AlmaLearning
For educational institutions

Degrees, certificates and continuing education, built with your faculty.

Alma's learning engineers build whole programs, course by course, from the material your institution already has. Your faculty and learning designers keep the direction and the approval.

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Terms
A fee, no share of tuition
Ownership
You own what is built
Where it runs
Any LTI-compliant LMS
Before you decide
An example, at no cost
In every program

Every course in a program holds about 200 activities.

A typical three-credit course, whatever the program: 8 modules and 135 hours, 45 in contact and 90 independent. For three-quarters of every hour, the student is doing something.

Every activity is traced to the learning outcomes approved for the course, with a time estimate your team can check against your credit-hour policy.

Programs we build

From a whole degree to a faculty workshop, built the same careful way.

01

Degree programs

For provosts, deans and program directors building a whole degree. 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 every course, one after another, to a structure your faculty approve.

An innovative university in California built a whole MBA, delivered asynchronously, with Alma. See customer stories →
  • One structure across every courseStudents find the same layout and navigation in every course. What each course teaches, and how it is taught, stays with its instructor.
  • A record your accreditor can readOutcomes and time per activity are recorded for every course. Accreditation itself is decided between your institution and your accreditor.
  • Lectures by your own facultyIn their own face and voice, with their written agreement. The instructor of record does not change.

02

Certificates & micro-credentials

For deans and program directors adding a certificate or a micro-credential: a few courses, or a short sequence. The work usually lands on the same faculty and design team as everything else, and Alma takes the production from the slides, recordings and syllabus the department has.

  • The same practice and graded work as a degree courseLectures students can stop and question, practice with AI characters, and work graded against a rubric.
  • Sized by your syllabusYour syllabus sets the hours, and your faculty and learning designers choose the activities that fill them.
  • Credit stays your decisionWhether a certificate carries credit, and how it relates to your degrees, follows your own policies.

03

Continuing & professional education

For continuing and professional education units, whose students are working adults and whose list of courses to launch is longer than the team that builds them. Time to market and staffing are the two barriers these units name most often.

  • Open at any hourLectures and practice are there when the student is, after a shift or on a weekend.
  • In dozens of languagesA course can be delivered in other languages, spoken as well as written.
  • A new course in weeksAlma takes the production for a fee. Your instructors decide what is taught and approve the result, and the finished course is yours.

04

Faculty development

For teaching and learning centers running programs for their own faculty and staff, such as teaching online or using AI in teaching. Alma builds the faculty program the way it builds a course for students. The content is yours: Alma does not supply a ready-made course on teaching.

  • Built from your institution's materialYour teaching guidelines, policies and recorded workshops. When the know-how lives in someone's head, we interview them and build from the transcript.
  • Practice, and feedback on itFaculty practice in a conversation with an AI character or in writing. Feedback quotes their own words and names what is missing.
  • Updated when your guidance changesA revision takes days, and your staff approve the change before anyone sees it.
Keeping a program current

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 in the program the same way.

A revision takes days

A course is refreshed without a rebuild, and your faculty approve the change before students see it.

How it is built

Every course goes through the same steps, and your faculty approve each design.

The decisions take about a day of your team’s time for each course. A new course goes live in weeks, and how long a whole program takes depends on how many courses it has. See the full process →

  1. Before you commit

    Free example

    Alma's learning engineers

    We build an example from your own material, at no cost: your own subject, built the way a finished course would be.

    Your people

    Nothing committed yet

    Send a syllabus or a slide deck, and judge the work before you commit to anything.

  2. Step 1

    Discovery

    Alma's learning engineers

    In a working session, we map who the program is for, what students should be able to do at the end, and the material your departments already have.

    Your people

    Conversation 1 of 4

    You send what you have, in whatever state it is in.

  3. Step 2

    Design

    Alma's learning engineers

    We propose the structure every course will follow, the sequence of activities and the look, each as a short menu with our recommendation.

    Your people

    Conversation 2 of 4

    Your faculty and learning designers choose from each menu. Production starts only after you approve the design.

  4. Step 3

    Build

    Alma's learning engineers

    We build the courses one after another, to that structure, and review every piece for accuracy.

    Your people

    Conversation 3 of 4

    At a checkpoint in each course, your faculty look at the work in progress and steer it.

  5. Step 4

    Launch

    Alma's learning engineers

    Each course goes live in any LTI-compliant LMS under your name, or in Alma's own. You pay a fee, with no share of tuition, and own what is built.

    Your people

    Conversation 4 of 4

    You give the final approval before a course opens to students.

Explore more

Start where your program already is.

A program can be built from scratch, added to where it already runs online, or built around the sessions your faculty teach live. Learning analytics come with all three.

Full course development

When the program is not online yet: built from the slides, recordings and syllabi you have.

See new courses

Course refresh & redesign

When it already runs online, and you want an AI teaching assistant and practice added.

See course refresh

Blended & faculty-led courses

When an instructor teaches live and you want practice and feedback built around the sessions.

See faculty-led courses

Learning analytics & outcomes

Comes with every program: who is flagged at risk, where students stop, and attainment by outcome.

See learning analytics

Tell us which program you want built.

We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide. A program plan, a syllabus or a slide deck is enough to start the conversation.

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