Pricing — the book is free, homework is $40 a student
CourseHouse pricing in plain words: free open textbooks, hosted homework from $40 per student per term, per-chapter production with flipped-classroom videos included, and a $500 ceiling for a whole course from scratch.
CourseHouse pricing
The book is free. You pay for what we build and host.
Open textbooks cost nothing — whether we wrote them or they come from OpenStax or another open source. Students pay once a term for hosted homework. If your course needs something that does not exist yet, we build it for a flat per-chapter price, and every guaranteed student pays it down.
Free to use. No account needed to start, no purchase order needed to adopt.
Three ways in — pick the one that matches your course
Most instructors adopt a book and turn on homework. Some bring their own writing. A few start with nothing but a syllabus. All three end in the same place: a free book and a hosted course that fits.
$40–$44 per student, per term
The book itself is $0.
Most common
Pick a textbook, adopt the homework
Choose an open textbook from the catalog — one of ours, an external open text we have verified, or something you assemble from parts in our catalog — and turn on hosted homework written for it. Nothing for your department to buy.
- Autograded, structure-aware homework and quizzes
- Feedback, instructor analytics and grade passback to your LMS
- Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace — or our own course home
- Optional student AI you can switch off for the whole course
$99 for 1 complete chapter we create · $149 for 2 complete chapters we create · $249 for 3 complete chapters we create
The complete treatment, one price. Only need part of it? Text $49, slide set with 2 videos $29, both $69 — per chapter.
Your materials
Bring what you have written
Half-finished notes, a set of manuscripts, or a set of chapters from multiple textbooks — you decide what to include. Your chapters can become OER for others to use or you can retain ownership and distribute to students through our platform. We turn your chapters into a beautiful EPUB, PDF and online reader with modernized figures, write homework matched to your text, tune optional AI help to the specific textbook you designed and optionally add 2 short flipped-classroom videos with every slide set.
- New or rewritten chapter text with accessibility review
- Modernized figures (yours redrawn, or new ones)
- An editable slide set aligned to the text
- 2 short flipped-classroom Prep Lesson videos
- Homework and quizzes matched to the text (hosted)
- Built into your online reader, EPUB, PDF and LMS module
- One review-and-correction round
$500 for the whole course we build
Never more. The ceiling applies automatically the moment per-chapter work would cost more.
From zero
Start from nothing — any STEM course
A syllabus and a course code are enough. We organize the course, glue together whatever exists — open chapters from several sources, chapters you upload, chapters we write — and deliver text, slides, videos, figures, homework, PDF, EPUB, online reader and an LMS cartridge, with one review-and-correction round.
- 2 flipped-classroom videos for every chapter, included
- Our AI tools write the content, create the figures, and you approve every step.
- Earlier per-chapter purchases count toward the package for 90 days
- You approve every chapter before it ships
Always free
- Open textbooks — online reader, PDF and EPUB. No login, no expiry. Ours and external open texts alike.
- Homework and quiz writing for any course that adopts hosted homework. Authoring is never a line item.
- Instructor AI tools: item review, variant drafting, difficulty tuning.
- The Visual Course Builder, including a few assistant turns before you sign in.
Hosted homework, per student, per term
Semester, quarter or short course — same price. Students pay once; the book stays free. The base package has no student-facing AI; the higher packages add it as an option the instructor controls.
$40
per student · per term
Homework
Autograded, structure-aware homework and quizzes with feedback, instructor analytics and instructor AI tools. No student-facing AI.
$42
per student · per term
Homework + Study Support
Adds optional student AI hints, 200 student AI Actions per student per term, and Supplemental Instruction worksheets. Turn the student AI off and every worksheet stays.
$44
per student · per term
Homework + SI Toolkit
Adds broader optional student AI, 400 student AI Actions per student per term, SI session decks, facilitator answer keys and extra review sets for exam weeks.
Students can buy their own seat with the class link you share, so a course can start without a campus contract. That path has no LMS integration: you import grades into Canvas (or another LMS) with a guided CSV, and we help you set up the gradebook columns. Bookstore access codes and institutional invoices work too.
A notebook students carry forward
A Personal Science Notebook — notes, highlights, saved work and a reference library that travel with the student from one course to the next — is on the way for every hosted course.
Instructors set what may leave their course. Assessment content, grades and roster data never can, and no instructor path reads a learner's notebook.
Analytics you can act on. Privacy you can defend.
Included with every tier
Attempts, completion and item-level results by assignment, so you can see where the class is stalling before the exam does — plus grade passback to your LMS. Instructor AI tools use the same data to draft variants and tune difficulty.
What stays private
Student work is never training data by default. You see your course, not the student's notebook. Student AI is optional and can be turned off for a whole course. What we collect from LMS launches, and for how long, is written down in our privacy page and AI principles.
AI automates the process. CourseHouse ensures the quality. You approve the content.
Complicated situation? Talk to us.
Some courses do not fit on a card, and that is fine — we handle them every term.
Departments, universities, and systems: ask us about multi-section, multi-course, campus-wide, and multi-school arrangements. Institutional deployments can also include a branded CourseHouse subdomain such as yoursystem.coursehouse.org, configured with our team.
Or write to support@coursehouse.org
- Several sections or instructors sharing one course
- A department-, college- or system-wide adoption
- Purchase orders, prepaid seat pools or bookstore access codes
- Quarter systems, short courses and summer terms
- A text with mixed rights, or content that needs specialty animation
- A course not taught on a traditional schedule
- Branded CourseHouse home for a university, system, consortium, or group of schools
Short answers
Is an open textbook from somewhere else really free too?
Yes. The reader, PDF and EPUB are free whether the book is one we wrote and opened, or an OpenStax or other open text we have verified and brought into the catalog. Free means no login, no expiry and no per-seat fee.
Do students pay for the videos or the notebook?
No. The flipped-classroom videos come with every slide set we build — 2 per chapter, no separate price — and the Personal Science Notebook is free on the web while you are a student, with export available any time. Students pay only for hosted homework, once per term.
What does the $500 course not include?
Hosted homework is separate — students pay once per term, not as part of the $500 build. Also not included: ongoing maintenance after delivery, unlimited revision rounds, downloadable question banks, specialty animation or hand-drawn illustration, outside subject-matter authors and unusual rights clearance. Those extras are quoted per course — tell us what you have in mind.
I have four to seven chapters — what do I pay?
Bundles cover one, two or three complete chapters. Beyond that, chapters are priced by component ($69 for text, slides and videos together) and the $500 ceiling takes over automatically — eight complete chapters already cost more than the whole course, so the whole course is what you pay. In between, ask us and we will pick the cheaper of the two.
When do we need a purchase order?
Only when a build is funded by guaranteed students instead of paid upfront: a department PO, an institutional commitment or a prepaid pool stands behind the $10-per-student credit, and faculty are never personally liable. To adopt a free book and hosted homework, or to try the builder, no PO is needed at all.