AI didn't just change
how students learn.
It changed what you can build.
You don't need a developer, a budget, or a semester of lead time. This course walks university educators through building real, working web tools — from idea to live URL — using AI.
What's possible
If you can imagine it, you can build it.
This isn't about learning to code. It's about bringing your teaching ideas to life.
Build exactly what your course needs
Practice exercises, calculators, disclosure forms, flashcard decks — things that fit your course exactly, not approximately.
Gamify your classroom
Interactive challenges, self-assessment quizzes, streaks and scoring. If you can describe the experience you want, you can build it.
Create what doesn't exist yet
A guided mini-course. An interactive case study. A student reflection portal. Your imagination is the only limit.
The learning path
Six parts. One stronger building workflow.
Start with a simple app, then learn the planning, architecture, tooling, security, and testing habits that make bigger builds possible.
Build and publish your first teaching app
FREEDescribe a tool in plain English. Watch AI generate it. Deploy it to a live URL, all in one session. You leave with something real your students can use.
🔨 Available now · 60–90 minPlan your tool with user stories
Most AI-built apps fall short because the brief was too vague. Learn to write user stories — short, structured descriptions of who needs what and why — so that AI builds exactly what you had in mind, not its best guess.
🗺 Available now · 75–90 minMap your app architecture
Turn your user stories into a plain-English architecture brief: screens, roles, data, outputs, and how information moves through the app.
🏗 Available now · 75–90 minSet up your local coding environment
Open your project in VS Code and use AI coding tools like Codex and Claude Code to make careful changes from your planning briefs.
🛠 Available now · 90–120 minHandle APIs, secrets & environment variables
Learn how apps connect to outside services, why API keys must stay private, and how environment variables keep secrets out of GitHub.
🔐 Available now · 75–90 minTest, debug and ship with confidence
Turn user stories into test cases, debug with AI more safely, check deployments, and run small regression checks before sharing changes.
🧪 Scaffolded · content coming soonSimple pricing
Start free. Go further when you're ready.
Part 1 is completely free — no account, no credit card. One purchase unlocks everything else.
Starter
No account needed
- ✓ Part 1: Build & publish your first teaching app
- ✓ Ships a live app to a real URL — in one session
- ✓ 60–90 minutes, no setup required
- — Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6+
Full Course
One-time · all future parts included
- ✓ Everything in Starter
- ✓ Part 2: Plan your tool with user stories
- ✓ Part 3: Architecture for vibe-coded apps
- ✓ Part 4: VS Code, Codex & Claude Code
- ✓ Part 5: APIs, secrets & environment variables
- ◌ Part 6: Testing, debugging & deployment confidence scaffolded
- ✓ All future parts, automatically
Secure payment via Stripe · Instant access
Questions? Email support@alym.com
Who it's for
Designed for educators, not engineers.
You don't need a Computer Science degree. You need a teaching idea and a willingness to try.
New to AI tools
You've heard about ChatGPT but haven't used it to build anything. That's exactly the right starting point.
Not a programmer
No coding background. No desire to become one. That's not a limitation here. It's the whole point.
Frustrated by off-the-shelf tools
You keep reshaping your teaching to fit tools that weren't built for you. This course flips that.
Accounting and business faculty
Built with your discipline in mind (journal entries, rubrics, case simulations) but useful across any subject.
A builder, not a consumer
You'd rather make the exact thing you need than settle for the thing that's almost right.
Ready to actually do something
This is a build-along experience. You'll leave with a published, working app. Not a certificate. Not a slide deck.
What you could build
Real tools, built with this approach.
Each one started as a plain-English description. Each one is live and used by real students.
Brewed Awakening
Students budget for financial controls across a simulated café: control environment, segregation of duties, HR policies, and more. Then the disasters hit. The controls they skipped are exactly the ones that hurt them.
The Typing Dojo
Built for a 9-year-old who needed to learn to type and wasn't going to do it the boring way. Lego-themed, game-based, and designed to make the repetitive parts actually fun enough to keep coming back to.
CtrlAltDefeat
Students face IT threats: encryption failures, access control gaps, phishing exposure. They have to identify the vulnerability and respond before the damage compounds.
No Gorilla
A chart clarity self-assessment across five dimensions: message and focus, chart choice, data integrity, cognitive load, and accessibility. Students score their own visuals before anyone else does.
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