Your faculty shape the course. We put it together.

We use leading AI models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI inside our own course-development system. We develop the work in stages, using your confirmed plan and readings to guide the drafts. You review the academic content and decide what needs refining before you teach from it.

You can use those tools to develop course materials. Someone still needs to organize the readings, connect the lessons to the course objectives, check the drafts and manage revisions across the course. With Curriculus, we manage that work with you and deliver the materials in your agreed scope. You keep the academic decisions without having to build and maintain the AI workflow. If your institution wants to develop that capability in-house, that can be a worthwhile investment too. Curriculus In-house can help your team build it.

Course planning usually starts before anything goes into a learning platform, in syllabi, reading lists and working documents. Curriculus works at that stage. We develop the course plan and teaching materials with you and deliver them as files your team can bring into Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle or another platform. You choose the learning platform. We confirm the file formats in your scope, and your institution handles setup.

You receive draft and completed versions of the course overview and lesson guides. The Complete course package also includes assessments and teaching decks. You can request the working records we develop for your course, including reading analyses and the source map.

You can begin with a course idea or an existing syllabus. Tell us who you teach, what students need to learn and what you want to develop. Before lesson development, you confirm the course direction and provide all approved readings in digital form.

Plan for two or three conversations with each instructor, starting with a 30 to 45 minute discussion. They also need time to gather readings, review the course overview and read the lesson drafts. Their feedback guides the academic choices and revisions. Conversation time does not include that preparation and review. For planning, we assume about 40 hours of faculty time for a new course with the Complete course package, including conversations, gathering readings and reviewing drafts. Rebuilds, short courses and the Overview + lesson guides package usually take less. These are planning assumptions, not measured results.

See how that time compares with a design team or faculty building it themselves →

A university design team builds the whole course with your faculty over about two quarters, and the University of Washington publishes what its team charges. Curriculus develops the course overview and teaching materials with your faculty and runs the work between their reviews. For planning, we assume about 40 hours of faculty time for a new course with Curriculus and about 100 with a design team. Pricing compares the price and faculty time side by side. These are planning assumptions, not measured results.

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Thursday refers to the first drafts: a course plan and the first lesson guides within the coverage we agree with you. Before development begins, we confirm the direction, readings and scope. We agree on the remaining delivery schedule for your course, including time for your review and revisions.

Tell us how you plan to teach, including the class format, your students’ starting point and any technology constraints. We use those requirements to shape the course plan and teaching activities with you. You review the materials for your class before you use them.

You can adapt the agreed course materials for your institution’s teaching use, subject to the rights in your source materials. Curriculus develops course content; your institution handles LMS setup. Tell us which formats and LMS your team uses so we can confirm the handoff requirements in your scope.

Yes. Tell us what you want to change and which parts of the existing course you want to keep. We review the related materials and quote the update as a defined piece of work. Later updates and changes to approved inputs are separate from the two revision rounds included in the original scope.

We don’t use your course materials to train or improve AI models. We improve how we develop courses by applying established course-design practices and learning from customer feedback.