How to create a course with AI: from draft to final polish

Creating training courses used to be a slow grind. Starting with a blank page. Chasing down subject-matter experts. Spending hours formatting, rewriting, and getting approvals. However, that’s changing rapidly, particularly in the course creation process with AI.

Today, teams can create a course with AI in a fraction of the time, without cutting corners. From outlining to localization to refining content, AI is providing L&D professionals and employees with the tools to work faster, stay focused, and achieve results.

This isn’t just a new feature. It’s a new workflow. Let’s walk through what that looks like.

Use AI to create a training course from scratch

Whether you’re building onboarding, compliance, or product training, the biggest hurdle is getting started. That’s where AI for course creation makes the biggest difference.

Instead of starting with a slide deck or lengthy outline, teams can give AI a short prompt, a process description, or even a few bullet points. From there, the tool generates a course structure complete with content blocks, quiz questions, and section suggestions.

In other words, you can create course content with AI without needing any instructional design skills.

It also supports Employee-generated Learning (EGL). With AI handling the structure, employees can contribute their knowledge when they have it, without getting stuck in formatting or editing.

This approach also reflects a broader shift in AI employee training: from less top-down instructional design to more employee-driven content creation.

We explored this in depth in our article on how L&D teams really use AI, based on 1,500 real conversations with L&D professionals. Most teams weren’t asking AI to do it all. They just wanted help moving faster and smarter, especially at the first step.

Use AI to refine, localize, and personalize your training

Drafting is just the beginning. Once the course is created, AI helps you improve it as well.

Teams use AI to:

• Reword complex language into something easier to read
• Adjust tone for different audiences
• Translate for global teams
• Create knowledge checks or microlearning blocks

This isn’t adaptive delivery, but it is adaptive creation. As we explored in our piece on AI-supported adaptive learning, AI can personalize courses before learners even press play. By generating content based on specific use cases, tone, or region, the training already feels more relevant.

AI can also help you update existing content. Outdated PDFs, Word files, or policy documents can be transformed into fresh digital course material. That’s where the real value of AI in e-learning shows up: not just in new content, but in what you can reuse and repurpose.

🌟 Your teams bring the expertise. EasyAI does the work.

AI-powered tools, such as EasyAI, enable anyone, whether an L&D professional or not, to create an online course with AI in just a few steps. Upload a file, describe what you want to teach, and the AI course creator generates a didactic structure with interactive questions.

Then, use Quick Actions to rephrase, reword, and polish each block. You stay in control. AI just helps you move faster.

That means less time spent rewriting, reviewing, or reformatting. More time spent improving content and aligning it with business goals.

Quickly turn content into usable learning experiences

Publishing is the final mile, and it often slows teams down. But AI helps here, too.

With the right tools, you can:

• Generate subtitles, intros, or summaries
• Suggest relevant visuals or keywords
• Optimize layout and pacing for learning retention

If you’re working in multimedia, you can even use AI to support the creation of videos. It helps by generating voiceover scripts, automatically adding subtitles, using avatars when needed, and translating video content on the spot.

These capabilities are especially powerful for microlearning, where clarity matters more than production value. For companies trying to scale quickly, they turn a time-intensive task into a repeatable process.

In our breakdown of AI in L&D, we demonstrated how most teams utilize AI for repetitive, low-risk tasks, rather than creative reinvention. That’s where AI performs best: giving your team a head start, so you can focus on what makes the learning actually work.

And if you’re still figuring out how it fits into your workflow? You’re not alone. We’ve seen the journey firsthand: some teams dive in, others test feature by feature. However, across the board, AI for course creation is becoming a practical solution for teams that require speed, structure, and scalability.

The bottom line: You can create a course with AI. And it can be good.

This isn’t about replacing L&D teams. It’s about giving them the support they need to do more of the work that matters.

Whether you’re starting from scratch or updating legacy content, the right AI tools can help you:

• Draft smarter
• Refine faster
• Share clearer

And the best part? The people closest to the work can contribute. AI takes care of the structure. You bring the expertise.

So go ahead. Start the course. Draft the video. Reword the policy.

Let AI help you take it from first draft to final polish.