Thrive's AI-powered PDF course generator lets you quickly create a structured draft course by uploading a PDF. Thrive AI guides you through defining your audience, learning outcomes, content length, and tone, then uses that information to generate a structured draft ready for further editing. It's ideal for subject matter experts (SMEs), learning managers, and teams who want to streamline content creation using existing materials.
Requirements
Enable the Content Creator: Text Generation toggle in Configure > AI features.
This feature won’t impact existing workflows unless the toggle is switched on.
Manual course creation is still available and unaffected.
Generating Courses from PDF
Go to Create > Content Creator > Upload a PDF.
Select your PDF and click Upload.
Once the file is uploaded, Thrive AI guides you through:
Adding context, audience, learning outcomes, tone, and preferred length
Reviewing and refining the AI-generated course outline
Based on your input, Thrive AI converts your PDF into a text-based output and generates a structured draft course that's ready for further editing and collaboration.
Note:
External links in uploaded PDFs work as expected. However, internal navigation links (like linking to other pages within the same PDF) are not supported.