Turn a Document into a Course with AI
Hand the AI a manuscript, manual, or handout and get back a structured draft course built from your own material.
Prerequisites
A connected site running LifterLMS 10.1 or newer, and the document you want to turn into a course.
I want to turn a document into a LifterLMS course on my WordPress site. Here is the document: [paste your document, or say where it lives]. First confirm LifterLMS is active and version 10.1 or newer so its abilities are available. Then read the document and propose a course structure: a course title, modules as sections, and a lesson for each distinct topic, with a one-line summary of what each lesson covers. Show me that outline and stop. Do not create anything until I reply with the word approve. When I approve, create the course, then the sections in order, then the lessons in order under their sections, using the LifterLMS abilities. Set the course and the lessons to status draft; sections have no status of their own. The course itself requires a description, so write one sentence summarising the document and tell me what you wrote so I can replace it. Put the relevant passage of my document into each lesson's content, lightly edited into teaching prose, and do not invent material that is not in my document. If a passage has no natural home, tell me about it in chat rather than forcing it into a lesson or quietly dropping it. When you are done, show me the course, sections, and lessons in order with their IDs, and give me the wp-admin edit link for the course.
Skip pasting the full prompt. Drop this into your AI on a site that already has WPVibe:
Run the “Turn a Document into a Course with AI” recipe from the WPVibe cookbook on my connected site.
You already wrote the material. A manuscript, a training manual, a workshop handout, a run of blog posts that add up to a curriculum. Turning it into a course means reading it back with a highlighter, deciding where the modules break, and then retyping all of it into a course builder one lesson at a time.
The AI reads the document you give it, proposes a module and lesson structure, and stops there so you can look at it. Nothing is created until you approve the outline. Once you do, it builds the course in LifterLMS through the abilities the plugin registers, with each lesson holding the passage it came from, lightly edited into teaching prose. Everything lands as a draft.
Paste the prompt with your document. Long documents go better in two or three passes, one module at a time, because the whole thing has to fit in the conversation. Read the proposed outline before you approve it, since the AI’s chapter breaks are a starting point and not an editorial decision. One limit to plan around: LifterLMS does not yet expose quizzes or assignments to AI assistants, so knowledge checks and worksheets still get added by hand in the course builder afterward.
Outcome
A draft LifterLMS course whose structure and lesson content come from your own document, ready for you to edit and publish.