Installation & quick start
Start with a syllabus, review the priorities and choose what to develop in your AI assistant.
Get started
- Download Course_Designer.zip.
- Extract the ZIP. It contains
course-designer/SKILL.mdand three files incourse-designer/references/. - In your AI assistant, use its documented skill installation/import feature, if available, to add the
course-designerfolder or its packaged ZIP as supported. Installation steps vary by platform. An ordinary ChatGPT conversation may not provide a skill installer. - No installer? Upload
SKILL.md,references/design-principles.md,references/quality-checks.md, andreferences/interactive-workflow.mdto the same conversation, along with your course outline. Then paste the starter prompt below. This is an easy way to test the skill without installing it.
Starter prompt (copy/paste)
Use the attached Course Designer skill (SKILL.md and its reference files) as your operating instructions. Review the attached course syllabus. Identify the most important pedagogical strengths and weaknesses, recommend only justified improvements, preserve course constraints, and keep the first review concise and visual where helpful. End by offering numbered options to expand specific recommendations or optionally examine more documents.
What happens next?
Read the strengths and priorities, then choose what to develop. You can request a full revision immediately; you do not need to follow a menu.
Extra course documents are optional. Download the Complete Toolkit if you also want activity and assessment design; each skill folder works independently.
Example follow-up prompt
Expand priority 1. Offer two practical alternatives, including one that retains my existing assessments. Give me revised course learning objectives and an assessment alignment map in English, ready to paste into my syllabus. Keep the assessment weights unchanged.
What it does not do
It does not independently validate teaching effectiveness, inspect unshared materials, change official course files, or know local university rules unless supplied. Treat suggestions as drafts requiring instructor judgement and, where applicable, institutional approval. Remove student-identifying or confidential information before uploading.