Who is behind Curriculus
I built Curriculus to help faculty get their nights, weekends and summers back from course development. The project grew much larger than I expected.
I learned that much of the work of building a course isn't work faculty train to do. Matching each lesson to the course's learning outcomes, fitting the readings into each week, writing discussion and test questions and laying out slides take so many hours that faculty have little time left to apply their own expertise to the course.
I wanted colleges to get the best of AI while their faculty stay in charge of course design. Curriculus is the result: a set of written instructions for AI assistants that guards against the two problems that make AI hard to trust with a whole course. The AI loses track of decisions made earlier in the course, and the AI makes things up, such as a quotation that isn't in the reading. Because Curriculus guards against both problems, the AI can take on the repetitive drafting, and the instructor can put the hours that drafting used to take into the vision for the course.
I founded curriculus, LLC in 2025. The company publishes this site and owns the Curriculus trademark. You can reach me at hello@curriculus.org.
How instructors have used Curriculus so far
Instructors have taught real classes from materials built with Curriculus. For each of those classes, curriculus, LLC ran Curriculus and worked with the instructor. The instructors' uses include:
- Some instructors used Curriculus to show in the syllabus where the course meets each accreditation requirement and learning outcome.
- Some instructors used Curriculus to improve weekly lessons they already taught.
- Some instructors taught whole parts of a course from the materials Curriculus produced.
Curriculus gives an instructor a full draft of the course materials to edit, so the instructor doesn't start from a blank page. At curriculus, LLC, we've seen Curriculus take on much of the manual work of building a course that has little to do with teaching. We've also seen instructors spend the time they got back on their own teaching philosophy and style.
We haven't measured the hours Curriculus saves an instructor, so this site gives no number for the time saved. These early uses also don't show that Curriculus improves student learning.
Why we made Curriculus free
While we built materials for those classes, we saw that colleges and universities with their own AI plans have teams that could learn to run Curriculus quickly. So we made Curriculus free for colleges and universities. The Curriculus a school gets for free is the same Curriculus that curriculus, LLC ran for those classes. A school that has started its own AI work, or wants to start, can build on Curriculus.
Read how Curriculus works, or request a free copy.