What is the new course builder?

What the new Coassemble course builder is, how it differs from the classic builder, and what comes with it.

The new course builder is a new way to create courses in Coassemble, built around a conversation with an AI agent and screens made of blocks you arrange yourself. It sits alongside the builder you use now, so your existing courses keep working exactly as they do today.

It is in public beta. That means it is stable and ready for real work, and it will keep improving while you use it.

The in-builder agent is available on all current plans, but not on the legacy Flow and Hub plans.

How is it different from the classic builder?

Creating a course is one flow from start to finish. You no longer choose a creation path up front and then decide separately how your source material should be handled. You bring what you have, answer a few questions, and the agent builds a structured course with you in a single conversation.

Screens are made of blocks instead of fixed screen types. In the classic builder, you picked a screen type and shaped your content to fit it. In the new builder you arrange blocks on a screen to build the learner experience you actually want.

What does creating a course look like with the new builder experience?

You start with either a document or a written brief, then the agent takes you through to a finished course:

1. Bring your material. Upload a Word document, PowerPoint, Keynote or PDF, or a SCORM package, or describe what you want in your own words.
2. Choose how closely the course follows your source. Verbatim keeps your wording as written, which suits policies, compliance and procedures. Structured reorganises your material into a clear learning flow. Adaptive rewrites and expands it into a fuller course.
3. Answer a few questions. The agent asks only what it needs, skips anything it can work out from your material, and checks your answers make sense before it starts building.
4. Watch it build. You see the planned outline and each phase as it goes, so you know what is being made before it appears.
5. Review and refine. The agent stays with you in the builder once the course exists.

Courses built this way group into sections, so learners see them as chapters with their own progress rather than one long run of screens.

What are blocks, and why did screens change?

A block is a single piece of a screen: a heading, an image, a checklist, a quiz question. You add blocks to a screen, arrange them in the order you want, swap them out and restyle them. Any block can sit on any screen, so a screen can hold explanation, an interactive element and a knowledge check together if that is what the content needs.

There are three kinds of block:

• Content blocks: headings, text, images, video, audio, tables, buttons and embedded documents.
• Interactive blocks: accordions, checklists, process steps, flashcards and slideshows.
• Assessment blocks: question blocks in seven types. A scored quiz is its own section, with a cover screen, a screen per question and a results screen.

Layouts handle the design side. Every screen starts from a layout rather than a blank canvas, so spacing and hierarchy stay consistent however you arrange things. You can also set the order blocks are read in by screen readers, narration and keyboard navigation.

Can I keep changing the course by asking?

Yes. The agent stays with you inside the builder, so you describe what you want changed instead of hunting through menus. It can add screens, rework wording, adjust tone or reading level, insert a knowledge check or quiz, reorder screens, split sections and reshape the course. Narration, translations, theming, branding and images are all in reach the same way.

What else comes with the new builder?

• SCORM import. Upload a SCORM package from Articulate Rise or Storyline, Adobe Captivate or iSpring and convert it into a fully editable Coassemble course. Anything that cannot be converted is listed for you to review rather than dropped silently.
• A review of your course. The agent's Review tab gives on-demand expert feedback on a course you have built, covering instructional quality, engagement and accessibility, with each finding linked to the screen it refers to. This is what Coassemble calls Course Coach, though that name doesn't appear in the builder.
• Analytics you can ask about. The agent's Insights tab reads your course analytics, so you can ask where learners are giving up or which questions people are failing, and fix the screen in the same conversation. Nothing shows there until a few learners have been through the course.
• A rebuilt learner view. One button drives progression, a bar across the top shows position in the course and progress through the current screen, a sidebar shows the full course outline and what has been completed, and returning learners are offered a resume prompt.
• Mobile layout editing. Switch the editor to mobile to reorder how blocks stack on a phone or hide a block from mobile entirely, separately from the desktop design. Images keep the shape you set rather than stretching to the full width.
• Image repositioning. Drag to choose which part of an image shows inside a block and zoom in up to 3x, including images inside process, flashcard and slideshow cards.
• Custom fonts on headings and paragraphs. Pick a font outside your theme's set from the heading or paragraph toolbar, with weights in their own menu and a one-click reset back to the theme font.
• Better AI images. Generated images reflect the topic of the course, not just the screen they sit on, and the builder marks which screen it is illustrating as it goes.
• Eleven authoring languages. The builder is fully localised in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish. Write to the agent in French and the whole conversation happens in French. This is independent of the course language, so you can plan a Spanish course in English if that is easier.
• A connection to your AI assistant. You can connect Coassemble to an assistant such as Claude and have it create and manage courses directly in your workspace, with over 50 tools covering creation, editing, publishing and analytics.

What happens to my existing courses?

Nothing changes. Everything you have already built stays where it is and keeps working exactly as it does today. Existing courses stay in the builder they were made in, so you use the new builder for new courses.

Frequently asked questions

What does public beta mean here?

It means the builder is stable and ready for real work, and it will keep improving while you use it. If something looks off or you have a suggestion, we would like to hear it.

Can I move a course I have already built into it?

Not currently. Existing courses stay in the builder they were made in and keep working as they do today.