Guided experiences

The six Course Studio guided experiences — coaching, scenarios, simulations, and a custom AI conversation that let learners practise by doing.

Guided experiences go beyond checking recall — they let learners practise by doing. There are six types, grouped by how the learner engages. All six are AI-driven, grounded in your own sources, can be graded or ungraded, and are live at launch. The two interface-based formats — Data Entry Scenario and Software Simulation — are the most differentiated, because they collapse builds that traditionally need a specialist into a conversation.

Guided experiences are conversational and adaptive: the AI responds to what the learner says or does, so no two run-throughs are identical.

Knowledge Coach

A Socratic experience that guides a learner through a body of knowledge — walking them through it section by section and checking comprehension with questions along the way. Think of walking a new hire through the employee handbook, or coaching a sales rep through a new product spec until they can explain it back. It builds understanding rather than testing it.

Knowledge Coach · guided walkthrough

Section 3 of 8 · Time-off policy

Full-time employees accrue 15 vacation days a year, plus 10 sick days.

Coach: In your own words, how many paid days off does a full-timer get in a year, in total?

✓ Understanding checked — we'll revisit anything you're unsure of before moving on.

Conversational Scenario

The learner practices a dialogue with an AI playing a role. The AI stays in character while the learner works through the interaction — handling an upset customer demanding a refund, practising a difficult performance-review conversation, or talking a customer through a return. It models real back-and-forth conversations, where how you say it matters.

Conversational Scenario · refund request

Customer (AI): I want a full refund — this product is useless.

Learner: I'm sorry to hear that. Can you tell me what went wrong so I can make it right?

Coach feedback: Good — you de-escalated and gathered information before deciding on the refund.

Situational Scenario

The learner works through a non-conversational problem or task in text, step by step — troubleshooting a generator that won't start, diagnosing a fault, or working a procedure through to resolution. Where the Conversational Scenario models a dialogue, this models a problem to solve.

Situational Scenario · generator won't start

Step 2 · Diagnose

The generator cranks but won't fire. You've confirmed there's fuel in the tank. What do you check next?

Ignition / spark ✓Fuel gaugePaint condition

Data Entry Scenario

The learner completes a real form or interface correctly, field by field, with live validation and feedback — a claims intake form, a clinical intake, an expense report, a compliance filing. It's hands-on practice at doing the actual data-entry task right, with the system checking their work as they go.

Data Entry Scenario · claims intake
Policy numberPOL-10432 ✓
Date of loss2026-13-02 ✗
Claim amount$4,200.00 ✓

Each field is validated as you go — the invalid date is flagged before you can submit.

Software Simulation

The author uploads a sequence of screenshots of a piece of software, and Course Studio builds a guided watch → try → prove it walkthrough of the workflow — onboarding people onto a new CRM, ERP, EHR, POS, or internal tool. This is the standout: interactions that traditionally require a specialist and days of trigger-wiring are generated conversationally from screenshots the customer already has.

Software Simulation · new CRM onboarding
WatchTryProve it

Step 4 · Now you try — click New lead to create a record.

+ New lead

Built from screenshots you already have — no trigger-wiring required.

Custom guided experience

When none of the standard formats fit, you supply the AI instructions and Course Studio builds a bespoke, assistant-style conversation — an incident-triage coach, a branching decision drill, or any adaptive dialogue the other types don't cover. Because it's open-ended, the authoring assistant runs a deeper interview — guiding you to upload images and answer questions about what you want — so "make me something no template covers" stays a conversation rather than a blank canvas.

Custom guided experience · AI instructions

Author instructions: Act as an incident-triage coach. Present a scenario, ask the learner to classify severity, and push back until they justify it against our SLA policy.

Assistant: A customer reports the checkout page is down for all users. What severity would you assign, and why?

Learner: SEV-2?

Assistant: A full outage of checkout blocks every customer from buying — check the SLA table again. Which tier does "critical flow, all users" fall under?

Looking for a coded custom activity — a simulator or bespoke widget rather than an AI conversation? That's a custom interactivity.

Guided experiences are generated from your documents alongside content and interactivities. To build your first course, see Creating a course.