From a folder of slides to a course students do.
Send the slides, recordings, and syllabus your department already has. Alma's learning engineers build them into a complete online course in weeks, and your faculty approve the design and the result.
Your course
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
- Time to launch
- One course in weeks
- Your faculty's time
- About a day of decisions
- Where it runs
- Any LTI-compliant LMS
- Terms
- A fee, no share of tuition
The starting point is whatever the department already has.
Lecture slides
Whatever your faculty teach from, in whatever state the deck is in.
Recorded lectures
Including lecture captures from past terms.
A syllabus or course outline
Even if it is a single page.
Readings, textbooks, and course packs
Yours, or the ones you assign.
Problem sets, past exams, and labs
The question bank, the rubrics, and the cases you argue in seminar.
The faculty member who teaches it
When a course lives in someone's head, we interview them and build from the transcript.
You do not need a finished course to start.
What you send rarely needs to be tidy or complete. A syllabus, a reading list, and a conversation with the faculty member who teaches it are enough. We build the first module from that, and they correct it before the rest follows.
A finished course, running inside your LMS.
Students open it where they open every other course, under your institution's name. It arrives assembled, so the build never lands on your design team's queue.
The AI teaching assistant and AI characters are named as AI. They support your instructor’s teaching and do not replace it, a named instructor stands behind the course and its grades, and you decide which roles stay human, including office hours.
Lectures students can interrupt
Each video lecture has an AI teaching assistant that answers from the course itself. Students raise a hand and ask, as in a live class.
Practice with AI characters
Role-plays and simulations in text, voice, or video. The AI character pushes back on anything vague.
Assignments graded against a rubric
Your rubrics, or ones we draft and your faculty approve. Each assignment is AI-graded and human-confirmed, graded fully by your instructors, or graded fully by AI where you choose.
A gradebook that syncs with your LMS
Scores go to the gradebook your faculty already use.
Learning analytics
Who is active, who is flagged at risk, and where students stop.
A typical three-credit course holds about 200 activities.
8 modules and 135 hours of student work: the standard arithmetic for 3 credits, 45 hours in contact and 90 independent. For three-quarters of every hour, the student is doing something.
Every activity carries a learning outcome and a time estimate, so your team can check each estimate against your institution's credit-hour policy.
Faculty stay the authors, and nothing goes live without their approval.
Alma's learning engineers take the production. What the course teaches and what a grade means stay with your faculty.
The instructor of record does not change
The course carries their name, and the intellectual work in it is theirs.
Faculty opt in before their face and voice are used
Each faculty member agrees in writing before a lecture shows them.
The learning outcomes are the ones already approved
Every activity is traced to an approved outcome, with a design rationale your team can read.
Accessibility is reviewed with you from the first draft
Tell us the guidance your institution follows and we build to it. Your team checks it with its own tools.
You set how deep the review goes
Faculty approve the outcomes, the sequence and the rubrics, and every module is open to review before a student sees it.
A fee for the work, and you own what is built
No share of tuition, and the course is yours. Rights follow your institution's policy, and your material never trains a model.
4 steps, in weeks. The decisions take about a day of your faculty’s time.
Universities that publish their own timelines put one online course at about a semester. If you want a tool to make a lesson yourself this afternoon, or a library of ready-made content, we are the wrong choice.
Step 1
Discovery
Alma's learning engineers
We map what the department has to your students and the approved learning outcomes.
Your people
Conversation 1 of 4
You send what the department already has, in whatever state it is in.
Step 2
Design
Alma's learning engineers
We propose the modules, the activities, and a time estimate for each.
Your people
Conversation 2 of 4
Your faculty and learning designers approve the plan before anything is produced.
Step 3
Build
Alma's learning engineers
Alma's learning engineers produce the course, module by module.
Your people
Conversation 3 of 4
Your faculty and learning designers review each module.
Step 4
Launch
Alma's learning engineers
The course goes live in your LMS, with enrollments and the gradebook connected.
Your people
Conversation 4 of 4
You give the final approval before any student sees it.
Change it once, and it changes everywhere.
On some campuses, an online course waits years for its next full revision. A course Alma built is refreshed in days, without a rebuild, and your faculty approve the change before students see it.
One edit goes through the whole course
Update a definition, a citation, a figure, or a policy in one place, and it carries through every module and every section.
Lectures update from the script
Faculty who choose to can record once and update a lecture from the script, without going back into the studio.
A new template reaches every course
If your institution changes its templates or style, the change goes through every course the same way.
The same course in other languages
In dozens of languages, spoken as well as written.
Other places to start.
Course refresh & redesign
When the course is already online and you want an AI teaching assistant and practice added.
See course refreshDegree programs
When the job is a whole program, built course by course.
See degree programsLearning analytics
When the first question is which students are at risk.
See learning analyticsHow we work
The 4 steps in full, with who does what at each.
See the full processSee an example built from your own material.
We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide. Bring a course you have in mind, and we talk through what it would need.