A school of courses
Academy@The-Virtual-Panda/academy
Learner personas, courses by track, learning paths, and a catalog.
- The School
- Learners
- Courses
- Paths
In the app: New Project, then pick it from the list.
Every course tied to what the learner will be able to do.
Each course gets a page: who it’s for, what they’ll be able to do, the modules and the outcome each serves, and how learners prove it. Learner pages and paths tie the catalog together.
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Sound familiar?
The course map was right the week you made it.
The map lives somewhere else
Outcomes in one file, the outline in another, assessments in a third. The alignment spreadsheet is out of date by the second revision.
Courses overlap
Two courses teach the same lesson, a third assumes one nobody teaches, and a learner finds out halfway through.
Nobody remembers why
A module moved, a lesson was cut, the final project changed. A term later someone asks why, and the person who knew has left.
How it fits
Learners first, then courses, then paths.
With the Academy framework, each course links its learners and the courses that come first, with its level and length. It moves from Idea to Outlined, In Production, Published, or Retired.
- The School
- Four pages: what you teach and why, how you teach, where the courses sell, and what one costs to make.
- Learners
- One page per kind of learner: where they start, what they need, and what done looks like for them.
- Courses
- Grouped by track, with numbered outcomes and what the course doesn’t teach. An outline grows into the full page.
- Paths
- Courses in order, for one kind of learner, toward one outcome.
- Catalog and Style Guide
- Every course the way a learner sees it, and how a lesson is written and recorded.
What you will use most
The tools that keep a catalog in shape.
- Blueprints
Gaps, flagged
The health check lists every course missing a section, so one with no How They Prove It or no Not This Course never hides.
- Comments
Review on the exact outcome
A subject expert leaves a note on the outcome line, a co-instructor answers in the thread, and you close it once the page is right.
- Canvas
The curriculum on one page
Draw each path’s learner and its courses in order, with unplaced courses in sight. Every card opens its page.
- Backlog
Production on a board
Recording, captions, answer sheets, learner interviews: tasks on a board, each pointing at its course or learner page.
- AI Agent
A reviewer, only if you want one
Nothing happens unless you connect your own Claude Code or Codex and ask. Then it can spot a module that serves no outcome, or lessons two courses share.
Learners
Start from who it is for
A learner page says where they start, what they get wrong, how much time they have, and what done looks like. Courses and paths link to it, so “who is this for?” has one answer.
Paths
Draw the curriculum, course by course
Put a path on a canvas: its learner, then each course in order, joined by arrows. Keep an unplaced course beside it and a sticky note for the open question. Each card shows its status.
Start here
Start from Academy.
Academy holds four school pages, learner pages, courses by track, paths, a catalog, and a lesson style guide. Pick it when you start a new project.
See it in the Registry
Write your next course outcomes first.
Download Eidos MD, pick the Academy framework, and write one learner page and one course page. It’s free, and your pages stay on your computer.
Free for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Your files stay plain text in a folder you own.