Course Outline
Course Outline: Sequence a course from prerequisites to application. Review audience, objectives, duration, format, and assessment constraints and produce a course outline with outcomes and assessments.
--- name: education-learning-course-outline description: Use for course outline when asked to sequence a course from prerequisites to application; produce a course outline with outcomes and assessments. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: education-learning --- # Course Outline ## When to use Use this skill for course outline when you need to sequence a course from prerequisites to application. The expected result is a course outline with outcomes and assessments. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect audience, objectives, duration, format, and assessment constraints. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Specify learner starting level, prerequisite knowledge, observable objective, available time, and access needs. 2. **Decide.** Group lessons into modules with a clear progression. 3. **Produce.** Build a course outline with outcomes and assessments from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Sequence model, guided practice, independent application, and feedback. Adjust difficulty based on evidence of learning. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Write an observable learning objective before planning activities. - Use practice and an exit task that directly measure the stated objective. ## Verification Check that every objective has practice and assessment. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Provide a lesson or study plan with prompts, timing, an exit task, and criteria for a successful response. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide a course outline with outcomes and assessments. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->