A degree program, built course by course to one structure.
For provosts, deans, and program directors. Alma's learning engineers build each course from the material your departments already have, and your faculty and learning designers approve the design and the result.
- A typical three-credit course
- 135 hours, about 200 activities
- Across the program
- One structure and navigation
- On every activity
- A learning outcome and a time estimate
- Terms
- A fee, no share of tuition
Building one course is a big job, and a degree program means doing it for every course.
The courses in a program are usually built by different people in different terms, and students end up re-learning each instructor's setup. Alma's learning engineers take the production of the whole program, one course after another, to a structure your faculty and learning designers approve. What each course teaches, and how it is taught, stays with its instructor.
The same structure in every course, and a record behind every activity.
Consistent structure and navigation across courses
Students find the same layout in every course.
A learning outcome and a time estimate on every activity
Each activity is traced to the learning outcomes approved for the course, with a written design rationale. Your team can check the time estimates against your institution's credit-hour policy.
A record your accreditor can read
Outcomes and time per activity are recorded for every course. Accreditation itself is decided between your institution and your accreditor.
Lectures by your own faculty
In their own face and voice, with their written agreement. The instructor of record does not change.
A fee, and you own what is built
Alma takes no share of tuition, and contract length follows your preference. Who holds the rights to a course, and what happens when its author moves on, follows your institution's policy.
A typical three-credit course holds about 200 activities across 135 hours.
It has 8 modules and 135 hours, the standard arithmetic for 3 credits: 45 in contact and 90 independent. For three-quarters of every hour, the student is in active work. The AI teaching assistant supports your instructors' teaching and does not replace their interaction with students.
About 65
video lectures
Each with an AI teaching assistant.
About 25
live conversations
With AI characters, in role-plays and simulations.
About 30
graded assignments
AI-graded and human-confirmed, fully by people, or fully by AI.
About 20
knowledge checks
Ordinary graded quizzes in your LMS.
15
discussions
With replies from the AI teaching assistant and from classmates.
About 50
readings and cases
Yours, or the ones you assign.
A change to your templates, made once, carries through every course in the program.
A new template reaches every course
If your institution changes its templates or style, the change goes through every course the same way.
A revision takes days
A course is refreshed without a rebuild, and your faculty approve the change before students see it.
Every course goes through the same 4 steps, and your faculty approve each design.
Discovery, design, build, and launch. The decisions take about a day of your team's time for each course, and a program repeats that for every course in it. Review is separate, and you set how deep it goes. A new course goes live in weeks, and how long the whole program takes depends on how many courses it has.
Other programs, one course, and the process in full.
All institution programs
The four kinds of program, and the four ways to start.
See all programs
Full course development
When the job is one course, built from slides, recordings, and a syllabus.
See new courses
Learning analytics & outcomes
Who is flagged at risk and where students stop, in every course we build.
See learning analytics
How we work
The 4 steps in full, with who does what at each.
See the process
Bring the program you have in mind.
We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide. A program plan and one syllabus are enough to start the conversation. We will walk you through a finished course and what yours would need.