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CourseHouse
A production line for complete, interactive STEM courses. Your material — a syllabus, exams, a concept map — goes in one end; an interactive textbook, homework, slide decks, and an LMS-ready course come out the other — accurate and accessible.
Why choose CourseHouse?
See the repair workflow, a source-backed comparison with five named competitors, and what makes CourseHouse different from a textbook vendor or LMS template.
How CourseHouse works
Every course we ship is built the same way — chapter concepts flow into slides, question banks, LMS courses, and live activities; classroom evidence flows back into revisions and follow-up assets.
Stage 1
Canonical concept maps
You quickly shape the concepts covered and sequencing of a course based on your syllabus, exams, textbook, or papers.
Stage 2
Science-native assets
Editable figures, interactive homework, mechanism animations, energy diagrams, spectra, and 3D structures are generated and human-reviewed — not stock images.
Stage 3
Complete course ecosystems
The same source produces an interactive textbook, slide decks, structure-aware homework, and LMS-ready courses that stay in sync.
See your course on a timeline
The Visual Course Builder: the whole semester on one timeline, concepts on the top track and the readings, videos, practice, figures and quizzes they generate underneath. Map it to real dates, see a student's week, and ask for the text, an LMS cartridge or a homework sample when it looks right.
- Move a chapter and its material moves with it. Reorder the term and the builder tells you which prerequisite you just broke, and which week is now overloaded or empty.
- Design by drag and drop. Move chapters, shorten with confirmed cuts, add readings and practice — every change is visible on the timeline before you approve it.
- Real dates, real weeks. Meeting days, public holidays for your country, a suggested fix for each conflict, and a student view of any week you scrub to.
- Type it instead of dragging it. An AI Course assistant makes the same edits from a sentence, tells you what it changed, and every edit it makes is visible on the timeline and undoable, like any other.
- Nothing is a one-way door. Undo and redo the whole session; hide rows you don't use; keyboard equivalents for every gesture, with changes announced to screen readers.
- Files come from a person. Ask for the text, a cartridge or a homework sample and a human approves the request before any link goes out.
You are not shopping for a textbook. You have a course to run.
The comparison that matters is not feature counts — it is what happens the week you need to change something.
| What you want | CourseHouse | Typical alternative |
|---|---|---|
| “Turn my syllabus into my LMS course.” | Built for it | Start from a vendor template |
| “Fix last year's LMS course.” | AI-guided review and repair | Copy it and repair by hand |
| “Check my own content for accessibility.” | Free review, then a guided remediation workflow | The vendor mainly controls its own content |
| “Change the sequence of my course.” | Move a chapter and its readings, videos, practice and quizzes move with it — and CourseHouse says which prerequisite you just brokePreview — try it | Reconfigure several assets one at a time |
| “Check the workload before I assign it.” | A load chart stacks each week by kind of work and caps each category on its busiest week — play the term and see overload before students doPreview — try it | Click through several screens and infer it |
| “Edit it myself, without filing a ticket.” | Drag it, or ask in a sentence. Shortening a chapter shows the exact concept and question cuts before it makes them, and everything undoesPreview — try it | A support request, or the limits of a fixed template |
| “Make slides for exactly what I am teaching.” | Decks built from your own course, editable as PowerPoint | A publisher slide bank |
| “Let students carry a lab notebook forward.” | A student-owned notebook that carries between coursesPlanned | A workspace that dies when the term ends |
“Turn my syllabus into my LMS course.”
CourseHouse: Built for it
Typical alternative: Start from a vendor template
“Fix last year's LMS course.”
CourseHouse: AI-guided review and repair
Typical alternative: Copy it and repair by hand
“Check my own content for accessibility.”
CourseHouse: Free review, then a guided remediation workflow
Typical alternative: The vendor mainly controls its own content
“Change the sequence of my course.”
CourseHouse: Move a chapter and its readings, videos, practice and quizzes move with it — and CourseHouse says which prerequisite you just broke
Preview — try itTypical alternative: Reconfigure several assets one at a time
“Check the workload before I assign it.”
CourseHouse: A load chart stacks each week by kind of work and caps each category on its busiest week — play the term and see overload before students do
Preview — try itTypical alternative: Click through several screens and infer it
“Edit it myself, without filing a ticket.”
CourseHouse: Drag it, or ask in a sentence. Shortening a chapter shows the exact concept and question cuts before it makes them, and everything undoes
Preview — try itTypical alternative: A support request, or the limits of a fixed template
“Make slides for exactly what I am teaching.”
CourseHouse: Decks built from your own course, editable as PowerPoint
Typical alternative: A publisher slide bank
“Let students carry a lab notebook forward.”
CourseHouse: A student-owned notebook that carries between courses
PlannedTypical alternative: A workspace that dies when the term ends
Rows marked Preview are live today in the Visual Course Builder, on sample courses and on a desktop screen — your own course next. Rows marked Planned are not built yet. Everything else is working now.
Example output: the Organic Chemistry suite
Our first product is a full year organic chemistry course, produced end-to-end by CourseHouse. Every tool below that builds the course draws from the same expert concept maps. Take a look to see what the end product looks like.
Interactive Organic Textbook
A free, installable organic chemistry reader with animated mechanisms, editable figures, and chapter-aware practice.
Open the textbookHomework Creator
Assemble interactive homework from curated question banks — calculate, classify, order, compare evidence, explain, draw — and export it to your LMS. Chemistry courses add drawing, curved arrows and spectra on top.
Try the Homework CreatorCourse & Textbook Builder
Start from a concept map, syllabus, or proven course pattern and get a matched textbook, slides, animations, and practice for your course.
Build your courseSpecialized chemistry workspaces
Where the discipline needs more than a text box: molecule drawing, curved-arrow mechanisms, Newman and chair projections, and NMR analysis — graded by chemical equivalence. The proof that CourseHouse goes deeper than generic LMS question types.
See the chemistry question typesRunning a course, not just reading a book
A title published through CourseHouse comes with the two teacher and student dashboards that you can control. Explore the teacher and student dashboards (signed-in teachers with approved preview access).
Teacher dashboard demo
Student course home demo
What CourseHouse can produce
The concrete teaching assets behind every CourseHouse title: editable molecule and reaction figures, NMR signal-equivalence reveals, reaction-coordinate diagrams, Newman projections, synthesis roadmaps, 3D and conformational visuals, short structure animations, slide questions with answer reveals, and accessible alt text with PowerPoint-ready fallbacks. Try the live tools below.
Structures & Reactions
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Reaction scheme
Multi-structure reaction schemes with reagents and conditions over the arrow.
Reaction-coordinate diagram
Energy-profile diagrams for one-step or multistep mechanisms, with labeled barriers and intermediates.
Try itCatalytic cycle
Organometallic catalytic cycles with metal oxidation states, elementary steps, and reagents in and products out.
Try itProtein figure
Rendered protein views from a PDB entry with a chosen representation style.
Enzyme active site
Catalytic residues, contacts, and electron-flow arrows around a bound substrate.
Try itSpectra, Data & Calculations
NMR signal-count reveal
Step-through reveals of chemically equivalent environments and the expected signal count.
Try it9 more
NMR spectrum
Annotated ¹H or ¹³C spectrum traces with shifts, multiplets, and integration bands.
Try itScientific graph / data figure
Chemistry data figures — calibration, kinetics, comparisons — with real numeric axes and declared error bars.
Try itAcid–base / titration figure
Exact titration curves and speciation plots with equivalence points, buffer regions, pI, and a structure panel for every protonation state.
Try itNMR multiplet
First-order stick multiplets built from your coupling constants, with caveats.
Dynamic NMR / coalescence
Variable-temperature lineshape and coalescence plots from Δν, temperature, and rate.
Isotope / mass-spectrum inset
Formula, exact mass, and isotope-pattern stick insets for a chosen molecule.
Green chemistry metrics
Atom economy, E-factor, and PMI tables for a reaction, with stated assumptions.
Data or comparison table
Native, editable tables for comparing reagents, conditions, or properties.
3D, Orbitals & Conformations
3D molecule (CineMol)
Ball-and-stick or CPK 3D renders exported as clean posters for slides and readers.
Try itDiagrams & Visual Explanations
Molecule or reaction animation
Short chalk-style drawing animations of structures and reactions, with transcripts.
Try it3 more
Curated chemistry clipart
Licensed glassware, arrows, and lab clipart with attribution handled for you.
Try itScientific diagram
Structured concept diagrams, flowcharts, and timelines with editable nodes.
Accessible figure descriptions
Alt text and long descriptions generated for every chemistry visual in your deck.
Try itQuestions & Study Materials
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Flashcard set
Study-card sets tied to your chapter concepts, delivered with the course package.
Study guide section
Course-package study guides with linked figures and practice questions.
Sources & Reuse
Reuse a reviewed chapter asset
Pick from science-reviewed figures already produced for this chapter before generating anything new.
Try it1 more
Literature-supported slide notes
Cited source summaries inserted into speaker notes or chapter sources.
Bring your own title
If you hold the rights to a specialty STEM text, we produce the assets that turn it into a working course — a reader, decks, figures, labs, interactives, and practice — published under your name at your own CourseHouse address. You retain the copyright in your original text, your creative choices are recorded with the project, and your exports stay editable outside CourseHouse — reviewed under zero data retention (ZDR).
- Your source material stays yours.
- Your creative choices are recorded with the project.
- Choose an open or an all-rights-reserved publishing path.
- Keep editing your exports outside CourseHouse.
Interactive homework that fits the material
Students can calculate, classify, order, label, compare evidence, explain their reasoning, work with data, or build the answer in a discipline-specific workspace. CourseHouse turns material from your course into the interaction that actually fits the learning goal, then delivers it as autograded homework and quizzes with feedback, analytics and LMS grade passback — from $40 per student per term, free to the teacher. You set the guardrails once; every student meets the same rules, and the base package has no student-facing AI at all.
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What the hosted homework system includes
Chemistry is featured below as proof of depth — the same engines grade the ordinary disciplines because they already grade an unusually difficult one.
An online homework system for your book
Your end-of-chapter problems become hosted, auto-graded homework in the interaction each one calls for — numeric answers with units and tolerance, classification, ordering, matching, comparison tables, evidence boards, structured explanations, multi-part problems — with feedback students can act on.
A hosted question bank
Every problem becomes a tagged, searchable item — by chapter, concept, difficulty, and representation. Items are versioned immutably, so revising a question never changes an assignment a student has already started.
Structure-aware grading with partial credit
A drawn answer is compared to your key by exact structure match, then by maximum-common-substructure diff. Near-misses earn partial credit and a specific explanation — a missing stereocenter is not scored like a missing ring.
Delivery and grade passback in their LMS
Assignments launch through LTI 1.3 into Canvas, Blackboard Ultra, and other LTI Advantage platforms, with real grade passback and automatic retry if a platform is briefly unavailable. Moodle is supported through course-cartridge export.
Answer keys and grading rules that you control
Keys, accepted alternates, and tautomer or resonance equivalence policies live on the question itself, so the same item grades identically wherever it is assigned.
Attempt-level insight
Per-attempt scoring and confidence data show which concepts a cohort is actually missing — the input for revising the next edition of your text.
Exit tickets with optional hand-gesture drawing
Chapter-closing checks that roll up into a class-level concept summary. Students can answer with the mouse or optionally sketch structures in the air — camera processing stays on the device.
Try a hand-gesture exit ticketInstructor tunability: you set the guardrails
Set it once. Every student meets the same rules — you decide which choices they can change and which stay locked.
Homework rules
- Attempts per graded question
- Which attempt counts (best / latest / first)
- Hints on or off, with a penalty you set
- When answers are revealed
Course flow & support
- Sequenced completion & navigation
- Targeted recap and its triggers
- Bounded score recovery
- Which AI support students may use
Hosted homework is $40 per student per term; the book stays free. See the three packages.
Keep the book free. Pay only for the hosted course.
The open textbook is free, always. Hosted services are the product, priced per student per term. AI is priced low into the per-student cost and is free to the teacher.
Free, forever
$0
- Web reader
- PDF & EPUB downloads
- The Visual Course Builder
- Instructor AI tools
- Homework & quiz authoring
Optional hosted services
From $40 per student · per term
- Autograded, structure-aware homework
- Feedback, analytics & LMS grade passback
- Optional student AI & Supplemental Instruction toolkits
- Development of substantial new content
Simple student pricing, per term
Semester, quarter or short course — same price. The base package has no student-facing AI; the higher packages add it as an option the instructor can turn off without losing anything else.
$40
per student · per term
Homework
Autograded homework & quizzes, feedback, analytics, instructor AI. No student-facing AI.
$42
per student · per term
+ Study Support
Adds optional student AI hints, 200 student AI Actions per student per term, and SI worksheets. Student AI can be turned off.
$44
per student · per term
+ SI Toolkit
Adds broader student AI, 400 student AI Actions per student per term, SI session decks and facilitator keys.
For the student: $40 a semester — less than a textbook, and the book itself stays free.
Missing a chapter? Affordable rates, paid down by adoption
Fill the gaps, add an update, tailor the text and slide decks to your students. New content is quoted in whole dollars; every guaranteed student earns a $10 credit against it. Many builds reach $0 upfront.
$49
New chapter text
$29
Chapter slide set + 2 flipped-class videos
$69
Text + slides + videos
$500
Whole course (cap), videos included
Simple examples
One new chapter
$69 list
→ $0 upfront at 7 guaranteed students
One text chapter + five slide sets
$194 list
→ $0 upfront at 20 guaranteed students
A whole course built by CourseHouse
$500 list
→ $0 upfront at 50 guaranteed students
AI automates the process. CourseHouse ensures the quality. You approve the content.
Start smaller
A full production project is not the only way in. Each of these is a real deliverable you own — and each one counts toward the base package if you decide to go further.
One-time Course Repair
$20 per course
Find out what is wrong with the course you already teach, then fix it. Export from Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, or Brightspace. The check is free and stays free — this buys the repair: the rebuilt cartridge and everything you need to import it with confidence.
- Free, for any course: your whole course checked end to end — duplicates, dead links, quizzes that will not grade, and accessibility risks ranked by what matters
- Alt text drafted for every image that is missing it, chemical structures included, read from the image itself — then applied in one click once you approve it
- A downloadable repair bundle — the rebuilt cartridge carrying your approved changes, the full audit, a before/after tree, accessibility and quiz worklists, an import guide, and a verification checklist
- One course, one price, no expiry date. Come back and rebuild it whenever you need to.
- Nothing touches your live LMS unless you import it
- Two courses at checkout. Three or more and we quote one plain number that can cover several sections — ask for a quote.
- Your export is analyzed and then deleted. Your approved changes are kept, your course is not — so bring the export back each time you sit down to work.
CourseHouse Cartridge
$149 one time
One course's homework and quiz banks, delivered as an .imscc you own and keep. Drop it into the LMS you already use.
- Homework and quiz banks for the chapters you select
- Delivered as a Common Cartridge (.imscc) you own
- Re-download for future semesters at no charge
- Structure-aware question types, not multiple choice only
Lecture Pack
$149 one time
One unit, taught end to end: the slides, two flipped-classroom videos, the homework, and the figures that go with them — coordinated, so the deck, the videos and the problem set are talking about the same thing.
- Editable slides for one unit
- Two short flipped-classroom videos (3–7 minutes each, narrated and captioned) built from those slides, so students arrive prepared
- Matching homework and quiz questions, drawn from the same unit
- Teaching figures generated from your structures: reaction mechanisms, NMR and IR spectra, Newman projections, reaction coordinate and conformational energy diagrams, orbital overlays, enzyme active sites, electron configurations, lipid structures, and synthesis roadmaps
- Every figure built from the same molecules, so they agree with each other
- Everything downloadable and yours to edit
When the one-time items above are not enough
None of these come with Course Repair, the Cartridge, or the Lecture Pack. If you need one of them, you need the $500 base package.
- You expect the course to change shape — Move, add, or cut a concept and every connected asset regenerates from the map. The one-time items are built once and handed over — changing scope means buying again.
- You have more than one LMS course to clean up — Unlimited course reviews. Course Repair covers a single export, and self-serve checkout stops at two.
- You want it published under your own name — Your title at your own CourseHouse address. The one-time items produce files you own, but nothing published.
- You want students doing homework online, graded — Only base-package titles are eligible for hosted homework with LMS grade passback. A cartridge gives you the questions; it does not host or grade them.
Hosted student homework is priced per student and arranged separately. It is a different thing from a cartridge you download and keep.
Larger titles, extra asset volume, and optional services — print editions, marketplace packaging, OER repository transfer — are quoted per engagement, based on your table of contents. The plain one-page version of all of this is at CourseHouse pricing.
Lecture and classroom tools
What an instructor needs on a Tuesday morning. These come out of the same slide-deck line that produces our organic decks, pointed at your chapters.
Slide decks from your chapters
Editable PowerPoint decks with rendered structures, reaction-coordinate diagrams, embedded mechanism animations, and written speaker notes — generated from your text, not pasted screenshots.
In-deck questions with an answer reveal
Multiple-choice slides are followed automatically by an answer-reveal slide, so a single file works for lecture, for review, and for a substitute instructor.
ChemClicker
An alternative to iClicker for live classroom questions. Same question bank as homework and exit tickets — students answer on their phones (draw, or Build it with a model-kit photo when you allow it), with no account and no app.
Run ChemClickerExit tickets
One- or two-question closers that roll up into a class-level concept summary before the next meeting. Same question bank and graders as homework — including Build it on structure questions for new plans.
Run an exit ticketZoomDecks — zooming, Prezi-style walkthroughs
Non-linear interactives built right in the deck tool: pan across an entire synthetic route, then zoom into a single arrow-pushing step without losing the map.
Chemistry clipart library
474 curated science and chemistry graphics with black-and-white, color, transparent, and filled variants — each carrying its own license and attribution record, so your figures never rest on unclear provenance.
Artwork you can account for
Every figure records how it was made — the renderer or model that drew it, and for generated artwork the exact prompt behind it. Chemistry figures are drawn deterministically from the chemistry itself, so they can be checked and corrected. Where decorative or schematic artwork is generated, you can require it come from Bria, whose model is trained on licensed data.
A needs-attention list that names the concept
Instead of a risk percentage, each flag states the rule that produced it — “four unsuccessful resonance submissions in the last 14 days” — and one concept to talk about. Two misses is the floor, so a single wrong answer never becomes a label, and a concept the student has since mastered stops flagging on its own.
Outreach you write, review and send
Open a flag and you see the supporting evidence — checks recorded, independent versus hint-supported successes, whether recap is waiting — with no route to the student's raw answers. A deterministic draft is offered, you edit every character, and nothing leaves until you click send. Dismiss or snooze instead, and the underlying evidence is untouched.
Per-student attempts and time, on the record
Grant one more attempt or extra time to a single student through the same accommodations panel that handles extensions: preview the change first, state a reason, keep an audit trail. Grants only ever loosen a limit, and an attempt already in progress keeps the clock it started with.
A lab arc around your experiments
Hazard and technique briefings with a readiness check before students are standing at a bench, structured data capture at the bench, and post-lab analysis tied to the data they actually recorded — plus a writing coach that works from your rubric and critiques the draft rather than writing it. Available today: Lab Partner already turns a finished lab report into a publication-style graphical abstract, extracting compounds, conditions, and yields into an editable figure.
Try Lab PartnerThe student experience
Your prose, in a reader built for how students actually study chemistry — adjustable, annotatable, and private. This is the part adopters notice in week two, when students stop asking for a PDF.
A reader students can tune
Readers choose their depth — concise, standard, or detailed — and control how chemistry renders: explicit hydrogens, atom-color palette, bond color, high-contrast mode, and structure font scale. Preferences persist across every chapter.
Highlighting that survives your edits
Four-color highlighting anchored to the passage itself, not to a page number — so revising chapter three next summer does not orphan a term's worth of student highlights.
Private sticky notes
Students attach notes to any passage, and those notes are private at the database level: row-level security means a student's annotations are readable only by that student.
Study cards from any passage
A highlighted line becomes a study card — basic or cloze — gathered with their notes and highlights in a per-chapter study drawer with search and jump-back-to-source.
An optional AI tutor anchored on your text
Optional: a tutor that answers from your chapters rather than from the open internet. Retrieval is scoped to your title, and answers are guarded so students receive teaching, not a trail of citations back into your source files.
“What to focus on next,” with the reason
At most three things at a time, each one explaining itself from the student's own work — “one of three independent checks complete”, “your last two attempts needed hints”. It is guidance, not a grade: it cannot move a deadline, change a score, or lock or unlock a chapter. With too little evidence to be useful it says so rather than guessing.
An optional ungraded diagnostic
A short check at the start of a course that shapes those suggestions without touching the gradebook. It carries no points, never reaches the LMS, and cannot satisfy a prerequisite — an ungraded pretest can recommend review, but it can never quietly unlock the curriculum.
Study reminders students can mute
Recap ready, exit ticket outstanding, diagnostic available — delivered to the in-app course inbox, deduplicated and rate-limited. They are clearly from the platform and can never carry an instructor's name, because only a message the instructor actually wrote and sent is attributed to them.
Accessibility that ships with the book
Generated structures and diagrams get drafted alt text and long descriptions for your review, alongside accessible export formats and a maintained Accessibility Conformance Report (VPAT).
Read the accessibility statementA notebook students carry forward
Lab records, notes, saved course work, and references in one student-owned Personal Science Notebook that carries across courses — with course policy deciding what may travel out.
In development — contact us for details.
Your own address on CourseHouse
Your title gets its own custom CourseHouse URL — a clean address you can print in a syllabus, send to a department, or hand to an adopting instructor.
- A dedicated landing page for your title, named for your book rather than buried under a generic catalog path.
- Hosted and updated by us, so you are not maintaining a server, patching anything, or fielding a midnight outage the night before an exam.
- Stable links. Reader chapters, practice sets, and any LMS launches all resolve from the same address, so a syllabus printed in August still works in April.
Distribution, licensing, and credit
Getting your work in front of people, on the terms you choose — whether that means the commons, a marketplace, or a citable version of record.
Creative Commons licensing
We walk through what CC BY, BY-SA, BY-NC, and all-rights-reserved actually mean for adoption, for remixing, and for your ability to sell derivatives later — then mark your pages, exports, and printed editions to match.
Campus bookstore availability
We partner with Follett, VitalSource, and individual campus bookstores, so a department that adopts your title can order it through its own bookstore instead of sending students somewhere else to find it.
Ask about bookstore availabilityTransfer into OER repositories
For material you want in the commons, we package your title and its assets for QUBES Hub and comparable repositories, with the metadata, attribution, and stable links those collections expect.
In development — contact us for details.
Visit QUBES HubDOIs for hosted titles
Citable versions of record for your title and its major revisions, so adoption and revision history are countable on a CV and in a tenure file.
In development — contact us for details.
Commercial packaging for marketplaces
For material you would rather sell than open-license, we help package chapters, decks, and practice sets for Teachers Pay Teachers, including the license documentation the marketplace expects.
In development — contact us for details.
Visit Teachers Pay TeachersPrinted editions
Print-on-demand physical copies of your title — rearrange chapters, add your own front matter, approve an exact proof, and have professionally bound copies shipped. QR codes link each printed page back to the interactive version.
In development — contact us for details.
Two ways to deliver your course materials
Static exports and hosted student access are separate paths.
PDF and EPUB chapters, slide exports, ZoomDecks, MP4 animations, and print editions ship as one-time production deliverables. Live homework, structure-aware drawing practice, and LMS grade passback require hosted student access — arranged separately from asset production and scoped per title.
| Feature | One-time production & exports Base production deliverables and static exports from your title. | Hosted student access Per-student hosted homework, live practice, and LMS delivery. |
|---|---|---|
| Interactive ebook reader | ||
| PDF / print-edition exports | ||
| EPUB ebook exports | ||
| Slide exports (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides) | ||
| ZoomDeck zooming walkthroughs (Prezi-style HTML) | ||
| MP4 mechanism animations | ||
| Structure-aware homework & drawing practice | —Not included | |
| LMS launch & grade passback | —Not included | |
| Hosted question bank | —Not included |
Print editions include QR codes linking each printed page back to the interactive version.
How we handle your material
The question authors ask before anything else. You keep the copyright to your text and assets you bring. We protect your work from being scraped and trained on:
Reviewed under zero data retention
Reading an unpublished manuscript with AI assistance is only acceptable if the manuscript does not leak. We run that analysis through zero-data-retention (ZDR) routing — the same privacy path we built for researchers working on unpublished structures.
- Requests are pinned to providers that retain nothing — no stored prompts, no stored outputs. A provider that does not keep your text cannot train on it.
- Provider fallback is switched off, so a request can never quietly reroute to somewhere with weaker terms, and data collection is denied at the provider level.
- We log that those controls were applied, as audit records that deliberately do not contain your content.
- Your material is not added to any shared corpus.
- We host only what you designate. Working copies from the evaluation are deleted on request, and a single sample chapter is enough to start.
And a stronger setting, for the work that needs it
Coming soonConfidential AI — encrypted confidential inference from our protected gateway to an attested Privatemode worker, failing closed rather than falling back to an ordinary provider — is coming to our ELN and research chat first.
Teaching surfaces — course reader chat, Deck Creator, homework AI and cartridge analysis — are not routed through it yet; they run on the zero-retention path above. Confidential AI is sold with our contact-sales research packages, and a confidential turn costs substantially more than an ordinary one. Ask how it is licensed.
Titles we are looking for
Our tooling is strongest on courses where chemical structures and technical figures are central to the teaching. That can be a course in any department of nearly any topic. The specialty and elective end of the catalog is where we add the most — exactly the books the big publishers underserve.
Strongest fit
- Forensic chemistry
- Green & sustainable chemistry
- Food chemistry
- Nanomaterials & materials chemistry
- Polymer chemistry
- Flavor & fragrance chemistry
Also in scope
- Environmental organic chemistry
- Cosmetic & formulation chemistry
- Brewing, fermentation & enology
- Cannabis chemistry
- Dye, pigment & color chemistry
- Chemistry of art & cultural heritage
- Agricultural chemistry
- Energy, fuels & biofuels
- Spectroscopy & structure determination
- Natural products & essential oils
- Surfactant & soap chemistry
- Organic laboratory manuals & technique guides
- Everyday chemistry for non-majors
- Organic problem books & study guides
Adjacent to these but not quite on the list? Send it anyway — how much our tooling can add is a judgment best made against a real table of contents.
How a partnership works
Five steps, and you can stop after any of them.
Step 1
Tell us about your title
Fill in the project form — what your title covers, who teaches from it, and which of the pieces above would actually change adoption. If you would rather talk it through, a fifteen-minute call covers the same ground; either route works, and neither is the lesser one. Whichever you pick, if it is not a fit we will say so.
Open the project formStep 2
Rights check
We confirm in writing that you hold the copyright in the manuscript and in the problems you want hosted, or that the permissions you need are already cleared. If the title is or was under a publisher contract, we will help you work out what is genuinely reserved to you — author agreements frequently reserve supplementary materials and digital derivatives, and rights often revert once a title goes out of print.
Step 3
A sample chapter, under zero data retention
Send one chapter, not the whole book. We produce a reader chapter, a deck, and a graded problem set from it so you can judge the output on your own material before committing anything further.
Step 4
Production and your review
You review every generated figure, description, and answer key. Nothing is published on your title's behalf that you have not signed off on — a wrong stereocenter in your name is not a trade we are willing to make.
Step 5
Launch and support
We agree the terms in writing, publish at your address, and support the instructors who adopt it. You keep the copyright throughout.
Before anything reaches your review, every draft chapter gets a voice-and-readability pass — an editorial service that tunes the prose so your best thinking lands in front of students the way you would have written it.
What we need from you
- Your manuscript, in whatever shape it is actually in — Word, LaTeX, InDesign, PDF, or a pile of chapter files.
- The problem sets and answer keys you wrote, including the ones that never made it into print.
- A written confirmation that the text and problems are yours to license.
- A few hours of review time per chapter, on generated figures and keys.
Already using another course system?
You don’t have to start over to get a course that fits. CourseHouse lets instructors create reading, homework, slides, and quizzes for any STEM course — pick the guide that matches your starting point:
Have an LMS course you keep patching?
Inventory what is actually in it — accessibility gaps, stale quizzes, dead links — and build a reviewable modernization plan before replacing anything.
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