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Smartcat turns your PowerPoint decks, Word documents and PDFs into interactive courses with quizzes, then translates them into 280+ languages with your experts approving every version. Built for L&D teams training employees, partners and customers.
More than 80 of the world’s largest companies have chosen Smartcat
An AI course creator, also called an AI course builder or AI course generator, is software that turns source material such as slide decks, documents or learning objectives into a structured online course with lessons, quizzes and knowledge checks. Smartcat’s Content Creator Coworker drafts the course from your files; Smartcat then translates it into 280+ languages and sends every version to your reviewers before learners see it.
L&D teams use an AI course creator for eLearning course creation at scale: instead of writing every lesson by hand, they turn approved documents into courses and spend their time on review.
15K+
eLearning courses localized
Smartcat has localized more than 15,000 eLearning courses.
280+
languages
Translate a course into any of 280+ languages, all from the same project.
35K+
hours of video and audio translated
35,000+ hours of video and audio translated with Smartcat.
Drafting a course is no longer the slow part. The months go into what follows: a translation round for each language, layouts rebuilt by hand, reviews chased across regions, and the same cycle again whenever a product or policy changes. Smartcat creates the course and every language version in one workspace, so each update starts from text your reviewers have already approved.
Designers storyboard and write each module before anyone can translate it.
The Content Creator Coworker builds modules, lessons and quizzes from your PowerPoint, Word and PDF files.
Each language waits for its own translation round once the source course is finished.
The Content Translator Coworker produces every language version with your glossary and translation memory.
Translated text is pasted into layouts by hand, one language at a time.
Every language version shares the source course’s structure, so there is nothing to rebuild.
Reviewers in each region get files by email and send comments back.
Reviewers check every language in the browser and approve it before export.
A product or policy update sends the course through the whole cycle again.
Edit the source course and re-translate only the new or changed sections.
No separate translation round after the source is finished.
Subject-matter experts sign off before anything reaches learners.
Approved text is reused, so each change costs only what changed.
To create an online course with AI in Smartcat, upload your material, check the outline, generate lessons and quizzes, refine them in the course editor, translate the course and export it to your LMS. Your experts approve every version before it ships.
Add PowerPoint decks, Word documents or PDFs, or type a course idea with its audience and learning objectives.
The Content Creator Coworker proposes modules and lessons. Rename, reorder or remove them before any lesson is written.
The Content Creator Coworker drafts lesson text, knowledge checks and quiz questions from your material, in your brand’s tone.
Edit text, swap media and add interactions such as accordions and timelines, then preview the course as learners will see it.
The Content Translator Coworker translates the whole course with your glossary and translation memory, and reviewers approve each language.
Export the course as a SCORM package for your learning management system. The SCORM course builder covers SCORM export in detail.
Click through real product demos: create a course, translate it and turn existing material into new training.
Check these things: what the AI course creator can read, how much editing control it leaves you, which quiz types it makes, and what happens when a course needs another language, an update or a place in your LMS. Most AI course builders can draft lessons from a prompt; these checks are where they differ.
| What to check | Why it matters | How Smartcat handles it |
|---|---|---|
| Source material | Courses built from your own documents start from approved content; prompt-only drafts need more fact-checking. | Drafts courses from PowerPoint, Word and PDF files, or from a course idea with learning objectives and audience. |
| Quizzes and interactions | Knowledge checks and interactions are what turn a document into a course. | Single and multiple choice, sorting, matching and open questions, plus accordions, processes and timelines. For pixel-level slide design, a desktop authoring tool gives you more control. |
| Editing control | Subject-matter experts need to fix wording and media without starting over. | Every element stays editable in the course editor until export, and reviewers work in the browser with nothing to install. |
| Languages | A course in one language reaches only part of a global workforce. | Translates the whole course into 280+ languages in one project. AI voiceover covers fewer languages than text, so check the voices before you scope a dubbed course. |
| Video | Demonstrations and role-plays often carry the most important lessons. | Adds subtitles or AI voiceover to course video. Text burned into video frames is not translated. |
| Human approval | Compliance and product training can’t go live on unchecked AI output. | Your reviewers or Smartcat Marketplace linguists approve each language before export. Users are unlimited, so reviewers add no seat costs. |
| LMS delivery | The course has to launch and report completion in the LMS you already run. | Exports SCORM packages for SCORM-compliant LMSs. Planning xAPI or cmi5? Confirm your setup in a demo first. |
| Updates | Products and policies change, and rebuilding every language each time is where the months go. | Edit the source course and re-translate only new or changed sections. 100%+ translation-memory matches use no Smartwords on current plans. |
| Data security | Course material often includes unreleased products and internal policy. | SOC 2 Type II, encryption in transit and at rest, and your content is never used to train public AI models. |
Comparing tools? Run the same document through each one and compare the outline, the quiz questions and one translated lesson. Smartcat’s free trial gives you 15 days and 15,000 Smartwords, with no credit card required.
Smartcat creates employee training from the documents your teams already maintain: onboarding, compliance, product knowledge and training video, each with a version for every market.
Interactive courses with lessons, quizzes and knowledge checks, built from documents your team already maintains.
Course video with subtitles or AI voiceover, so every region hears the lesson in its own language.
Bring courses you already have into Smartcat and translate them for every market your learners work in.
One onboarding course built from your existing material, ready for new hires in every language.
Policy and safety modules drafted from approved documents, with a reviewer signing off each language.
Product sheets and release notes turned into training for sales and service teams in every market.
The steps are the same for every source. What changes is what to prepare and what to check before the course reaches learners.
Upload a PDF manual, policy or guide, and the Content Creator Coworker splits it into modules and lessons and drafts knowledge checks from its key points.
Built from a document your experts already approved, so their review can focus on structure and flow.
Upload the PPTX, and the Content Creator Coworker drafts course modules from the slides, which you edit, extend with quizzes and export.
Decks written for a live presenter often leave out what the speaker said, so add that context in the course editor.
Upload a procedure, handbook chapter or job aid, and the Content Creator Coworker drafts modules, lessons and knowledge checks from it.
One topic per section gives the cleanest first outline. Rename, reorder or remove modules before any lesson is written.
Start from the video’s script or transcript as a Word or PDF file, and the Content Creator Coworker drafts lessons and knowledge checks. Then add the video to a lesson.
Check the available voices before planning a dubbed course, and keep on-screen text out of the footage: text burned into frames is not translated.
No source document yet? Describe the topic, the audience and what learners should be able to do. The Content Creator Coworker turns those objectives into an outline, then drafts each module.
Have a subject-matter expert check every fact: a course written from a prompt has no source document to check against.
Older courses, handouts and job aids can seed a new course. Or keep them as they are and translate them, so a slide deck comes back as a slide deck.
Course already in an authoring tool? Export it as XLIFF; Smartcat translates the file and returns it ready to re-import.
The Content Creator Coworker drafts questions from your material, and you pick the format.
Ask an expert to check every answer key, and keep question wording simple so it translates cleanly.
Build compliance courses from text your legal or HR team has already approved, not from a prompt. A reviewer approves the wording in every language before export.
saved even by teams that rely mostly on human linguists
For a single procedure, product update or policy change, ask for a short course with a few lessons and one quiz.
For teams that build more courses than their designers can write by hand: the Content Creator Coworker drafts from approved documents, and instructional designers spend their time on structure and review.
Many L&D teams use both, and Smartcat also translates courses built elsewhere: upload the SCORM package or an XLIFF export.
Topcon’s training team localizes eLearning for employees, dealers and customers on Smartcat, working with Marketplace translators who have learned its products and brand voice.
298
projects completed in two years
“We have produced 298 projects; of these, over 80% were for eLearning courses. Smartcat allowed us to increase our initial two target languages to ten easily and quickly.”
Read the Topcon case study
Michelle Quirke
Program Engagement Manager, Topcon
29
countries supported
Topcon’s training reaches teams in offices across 29 countries.
31
languages translated
Its course and documentation projects now cover 31 languages.
11 h
to produce one eLearning course in 10 languages, down from 13 h
Automated project setup saves about two more hours per course.
Guides, webinars and articles for teams that create and translate training.
The Content Creator Coworker drafts the course. These coworkers coordinate, translate, update and check it, and your team approves every version.
Chief of Staff
Describe the training you need, and your Chief of Staff coordinates the coworkers that draft, translate and check the course.
Content Translator Coworker
Translates each new course, with its quizzes, video and images, into 280+ languages with your glossary and translation memory.
Content Update Coworker
Helps find the courses a policy or product change affects and updates only the new or changed sections in every language.
Reviewer Coworker
Pre-reviews every language of the course for fluency, tone and terminology, so subject-matter experts approve instead of rewriting.
Quality Assurance Coworker
Checks each course for terminology, formatting and accuracy errors and gives it a quality score before it goes to your LMS.
Translate and review content where your teams already work, from Google Drive and Figma to your help center and CMS. See all integrations
Google Drive
Translate the training docs, decks and sheets your team keeps in Drive.
Google Docs
Send job aids and SOPs from Google Docs and get them back in every language.
Google Sheets
Translate quiz banks and glossaries kept in spreadsheets.
Figma
Localize course visuals and catch text expansion before designs ship.
Contentful
Keep learning content in your headless CMS current in every language.
Zendesk
Translate the help-center articles that support your training.
ServiceNow
Keep knowledge-base articles accurate in every language.
Salesforce Service Cloud
Keep service enablement content current in every language.
WordPress
Publish multilingual learning portals and resource hubs.
Sitecore
Keep intranet and portal content aligned across locales.
The best AI course creator for you depends on where your courses go after the first draft. If they must reach learners in several languages, Smartcat fits, because the same workspace creates the course, translates it and routes it for approval. Test each tool with one real document and check draft accuracy, quiz formats, editing control, LMS export and updates. If you’re an individual creator selling courses online, a course platform with built-in payments will suit you better than Smartcat.
Many AI course creators offer a free plan or trial that limits the number of courses, exports or features. Smartcat offers a free trial rather than a free plan: 15 days and 15,000 Smartwords, with no credit card required. The trial includes course creation as well as translation, so you can build a course from your own material, translate it and test it in your LMS before you choose a plan.
Start from material you already have. In Smartcat’s AI course creator, you upload a PowerPoint, Word or PDF file or describe the course, accept an outline, and let the Content Creator Coworker draft lessons and quizzes. Then you edit, translate and export the course as a SCORM package for your LMS. Plan time for a subject-matter expert to check facts and answer keys before learners see it.
An AI course generator is only as accurate as the material it drafts from. In Smartcat, a course built from an approved PDF or slide deck needs a structure and flow review, while a course written from a prompt needs every fact checked. For the translated versions, 92% of words translated by Smartcat AI are accepted without a single human edit, and your reviewers approve each language before export.
Drafting is the fast part: the Content Creator Coworker proposes an outline and writes lessons and quizzes from your material in one session. Most of the time goes to expert review, and to one review round per language. That’s why Smartcat creates, translates and routes every version through approval in the same workspace.
No, but they make the result better. Smartcat structures each course around the learning objectives you enter and drafts lessons and quizzes from your material, so a subject-matter expert can produce a solid first draft. An instructional designer then reviews the flow, the assessments and the interactions before the course goes live.
Smartcat is built for company training, not for selling courses online. It creates and translates courses for employees, partners and customers and exports them as SCORM packages for your LMS. If you want to sell courses to the public, a course platform with sales pages and payments is a better fit.
Smartcat’s AI course creator is the Content Creator Coworker, an AI coworker that builds training courses from your inputs. You enter course objectives or upload PowerPoint, Word or PDF files, and it structures the curriculum, drafts lessons and quizzes and hands the course to your team to edit. Smartcat then translates it into 280+ languages with your glossary applied, and reviewers approve each version.
Yes. Smartcat’s Content Creator Coworker generates a course curriculum from your inputs: enter the course objectives and target audience, and it structures the course into modules and lessons. You can rename, reorder or remove modules, add existing material and then let it draft each module’s content. Because the curriculum sits in the same workspace as translation, the finished course can be produced in 280+ languages without a rebuild.
Yes. Smartcat translates a course into any of 280+ languages, and one project can carry every target language, so a single course produces all its language versions. Right-to-left languages are supported. AI voiceover for course videos covers fewer languages than text, so check the available voices before you scope a dubbed course. Reviewers then approve each language in the browser.
Smartcat’s AI coworkers prepare the work, and people decide what ships. Invite your trainers and subject-matter experts to review courses and translations in the Smartcat Editor, or bring in vetted linguists from the Smartcat Marketplace. Every confirmed edit is stored and reused, so the coworkers’ output improves with each project. Users are unlimited, so adding reviewers adds no seat costs.
Smartcat prices course creation by usage, measured in Smartwords. In the course editor, generated text uses 1 Smartword per word, video 10 Smartwords per word and each AI image 20 Smartwords. Translation uses one Smartword per source word for each target language. Enterprise teams using Smartcat cut translation costs by 96% compared with traditional agency rates. Unlimited users share your plan’s allowance, and 100%+ translation-memory matches use no Smartwords on current plans. See the pricing page.
Yes. Smartcat is SOC 2 Type II compliant and ISO 27001 certified, encrypts content in transit and at rest and isolates every workspace, with role-based access, SSO and audit trails on enterprise plans. Documents you upload to build courses, such as policies, product material and internal procedures, are never used to train public AI models, and they are deleted or returned within 30 days of a written request. Details are on the security page.
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