Building a course used to mean recording a pile of videos and uploading them somewhere. AI Horizons Course Studio is a different kind of tool — a block-based editor that lets you combine text, video, quizzes, interactive components, and code into structured lessons that are genuinely engaging to go through.
Here's a complete guide to using it.
What Course Studio Is
Course Studio is AI Horizons' built-in course builder, available to Innovator and Visionary plan subscribers. It gives you a canvas for each lesson — an area where you add and arrange content blocks in whatever order makes sense for your teaching.
Your course is organized into lessons (up to 20 per course), and each lesson is made of blocks. The combination of structure and flexibility lets you build everything from a simple 5-lesson intro course to a comprehensive multi-week program.
The Block Types
Text blocks: Your main content. Full formatting — bold, italic, headings, lists, links. The foundation of most lessons.
Image blocks: Upload visuals that support your content. Diagrams, screenshots, examples — whatever makes the concept clearer.
Video blocks: Embed videos from YouTube or your own uploads. Video works especially well for demonstrations and walkthroughs.
Quiz blocks: Multiple choice, ordering, matching, and ranking question types. Each question includes the correct answer and an explanation — so students learn from wrong answers, not just right ones. Points and star-based grading keep it engaging.
Code blocks: For technical courses, code blocks let you present and highlight code snippets clearly. Ideal for prompt engineering examples, Python code, or structured outputs.
Interactive blocks: The most powerful block type. Interactive components let you build:
- Decision-making scenarios
- Drag-and-drop exercises
- Prompt engineering labs
- Simulations and calculators
- Workflow builders
These turn passive reading into active doing — which is where real learning happens.
Building Your First Lesson
- Open Course Studio and create a new course
- Give it a title, description, cover image, and difficulty level
- Create your first lesson — name it, set the order
- Start adding blocks: text to introduce the topic, an image or video to demonstrate, a quiz to check understanding
- Preview the lesson to see it as a student would
- Repeat for subsequent lessons
Course Studio auto-saves every 3 seconds, so you don't lose work. You can also undo/redo changes as you build.
Using the AI Command Bar
Inside each lesson, there's an AI Command Bar — a prompt interface where you can ask AI to help generate content for your course.
Examples of what you can do:
- "Write an introduction to prompt engineering for beginners" → generates a text block
- "Create 5 quiz questions on the topic of few-shot prompting" → generates a quiz block
- "Suggest an interactive exercise for this lesson on RAG" → proposes an interactive component
The AI knows the context of your course — what it's about, who it's for — and generates content accordingly. You can accept, edit, or discard any suggestion.
Course Settings
From the course settings panel:
- Pricing: Set your course as free or choose a monthly subscription price
- Free trial: Toggle a 7-day trial that lets learners preview before paying
- Premium access: Choose whether Visionary plan members get free access (good for visibility)
- Publish/unpublish: Control when the course goes live in the catalog
Publishing Your Course
When you're ready, publish your course. It appears in the AI Horizons course catalog immediately, discoverable by the platform's learner base. If you've set it as paid and connected your Stripe account, you're ready to accept payments.
For creators on the Innovator or Visionary plan with a Stripe account connected, Course Studio is the fastest path from "I know something worth teaching" to "I have a course people can buy." Start your free trial and build your first lesson today.
