One hour to sixteen weeks.
Three course shapes, chosen by what the learning has to do — not by what is easiest to build. All three are open below as working packages, running outside any LMS.
Sixteen weeks, delivered — walk the opening of it
Not a diagram of a course: the course itself, in the shell a learner sees. Three of its seven modules are open, and nothing inside them is mocked up. The video lessons play, the textbook and workbook open, every assignment carries points and an honest hours budget.
Three shapes, and when each one is right
Most briefs arrive naming a shape. Half the time it is the wrong one, and saying so early is cheaper than saying so at review.
Swiped, one card at a time
Thirty to fifty cards. Finishing rate is the point: people complete these on a break because there is always exactly one more screen.
- Best for
- Awareness, culture change, a shared vocabulary
- Length
- 20–45 minutes
- Wrong for
- Anything needing a long worked example
Navigable, with tools to keep
Eight to fifteen lessons with a sidebar, video, interactive widgets and downloadable kit. The workhorse: it packages as SCORM and lands anywhere.
- Best for
- Skills and procedures people will return to
- Length
- 1–6 hours
- Wrong for
- Work needing feedback on what a learner produced
Modules, assignments, a grade
Weeks of sequenced work with deliverables, rubrics and its own textbook or workbook. Built as real LMS objects your faculty can edit.
- Best for
- Academic credit, fellowships, long residencies
- Length
- 6–16 weeks
- Wrong for
- Anything with no one to grade it
What ships with a course
The lessons are the visible part. The rest is what makes it survive its first year.
- Lessons, video and assessment, written to one stated outcome
- Interactive widgets and worked examples, not decoration
- A workbook or field kit people keep open while they work
- The build file: every claim, its primary source, and the date
- An evaluation instrument that asks about outcome, not satisfaction
- A review schedule, so shelf life is a decision rather than an accident
Four ways it lands
- SCORM 1.2
- The universal option. Runs in anything, tracks completion and score back to the LMS.
- Common Cartridge
- Modules, pages, assignments, quizzes and rubrics imported as real LMS objects, not one opaque package.
- Direct to Canvas
- Authored for direct upload, so pages and assignments arrive editable by your own faculty.
- Hosted
- We run it, you send a link. For audiences outside your LMS — contractors, partners, the public.
We work to your naming conventions, your module structure and your accessibility requirements rather than imposing ours. Where a build carries continuing-education credit, the documentation the accrediting body asks for is produced as part of the build, not reconstructed afterwards.
Have a course that isn't landing?
Send it over. We will tear it down against its stated outcome and tell you whether it needs a rebuild or a rewrite.