iTunesU course with PDFs for personal use
You can't do this — courses with additional documentation such as PDFs can't be constructed in this way for personal use only.



Additional course materials need to be added to a course using iTunes U Course Manager. You need the iTunes U Course Manager to create such courses — setting the media type in iTunes doesn't work for this.

If you really want to make a course, you can use Course Manager and create a private course:


  private course
  An iTunes U Course Manager course available only to students invited by the instructor (no more than 50 students per course). By default, all courses created in Course Manager are private.


For more information regarding adding course materials to a course using Course Manager, see:


https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/help/#itu71ED26AD-D083-40D4-8C6E-AB4DB846CA75