The Course Maker is an AI-powered course generation tool that creates complete, semester-ready Canvas courses from just a subject, term dates, and grading preferences. It produces a full course pack—lectures, quizzes, assignments, discussions, and assessments—paced to the instructor's calendar, with holidays automatically skipped sequel. Instructors review and adjust the week-by-week plan through a conversational interface before importing everything as a single Common Cartridge file.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Instructors spend days or weeks each term rebuilding syllabi, hunting for current readings, rewriting quizzes, and manually re-timing every course component to a new academic calendar. This repetitive setup work consumes nights and weekends, or forces them to copy forward stale course materials that don't reflect updated resources or their current teaching approach.
Solution
The Course Maker generates an entire semester of Canvas course content from a few inputs: subject, term length, and grading preferences. After an instructor approves a week-by-week outline through a natural language chat interface, the platform assembles the complete course—lectures, slides, resources, practice sets, quizzes, discussions, assignments with rubrics, and midterm/final exams—all paced to real term dates with holidays automatically skipped. The finished product exports as a single Common Cartridge file that imports natively into Canvas with no plugins or copy-pasting. Instructors can edit every piece of generated content, and optional per-term updates refresh dates and materials while preserving their customizations.
Target Audience
The primary customers are college and university instructors who teach term-based courses in Canvas and want to reduce semester setup time while maintaining control over course design and content.
Features
- Conversational outline approval: instructors adjust pacing, swap topics, and rearrange assessments in plain English before any content is generated
- Calendar-aware scheduling: modules, due dates, and assessments land on real term dates with holidays and breaks automatically excluded
- Complete course pack: includes syllabus, written lectures, weekly slide decks, curated current resources, practice sets with worked solutions, auto-graded quizzes, labs or studios by discipline, discussions, assignments with rubrics, and cumulative midterm/final exams with review materials
- Optional adaptive AI tutor: a weekly chatbot that guides students through one-on-one practice built from the course's own outline and instructor's definitions, with usage policies fully controlled by the instructor
- Native Canvas integration: exports as a single Common Cartridge file that imports directly into Canvas without plugins, admin access, or manual date adjustment
- Full editability: every piece arrives as ordinary Canvas content that instructors can rewrite, replace, or delete, with a free Week-1 preview before purchase
- No student-side costs: no textbooks, access codes, or student accounts required; students never need a Course Maker account and no student data touches the platform