Ask AI can help you create and manage Courses in ZipLeads through a guided chat. You don't need to build every outline, lesson, quiz, setting and offer by hand. Just describe what you want, and Ask AI will help you generate, organise and set up supported course elements.
This article explains how Ask AI supports course creation and management, and which course tasks it can help with. It also covers how confirmations and guardrails protect your content before major changes are made.
What is Ask AI for Courses?
Ask AI for Courses lets you work with ZipLeads Courses using everyday language. You can ask Ask AI to help you:
Plan a new course
Generate lesson content
Create quizzes or assessments
Manage key course settings
Create offers
Help with comments or assignments, where supported
Ask AI is designed to cut down the manual work of building a course while keeping you in control. Before it makes an important change, Ask AI asks you to confirm and explains the risk, so you can review the action first.
Key Benefits of Ask AI for Courses
Ask AI helps course creators get from idea to structured content faster. You still use ZipLeads' existing Courses tools to review, refine and publish. It's a guided way to build a course without starting from a blank course editor.
Faster Course Planning: Generate complete course outlines with modules, lessons and a logical learning flow.
Rich Lesson Content: Create polished, HTML-formatted lesson content that you can review and refine before publishing.
Quiz and Assessment Support: Generate quizzes, refine existing questions, or create assessments that match your course lessons.
Course Setting Assistance: Manage supported settings such as drip schedules, lesson or module locking, publishing status, instructor details, and custom header/footer or code fields.
Offer Creation: Create offers for course products and set up supported offer details that you'd normally manage in the builder.
Guided Workflow: Ask AI can walk you through creating a course step by step and ask for any missing details.
Safer Course Updates: Confirmation prompts and blocked delete actions help prevent accidental content loss.
Course Outline Creation
A clear course outline gives learners a structured path from the first lesson to the final outcome. Ask AI can turn a simple course idea into an organised structure with modules, lessons and a logical flow.
You can ask Ask AI to generate an outline based on your topic, audience, course length or the outcome you want. This is handy when you have an idea but need help shaping it into a course.
Ask AI can help generate:
Course titles and descriptions
Module topics
Lesson ideas
A suggested learning flow
Beginner, intermediate or advanced course structures
Short lead magnet courses or longer educational programs
Example prompts:
“Create a 4-module beginner course on email marketing for small business owners.”
“Outline a 6-week course that teaches real estate agents how to improve lead follow-up.”
“Turn this list of topics into a structured course with modules and lessons.”
Rich Lesson Content Generation
Strong lesson content helps learners understand the topic and take action. Ask AI can write rich lesson content from an approved outline, rough notes, lesson goals or instructions you give in the chat.
Ask AI produces HTML-formatted lesson content that's easy to review, format and use inside Courses. You can also ask it to revise the tone, length, detail or audience level before you add the content to your course.
Ask AI can help with:
Drafting full lesson content
Expanding bullet points into complete lessons
Summarising long notes into learner-friendly explanations
Creating examples, summaries and calls to action
Adjusting lesson tone or complexity
Formatting content with headings, lists and structured sections
Use the Course Editor to review and refine generated lesson content before you publish it to learners.
Quizzes and Assessments
Quizzes and assessments reinforce learning and check whether learners understood the material. Ask AI can generate quiz questions, refine existing questions, and create assessments that match your lesson content.
You can ask Ask AI to create questions from a specific lesson, module or learning objective. You can also give it your own questions and ask it to improve their clarity, format or alignment.
Ask AI can help with:
Creating quizzes based on lesson content
Refining quiz questions you've written
Generating assessment ideas that match your lessons
Improving question clarity
Organising questions into a logical flow
Review generated quizzes and assessments inside Courses before making them available to learners.
Course Settings Ask AI Can Help Manage
Course settings control how learners access and move through your content. Ask AI can help you manage supported course settings through chat, so you can adjust course delivery without hunting through every setting.
Ask AI can help with key settings such as:
Setting drip schedules
Locking or unlocking lessons and modules
Publishing or unpublishing content
Organising course delivery
Updating instructor details, such as name and bio
Updating custom header and footer content
Managing custom JavaScript or CSS fields, where supported
Because these changes can affect learner access or how your course behaves, Ask AI may summarise the change and ask you to confirm before applying it.
Offer Creation for Courses
Offers package course products so they can be made available or sold to learners. Ask AI can help create offers for course products and set up supported offer details that you'd normally manage in the builder.
You can use Ask AI to start creating an offer once your course structure and content are ready. After Ask AI creates or helps set up an offer, review it in ZipLeads to check that the product, access details, pricing and publishing status are correct.
Ask AI can help with:
Creating course offers
Connecting offers to supported course products
Drafting offer names and descriptions
Setting up supported offer details
Preparing the course for sale or access, where supported
Use the Offers area in Courses to review and fine-tune offer details before sharing the course with learners.
Guided Step-by-Step Help
Ask AI can guide you through creating a course, even if you're new to Courses or not sure where to start. You don't need to know every setting upfront. Ask AI can ask follow-up questions and suggest next steps.
This guided approach helps you work through course creation in a logical order, from planning the course to creating content and preparing the offer.
Ask AI may ask you about:
Course topic
Target audience
Desired outcome
Number of modules or lessons
Course length
Whether to include quizzes or assessments
Whether the course should use drip schedules or locked content
Whether to create an offer after the course is built
Example prompt:
“Walk me through creating a beginner course for new fitness clients. Ask me questions one at a time and help me build the outline, lessons, quizzes, and offer.”
Comments and Assignment Support
Course management often continues after your content is published. Ask AI can also help with course comments and assignment submissions, where supported, so you can manage learner interaction and course activity more easily.
Comment and assignment workflows can vary depending on how your course is set up. Review Ask AI's suggested actions carefully before approving or applying changes.
Ask AI can help with supported tasks related to:
Course comments
Assignment submissions
Learner interaction workflows
Follow-up guidance for course activity
Use the existing Courses tools to review final comments, assignment submissions and learner-facing updates.
Guardrails and Confirmations
Guardrails help protect your course content from accidental changes. Ask AI is designed to help with course creation and management while keeping you in control of important actions.
When an action could affect learner access, course structure, settings, offers or other important course behaviour, Ask AI asks you to confirm and clearly explains the risk before going ahead.
Important guardrails include:
Ask AI asks for confirmation before carrying out these tasks.
Confirmation prompts explain the risk or impact of the change.
Delete actions are blocked to prevent accidental content loss.
You should review generated content, settings and offers before publishing.
These safeguards help you move quickly while reducing the risk of unwanted course changes.
How To Use Ask AI to Create and Manage Courses
Ask AI for Courses works best when you describe your goal clearly, review what Ask AI generates, and confirm important changes before they're applied. Ask AI can help create the structure and content, while the Courses builder is still the place to review, refine and publish the final course.
Open Ask AI in ZipLeads
Open Ask AI from your ZipLeads account to start the guided course creation process. Ask AI works like a chat, so you can describe what you want to build, ask follow-up questions and request changes as the course takes shape.
Start with a clear course request
Start by telling Ask AI what kind of course you want to create or update. Include details like the course topic, target audience, learning outcome, course length and tone. Also say whether you want modules, lessons, quizzes, assessments or an offer included.
Example prompt:
“Create a beginner-friendly course for real estate agents on improving lead follow-up. Include 4 modules, 3 lessons per module, simple quizzes, and a practical learning flow.”
Create a course outline
Use Ask AI to generate a structured outline before creating lesson content. A clear outline organises the course into modules and lessons so learners can move through the material in a logical order.
You can ask Ask AI to include module titles, lesson titles, short lesson descriptions and the recommended learning flow.
Review and revise the outline
Review the generated outline before moving on. Ask AI can revise the structure, add missing topics, simplify the course, make it more advanced, change the number of modules or adjust the learning flow based on your feedback.
Example prompt:
“Make this course more practical and add one lesson in each module with an implementation checklist.”
Generate lesson content
Once you've approved the outline, ask Ask AI to create lesson content for specific modules or lessons. You can generate full lesson drafts, expand bullet points, add examples, summarise concepts or format content with headings and lists.
Review each lesson carefully before publishing. Check generated content for accuracy, tone, formatting and how well it fits your course goals.
Create quizzes or assessments
Ask Ask AI to create quizzes or assessments based on the lesson content. You can request multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, knowledge checks or practical assessments that match the learning objective of each lesson or module.
After Ask AI generates the questions, review them inside Courses to check the answers, wording and difficulty level are correct.
Configure supported course settings
Ask AI can help manage supported course settings such as drip schedules, lesson or module locking, publishing status, instructor details, and custom header or footer fields. Describe the setting you want to update and Ask AI can guide you through the available options.
Because these settings can affect learner access and course behaviour, review any summary or confirmation prompt carefully before approving the change.
Create or configure a course offer
When the course structure and content are ready, ask Ask AI to help create or set up an offer for the course. Offers let you package course products so they can be shared, accessed or sold to learners.
After Ask AI creates or updates offer details, review the offer yourself to check that the product, access settings, pricing, description and publishing status are correct.
Review confirmation prompts
Ask AI may ask you to confirm before applying important course changes. These confirmations help protect your course content, learner access, settings and offers from accidental updates.
Read the confirmation carefully before approving. If the action isn't what you intended, ask Ask AI to revise the request before continuing.
Review the final course in the Courses builder
Use the Courses builder to review the final course before publishing. Check the course outline, lesson content, quizzes, assessments, drip settings, locked content, instructor details, custom code fields and offer setup.
Ask AI can help create and organise course elements, but the Courses builder is still the final place to refine and approve the learner experience.
Preview and publish the course
Preview the course as a learner before publishing or sharing it. Check that modules and lessons appear in the right order, content is formatted correctly, quizzes or assessments work as expected, and access settings match how you want to deliver the course.
Once everything is reviewed and ready, publish the course or share the offer with learners.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can Ask AI create a course from scratch?
Yes. Ask AI can help plan a new course by generating an outline, modules, lessons, lesson content, quizzes, assessments, supported settings and offers.
Q: Can Ask AI improve an existing course?
Yes. Ask AI can help reorganise your course structure, generate new lesson content, refine quizzes, adjust supported settings and suggest next steps for improving an existing course.
Q: Can Ask AI generate quizzes and assessments?
Yes. Ask AI can create quizzes based on lesson content, refine questions you've written, and generate assessments that match your lessons.
Q: Can Ask AI change course settings?
Ask AI can help manage supported settings such as drip schedules, locking or unlocking lessons and modules, publishing or unpublishing content, instructor details, and custom header/footer or code fields.
Q: Can Ask AI create course offers?
Yes. Ask AI can help create offers for course products and set up supported offer details that you'd normally manage in the builder.
Q: Can Ask AI delete courses, modules, lessons or assessments?
No. Delete actions are blocked to prevent accidental content loss.
Q: Will Ask AI ask before making major changes?
Yes. Ask AI asks you to confirm and clearly explains the risk before carrying out these tasks.
Q: Can Ask AI help with comments and assignment submissions?
Yes. Ask AI can help with course comments and assignment submissions, where supported.
Q: Should I still review my course in the Course Editor?
Yes. Always review generated content, course settings, quizzes, assessments and offers before publishing or sharing the course with learners.
Q: Is Ask AI a replacement for the Course Editor?
No. Ask AI helps generate, organise and set up supported course elements through chat. The Course Editor is still the place to review, refine, preview and finalise the learner experience.


