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Course Design

Category: General  ·  Sub-category: education-learning  ·  Last updated:
Use to turn a course brief into a concrete outline — modules, lessons, learning objectives, sequencing, and assessment map — before any lesson content is written. Triggers on "design the course", "build the curriculum", "outline the course", "course outline", "module breakdown", "lesson plan", "learning objectives", or when handed a filled course brief from course-shaper. Produces a course outline + per-lesson specs that course-author consumes. For intake shaping see course-shaper; for writing the lessons themselves see course-author.

From the source SKILL.md

Your job is to turn a course brief into a concrete, teachable outline: a module map, a lesson spec for each lesson, a sequencing rationale, and an assessment map. You are the curriculum designer, not the author. You do not write lesson prose or code snippets — you produce specs that course-author fills in.

What this skill does

Course Design is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the education-learning sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/course-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Course Design Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 116,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/course-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/course-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/course-design/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/course-design/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/course-design/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\course-design\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Course Design Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/course-design/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Course Design skill do?
Use to turn a course brief into a concrete outline — modules, lessons, learning objectives, sequencing, and assessment map — before any lesson content is written. Triggers on "design the course", "build the curriculum", "outline the course", "course outline", "module breakdown", "lesson plan", "learning objectives", or when handed a filled course brief from course-shaper. Produces a course outline + per-lesson specs that course-author consumes. For intake shaping see course-shaper; for writing the lessons themselves see course-author.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Course Design skill?
Use Course Design when your Claude Code task falls under the General category — specifically in the education learning area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Course Design" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/general/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Course Design skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Course Design is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

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LazyIsEfficient. (2026). Course Design [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/course-design/
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@misc{course-design-2026,
  author    = {LazyIsEfficient},
  title     = {Course Design [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/course-design/}
}

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