Create eLearning Courses with Claude, ChatGPT, and AI Assistants Using MCP

You're chatting with Claude or ChatGPT, describing the training course you need. The AI gives you a detailed outline, lesson content, and even quiz questions. Great. Now you need to copy all of that into your authoring tool, format it, add interactions, and hope nothing gets lost in translation.

What if the AI could just... build the course directly?

That's now possible with Slate's MCP connector.

What is MCP?

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and services. Think of it as a universal adapter—instead of building separate integrations for every AI and every tool, MCP provides a common language they can all speak.

For course creators, this means your AI assistant can directly interact with Slate: creating courses, previewing outlines, applying themes, and managing your content library.

What You Can Do

With the Slate MCP connector, your AI assistant can:

• Create complete courses - Describe what you need and the AI generates sections, lessons, text content, images, knowledge checks, and assessments
• Preview outlines first - See the proposed course structure before committing any credits
• Apply your brand - Automatically use your saved default theme on generated courses
• List your courses - Check your existing courses and get summaries without leaving the conversation
• Check your balance - See your available credits before generating

The AI handles the back-and-forth of gathering requirements. It asks about your audience, learning objectives, duration, and any specific content you want included. Then it builds the course in Slate directly.

Supported AI Assistants

MCP is supported by a growing number of AI tools:

• Claude Desktop - Available now
• Claude Code - Available now
• ChatGPT - Coming soon (we're building a ChatGPT app for seamless setup)

As more AI assistants adopt MCP, they'll automatically work with Slate's connector.

Getting Started

Setup takes about two minutes:

1. Open your AI assistant's settings and add the Slate MCP server URL
2. Restart your assistant to connect
3. Authorize through Slate's OAuth flow on first use
4. Start a conversation and ask it to create a course

Detailed setup instructions for each supported assistant are on the MCP setup page.

Use Cases

The MCP connector works well for:

• Rapid prototyping - Quickly generate course structures to share with stakeholders
• Corporate training teams - Describe compliance or onboarding needs and get a draft course in minutes
• Instructional designers - Use AI as a first-pass content generator, then refine in the Slate editor
• Meeting notes to courses - Paste your meeting notes into the conversation and ask the AI to build a course from the key points
• Consultants and agencies - Convert client presentations and documents into interactive eLearning courses through conversation

Early Access

The MCP connector is currently in Early Access. It's available to all Slate users with AI credits. We're actively improving it based on feedback, so if you run into issues or have suggestions, let us know.

Try It Now

Ready to connect your AI assistant to Slate? Head to the MCP setup page to get started. If you're new to Slate, sign up free and you'll get credits to try AI course generation.