What coursekit is

Coursekit is an editor for writing course content that includes graded questions. You write the explanation, drop in a question between two paragraphs, mark the right answer, save. The page can be embedded in the LMS your institution already uses.

What you can author

A course page in coursekit is a single scrollable document. It can contain prose, images, video, charts, code, and any of the question types coursekit ships with. Mixing question types and explanatory content in the same page is the common case, not the exception.

Typical pages look like:

• A short explanation followed by two or three multiple-choice questions.
• A diagram with clickable regions that ask the learner to identify parts.
• A step-by-step procedure with a sequencing question at the end.
• A reading passage with fill-in-the-blanks inside it.

A course in coursekit is a set of pages. Each page is graded on its own; the LMS aggregates the grades.

Who it’s for

University lecturers, vocational trainers, and schoolteachers. People who write the questions, set the answer keys, and see student work themselves.

Coursekit isn’t a learning management system. It doesn’t enrol students, it doesn’t track their progress over a term, and it doesn’t issue certificates. Your LMS already does those things. Coursekit is the authoring tool that sits inside your LMS.

What you need to use it

One of:

• A coursekit instance installed in your LMS. Your IT team installs it once; you author inside Open edX, Canvas, Moodle, D2L, or Blackboard. See where coursekit runs.
• The hosted playground at playground.coursekit.app. Nothing saves between sessions. Use it to try the editor before asking IT to install anything.

The next page walks you through writing your first course page.