AI tools in the course editor
Generate a course outline from an idea, summarize a lesson, turn a video into a text lesson, and propose chapters and moments from the transcript.
The course editor has AI helpers for the repetitive parts of building a course. Every one of them produces a draft that you review; nothing is published for you. They live in two places: the start screen of an empty course, and the lightning button (AI tools) in the top bar of the editor, next to Preview lesson.
What each tool does
| Tool | Works on | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Generate with AI | An empty course | Draft modules and lesson titles from your description of the course. |
| AI quiz from your lessons… | Transcribed video lessons | A draft quiz. See Generate a quiz with AI. |
| Summarize this lesson | A transcribed video lesson, or a text lesson | A short lesson description, filled in under the title. |
| Text lesson from this video | A transcribed video lesson | A new draft text lesson right after the video, written as an article from the transcript. |
| Generate chapters for this lesson | A transcribed video lesson | Opens Video → Chapters, where Generate from transcript proposes the chapters. |
| Repurpose this lesson's transcript | A transcribed video lesson | Opens the video's transcript page in Media, on the way to reuse the text elsewhere. |
| Generate from transcript (Moments) | A transcribed video lesson, tab Video → Moments | A proposed list of timestamped moments that you review and save. |
Generate a course outline
Open an empty course
Open the course editor of a course that has no lessons yet (/courses/<productId>/lessons). Under
Other ways to start: click Generate with AI.
Describe the course
In Generate course structure with AI, describe what you want to teach, for example "A 4-week course on prompt engineering for marketing teams. Beginners welcome." The Generate button stays disabled until you type something.
Review the draft
Generation takes up to a minute. You then see "Draft outline ready: … modules with … lessons. Everything stays a draft until you publish." and the modules and lessons appear in the outline on their own. Rename, reorder, delete and fill them like any content you added by hand.
Summarize a lesson or turn a video into text
Open the lesson
Open a video lesson whose transcript is finished (its Transcription tab shows the text). For a summary you can also open a text lesson; it is summarized from its own content.
Pick the action from the lightning menu
Summarize this lesson shows "Summarizing the lesson…" and then "Lesson description written from the lesson content." The description under the title is filled in and stays editable. Text lesson from this video shows "Writing the text lesson from the transcript…", then "Draft text lesson [title] created." and the editor jumps to the new lesson.
Edit before publishing
A generated text lesson is a draft placed right after its source video. Read it, correct it, and publish it when it says what you want.
When the video has no transcript
No item in the lightning menu is greyed out; each explains itself when clicked:
| Situation | What you see |
|---|---|
| The open lesson is not a video lesson | "Open a video lesson with an uploaded video to use this action." (for a summary: "… or a text lesson to use this action.") |
| The video is not transcribed | The window This video isn't transcribed yet with Transcribe now. Cancel closes it and nothing changes. |
| The transcription is still running | "Transcription is in progress - try again when it finishes." |
Good to know
Every tool on this page uses your AI credits, and Transcribe now uses transcription minutes. The tools read the transcript of videos uploaded to Zanfia, so they do not work on external video lessons. For credits and add-ons see AI credits. Outside the editor, the course hub offers Assistant suggestions, such as drafting a quiz for a module that has none, which hand the task to the assistant with a ready prompt.
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