Agoge CourseOps · in pilot with faculty
The whole stack, on one instructor's machine
A course development studio where a course is a folder of files, edited in conversation with an AI assistant, previewed as it will look in the LMS, and exported as a Brightspace import package, with the graders alongside it.
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The loop it is built around
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Bring your own model
CourseOps has no AI account of its own to sell you. Every generator goes through a single bridge to whichever assistant you signed in to: a ChatGPT Edu or Plus seat your institution already pays for, or an API key you hold.
The cost lands on an account you control, and the question of which vendor holds your course material is one you answer rather than one we answer for you.
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Much of it needs no model
Seven of the eight generators produce something real with no assistant configured: a full dataset, a rendered deck, a starter workbook, a Power BI project, a Tableau workbook.
The graders split the same way, and the interface shows which is which before you run anything. Whether a cell holds a formula is settled by inspection; whether it is the right chart for the data is a judgement that needs a model.
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Where the course material sits
At the local tier this stops being a policy promise and becomes a fact about the network. The container writes to a folder in your Documents directory. On a managed university machine that folder is usually already synced by OneDrive, so backup is something you have rather than something you configure. Moving to a new machine is copying a folder, and courses move between installs as a zip, which is also how a course gets handed to a colleague.
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The same application at three sizes
| Tier | Who | Adds | Needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local app | One instructor, own machine, own AI sign-in | Courses shared by zip export and import | No IT involvement |
| Department server | A college or department | Co-instructors, graduate and undergraduate assistants on shared courses | A server and backups |
| Campus Planned | The whole institution | Single sign-on and direct publishing into Brightspace | A real deployment |
Where CourseOps is today: it is the newest thing we have built, in pilot with faculty rather than generally available, and the campus tier is design work rather than running code. The local tier is real. It installs from a public container image, activates against a licence and updates itself in place.