Advanced Rapid Course Design with AI & Moodle— UBD Mapping, Auto-Syllabi, & AI-Coach Assignments

Build full courses fast—and make AI work for learning, not against it. In this tutorial, I demo an end-to-end workflow for rapid course, curriculum, and assignment design in Moodle 4.4.11, including: styled course/content cards, UBD (Understanding by Design) mapping, auto-generated syllabi (HTML→PDF/Word), and an AI-coach “loopback” assignment that guides students without writing for them. We’ll cover ADA-friendly inline HTML/CSS for LMS editors, compliance comments for auditability, and strategies that drastically reduce unauthorized AI use while boosting authentic work.

Chapters
0:00 Intro & goals
0:23 Course overview (Moodle 4.4.11, styled course card)
1:28 Syllabus button set (Word/PDF) & chain prompting
3:22 Collapsible course schedule (state memory)
3:41 Content cards (READ/DO/Outcomes) & curriculum mapping
4:35 AI-Enhanced Conceptualization Assignment (parking-lot scenario)
5:50 AI-coach flow (ChatGPT/Claude + remote instructions)
7:12 Integrity guardrails & required AI transcript appendix
8:03 UBD framework (goals, understandings, essential questions)
9:13 Evidence plan: formative & summative assessments
9:38 Weekly learning plan
10:21 Curriculum map (objectives ↔ outcomes ↔ assessments)
11:13 Why inline HTML/CSS/JS for LMS editors (TinyMCE)
12:29 Source view & compliance comments pattern
13:38 Working card template + merge from syllabus data
15:02 Auto-build: syllabus.html, resources.html, instructor.html
17:06 Embedded helper prompts (reduce hallucination)
18:20 PDF from code, Word version link strategy
19:10 Auto-draft instructor email (handoff)
20:07 Assignment styling & linking within content card
21:24 Linking course items across weeks
22:01 Remote TXT “coach script” & loopback concept
23:22 Library-database sourcing to curb AI misuse
24:29 Keyword coaching for students
25:02 TXT indexing & robots/allowlisting note
26:19 Wrapping a complete Week 1; scaling to Week 16
27:33 Canvas/Blackboard/Brightspace notes (iframes/files)
28:58 Analytics & AI add-ons (Ascipio mention)
30:14 Time savings vs. traditional builds
31:27 Hosting/robots.txt/.htaccess tips for AI agents
32:57 Accreditation/UBD alignment summary
33:48 What’s next (series roadmap)
34:06 Impact: more authentic student work
35:07 Closing

What you’ll learn
• How to scaffold a course with UBD and map outcomes to assessments
• How to auto-generate syllabus/resources/instructor pages and print-perfect PDFs
• How to design AI-coach assignments that guide process, not product
• Inline HTML/CSS patterns that survive LMS copy/term rollover and stay ADA-friendly
• Practical tactics to reduce unauthorized AI while improving learning evidence

Resources (mentioned)
• Moodle 4.4.11 setup & TinyMCE editing tips
• Example AI-coach prompt file (TXT) on a public server
• Robots.txt / allowlist ideas for AI agents
• Course card & content card HTML patterns

If this helped, please like/subscribe and drop questions—next video: building the coach TXT + rubric pair from scratch.