Pre-semester quality assurance for better online courses

Make the course easier to enter.

Cairnspan is the institutional AI quality-assurance agent that finds where an online course may confuse, exclude, or frustrate students — then shows your team what to fix.

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Begin with one PDF or DOCX course document. Results keep automated evidence separate from human checks.

Readiness map

Before students arrive

In review

Accessibilitymapped

UDL & inclusionmapped

Instructional alignmentmapped

Student frictionpriority

The useful question

Where will a learner hesitate?

The quality layer

More than a scan. A better starting point.

AI makes it easier to produce more course content. It does not guarantee that the result is coherent, accessible, or easy for a student to use. Cairnspan sits between course creation and the LMS to help institutions scale the expert review that makes a subject ready.

Spot

Risks hidden in structure, files, and instructions.

Explain

Why a finding matters to the learner experience.

Act

A specific fix, ready for the person who owns it.

A review with a point of view

From course export to confident next move.

Cairnspan helps experts spend less time checking every cupboard and more time investigating the ones with smoke coming out of them.

Bring the course as it is

Upload an export, documents, screenshots, or URLs. Start small with one subject or review a whole portfolio.

Inspect the learning journey

Cairnspan traces structure, instructions, assessments, access needs, and the small decisions students have to make.

Prioritise what matters

Get a readiness view that separates urgent risks from polish, with findings grounded in why each issue affects learners.

Fix with a clear next move

Every finding ends with a specific recommendation your learning-design team or academic can act on.

The student lens

See the course from the other side of the screen.

Choose a perspective that makes hidden friction visible. Automated findings stay clearly separated from checks that still require a human or user test.

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Experience this course as…

A learner with a different map

A first-year student who does not know the local LMS conventions

A student navigating the entire course on a mobile device

A student with ADHD managing competing instructions and deadlines

A screen-reader user encountering documents, headings, and links

Your institution, in the review

Make local expertise repeatable.

Define the standards, policies, templates, terminology, and exemplars that make a good course good at your institution. Every review can reflect the expectations your teams already hold.

Teaching and learning frameworks

Accessibility and assessment policy

LMS templates and terminology

Exemplary subjects and patterns

Cairnspan does not replace academic or accessibility professionals. It gives their judgement a wider reach.

A few useful answers

Start with the course you have.

The next semester starts here

Find the places where students will need you less.

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