Cohort Course Curriculum: Backward-Designed Weekly Plan
Builds a live cohort curriculum backward from a capstone: weekly objectives, staged assignments, time budget, and feedback-load math.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
That's a great idea for a cohort. A 10-week program gives you good time to cover the topic in depth. I'd suggest structuring it with some combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on assignments so people stay engaged throughout. You'd probably want to include topics like audience building, content strategy, personal positioning, and maybe some platform-specific content. I could help you sketch out some week-by-week breakdowns and think about what assignments might work, but it would help to know more about your target audience and what specific outcomes you want people to achieve. What's your teaching style? And who is your ideal student?
10-WEEK COHORT CURRICULUM: Personal Brand for Creators WEEK 1: Your Creator Foundation Theme: Audience + expertise intersection Live session: "Positioning workshop" (Monday 20:00 UTC, 90 min) Assignments: Draft your origin story, list 10 pain points your audience faces Demowork shown: Three creator positioning examples, before-and-after brand audits WEEK 2: Content Pillars & Voice Theme: Repeatable content strategy Live session: "Storytelling mechanics" + peer feedback on submitted drafts Assignments: Define 3 content pillars, write 5 short-form posts in your voice WEEK 3: Platform Sequencing Theme: Where to start (not everywhere) Live session: "Platform audit + growth hacks per platform" Assignments: Launch on your chosen primary platform (YouTube, newsletter, TikTok, etc.) WEEKS 4-7: Platform Deep-Dives Theme: One platform each week (customizable to your audience) Live sessions: Platform-specific strategy + Q&A Assignments: Ship 3-5 pieces weekly per platform WEEK 8: Monetization Setup Theme: First revenue streams Live session: "Revenue models for your audience" Assignments: Choose and set up one revenue stream (sponsorships, course, community, etc.) WEEKS 9-10: Scaling + Brand Audit Theme: Build systems for consistency Live sessions: Peer reviews + final positioning pitch Assignments: Three-month growth strategy + accountability partners Format: Live Wednesdays/Fridays, peer feedback Slack, private community. Your teaching voice integrated throughout.
About this skill
Your cohort outline is a list of topics, students fall behind by week 3, and the final project turns into a last-week cram nobody finishes. Live time gets eaten by lectures, and reviewing 40 assignments a week quietly becomes your second job. This skill designs the cohort backward from the finished result, so every week produces a piece of it and the workload fits real calendars.
What it does
- Turns a vague promise ("learn copywriting") into an end-state students can show, then builds a capstone that proves it
- Splits the capstone into weekly deliverables so the final project is assembled, not crammed
- Budgets learner hours per week (pre-work, live, assignment) and flags weeks that overflow the stated time
- Calculates your feedback load (students x submissions x review minutes) and redesigns with pods, rubrics, or hot seats when it will not fit
- Plans live sessions for practice and feedback, not lecture, and places week-1 quick wins and catch-up buffers where drop-off usually hits
- Pushes back on promises a cohort cannot deliver, like client income in 6 weeks, and swaps in outcomes students control
What you get
A week-by-week curriculum table with objective, pre-work, live session plan, assignment, done-definition, feedback mode, and hours, plus the capstone spec, feedback-capacity math, a cut list of topics to move out, and drop-off risk points.
Best for
Creators, coaches, and subject experts running a paid live cohort (4-12 weeks) for the first time, or re-running one that had weak completion or a capstone students did not finish.
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name: cohort-course-curriculum
description: Designs a live cohort course curriculum backward from a provable end-state and capstone, staging the capstone into weekly assignments with one objective per week, a learner time budget, live-session plans built for practice, and instructor feedback-load math. Use when the user says "plan my cohort course", "outline a 6-week cohort on X", "what should each week cover", "my students drop off after week 2", "nobody finishes the final project", "my live calls are just me lecturing", or "I can't keep up with reviewing assignments".
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