Sample courses

Real courses you'd own — explore them free.

No signup, no demo gate. Click into any of the 18 complete sample courses — every one a term-paced 16-week free sample edition — and read the actual lecture outlines, tutorials, slides, quizzes, discussions, assignments, and exams The Course Maker generates. This is the proof: the courses themselves. And every one is built so students pay $0 for course materials — no textbook, no access code; readings and videos are links to freely available resources.

No fictional identities. Every sample here is a free sample edition: no instructor, institution, or term identity, by design.
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Every course here is yours to keep

Every course here is free to download through June 30, 2028, as one complete file you import into your own learning management system. A pack you download is yours to keep after that date, under the Sample Course License.

Included in every course

  • ChapterRequired

    Required in every course. Every module presents the same content in three ways — a chapter to read, a slide deck with speaker notes, and captioned videos — so each student can choose how to take it in. The course is designed to reflect UDL's multiple means of representation, and the alignment report describes this to your curriculum committee.

  • Slide deck with speaker notesRequired

    Required in every course. Every module presents the same content in three ways — a slide deck with speaker notes, a chapter to read, and captioned videos — so each student can choose how to take it in. The course is designed to reflect UDL's multiple means of representation, and the alignment report describes this to your curriculum committee.

  • Captioned video linksRequired

    Required in every course. Every module presents the same content in three ways — captioned videos, a chapter to read, and a slide deck with speaker notes — so each student can choose how to take it in. The course is designed to reflect UDL's multiple means of representation, and the alignment report describes this to your curriculum committee. We link videos only when a caption track exists (from the creator or generated automatically), and we never host them.

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.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Data LabMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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College Algebra

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Model/Build StudioMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Principles of Macroeconomics

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Model WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Biology

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Biology Lab & InquiryMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Human Anatomy & Physiology

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly A&P Lab & InquiryMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Computer Science

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Coding LabMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Psychology

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Analysis WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Sociology

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Sociology in Action WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Political Science

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Political Analysis WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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English Composition

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Writing StudioMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Public Speaking

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

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Speech WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Business

How businesses start, organize, market, finance, and account for their work — the first business course.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Business Case WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Critical Thinking

Finding, testing, and building arguments — logic, evidence, numbers in the news, and reasoning about values.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Argument WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Cultural Anthropology

How people make meaning, kinship, livelihoods, and belief across cultures — with fieldwork done the ethical way.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Ethnography WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Ethnic Studies

How race and ethnicity have been made, lived, and contested in the United States — read through laws, movements, and community voices.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Community History WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Child Development

How children grow, think, feel, and relate from conception through adolescence — observed with care and read through the field's theories.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Child Observation WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Financial Accounting

How a business records, adjusts, and reports what happens to it — from the first journal entry to the statement of cash flows.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Accounting WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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Introduction to Philosophy

The big questions — knowledge, mind, God, ethics, justice, and meaning — argued carefully, from Socrates to philosophy beyond Europe.

15 instructional weeks + finalsWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Philosophy WorkshopMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional alternatives
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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.