coursewerk
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v1.0.0 · Agent-native OER production system
Coursewerk coordinates drafting, rich formatting, blind fact checks, rights evidence, cross-document consistency, and packaging—so educators spend their attention on the plan and the teaching decisions, and approve what ships.
ASSURANCE KERNEL
LIVE SHOWCASE / 01
DEMO ONLY Not intended for classroom use
(Demo) Plate Tectonics is a published two-chapter course generated from a revision-bound collection of Wikipedia pages. An AI agent followed Coursewerk to research, structure, draft, format, check, and package the materials automatically.
There was no human-authored lesson content or subject-matter editing. Human involvement was limited to commissioning the demonstration, auditing the pipeline, checking consistency and rendered output, and overseeing publication.
Open the published demoIN REAL USE
Before this release, Coursewerk ran on real teaching material, with the instructor approving every plan and every decision that needed a person.
An existing course re-evaluated end to end: 4,581 passages read blind, 739 corrections applied and rechecked until a pass raised nothing, the notation made consistent across every page, and the whole package handed to Alembic for hosting.
A new course written chapter by chapter from plans the instructor approved. Three reference textbooks are read for their ideas only, and an eight-word copy check keeps their expression out; original figures follow the instructor’s drawing rules.
01 / THE SYSTEM
Coursewerk turns a named source and a concept backbone into a coordinated teaching system. Every downstream artifact retains a declared relationship to what informed it.
Choose private, restricted, or public use. Capture evidence before ingestion.
Concepts, prerequisites, objectives and an assessment guide, approved by the instructor before prose expands.
Study guide, slides and practice from one spine; every sentence indexed with its origin.
Blind fact review, recomputed arithmetic, copy and notation checks, links, rights and contracts.
Lean text and its records, ready for Alembic to host; publish on the instructor’s word.
Structured first drafts start from explicit scope, objectives, and source evidence—not generic improvisation.
One Markdown-centered family produces web reading, presentation, and paged print experiences.
Git shows what changed; a dependency graph shows every related component that must be revisited.
Rights, attribution, unknown sources, human decisions, and automation limits become durable records.
02 / ASSURANCE KERNEL
The agent does the production and brings back only the questions that need a person. Rights, accountable authorship, the approved plan, and the record of every decision are not negotiable.
Each chapter’s concept map and assessment guide are approved in the instructor’s own words before the chapter is written. An approval knows what it approved; a later change comes back as a reviewable diff.
The package is indexed into units, each with an id, an author, a link to what it teaches and the kind of check it needs. An edit nobody recorded is raised, never overwritten.
A fresh, context-blind pass of your own AI engine reads each passage as a student would. Fixes are rechecked until a pass raises nothing; arithmetic is recomputed and reactions balanced mechanically.
Reference textbooks and prior notes are read for their ideas. No run of eight words in common with any reference ships; citations and equations are facts, not copying.
Approvals, answers, review dispatches and publish decisions go into a hash-chained log inside the package. Publication needs rights evidence, an accountable author and the instructor’s word.
03 / OUTPUTS
Coursewerk authors readable text in the orz-markdown family’s text format and assembles browser-editable carriers from it for preview. The text is the course; the carriers are checked clothes that give the text back exactly.
CONTINUOUS
Semantic callouts, tabs, columns, math, chemistry, diagrams, charts, and live browser editing.
orz-mdhtml ↗PRESENT
Purposeful slide templates, regions, fragments, presenter tools, and coordinated chapter logic.
orz-slides ↗Page geometry, running furniture, templates, and browser print-to-PDF for collections and handouts.
orz-paged ↗Portability, stated precisely: the carrier embeds its text and framework, and gives the text back exactly. If it references local media, the asset directory travels with it. Every release receipt reports the actual mode instead of promising a single file when dependencies remain.
PER CHAPTER
04 / MAINTENANCE
Coursewerk indexes the course as a graph, not a folder of unrelated files. Change an explanation and the complete downstream review set becomes visible.
study-guide/ch05.mdUpdated the sign convention explanation.
REVIEW REQUIRED
slides/ch05.md assessment-support/ch05.md practice/ch05.md component index & receipts05 / CLAIMS WITH EDGES
START A COURSE
Clone https://github.com/wangyu16/orz-coursewerk, read CLAUDE.md, and help me build a course.