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CourseBuilder+ help

How to build a course with CourseBuilder+, window by window, with pictures of each one. These pages are the program's own help, so they match what you see on screen.

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Before you start

  • Get CourseBuilder+ from the Microsoft Store, then open it from the Start menu.
  • Add an AI key if you want the AI to draft for you. It is your own key from an AI company — Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, Mistral or xAI — paid to that company as you use it, and not the same as a ChatGPT or Claude chat subscription. AI keys: what they are and how to get one. Everything can also be typed by hand, without AI.
  • You always see what is sent. Every window that uses the AI shows you the exact prompt first, and you can cancel.
  • Your work stays on your computer, as ordinary files in Documents\PreseMaker\Courses — see Where your course files are kept.

Start here

A course in CourseBuilder+ is a list of modules (a week, a chapter, a unit). Each module has topics and learning outcomes, and everything in it is made from those. So the path is always the same — Getting started walks through it once, with a picture of each window:

  1. Create the courseName it and describe it; the AI proposes the modules and you choose them.
  2. Open a moduleA module is one unit — a week, a chapter. Everything you make belongs to one.
  3. Give it topics and outcomesThe AI proposes them from the module's description and your material; you review them.
  4. Make its contentPresentations, documents, quizzes, assignments, notes, games — each made from the topics you tick.
  5. Publish the course websiteBuild it on your computer, check it, then put it online if you want.
The Generate Content for Module window with its nine kinds of content.
Generate Content for Module — the starting point for everything a module holds.

In CourseBuilder+ itself, Help (or F1) on most windows opens the same help as these pages, for that window.

1. Getting started

The whole path once, from a new course to a website, and the AI key it needs.

  • Getting started — The whole path once: create a course, open a module, give it topics and outcomes, make its content, publish the website.
  • AI keys — What an AI key is, whether you need one, what it costs, and how to add it.

2. Creating a course

Start a course, let the AI propose its modules, and find your way around.

3. Building modules

Give each module its topics and learning outcomes — the foundation everything else is built from.

  • The Module Manager — Where one module is built, in three steps: name and description, topics and outcomes, then content.
  • Topics and outcomes — Have the AI propose a module's topics, subtopics and learning outcomes, then review and edit them.
  • The Module Index — One list of everything made in a module, with a viewer, a description and actions for each item.

4. Generating content

Make presentations, documents, quizzes, assignments, notes, games and more from a module's topics.

  • Generate Content for Module — The starting point for all of a module's content, and how every Generate window works.
  • Presentations — PowerPoint decks from the module's topics — one per topic, merged if you like — then narration and audio in Presentation Tools.
  • Documents — Lesson plans, topic overviews and details, example problems, study guides, pages with YouTube videos — as web pages, Word, PDF or Markdown.
  • Quiz Questions — Questions of seven types, written per topic into the module's question bank — the one bank every quiz export uses.
  • Assignments — One assignment per topic — a case study, project, problem set or your own type — with instructions and a rubric.
  • Cloze (Guided) Notes — Fill-in-the-blank notes for students to follow in a lecture, at three levels, each with an instructor key.
  • Games and Activities — An interactive web activity — flashcards, matching, drag and drop, a simulation — built from one topic.
  • Custom Generated — Anything you can describe — a checklist, a handout, a worked example, or a playable HTML game.
  • External Materials — Add a file, web page, YouTube video or playlist you did not make; the AI describes it for students.
  • Images — Free-to-use pictures for the module's topics and outcomes — found by search, or drawn by the AI — kept in the module's image library.

5. Publishing and exporting

Put the course on a website, into your LMS, into a backup, or on GitHub.

6. Importing

Bring in a course from your LMS, your old files, a backup, a course repository or GitHub.

7. Batch actions

Do one job for many modules at once.