If you’re like most professors, course prep takes a lot more time than you’d like to admit.
Between updating your syllabus, planning engaging activities, and revising that same course outline you’ve used for years, prep season can feel more like a second job.
That’s why more entrepreneurship educators are turning to AI teaching assistants – specifically, one built just for them.
Meet Flex, an AI-powered tool designed to make course prep smarter, faster, and way less stressful.
What is Flex?
Flex is an AI teaching assistant created for higher education faculty, especially those teaching entrepreneurship and business courses.
It’s not a general-purpose chatbot or a prompt-heavy tool like ChatGPT. Instead, Flex is tailored to your needs as a professor:
- Customizable course outlines in minutes
- Lesson plans built to your specifications
- Ready-to-use games like Jeopardy, Bingo, and Blooket
- Draft feedback and grades for assignments
- Case studies generated from scratch
With Flex, you can streamline your prep process while still maintaining your unique teaching style.
Why Course Prep Drains Professors
Before diving into Flex’s features, let’s talk about the elephant in the room: prep fatigue.
Most professors have to:
- Juggle multiple courses
- Update syllabi to reflect evolving industry trends
- Find ways to keep students engaged with new tools
- Grade more and faster each term
Even if you’re using last semester’s outline, you still spend hours tweaking readings, adjusting project timelines, or rebalancing content.
It’s no surprise that burnout is rising among faculty—especially as expectations for engagement and innovation increase.
That’s where a purpose-built AI teaching assistant like Flex becomes invaluable.
How Flex Instantly Builds Course Outlines
If you’ve ever wished you could hit a button and generate a solid course outline…Flex makes that dream real.
Here’s how it works:
- Name your course.
Whether it’s “Entrepreneurial Finance” or “Social Innovation Lab,” you start with your course title. - Fill out a few course details.
Share what you want students to learn, how long the course is, and your preferred structure. - Download your outline.
Flex creates a fully editable course outline you can tweak to your heart’s content.
In less than a minute, you’ll have a foundational course plan—without the blank-page anxiety.
AI Teaching Assistant vs. ChatGPT
Many professors have tried using ChatGPT or other AI tools for course prep—but hit a wall quickly. That’s because those tools:
- Require long, carefully worded prompts
- Don’t understand academic standards
- Can’t produce ready-to-use education materials
Flex is different.
It’s built specifically for professors, so:
- You don’t need to know how to “talk to AI”
- You get structured results like syllabi, lesson plans, or rubrics
- It’s grounded in pedagogy, not just language generation
(🔗 Read more: ChatGPT vs. Flex)
Who Should Use an AI Teaching Assistant
Flex is ideal for professors who:
- Want to save time without sacrificing quality
- Are prepping for a new course and need a starting point
- Want to make their courses more engaging with games or case studies
- Need support creating rubrics, feedback, or outlines quickly
- Teach entrepreneurship, business, marketing, or innovation
Whether you’re teaching online, in person, or hybrid, Flex gives you the head start you need.
How to Get Started with Flex
Flex is currently invite-only while we gather feedback and continue expanding its features for educators.
Once inside, you’ll be able to:
- Generate your course outline instantly
- Prep games, lesson plans, and grading tools
- Explore new teaching strategies with AI as your assistant
Ready to make your teaching more effective and efficient?
