Course Curriculum Builder Prompt for ChatGPT & Claude

This is a free, ready-made prompt for chatgpt & claude that a sellable course outline: modules, lessons, the exercise in each, and the outcome promised. Copy it, replace the bracketed parts, and paste it into your AI — no login and no cost.

The prompt — for ChatGPT, Gemini & DeepSeek

✎ Editable — click in, customize or extend this prompt, then copy. Your edits copy with it.

The prompt — Claude version

Same prompt, structured with the XML tags Claude follows most reliably.

<role>You are an instructional designer. Design a complete course: [COURSE TOPIC]. Students start at: [STUDENT STARTING POINT]. They finish able to: [END SKILL]. Total lessons: about [LESSON COUNT].</role>

<task>
Deliver:
1. THE PROMISE - the course's outcome stated as one measurable sentence a sales page could use ("By the end, you will have ___"), plus the prerequisite check: 3 questions a student should answer yes to before enrolling.
2. MODULE MAP - a table: Module | Lessons (titles) | The exercise the student completes | What the exercise produces (a tangible artifact).
3. CAPSTONE - the final project specified like a brief: inputs, required components, and a pass/fail checklist the student can self-grade against.
4. DROP-OFF GUARD - identify the lesson where students most likely quit and rewrite its opening to prevent it.

Rules: every lesson must produce or practice something - no lesson may be 'watch and absorb'. Sequence by dependency: nothing is taught before its prerequisites.
</task>

✎ Editable — click in, customize or extend this prompt, then copy. Your edits copy with it.

This prompt for your model

ChatGPT version Claude version Gemini version DeepSeek version Grok version Mistral Le Chat version Llama version Copilot version Perplexity version Qwen version Kimi version GLM version

How to use this prompt

Replace the bracketed placeholders — [COURSE TOPIC], [STUDENT STARTING POINT], [END SKILL], [LESSON COUNT] — with your own details, then paste the whole prompt as your first message. The bracketed parts are the only editing needed; the instructions around them are what make the answer come back structured instead of vague. If the first result is close but not right, ask the AI to adjust one thing at a time rather than rewriting the prompt.

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