Describe your material in a chat and get a draft course back — and what it costs.
What it does
Courses → Build with AI opens a chat. You describe the material you already have — a framework, an outline, a talk you give, an article — answer a few questions about who it is for, and a draft course appears: modules, lessons, and the quiz checks that go with them.
The draft lands in the ordinary course builder. From there it is yours: edit any lesson, record or upload the videos, fix what the AI got wrong, and publish when you are happy. Nothing you do here is a one-way door — a draft nobody likes can simply be deleted.Courses → Build with AI. Your remaining credit sits above the chat, so you watch it go down rather than discover it at zero.
Why you might not see it
The builder is off until it is switched on for your institution. If you open the page and it says the builder isn’t available on this account, nothing is broken — ask whoever runs your KlickCourse platform to enable it.
Once it is on, there are two ways it can be powered, and your account uses one of them:
Prepaid AI credit — the usual setup. AI is already connected; there is no key to find and no account to create anywhere else. Your institution holds a balance and each build draws it down.
Your own AI account — for people who already have one. An institute admin connects an OpenRouter key under Settings → Integrations → AI course builder and picks the model. Every token is then billed to that account, and each build reports what it cost.
Getting a good draft
Give it real material rather than a topic. “A course on leadership” produces a generic draft; your actual framework, your worked example and the mistakes you watch people make produce a course only you could have written. You can paste text straight into the chat — plain text and Markdown (.md, .txt) files work today; PDFs and Word documents are not read yet, so paste the text out of them for now.
Say who the course is for and how big their organization is. A checklist written for a 30-person firm and one written for a 3,000-person firm are different courses, and the builder will assume badly if you don’t tell it.
Keep talking to it. It is a conversation, not a form — ask it to split a module, tighten a lesson, or add a check where the material is easy to get wrong. Your conversation is saved, so closing the tab or refreshing mid-build does not lose it; reopen the run and carry on.
What it is not allowed to do
It can never publish. Everything it makes is a draft, and it cannot edit a course that is already live — so a build in progress can never change what your current students are seeing. Going live stays a decision you make, after reading the draft.
It also cannot set a price, touch payments or refunds, see your roster, or read anything about your learners. It builds course content and nothing else.
A practical consequence of “it writes drafts, you publish”: read the draft properly before publishing. AI writes confident wrong things, and it is your name on the course. Check the facts, the examples, and every quiz answer.
What a build costs
On prepaid credit, the builder shows your balance while you work so you can see it going down rather than discovering it at zero. A full course build is typically a couple of dollars. If you run out mid-build, the conversation and everything built so far are kept — top up and continue.
Topping up is done by whoever runs your platform or agency, from the console. If you hit an empty balance, that is who to ask.
On your own AI account the platform never sees the bill; the run shows the spend your provider reported, so you can see what a build cost you.
The “Draft with AI” button on the landing-page step — the one that writes your course description from your lessons — draws on the same balance. It is a much smaller amount than a full build, but if you are out of credit it will tell you so and leave your course untouched.
Who can use it
Anyone who can author courses — members and institute admins both. Building a course is content work, so a content editor can do it.
Connecting your own AI key is different: that is a credential, so it takes an institute admin and a passkey confirmation, and it is recorded in the audit trail. The key itself is encrypted and is never shown again after you save it — replacing it means pasting a new one.