Creating a Course Summary with AI

Creating a New Course

When creating courses, you have the option to use Course Planning, which is AI-enabled. From the Course List page, click the New Course button to the right.

You’ll have three options to create a course from there:

• Course Planning (AI Enabled, Recommended): Start by entering your learning objectives to create a course outline that aligns with your goals.
• Blank Course: Start from a blank course and add in each module and question individually.
• Upload File: Select an Excel file to import courses, modules, and questions.

Course Planning

To create the course through Course Planning, click Start with planning.

From there, you’ll enter your Course Title and Course Description, and select your AI Sources. After you're happy with those elements, click Create course summary.

Create & Edit Course Summary 

When creating your course, you have the option to write your own course summary or have AI make an initial course summary and outline based on your selected source material.

Depending on the length and number of sources you select, the summary creation may take some time. After the course summary is created (either with AI or written by an author,) you have the option to edit your course summary manually or through the AI Assistant. 

AI Assistant

The AI assistant chat box will be open on the righthand side, and you will be able to ask AI for changes.

The AI Assistant will automatically update the course summary based on your input.

Add & Remove Sources

Your course sources can be managed under the Sources tab to the right of the Course Outline. From there, you can add a new source or remove an existing source.

Add Source

To add a new source, click Sources. You can select from your existing sources on Amplifire or upload a new source from your computer (PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoints.)

Once you select the documents and click Add to Course, the files will automatically be listed under the sources list. 

Remove Source

Your existing sources will be listed and to remove a source, you can click the trash bin icon to the right of the source file name. A confirmation message will pop up where you can confirm to remove the existing source or cancel the request. 

Document Statistics

The Document Statistics panel provides a great deal of information on your source(s) and how they fit into your course. Click on any of the carrots to view the associated dropdown menu. From here you can get a more granular view of each course element. You cannot edit any of these elements from the statistics panel, but you'll be able to make any edits you like in the Outline view once you've generated your course.

To view an even more granular view of how Amplifire will use your source, click View details to open the Document coverage by learning objective view. Each learning objective will be listed along with where in the document it was found, its importance, how many words it comprises, and the number of questions associated with it.

Other Viewing and Editing Options

In the top right corner of your Course Summary, you'll find additional icons. If you'd like to review your whole course offline, click PDF to download it. Once you're happy with your Course Overview and sources, click Generate Course.

If you need to edit your course summary manually, you can click Edit. You'll see a note telling you that clicking Edit will end your AI session, so make sure you've done all of the development work with AI and your sources before you edit, as you will not be able to go back to using AI after you've disabled it.

Edit Course Outline

Once your course is generated, you can edit the course outline using AI, or you can edit the outline manually.

Edit with AI

• Click Fill in questions with AI and a popup will appear listing all questions currently marked with “No content.” Within this popup, you can select or deselect which questions you want the AI to fill.
  • Additionally, you have the option to allow the AI to use the Internet to gather information beyond the uploaded source materials.
• When you click Fill in questions with AI you will receive confirmation that the questions are generating and you can view a dynamic progress bar that is displayed during the process of filling in questions with the AI.

Once the questions are generated and you've reviewed them for content and style, you can update the course by clicking Publish Changes.