Coursebench turns raw content from subject matter experts into fully learning-designed topics, course maps, architecture documents and assessment briefs, closing the gap between SMEs and the authoring tool.
See it in action
No mockups. This is what your team sees inside Coursebench.
Upload subject-matter-expert content and get back a fully structured, pedagogically sound topic: introduction, activities, knowledge checks and summary included.
Australian English, correct citations, and quality checked against learning-design criteria automatically. No more inconsistent output between designers.
Bulk-create dozens of topics from a folder of SME documents at once, then review, approve and export in bulk.
What you can build
Six focused workflows that cover the full path from a subject matter expert's raw material to a finished, review-ready course.
Design individual learning topics, activities and assessments from SME content (the flagship, most-used workflow).
Create multi-week course maps and full architecture documents from CLOs, PLOs and assessments.
Draft assessment briefs aligned with course architecture, CLOs and marking rubrics.
Upload a whole folder of SME documents and generate topics for all of them in one run.
Scan instructionally designed topics against learning-design criteria and compare against the original SME content.
Generate transcripts from YouTube, audio and video files to feed straight back into course design.
How it works
No templates to fill in and no blank page. Here's exactly what happens between uploading your SME's content and downloading a finished course.
Select a course, set the topic title and purpose, and paste in your subject-matter expert's raw content. That's the whole brief — Coursebench takes it from there.
In under a minute, Coursebench structures the content into a fully learning-designed topic — introduction, activities, knowledge checks and summary, all in place and ready to review.
Step through an automated quality check, preview exactly what your students will see, and export straight to Word or a SCORM package for your LMS.
Where it comes from
Coursebench grew out of Always Be Learning (ABLE), an education consultancy. Before it was software, this expertise was applied by hand for organisations including:
People of Influence
Merivale
Created by
Always Be Learning (ABLE) is an Australian learning design consultancy, and the team behind Coursebench. After years of hand-building learning designs for universities and organisations across Australia, ABLE built Coursebench to give every subject-matter expert the same quality of instructional design, without the wait.
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