AI Course Outline Generator — From Topic to Outline in 30 Seconds
Type a topic, get back a structured course outline with modules, lessons, and learning objectives. Free, no sign-up.
Most courses die at the outline stage. You have a topic, you know roughly what you want to teach, you stare at the blinking cursor. Kompyl's outline generator takes a one-sentence topic and returns a structured outline — modules, lessons, learning objectives, suggested order — in 30 seconds. Use it as-is, edit it, or feed it into the full course generator to expand into slides + quiz + guide.
Real output · generated by Kompyl
Example: “Excel formulas for accountants”
Below is the exact outline Kompyl returns for this one-sentence topic. No edits, no curation.
- 1Module 1 — Foundations: cell references, absolute vs relative, named ranges
- 2Module 2 — Conditional logic: IF, IFS, nested IFs, AND/OR/NOT
- 3Module 3 — Lookups: VLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP (when to use which)
- 4Module 4 — Aggregation: SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS, SUMPRODUCT tricks
- 5Module 5 — Financial functions: NPV, IRR, PMT, FV — picking the right one
- 6Module 6 — Auditing & error handling: IFERROR, trace precedents/dependents, circular refs
What you get
- One sentence in → 4–8 module outline out, with lessons and learning objectives per module.
- Free; no sign-up; works on any topic from "Excel formulas for accountants" to "Onboarding a backend engineer".
- Outline → full course in one click — same wizard, same data.
Common questions
- What's the difference between a course outline and a full course?
- A course outline is the structure: module titles, lesson titles, and learning objectives per lesson. A full course adds the actual slides, the quiz questions, the flashcards, and the facilitator guide. Kompyl can generate either — the outline tool is a fast first pass, the full generator at /dashboard/decks/new produces the whole kit.
- Can I edit the outline before generating the rest?
- Yes. Today the wizard generates the full kit in one shot. The "outline-first" flow — where you confirm the proposed modules before slide generation — is shipping in the next 14 days and is the recommended path for any course over 10 modules.
- What is an AI course generator?
- An AI course generator is a tool that turns a document, brief, or topic into a structured online course — typically including slides, a quiz, and supporting study material — in a single workflow. The goal is to compress what used to be 8–20 hours of instructional design into a few minutes of upload + review.
- How is Kompyl different from Gamma or HeyGen?
- Gamma generates slides. HeyGen generates avatar video. Kompyl generates a complete course kit — slides plus a quiz, flashcards, a study guide, and a facilitator guide — all from one upload. You can edit every block, swap palettes, change languages, and re-render.
- Can I upload a PDF and get a course back?
- Yes — Kompyl accepts PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, MD, HTML, and CSV uploads. Scanned PDFs are OCR'd via vision AI automatically. The PDF is read, structured into modules, and rendered as a multi-slide deck with a matching quiz and facilitator guide.
- Is there a free version?
- Yes — anonymous visitors get a free preview and signed-in free accounts get a small monthly quota. Paid plans unlock larger course lengths, more downloads, and premium palettes.
Outline first. Slides after.
Generate the outline free. Expand to the full kit — slides, quiz, flashcards, guides — in one click.
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