Course Images Your Name Can Stand Behind

If you publish courses, you've probably seen it happen. An AI image generator is asked for “five apples on a table” and draws six. A labelled diagram of the heart comes back with the labels melted into nonsense letters. A bar chart's bars don't match the numbers on the slide. Each one looks fine at a glance — and each one is wrong, in a course an institution paid for, carrying your name into their classrooms.

Images make a course feel finished. But for a publisher, a wrong image is worse than no image: it's an error a learner can catch, and an instructor at a school you've never met will have to explain it. So when we brought images to slides in EduGears AI Studio, the goal wasn't just “more pictures.” It was pictures you can stand behind.

The picture that's almost right

Generated images fail in a particular way: they're almost right. The style is polished, the composition is good, and the one detail that carries the teaching point — the count, the label, the arrow in the diagram — is off. On a marketing page that might pass. On a slide teaching fractions or anatomy, the detail is the content.

An image on every slide, your way

Every slide in the Slides editor now has an image control. Add image opens a dialog with three sources:

• Paste URL — use an image you already host.
• Generate with AI — describe what the slide needs and generate it.
• Library — pick from the images already in your workspace.

Add alt text, choose where the image sits — Right, Left, Top, or Full slide — and how big — Small, Medium, or Large — and a live preview shows the result as you go. Replace and Remove image are there when you change your mind. It's one image per slide, in preset positions: deliberately simple, so a deck stays consistent instead of turning into a layout project.

Decks you already have are unchanged — a text-only deck stays exactly as it was. And Enhance with AI never touches your images; rewrite a slide's text as many times as you like and the image you chose stays put.

Illustrate a whole deck in one pass

Adding images one slide at a time is fine for a short deck. For a full module, it's a chore. So deck generation now writes an optional one-line image suggestion for each slide, and Generate with AI opens with that suggestion already filled in. Nothing is generated until you ask.

When you want the whole deck done at once, Illustrate all makes an image for every slide that has a suggestion and no image yet. Before it starts, it tells you how many AI credits it will use and asks you to confirm — no surprises on your balance. It shows its progress as it goes, and a slide that fails doesn't stop the rest.

1. Generate the deck — each slide arrives with an optional image suggestion.
2. Edit any suggestion you'd phrase differently, or clear the ones that don't need an image.
3. Click Illustrate all, check the credit count, and confirm.
4. Review the results; replace or remove any image with a click.

Every AI image is checked first

This is the part that matters most to a publisher. Every AI-generated image — from Generate with AI, from Illustrate all, or from a question's image dialog — is checked for accuracy before it's added. The check looks for exactly the failures that embarrass a course:

• Garbled text — labels and captions that came out as nonsense letters.
• Wrong counts — six apples where the slide says five.
• Broken diagrams — a diagram that doesn't hold up against what the slide teaches.

A slide whose image fails the check doesn't get a “close enough” picture. It keeps its suggestion and gets no image, and the summary says so plainly — for example, “No accurate image could be made for 2 slides — their suggestions are kept.” You can rephrase the suggestion and try again, add your own image, or leave the slide as text. What you won't do is discover the mistake after a school has already shown it to a class.

We'd rather hand you an honest blank than a wrong picture. A blank is visible and easy to fix; a wrong picture hides in plain sight.

Study guides and pages, too

The same Illustrate button now sits on study guides and pages. It adds one or two AI images where they help — not a picture in every paragraph — and you review them before saving, so nothing lands on the page you haven't seen.

A note on cost: image generation is part of Studio's advanced AI, so it runs on AI credits — or on your own AI key, if you've connected one on a paid plan. Text-based course creation on paid plans stays included with no credit limits. Illustrate all always shows the credit count before it starts, so you decide how much of a deck is worth illustrating.