01 · Design with AI

Build a real course in the browser

Start from a syllabus, a pile of documents, or a blank page. AI drafts the structure and every asset; you keep full control to edit.

The New Course form — paste a syllabus or upload documents, set the module count, and AI decomposes it into a course

Syllabus or documents → course

Paste a syllabus or upload up to five reference documents — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, text, or Markdown, each on its own chip — and AI decomposes them into modules and lessons you can edit.

Documents → modules

Upload source files (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown) and AI drafts new module outlines appended to the course.

Author by hand

Start from a title and assemble modules, lessons, and resources yourself — AI is optional at every step.

A description is enough

No files? Describe or paste the content — a syllabus outline, a topic list, notes — and generate modules from that alone. Files are optional now, not required.

AI generates every asset type — all fully editable:

Lesson PlanSlidesStudy GuideWorksheetPageQuestionsQuestion BanksQuizzesPractice SetsRubric DraftsImage GeneratorVideo GeneratorCogAI Agent — Cog Insights

AI Enhance

Refine slides, study guides, worksheets, pages, lesson plans, or questions with a single instruction — preview before you accept.

AI images & media

Generate images with AI and attach media so a course looks finished, not like a draft. Every slide can carry an image — pasted from a URL, picked from your Library, or generated with AI — in preset positions and sizes, with a live preview. The PowerPoint (PPTX) download embeds the images in the file itself — real PowerPoint, fully editable — and SCORM, Common Cartridge and Moodle-backup exports carry them too; a slide whose image can't be fetched downloads as text-only rather than failing the file. A lesson's Media activity plays Canva designs inline, the way it plays YouTube and Vimeo — share the design so anyone with the link can view it.

Illustrate a whole deck

New decks come with a one-line image suggestion for each slide. “Illustrate all” makes an image for every slide that has one and no image yet — it tells you how many AI credits it will use and asks before it starts. Study guides and pages get Illustrate too: one or two AI images where they help, reviewed before you save.

Every AI image, checked

Each AI image is checked for accuracy before it lands — garbled text, wrong counts, a diagram that doesn't hold up. A slide that fails keeps its suggestion and gets no image. Your courses travel under your name; an honest blank beats a wrong picture.

AI Assistant

Cog is the EduGears AI assistant surface across the workspace — an “Ask Cog” panel that knows your open course and grounds answers in your materials. It now also answers product questions from EduGears AI's own manual and cites its sources (a help article, your own material, or a video walkthrough), and you can paste a question code like #8f759d to ask about that exact question, scoped to your organization's banks. As an agent, it also answers questions about the courses you publish — cohorts, redemptions, learner progress across every school that runs them — from your own analytics, read-only.

Curriculum Intelligence

Attach textbooks, references, and decks. They ground every generation and power the course's AI tutor and Assistant.

Lesson generations that queue

Start several lessons back-to-back and later ones simply show “Queued” and run in turn — a failed lesson never wedges the ones behind it. You line up the work; the queue handles the order.

Content that knows its audience

Lesson plans generated in a module carry its target audience and learning level — read as prior knowledge, not an invented grade — and across every editor, ordinary prose is no longer auto-linked, so “B.Tech” stays a degree.

Watch it done

The “?” Help button opens a short filmed walkthrough for the page you're on — running time on the badge, captions in each language — a fair way to onboard a new author on your team.

Import & export

Bring content in. Take it out. No lock-in.

Import the courses you already have as editable content, and export a full standards package whenever you want. Your content is always yours.

Import → editable course

  • Common Cartridge / IMSCC (Canvas & more)
  • Moodle backup (.mbz)
  • SCORM 1.2 & 2004

Export a full package

  • Common Cartridge 1.3
  • SCORM 1.2 & 2004 (report scores)
  • Moodle .mbz (gradable quizzes)

Learning design

Design how the course actually teaches

Sequence the experience, gate progress on mastery, and build in assessment and reflection.

Sequential Course Player

Learners move through a guided player in order, or you can allow free navigation across modules.

Quiz gates

Require a passing score on a quiz before later modules unlock — the pass threshold is yours to set.

Diagnostic pre-checks

Add a “see what you already know” quiz that never blocks progress and never posts a grade.

Capstone projects

AI drafts a grade against your rubric and holds it for instructor approval before anything reaches the gradebook.

Reflections

Anchor reflection prompts to a module or the course end, with optional supportive AI acknowledgements — never graded.

AI Tutor for students

Every published course carries an AI Tutor grounded in your materials. Learners get guided Q&A and hints that never give away the answer. By default it answers from the course's own materials and politely declines questions outside them, and instructors at each institution can set its grounding strictness and guidance style per course.

Completion & grading

Choose what counts as complete (all lessons, pass a quiz, or both); completion sends a grade to the LMS gradebook.

A lesson outline that stays on screen

On a wide screen the module player docks the lesson list beside the content — tick, circle, or lock per lesson, the current one highlighted and kept in view, collapsible and remembered per course. On phones and inside an LMS frame it stays a slide-out drawer.

A question navigator

Anyone sitting your quiz gets a “12/20” pill that opens a numbered grid — answered, unanswered, flagged, each with its own glyph and colour — and can jump straight to any question.

Flag for review & smarter retakes

Learners can flag a hard question and come back to it with a running count, and where you allow more than one attempt, a second attempt can start pre-filled with their prior answers so they fix only what was wrong.

Shuffled multiple-choice

Newly generated multiple-choice questions have their options shuffled on save, so the correct answer isn't disproportionately (A). You see all of this in Preview — the same page your learners get.

03 · Deliver to any LMS

Publish once, deliver everywhere — by access code

Skip the export-and-ship cycle entirely. One access code delivers your live course into any LTI 1.3 LMS, with grades and analytics built in.

A published EduGears AI course, Algebra 201, running as an external tool inside Moodle — with the guided player and AI Tutor
Your course, delivered into Moodle as an LTI 1.3 external tool — guided player, quiz gates, and AI Tutor included.

Publish to an access code

Publishing mints a short access code. No SCORM zip to export, no files to ship — the code is the whole handoff.

Redeem on any LTI 1.3 LMS

An instructor pastes the code inside EduGears AI in their LMS and the live course is delivered into their course.

Grades to the gradebook

At completion, a grade flows back to the institution's own LMS gradebook over LTI Assignment & Grade Services (AGS).

Live updates everywhere

Edit and republish — every institution is on the new version instantly. No re-export, no re-shipping.

Codes you control

Codes never expire by default. Set an optional expiry (it only blocks new institutions), or regenerate a code instantly.

Unpublish = unlist

Unpublishing stops new institutions from redeeming the code; institutions that already added the course keep access.

Analytics for both sides

You see cross-institution analytics and a redemptions report; each institution's instructor sees only their own class.

Free for institutions

Schools deliver your course in the EduGears AI viewer at no cost to them — those already on EduGears AI need no new setup.

Publish tells you what's missing

Publish a course that isn't ready and a “Not ready to publish” dialog lists each blocking module and why — “Still generating…” or “No content yet”. A hidden module never blocks publishing, and when everything's ready the dialog says so.

Build your first course today

Your first course is free. Just an email to begin — no LMS of your own required.