Intelligent Instructional Design.
Curriculus is purpose-built for higher education's unique needs: learning outcomes, academic rigor and evolving course design.
You know your content. You know your students. We understand the pedagogical architecture that brings it all together.
Start with what you already have.
Upload your materials you want for each lesson — readings, slides, PDFs, whatever you've collected. Tell us your course learning goals, lesson learning goals, and where you want students to end up. We'll ask some key questions about your students' starting points and the competencies they need to develop.
What You Do
Select and upload your essential materials, identify your core learning objectives, lesson learning objectives, and answer brief questions about student needs. This takes about 30-60 minutes of your time.
What We Understand
From your input, we understand your teaching philosophy and approach, the journey from student starting point to mastery, and where students typically struggle. This forms the foundation for everything we build.
Where pedagogy meets content.
This is where the transformation happens. We organize your content into 1-3 major learning themes — think of them as the core competency areas your students need to master. Each theme follows a natural progression that mirrors how people actually learn.
The Structure We Create
We build from Foundation, where students develop essential understanding, to Practice, where they start combining concepts. Then comes the Breakthrough — those "aha" moments where understanding transforms. And finally, students can apply knowledge independently.
What Makes this Different
We identify where students typically struggle and build in supports. We integrate discussions that facilitate meaningful integration over surface-level responses. We design the progressions you'd create if you had the time and resources.
Ready to teach and
ready to adapt.
Your complete curriculum arrives as structured, formatted, easy-to-use text documents — no platform to learn, no subscription to manage. Every lesson planned, every discussion crafted, every progression mapped. In your voice, with your materials, following your vision.
What You Receive
Complete course overview, lesson plans and assessment questions to foster depth of learning and understanding. What you get is a full course aligned to your objectives, reading material and needed outcomes - it's everything you need to run an exceptional course.
The Result?
Academic courses with the depth that makes colleagues ask how you did it. The kind of integration you've been trying to achieve. All without sacrificing another evening, weekend and summer break.
Starting with what you already have:
Follow our intake process to share your curriculum requirements and related materials. Each piece of information helps us create curriculum that works for your in-person and online classes.
Course Outline & Materials
Set the vision and requirements
This is where we understand your course vision and gather materials. Share your existing course outline, readings, slides, PDFs, notes—anything that helps us see the full picture. Your course overview provides crucial insight into how your materials should connect and reinforce each other.
Download our course outline template to see what information we find helpful.
Course specifics
Fine-tuning
After reviewing your materials, we'll fine tune a few more details like student baseline skills (0-10 scale), class dynamics, technology constraints, and how you'd prefer to organize the course structure.
This collaborative discussion ensures the curriculum works for your exact situation, whether you're teaching 15 graduate students in-person or 50 undergrads online.
Here, we'll also share some initial insights about how the course naturally fits into 1-3 main learning themes. We'll suggest organizational approaches based on your materials, but you'll have final say on what best serves your vision.
Curriculum Development
From your vision to structured pathways
With your requirements mapped and preferences understood, we transform your materials into the pedagogically sophisticated structure you've been trying to achieve, organizing content into clear progressions from foundational skills to proficiency, with every lesson planned, every discussion crafted, every progression mapped.
No more work needed from you. Just a short wait while we build something extraordinary.
All delivered with your course requirements
Ready-to-use materials that brings your expertise into pedagogically sophisticated courses. Every component is designed to create the depth you want in your curriculum.
Deliverable 1:
Comprehensive Course Overview
See how courses progress from baseline skills to proficiency.
You'll see the visual sequence from day one to student outcomes. Your learning objectives build into natural progressions, creating clear pathways for your students.
Deliverable 2:
Detailed Lesson Plans
9 sections of comprehensive lesson architecture.
Each lesson includes skill overviews, core concepts, practice methods, and assessment checkpoints. Everything developed for depth and coverage.
Deliverable 3:
Really Good Assessments
Develop stronger student learning and understanding.
Questions that engage students in meaningful analysis and reflection - questions that make students integrate your material in ways that surprise even you.
Simple Content Access
Sophisticated pedagogy, delivered simply.
All components, every lesson, the entire curriculum — delivered as plain text, Word or Google Docs, that you own forever. While the pedagogy is sophisticated, using it couldn't be simpler. Copy, paste, customize where you need and create the depth your class deserves.
Material you can use before next week.
Based on how people learn
We use structured and proven learning progressions. Each curriculum follows research-backed patterns of skill development — from foundation through breakthrough to proficiency.
Many perspectives, single vision
It's like having a department collaborate with you on your course without the committee politics. You get rich pedagogical content, and you maintain control of the vision.
Depth by design
Every discussion question, every activity, every assessment is designed to create meaningful integration. We help you go from "mention the reading" to "understand these concepts to solve this problem."
FAQs
Find answers to common questions about our curriculum development process.
Curriculus works with both synchronous and asynchronous, on-ground and online class formats. Because we work with the course outline and materials you've already associated to the class, the output is naturally geared toward how you want to teach your material.
No. We build from your materials and use your terminology. Our goal is to amplify your approach. This requires working with you. Curriculus designs the course structure, progression and all the raw materials you need to start teach as fast as possible. We deliver all the components and the content that you need to build the curriculum you want, but much faster and easier than how you've been doing it today.
Course changes happen. Current events shift. New materials emerge. We restructure in 72 hours, maintaining your flow while integrating what's new. No need to sacrifice another weekend.
Everything we deliver is fully editable. Think of it as your enhanced foundation — keep what works, adjust what you want, add your own touches. It's your curriculum, we just help you build it faster and with more depth.
Your materials remain yours. The curriculum we create is yours. No exceptions, no fine print. We don't share, sell, or reuse your uploaded materials for other instructors or courses. Your readings, slides, and documents are used solely to build your specific curriculum. The curriculum we deliver comes with full ownership rights — edit it, share it, publish it, whatever you need. No attribution required, no ongoing license fees, no strings attached. We maintain confidentiality during the development process and never showcase your name, university or curriculum as examples or testimonials without explicit permission. You commission the curriculum, you own the result.
We develop curricula in partnership with university instructors and faculty who provide the academic foundation, learning objectives, required readings, and oversight. Curriculus excels at synthesis, taking disparate readings and requirements and creating unified learning experiences that maintain thematic coherence while building systematic skill development. Your expertise and partnership ensures the academic rigor and contextual appropriateness required for curricula that's good for students. Our process ensures comprehensive, consistent curricula that would be extremely time-intensive to develop manually. You wouldn't develop a course without students in mind. We wouldn't develop curricula without you in mind.
Ready to Transform Your Curriculum?
You've been trying to create this depth. You know what your students need. Now you have a way to build it without sacrificing your time, without committee compromise, without starting from scratch.
Join educators who are creating curriculum they're genuinely proud of — with the pedagogical architecture that makes real learning happen.