Core capability
AI course authoring
Course generation built on real instructional design. Not just fast content. Structured learning - with objectives, scenarios, assessments and interactions - generated the way an experienced instructional designer would build it. Then adapted, refreshed, audited and updated automatically.
Complete course generation from any source.
Describe what you want to teach, upload existing materials, paste a URL or link a YouTube video. CourseAgent reads everything and generates a complete course - with learning objectives, structured content, scenario-based examples, interactive sections and properly aligned assessments. The output is not a content draft. It is a structured course built to professional instructional design standards - ready to review, refine and publish.
AI course generation - brief to complete course
Brief to complete course
Write a description in plain language. AI generates structure, content, interactions and assessments in one step.
Build from uploaded materials
Upload PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint files, SOPs or policy documents - up to 10 files / 150 pages. AI reads and structures them into a designed course.
Build from a document - no rewriting
Upload a Word doc or PowerPoint deck and we turn it into a structured, editable course while preserving your exact wording. Headings become topics and pages, paragraphs, bullets, tables and images flow through unchanged. Tracked changes and comments stripped automatically. Ideal for compliance, internal policies and SME-authored content where the words must not change.
Unique to CourseAgentBuild from URL or YouTube video
Paste a webpage URL or YouTube link. AI reads the content or transcript and generates a structured course from it.
Learning objective alignment
Every section is structured to serve a declared learning objective. Assessment questions are aligned to what the course actually teaches - not just adjacent to it.
Bloom's Taxonomy-appropriate assessment
Assessment depth is automatically matched to the cognitive level the objective requires - recall, application, analysis or evaluation.
AI influence slider - source fidelity control
Choose how closely the AI follows your source: Low (preserve exact wording - ideal for compliance), Medium (balanced rewrite for clarity), or High (creative expansion - turns dry reference material into a rich experience).
Unique to CourseAgentBuild from a document - faithful import, no AI rewriting
For compliance policies, internal handbooks, induction packs and SME-authored drafts where the wording is the asset. Upload a Word doc or PowerPoint, and we keep your headings, paragraphs, bullets, tables and images exactly as written - we just turn them into a structured, editable course. Tracked changes and review comments are stripped, and you preview the proposed structure (and credit cost) before anything is built. AI never touches the content unless you ask it to afterwards.
Programme generation from uploaded documents
Upload a procedures manual, policy library or curriculum document - AI generates a complete multi-course programme with sequencing, titles, descriptions, and individual course content. An entire learning path from a single source file.
AI-validated learning objectives
Your objectives shape the course. Not the other way around.
Before a single section is generated, CourseAgent proposes a set of contextualised learning objectives - analysed from your brief, source documents, audience, complexity level and cultural settings. You review, edit, add and approve them. Then the course is built around your version. This is structurally different from every other AI authoring tool. In ChatGPT-style generation, objectives are output - decorative text that appears after the content. In CourseAgent, objectives are input parameters that determine what sections, assessments and scenarios get generated.
AI proposes objectives from your context
CourseAgent analyses everything you've provided - description, source documents, audience, complexity, cultural settings, AI influence level - and generates contextualised objective suggestions. Not generic templates.
Real-time Bloom's Taxonomy validation
Every objective - whether AI-suggested or written from scratch - is validated against Bloom's Taxonomy action verbs in real time. 'Understand' and 'be aware of' are flagged immediately. 'Analyse', 'evaluate', 'demonstrate' pass.
Traffic-light quality feedback
Each objective receives an instant quality rating: Excellent (green), Good (yellow), or Needs Work (red) - based on specificity, Bloom's alignment, relevance to the course topic and duplicate detection.
Full author control - mix, edit, remove
Accept AI suggestions, write your own from scratch, edit any objective inline, or mix both. Vague term detection and relevance checking apply to everything.
Programme-level objectives
In the Programme Builder, each course within a curriculum has its own independently editable objectives - with per-course regeneration and inline editing.
AI quiz generator
Quizzes that can only be answered from your course.
CourseAgent's three-step quiz wizard builds complete, course-aligned assessments from your actual content - not generic questions that happen to share a topic. Every question is generated with strict content restriction: if the answer isn't in the course, the question isn't generated. Before a single question is written, a content depth analysis scans every topic and word in the course to determine how many meaningful questions the material can actually sustain.
Pedagogically structured type distribution
Three question styles with calculated distribution based on chosen depth. Basic: 30% True/False, 40% Multiple Choice, 30% Select All. Advanced: 10% T/F, 20% MC, 70% Select All - forcing higher-order thinking.
Culturally aware questions
Every question inherits the course's audience, sector, geographic context and language. A quiz for UK healthcare workers reads completely differently from one for US tech teams.
Live progress with real-time deduplication
Questions are generated individually (not batched) for higher quality. Every completed question is tracked and sent with subsequent calls - so the AI avoids repeating themes or phrasings.
Five intro page templates and full configuration
One credit regardless of question count. The entire quiz generation consumes a single credit, charged only after successful generation. Not per question, not per attempt.
AI compare and update
When regulations change, don't rebuild. Update.
Upload your existing course and your updated source material. AI identifies what's changed, updates only the affected sections, and leaves everything else intact. Available in no other authoring tool at any price point.
Identifies changed content
AI compares your existing course against updated source material - policy update, new regulation, revised SOP - and identifies exactly which sections are affected.
Updates only what's changed
Only the affected sections are regenerated. Content that remains accurate is untouched. No rebuilding from scratch.
Maintains course structure
The course flow, branding and interactions are preserved. Only the content that needs to change, changes.
Critical for compliance
When a regulation changes on a Thursday and needs to be live Monday, this is how you do it without a full rebuild cycle.
AI course quality audit
Six layers of quality review. Automated.
Every course you build can be audited against six professional instructional design standards - automatically. The audit is a systematic review of the complete course, layer by layer. Each layer produces specific, actionable recommendations - not a generic quality score.
Coherence review
Does the course flow logically? Are concepts introduced in an appropriate sequence? Does each section build on the last?
Assessment quality
Are assessment questions properly aligned to learning objectives? Do they test at the right cognitive level? Are distractors plausible?
Inclusive language
Identifies language that may be exclusionary, culturally insensitive or inaccessible to specific learner groups.
Accessibility compliance
Reviews content against WCAG 2.1 AA standards - alt text, colour contrast, screen reader compatibility.
Objective alignment
Are the declared learning objectives actually served by the course content? Does every section earn its place?
Enhancement opportunities
Where could scenario-based content, additional interactions or retrieval practice improve the learning experience?
Built-in Quality tools
A Quality menu in the editor - run on demand, fix in one click.
Three on-demand checks live in the editor's Quality menu. Deterministic where it can be, AI where it has to be. Findings explain what's wrong, why it matters and the exact action to take - and where it's safe, you fix in one click without leaving the panel. Run Course check just before publishing; run Audit course mid-build, when there's still time to rethink the design.
Page check
Scans the page you're on for structural and pedagogical issues - section order, page length, duplicates, summary tampering, placeholders. Deterministic checks plus an AI pass for flow and coherence. Findings come with one-click fixes.
Course check
Runs Page check across every learning page in one pass and presents a single worklist sorted by where the work actually is. Flat-fee credits, cached results, the same one-click fixes - Split, Reorder, Remove, Move from summary - all from one panel.
Objectives & coverage
Confirms every learning objective is actually taught. Free keyword pass badges each objective Strong, Light or None. Optional AI pass adds page-by-page reasoning. One-click Fill the gap drafts the missing sections in your course's tone, language and complexity.
Course adaptation
One course. Every audience.
Build a master course once. Then adapt it - for a different client sector, a different geographic context, a different regulatory framework, a different writing tone, a different teaching methodology - without rebuilding from scratch. For training consultancies, this is the feature that changes the commercial model.
Geographic / cultural adaptation
Adapt examples, regulations and cultural references for a different country or region - drawing on CourseAgent's Cultural Intelligence Engine with 11 geographic regions and 15 cultural contexts.
Sector adaptation
Reframe examples and terminology for a different industry - healthcare vs legal vs retail vs financial services.
Tone and register adaptation
Shift the writing register - formal to conversational, technical to accessible - without changing the instructional structure.
Teaching methodology adaptation
Switch between 13 built-in teaching approaches - case-study led, scenario-based, problem-based, reflective practice and more.
AI refresher course generation
Turn any course into a spaced-repetition refresher. In one click.
Learning fades. CourseAgent generates a condensed refresher course from any existing course - designed around the science of spaced repetition and memory reactivation. Not a summary. A fresh-angle revisit that triggers genuine recall. Three sizes: Quick (approx. 5-8 minutes), Standard (8-12 minutes), or Comprehensive (12-15 minutes).
Five transformation methods
Each section is reframed using one of five approaches - application first, common mistakes, distilled essence, question-led recall, or a different angle. The AI never repeats the same method on consecutive sections.
Content fidelity guaranteed
Every statement is traceable to the source course. Dates, numbers, regulatory references and terminology match the original exactly.
Returning-learner framing
The refresher opens by referencing the original course by name and acknowledging that time has passed - so learners immediately understand this is reinforcement, not repetition.
Embedded knowledge checks
Recall-testing questions are built in - aligned to the source course content, not generating new learning. Correct answers always trace back to what was originally taught.
50+ interactive section types
AI chooses the right one. You have full control.
CourseAgent doesn't just generate text with a container around it. It selects the appropriate section type for each piece of content - scenario-based chat for a compliance situation, flip cards for terminology, hotspot for a process diagram. Experienced designers can override any AI choice, add sections, reorder content and apply the 50+ section types directly.
AI editing tools
Three AI tools that work inside the editor. After generation, in every session. No competitor offers all three.
AI section generator
Click the sparkles icon on any section type and AI generates multiple options in-context - using course objectives, scenario and existing content. Covers all 50+ section types. Author previews 3 variants and selects.
AI section transformer
Convert any existing section into any other section type while preserving educational content - body text to flipcards, accordion to quiz, slideshow to tabs.
AI inline text editor
8 text transformation modes (Rephrase, Simplify, Elaborate, Create Scenario and more) with 5-level length control. Generates 3 variants per action.
Everything else in AI authoring.
The complete feature set - every capability available in CourseAgent's authoring layer.
AI transformations
Generates multiple options preserving educational content while changing format entirely. AI Suggest mode proposes 3 relevant topic ideas before generating.
Conversion options
Convert body text into flipcards, an accordion into a quiz, a slideshow into tabs - any type to any type.
Customisation features
8 modes: Rephrase, Simplify, Clarify, Condense, Elaborate, Add Examples, Create Scenario, Convert to Dialogue. 5-level length control.
AI audio narration
Professional neural voice narration powered by ElevenLabs - with auto-scroll mode that advances slides in sync with audio playback.
AI image generation
Generate contextually relevant course images directly within the editor - no stock library hunting, no external tool.
19-language translation
One-click translation into 19 languages - no export, no third-party tool, no add-on cost. Tone and cultural context adapted per language.
Comments and review
Page and section-level threaded comments for stakeholder review - no separate document, no email chains.
Versioned publishing
Every publish creates a version record with optional release notes - complete audit trail of what changed and when.
Course PDF export
Export any course as a PDF - for offline reference, compliance documentation or pre-build stakeholder review.
Custom branding
Apply your logo, brand colour palette and typography to every course. Multiple brand profiles for teams serving different clients.
Bloom's depth levels
Configure the cognitive depth of course content and assessments - from foundational awareness to application and critical analysis.
Cultural Intelligence Engine
11 geographic regions, 15 cultural contexts, 13 teaching approaches - AI adapts examples, references and teaching approach for the target audience.
Course quality audit (6-layer)
Automated review against six professional instructional design standards. Produces specific, actionable recommendations - not a generic score.
Live Publish
Edit a published course and push changes live in one click. URLs, Academy portals and Dynamic SCORM all update immediately.
Share and transfer courses
Share courses with other authors for collaboration with edit or view permissions. Transfer full ownership in one step.
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