Sample courses

Real courses you'd own — explore them free.

No signup, no demo gate. Click into any of the 17 complete sample courses — fourteen term-paced 16-week editions and one 18-week generic evergreen 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.

Fictional samples. The fourteen 16-week samples carry a fictional identity — Silver Oak University and the instructors shown are fictional, used only to demonstrate the product; no real institution or person is implied or endorsed. The 18-week Introduction to Statistics is a generic evergreen edition: no instructor, institution, or term identity, by design.

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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Introduction to Statistics — 18-Week Generic Edition

The fully generic, evergreen 18-week edition an adopting instructor makes their own (vs. the fictional-identity 16-week samples).

18 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Data LabMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Music Theory I

Ear-first music theory for players who don't read yet — pitch, rhythm, keys, chords, and real charts in sixteen weeks, with machine-verified notation throughout.

16 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly StudioMidterm + FinalAdaptive + traditional
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Aural Skills I

Sight-singing, ear-training, and dictation for players who don't read yet — fifteen weeks in lockstep with Music Theory I, every drill machine-verified.

15 weeksWeekly quizzes · assignments · discussionsWeekly Drill 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.