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No signup, no demo gate. Click into any complete, term-paced course and read the actual lecture outlines, tutorials, slides, quizzes, discussions, assignments, and exams The Course Maker generates. This is the proof: the courses themselves.

Fictional samples. Silver Oak University and the instructors shown are fictional, used only to demonstrate the product. No real institution or person is implied or endorsed.

Every course supports two modes for discussions and assignments — traditional or adaptive — chosen at setup. See both, side by side, inside any week.

How the two modes work
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Introduction to Statistics

A full 16-week introductory statistics course — describe, relate, quantify uncertainty, infer, model.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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College Algebra

Functions, equations, and the algebra that intro STEM and business courses lean on.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Principles of Microeconomics

Scarcity, markets, and how people and firms decide at the margin — the first economics course.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Model WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Principles of Macroeconomics

Growth, inflation, unemployment, and the fiscal and monetary policies that move them — the economy as a whole.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Model WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Introduction to Biology

Cells, genetics, evolution, and ecology for the first college life-science course.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Lab & InquiryMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Human Anatomy & Physiology

Structure and function of the human body — the pre-nursing and allied-health gateway.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Lab & InquiryMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Introduction to Computer Science

Programming fundamentals in Python — logic, data, and building real, working programs.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Coding LabMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Introduction to Psychology

The broad first survey — brain and behavior, cognition, development, and social psychology.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Introduction to Sociology

How groups, institutions, and inequality shape social life — the first sociology survey.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Sociology WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Introduction to Political Science

Power, institutions, ideologies, and political behavior — the broad first survey of the discipline.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Political Analysis WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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U.S. History to 1877

The American survey to 1877 — founding, expansion, slavery, and Civil War, built on primary sources.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Primary Source WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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English Composition

Academic writing, argument, and research — the course nearly every student takes.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Writing StudioMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Public Speaking

Building, practicing, and delivering speeches — the near-universal oral-communication requirement.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Speech WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Using Artificial Intelligence

Practical AI fluency for every major — using today's tools well, not building them.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly AI Build StudioMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Traditional or adaptive

Traditional or adaptive — you choose

Every discussion and every assignment can be generated in one of two modes — your choice at setup. Same learning objectives and the same rubric either way; what changes is how the work happens.

Traditional

The familiar way

The course posts a prompt or a problem set. The student does the work themselves and submits it, and the instructor grades it against the included rubric. No AI required.

Adaptive · bring-your-own-AI

Work it through with an approved chatbot

The student does the work in a guided conversation with their own approved chatbot — Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT — using a copy-paste prompt the course provides. For a discussion, the AI is a Socratic partner that challenges their thinking and never writes the post; the student posts a short summary plus a link to the chat. For an assignment, the AI is a coach and grader: it gives problems one at a time, scores each against the embedded rubric, teaches through mistakes, and lets the student retry a fresh variant to raise their score — then outputs a self-scored report (first line STUDENT'S SCORE: X/100) submitted with the chat link.

This sample course is set to adaptive — the traditional version of any item is one setting away. Open any week's discussion or assignment to see both side by side.