Semester Prep
What could your faculty do with 16 more hours per course?
Semester Prep is a focused, experience-driven service that ensures your online courses are ready to go before day one of every term. Designed for instructionally sound courses, it handles the operational and LMS-intensive work that often pulls faculty and staff away from teaching so teams can start the term with confidence.
Benefits of Semester Prep
Increased Efficiency for Faculty
Free faculty from repetitive LMS cleanup so they can focus on teaching, not course setup.
Reduced Friction for Students
Launch courses that are accurate, complete, and easy to navigate minimizing confusion in the critical first weeks.
Consistency at Scale
Ensure a consistent learner experience across sections, courses, and programs.
Fewer Day One Issues
Reduce last-minute fixes by addressing broken links, outdated content, and misaligned settings before term.
Customized to Your Institution
Our process adapts to your policies, schedules, governance structures, and program models.
Seamless LMS Integration
Semester Prep works within your existing learning management system. No new tools required.
Is Semester Prep Right for Your Courses?
This solution is ideal for courses that are already instructionally sound but need pre-term readiness work such as updating dates, fixing links, aligning gradebooks, and ensuring consistency across sections or programs. It is not a course redesign; it is a practical, cost-effective way to start the term strong without overextending internal teams.
To help leaders decide, we created a practical guide that walks through:
- What Semester Prep covers (and what it doesn’t)
- A course readiness checklist
- A Do Now vs. Do Later framework for pre-term updates
- When to use Semester Prep versus deeper course development support
We focus on the essentials that shape the faculty and student experience at the start of a term, handling the work that must be right on day one.
Our teams work across major learning management systems as well as institution-built and homegrown platforms. We understand that many institutions rely on customized or proprietary environments, and we tailor our approach accordingly.
How the Process Works
Semester Prep follows a structured, predictable process designed to minimize disruption while maximizing impact.
Plan
Before term begins, we meet with academic and administrative leaders to understand goals, constraints, and timelines.
Kick-Off
Faculty are invited to short onboarding meetings to review courses and identify priorities while our team reviews LMS structure, policies, and tech requirements.
Review
Our instructional designers complete pre-term readiness updates and review courses for consistency and accuracy.
QA
Final checks ensure courses are published and functioning as expected.
When You Need More Than Semester Prep
Some institutions discover that certain courses require deeper updates than pre-term readiness allows. When that’s the case, Semester Prep can act as the first step into broader course support.
We also offer tiered options for larger needs, including:
Light instructional design support for targeted improvements
Shared development for structural enhancements
Full course builds or major redesigns
We’ll help you determine the right path based on faculty bandwidth, timelines, and institutional priorities.