AI can analyze your self-paced content and restructure it into a pre/live/post format for each cohort week — so live sessions focus on application and feedback rather than re-delivering instruction students could have read alone.
Map each existing course activity to the AI tool that supports it, then add a short "using AI here" section after each one showing students the exact prompt or workflow to apply.
Use this prompt: "Review the following course module for [audience] in 2026. Flag outdated content, changed tool references, AI-superseded advice, and missing AI additions. Give me a prioritized list of what to fix first."
Give Claude your existing lesson with three instructions: make it conversational, replace abstract advice with specific tool examples, and cut anything that sounds like a textbook. Then review the rewrite to make sure the core teaching survived.
Paste your lesson list into Claude with context about what's changed in your field, and ask it to flag lessons solving problems that AI now handles automatically or that teach skills no longer needed in current workflows.
Describe your students' current situation to Claude and ask it to identify which lessons are solving yesterday's problems. AI has shifted what students need from educators — less "what to do," more "how to evaluate and decide."
Find every moment in your course where students do something manually, then ask Claude to write a short AI addition for each one that slots in without disrupting the original lesson.
Start with tool references, statistics, and platform-specific instructions — they age fastest and damage credibility most. Leave core frameworks and teaching principles for last; they rarely need changing.
AI can read your existing course content, identify what's dated, and suggest targeted upgrades — without touching the parts that still work. A modernized course almost always outperforms a brand-new one.
Start with the tools, examples, and platform references that age fastest. AI can audit your course content in sections and flag exactly what needs updating so you're not rewriting everything from scratch.