Course Modernizer

Modernize Every Course. Keep Students Current.

Import any course from Canvas, Brightspace, or Moodle. Get AI-proposed improvements your team reviews before anything reaches your LMS.

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Knowledge Moves Fast. Modernizer Keeps Student Skills Current.

What students need to know keeps moving. Most institutions only find out how far courses have fallen behind during an accreditation cycle. Modernizer runs that check on demand, across every course, before the gap becomes a problem.

Course modernizer scorecard surfacing gap analysis across an institutional catalog

How It Works

Import. Analyze. Review. Publish.

01

Import the course

Pull from Canvas, Brightspace, or Moodle.

02

Run the gap analysis

AI evaluates nine quality dimensions.

03

Review pre-built proposals

Accept, revise, or skip.

04

Publish approved changes

To your LMS, on your timing.

The Gap Analysis

A Complete Course Checkup.

Nine dimensions, scored at the course, module, and activity level. Industry alignment to current labor-market data, accessibility, AI vulnerability, content freshness, and rubric alignment against any framework you choose, including your institution's own.

Gap Analysis

Art History 101 · 6 modules · 19 activities

60/100
Objective coverage
100
Rubric alignment
74
Cognitive load
39
Content freshness
60
Concept freshness
55
Industry alignment
68
Accessibility
50
AI vulnerability
15
Institutional guidelines
82
01

Objective Coverage

Two-way mapping between objectives and activities. Flags orphaned content and unaddressed objectives.

02

Rubric Alignment

Scores the course against your active quality framework, one objective at a time.

03

Cognitive Load

Grounded in Cognitive Load Theory. Checks pacing, due-date spread, dense modules, and walls of text.

04

Content Freshness

Flags expired URLs, deprecated tools, old textbook editions, and outdated dates.

05

Concept Freshness

Identifies superseded methodologies and obsolete practices, with AI-skill literacy checks where relevant.

06

Industry Alignment

Compares course skills against O*NET occupations and BLS labor data for current relevance.

07

Accessibility

Checks WCAG 2.1 AA across all activities — alt text, headings, captions, contrast, and structure.

08

AI Vulnerability

Scores how susceptible graded activities are to completion by generative AI.

09

Institutional Guidelines

Evaluates the course against your institution's own uploaded guideline documents.

From Gap to Fix

From Gap to Fix in One Step.

Every gap arrives with an AI-proposed remediation already drafted, with rationale tied to the specific dimension it addresses.

Issue 1 of 3 · Rubric quality

Vague learning objective in Module 4

Issue 2 of 3 · Content freshness

Module 3 reading predates current scholarship

Issue 3 of 3 · CLO coverage

Module 5 not mapped to course outcomes

Human in the Loop

Nothing Publishes Without Approval.

Faculty review the full queue of approved changes before anything reaches your LMS. One press ships them all, with a record of who approved what.

Sarah ChenFaculty Course Reviewer

Audit Trail

Audit-Ready by Default.

Pre-modernization snapshots, version history, and an append-only log. Decisions hold up to deans, committees, and accreditors.

Audit log

Survey of Western Art · 21 entries · newest first

Sarah Chen approved 5 Module 3 activities· activity batch

Approved as a batch from the Suggested additions tab

just now

Sarah Chen accepted AI proposal for LO 4· outcome

AI revision · “Make it measurable”

8 min ago

Sarah Chen edited LO 2· outcome

Tightened Renaissance–Baroque framing

14 min ago

Dr. Maya Patel commented on Module 5 · Final paper· activity

“Can we extend the deadline by a week?”

27 min ago

Sarah Chen rejected AI proposal for Module 4 · Quiz 2· activity

Proposed two new multiple-choice questions — kept current set

42 min ago

Sarah Chen accepted AI proposal for Module 2 · Slide deck· activity

Added alt-text to 14 slides

54 min ago

Sarah Chen resolved comment on LO 3· outcome

1 hr ago

Sarah Chen edited Module 3: Renaissance· module

Renamed from “The Italian Renaissance” and rewrote description

2 hr ago

Prof. James Okonkwo commented on Module 6: Contemporary· module

“Should we surface more global voices here?”

2 hr ago

Sarah Chen approved 5 Module 3 activities· activity batch

Approved as a batch from the Suggested additions tab

just now

Sarah Chen accepted AI proposal for LO 4· outcome

AI revision · “Make it measurable”

8 min ago

Sarah Chen edited LO 2· outcome

Tightened Renaissance–Baroque framing

14 min ago

Dr. Maya Patel commented on Module 5 · Final paper· activity

“Can we extend the deadline by a week?”

27 min ago

Sarah Chen rejected AI proposal for Module 4 · Quiz 2· activity

Proposed two new multiple-choice questions — kept current set

42 min ago

Sarah Chen accepted AI proposal for Module 2 · Slide deck· activity

Added alt-text to 14 slides

54 min ago

Sarah Chen resolved comment on LO 3· outcome

1 hr ago

Sarah Chen edited Module 3: Renaissance· module

Renamed from “The Italian Renaissance” and rewrote description

2 hr ago

Prof. James Okonkwo commented on Module 6: Contemporary· module

“Should we surface more global voices here?”

2 hr ago

Cross-LMS

Works With Your Existing LMS.

Import from Canvas, Brightspace, or Moodle. Push approved changes back. No migration.

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Team Workflow

Built for the Whole Team.

Multi-collaborator presence, content-anchored comments, and role-aware permissions for IDs, faculty, and reviewers.

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Available in AI-Augmented Deployments.

Built for institutions running an existing LMS. For new courses or substantial redesigns built natively in Axio, see Course Design.

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See What Modernization Looks Like on Your Catalog.

We'll run the gap analysis on one of your existing courses and walk your team through the review workflow.

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