A course is one thing. A school-wide course of study, with scope and sequence across departments, grades, and pathways, is another. The hardest work in curriculum is keeping the two aligned. CourseKeel is the studio where alignment is designed in from the start, and where the evidence is ready whenever someone asks.
A course can be engaging and rigorous, and still not be curriculum. What makes it curriculum is whether it moves learners toward the standards it is designed to help learners to meet. Engagement and rigor aren’t replacements for alignment.
CourseKeel treats alignment as the architecture of course design rather than a review. Standards connect to objectives, objectives to assessments, assessments to activities, materials, and multimedia, all in one place as you build. Because those connections are real, the coverage report already exists. You export it.
CourseKeel is an all-in-one studio for curriculum design. Standards, the course of study, objectives, assessments, and lessons live in one model, so alignment is a property of the work.
Browse and import standards frameworks via CASE: NGSS, Common Core, state standards, or your own. Organize them into outcome sets, ready for alignment.
Use the alignment map to assign standards to courses at Introduce, Develop, or Master stages. Gaps and progressions appear as you work, and the map exports to CSV or print.
Write objectives, then assessments, then lessons, each linked to the parent standard. Alignment is visible as you work.
Push to Canvas with a pre-flight check that warns before anything is overwritten. Export Common Cartridge for any LMS. Or print course documents for a teacher’s binder.
Most schools prepare for an accreditation visit by reconstructing alignment after the fact: spreadsheets rebuilt from memory before the reviewers arrive. When alignment is part of the authoring, the evidence accumulates as courses are written. On review day, you export it.
Every standard against every course at Introduce, Develop, or Master depth, filterable to gaps only. Exports to CSV or prints for the binder. The view accreditation reviewers wish you already had.
Each standard traced through course and unit objectives to the assessments that measure it, exportable as a spreadsheet.
Every course carries a 0–100 structural completeness score with a ranked list of gaps and a Fix shortcut for each. What’s missing is never a mystery.
Course map, syllabus, lesson plans, and a standards trace appendix in one document, formatted for the review table.
Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, and Brightspace deliver courses. None is designed to compose one. CourseKeel is the upstream studio where a course is built. It treats print, PDF, and the LMS as equal delivery paths. Print a binder for a teacher’s desk. Save the packet as a PDF. Push natively to Canvas. Export a Common Cartridge for any IMS-compliant LMS.
Imported standards break down into course objectives, unit objectives, and lesson objectives. Each level links to the one above and traces back to the framework it came from.
Every objective and every assessment item carries a Depth of Knowledge level, so cognitive rigor is tracked rather than assumed.
Native push to Canvas: modules, New Quizzes, rubrics, and more. Common Cartridge export covers Moodle, Blackboard, Brightspace, and Schoology. Print-ready documents when no LMS is needed.
Criterion-referenced items tied to specific objectives and DOK levels, grounded in your course materials, so questions can’t be answered with a quick search.
Course maps, lesson plans, test masters, and alignment maps, formatted for a binder or a principal’s desk. No LMS required.
Align any course after the fact. AI proposes standard-to-content links, each backed by a verbatim quote from the course, and your team confirms or dismisses every one. Direct course import from Canvas and other LMSs is in development.
CourseKeel generates assessment items that are criterion-referenced to your objectives, targeted at a specific DOK level, and grounded in the materials your teachers use. The result: questions that require rigorous engagement with the content rather than simple recall of searchable facts.
Authoring tools build content. Delivery systems ship it. What’s been missing is the composition layer, where objectives, lessons, assessments, and standards come together into a coherent course before it ships anywhere. CourseKeel is that layer.
After almost 30 years as a teacher, learning designer, Canvas admin, and Quality Matters Master Reviewer, I’ve come to think the hardest problem in curriculum isn’t authoring a strong course, unit, or lesson. It’s holding the standards, courses, objectives, assessments, lessons together as a school’s program grows and evolves. That work deserves a real tool.
CourseKeel is built for curriculum teams who treat alignment as craft. Not as a checkbox for accreditation, not as a report generated under pressure but as the architecture of the work itself. It’s the studio I wanted to build in, through every course I’ve helped design and review.
Tell me about your school, your course of study, and what you want the next version of your curriculum to look like. I’ll show you how CourseKeel helps you build it, and what the evidence looks like when you’re done.
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