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# How do I use the AI agent to build a course?

> How to use Coassemble's AI agent to automatically generate a complete training course from a simple text prompt.

You can build a course with the AI agent by clicking the **Create with agent** button, typing a prompt or uploading a file, and answering a series of customisation questions. The AI agent then designs the structure and generates the course screens on your canvas.

The whole thing is one flow. You do not pick a creation method up front and then separately decide how your material should be handled.


Follow these steps to generate a course using the AI agent:


1. Click the **Create with agent** button at the top of your workspace dashboard.

   
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2. Enter a prompt describing your course topic, for example "Barista skills", or upload a supporting file.

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3. Turn on **Use brand voice** if you want to apply your workspace's preconfigured brand voice to the course.
4. Answer the questions presented by the AI agent to define your target audience, depth of content, learning outcomes, tone, assessments and language.

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5. Review the summary of your choices and click **Build course**.

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## What questions does the AI agent ask to customise my course?


The questions cover the decisions that shape the course:

* **Target audience:** who the course is for, and how familiar they already are with the topic.
* **Depth of content:** how thoroughly to cover the material.
* **Learning outcomes:** what people should be able to do by the end.
* **Tone:** how the writing should sound.
* **Assessments:** whether you want knowledge checks, a final quiz, flashcards, or no assessment at all.
* **Language:** the language the course content is written in.

**You will not always be asked all of them.** Both the number of questions and which ones you get depend on what you gave the agent to work with. If you upload a SCORM package and ask it to keep the content verbatim, you will be asked very little, because the content is not being rewritten and there is not much left to decide. A short prompt with no source material sits at the other end, where the agent needs more from you before it can build something useful.

Each question appears with options you can pick rather than a blank box to fill in. Three things worth knowing:


1. **It only asks what it needs.** Anything it can work out from your material, it skips.
2. **It checks your answers make sense** before building, rather than building something you did not intend.
3. **You can go back.** Each answered question stays visible with an edit option, so you can change an earlier answer without starting again.

Before it builds, you get a summary of every choice you made, so you can check the whole set in one place.

## How closely does the course follow my source material?

If you have uploaded a single source document or a SCORM package, the AI agent asks how closely the course should follow it. This is the setting that matters most, because it decides how much freedom the agent has with your words:

* **Verbatim** keeps your wording as written. Use it for policies, compliance content and procedures, where the exact phrasing matters.
* **Structured** reorganises your material into a clear learning flow, keeping your content but improving the order and shape.
* **Adaptive** rewrites and expands your material into a fuller course, adding explanation and examples around what you gave it.

If you are starting from a prompt alone, this question does not appear, because there is no source wording to follow. It also does not appear when you upload more than one document, because the agent has to combine several sources rather than follow one.

## What can I use as source material?

You can start from a prompt alone, or give the agent something to work from:

* **A written brief.** Describe the course you want in your own words, the same way you would explain it to a colleague.
* **An uploaded document.** Word documents, PowerPoint and PDF.
* **A SCORM package.** Upload a package from Articulate Rise or Storyline, Adobe Captivate or iSpring and the agent converts it into an editable Coassemble course.
* **A file from Google or Microsoft**, rather than uploading from your computer.

You can upload more than one document, and you can combine a file with a prompt. Add the document, then a line or two about what you want, and the agent uses both.

## What happens while the course builds?

The agent maps out the outline first, then builds the screens in real time in front of you. You can see which stage it is up to:


1. **Reading your document.** This step only appears if you gave it a document. A prompt-only build skips it.
2. **Planning the structure.** The agent works out the sections and screens.
3. **Building screens.** This shows a count as it goes, so you can see how many are done and roughly how many are coming.

Once the plan lands, the full course outline appears with the real title of every planned screen. The screen being written is distinguishable from the ones still queued, so you can see the shape of the course well before it finishes.

## What do I do once it has built?

You have a complete course made of blocks, and you can change anything. Edit screens directly, or describe what you want to the AI agent and let it make the change. It can rework wording, add or remove screens, insert assessment, and restructure sections.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can I use my own document to build a course?

Yes. You can upload a file directly within the AI agent's initial prompt screen to provide source material for your course.

### How long does it take for the AI agent to generate the course?

The AI agent maps out the outline first and then builds the screens in real time before your eyes, so you can watch the course take shape rather than waiting on a blank screen. How long it takes depends on the length of your source material and the number of screens in the finished course.

### Can I leave while it builds?

Yes. If you move around inside Coassemble, for example back to your dashboard, the build carries on without you. If you close the tab, the build picks up where it left off when you next open the course.

### What if the AI agent gets something wrong?

Tell it. The agent stays with you in the builder after the build finishes, so a course that came out longer than you wanted, or pitched at the wrong level, is a conversation away from being fixed rather than a rebuild.

### Can I still build a course screen by screen?

Yes. You can add screens and arrange blocks yourself without asking the agent to do anything, either from the start or after a build.