What happens after you say yes, step by step.
Alma's learning engineers build your course or program from the material you already have, in 4 steps, and your people decide what is taught and approve it before anyone takes it.
- The steps
- Discovery, design, build, launch
- Your decisions
- About a day, in 4 conversations
- Your review
- As deep as you choose
- Before you decide
- An example, at no cost
Each step has a job for us and a job for you.
A new course goes live in weeks. Each step below says what Alma's learning engineers do and what your people do.
Before you commit
Free example
Alma's learning engineers
We build an example from your own material, at no cost. You see your own subject built the way a finished course would be.
Your people
Nothing committed yet
Send a syllabus, a slide deck, or a playbook, and judge the work before you commit to anything. Ask for the example when you book a demo.
Step 1
Discovery
Alma's learning engineers
In a working session, we map who the course is for, what they should be able to do at the end, and the material you already have.
Your people
Conversation 1 of 4
You send what you have, in whatever state it is in. It rarely needs to be tidy or complete.
Step 2
Design
Alma's learning engineers
We propose the course architecture, the sequence of activities, and the look. Every design choice arrives as a short menu with our recommendation.
Your people
Conversation 2 of 4
Your experts or faculty choose from each menu and correct what we got wrong. Production starts only after you approve the design.
Step 3
Build
Alma's learning engineers
We produce the lectures, the practice, the assignments, and the checks. Every piece is reviewed for accuracy before anyone takes the course.
Your people
Conversation 3 of 4
At a checkpoint during the build, you look at the work in progress and steer it.
Step 4
Launch
Alma's learning engineers
The course goes live in any LTI-compliant LMS, in Alma's own, or from a link, under your name.
Your people
Conversation 4 of 4
You give the final approval before it opens to anyone.
Four decisions are yours, and each arrives as a short menu.
01
What fills the hours
Your syllabus or program plan sets the hours. You choose which of more than a dozen activity types fill them.
02
The sequence
What people do first, where the path branches, and which activities are required or elective.
03
Which roles stay human
You decide role by role, office hours included. Wherever AI speaks in the course, it is labeled as AI.
- LecturesLabeled as AI
- Office hours
- Tutoring & coachingLabeled as AI
- Practice conversationsLabeled as AI
04
How work is graded
AI-graded and human-confirmed, fully by people, or fully by AI. Grading follows your rubrics or standards, or ones we draft and you approve.
The decisions take about a day. Review is separate, and you set how deep it goes.
About a day of decisions, across 4 conversations
Your people answer questions and choose from the menus. They write nothing.
Your experts or faculty approve the design
That covers the outcomes, the sequence, and the standards the work is graded against.
Others on your team can check the build
Checking that the build matches the approved design can be done by teaching assistants, learning designers, or others on your team.
Every part is open to review before anyone takes the course
Your people can open any lecture, practice, or assignment. How much of it they read is your call.
Building 1 hour of online learning takes about 80 to 700 hours.
Basic online
Interactive
Immersive
High end
Learning takes effort, like a hard game.
Players stick with a game because every time they try something, they see right away whether it worked. A course can do that too. That is where the production hours go: into a reply to what a person just said, and comments on the draft they handed in.
Your people direct and review. Alma’s learning engineers do the production.
Your people keep the direction and the review: what to teach, how, and whether it is right. They are the architects, and Alma's learning engineers follow their drawings to the letter. We take the 90 percent that is execution.
A change made once carries through the whole course.
One edit reaches every place it appears
Update a definition, a figure, or a policy in one place, and it carries through the whole course.
The next course follows the same structure
In a program, each course after the first is built to the same structure and the same standard.
Analytics show who is active and who is at risk
They also show where people stop, which is the place to look when a course needs revising.
The same course in other languages
In dozens of languages, spoken as well as written.
You pay a fee for the work, and you own what is built.
- 01
You own what is built
What we build is yours. Contract length follows your preference.
- 02
Your material is never used to train a model
Neither is the work your students or your people do in a course. Your material stays on Alma’s platform, where only your own staff and the few Alma people building your course can see it. The principles are on the security page, and we go through the details with your security team.
- 03
Lectures show your own people
In their own face and voice, with their written agreement.
- 04
Accessibility is checked with your team
Tell us the guidance your institution or company follows and we build to it, and your team can run a course through the tools it already uses before launch.
- 05
A quoted price per course
Quoted once we have seen your material. For universities, Alma takes no share of tuition.
Book a demo and bring the course you have in mind.
A syllabus, a slide deck, or a playbook is enough to start the conversation. We will walk you through a finished course and what yours would need.