CourseWise for higher education
An AI-native platform for departments that want modern course operations and defensible AI governance without a heavyweight LMS rollout.
Higher-ed departments often want to move faster than a campus-wide LMS migration allows, while still meeting FERPA obligations and getting AI governance right. CourseWise gives a department a complete, AI-native teaching platform with the audit trail that academic-integrity conversations require.
The challenges
- Department autonomy
- Departments want to adopt modern tools without waiting on a campus-wide LMS decision.
- Assessment depth
- Real courses need quizzes, scheduling windows, rubrics, and a gradebook with policies — not just assignment drop-boxes.
- AI & academic integrity
- AI use needs to be transparent and auditable, not a black box.
- Compliance
- Student records still fall under FERPA regardless of which tool a department picks.
How CourseWise helps
- Adopt at the department level
- Stand up courses for a department or program without a campus-wide migration; pilots are available.
- Built-in assessment
- Quizzes with scheduling waves and per-student windows, assignments with rubrics, and a gradebook with grading policies.
- Auditable AI
- Admin-governed providers and prompt templates, with a per-generation audit log that supports academic-integrity review.
- FERPA-first
- School-official mode, a signed DPA, an audit log, and deletion on request.
What you get
- Quizzes with scheduling waves & per-student windows
- Assignments with rubrics and a policy-driven gradebook
- Attendance, discussions, and presentations built in
- Admin-governed AI with per-generation audit
- Signed DPA and FERPA-aligned record handling
- Department-level adoption with pilots
Higher education: FAQ
Can a single department use CourseWise without the whole university?
Yes — CourseWise can be adopted at the department or program level. Pilots are typically scoped to one or two courses with a signed pilot DPA.
Does CourseWise support academic-integrity review of AI use?
AI generations are audited and admins control providers, models, and prompt templates, so AI use is transparent rather than a black box.
How deep is the gradebook?
CourseWise includes quizzes with auto-grading, assignments with rubrics, and a gradebook with configurable grading policies.