completely differently.

> Each thing lives inside the one above it. A pin belongs to a scene, and a scene belongs to one experience — so moving an experience takes its scenes and pins with it.

## What comes next

Once the content is right, you can layer **activities** on top — ask
learners to find things, place things, sequence things, record
evidence, or add their own pins. Then you **publish**, and hand out a
link or put the experience in a page.

You can look at your work the way a learner will at any point, with
**Preview**. Nothing a learner can open exists at all until you
publish.

> The shortest complete path. Nothing a learner can open exists until step five.

Start with [Build your first experience](/support/articles/build-your-first-experience).
If you cannot find a screen something is on, [Find your way around
Panova](/support/articles/find-your-way-around-panova) is the map.