Here are 7 ChatGPT prompts to create a training course. Paste them in order: scoping, objectives, outline, chapter drawn from your documents, practice scenarios, quiz, review. Stay in the same conversation and fill in the brackets. Each prompt comes with its own check, and you can also use them all in Gemini, Claude or Mistral AI's assistant.
How to use these ChatGPT prompts to create a training course
- Keep a single conversation: prompts 2 to 7 build on the answers “above”. To run one on its own, first paste the text it relies on.
- Correct before moving on: tell the assistant what's wrong, or paste your own version and say it's the approved one.
- Repeat prompts 4 to 6 for each chapter of the outline.
- Attach your documents to prompt 4, or paste their text, with names and personal information removed.
These prompts share the same skeleton, drawn from the vendors' advice: a role, your context, the material to work on, a precise instruction and an output format. Google's guide for Gemini names 4 areas: persona, task, context and format. Mistral AI's documentation advises replacing vague quantities with measures, hence “3 to 5 objectives” rather than “a few objectives”. It also warns that a different model, or even a simple update, can change how the assistant behaves.
To fill in the brackets, let's take a fictional customer service team:
- [topic]: a task rather than a theme (“handling a customer complaint by phone”).
- [audience]: job, level, headcount (“15 customer service agents hired less than 6 months ago”).
- [format] and [duration]: in person, virtual classroom or e-learning, and the total duration (“45 minutes”).
- [observed problem]: what the training must change (“agents transfer complaints instead of handling them”).
- [chapter title]: taken from the outline.
- [field]: “customer service”.
Prompts 1 to 3: define the need, set the objectives, build the outline
Prompt 1. Define the need and the audience. The assistant asks you questions before writing, then delivers a scoping brief with 5 sections.
You are an instructional designer. I'm preparing a training course on [topic] for [audience] ([format], [duration]). Starting point: [observed problem]. First ask me for any information you're missing (5 questions at most), then wait for my answers. After that, write a scoping brief: audience, prerequisites, expected result on the job, constraints, out of scope.
Check: the expected result describes an observable action, such as handling the complaint without transferring it. Correct anything the assistant assumed about your organization.
Prompt 2. Write the learning objectives.
You are an instructional designer. Based on the scoping brief above, write 3 to 5 learning objectives. Each objective describes what the learner will be able to do in a real situation, with an observable action verb (not “understand” or “know”). For each one, state how to check it. Format: numbered list.
Check: no objective uses “understand” or “know”, and each one can be observed as an action, a decision or a piece of work. Remove any you couldn't assess.
Prompt 3. Build the outline. It starts from the objectives; your documents only come in at prompt 4.
You are an instructional designer. Based on the approved objectives above, build the outline of the training course ([format], [duration]). One idea per chapter, in the order the learner will need them. Format: 4-column table (chapter, target objective, duration, practice activity). Flag any objective that no chapter covers.
Check: every objective has a chapter and an activity. Add up the durations yourself: the total must fit within the planned time.
Prompts 4 to 6: write a chapter, add practice, assess
Prompt 4. Write a chapter from your documents.
You are a learning content designer. Write the chapter “[chapter title]” for [audience], using only the documents attached or pasted below. After each paragraph, quote the passage that supports it. If information is missing, write TO BE COMPLETED, without making anything up. Format: 5 paragraphs of 3 sentences at most, then an example taken from the documents.
Check: search your documents for a few words from each quoted passage. Cut anything you can't find there, along with anything the paragraph adds to the passage. Every “TO BE COMPLETED” is yours to fill in.
Prompt 5. Create practice scenarios.
You are a trainer in [field]. Using only the last chapter above, create 3 practice scenarios drawn from the daily work of [audience]. For each one: the target objective, the context in 3 sentences, the decision to make, the expected answer, a common mistake and the feedback to give the learner.
Check: each scenario could happen on your team this week, and the expected answer is in your procedures.
Prompt 6. Generate the quiz.
You are an assessment designer. Using only the last chapter above, write a 5-question quiz: 4 multiple-choice questions based on concrete cases, each with 4 options (only one correct answer, 3 plausible wrong ones), then 1 open-ended question. Answer key at the end, for each question: the objective assessed, the correct answer, a one-sentence explanation.
Check: take the quiz without looking at the answer key. Each multiple-choice question needs a single defensible answer, found in the chapter, and wrong answers a learner could really fall for.
Prompt 7: have the assistant review the draft, then do your own review
Prompt 7. Get a critical review of the whole draft.
You are a critical reviewer and an expert in [field]. Review everything above. List the problems, from most to least serious: claims not found in my documents, inconsistencies between objectives, content and quiz, unclear or unnecessary passages. For each one: where it is, the problem, the fix. State what you could not check.
Check: first verify for yourself what the assistant couldn't check, then confirm each problem before fixing it. Its list is an aid, not a verdict.
Then comes your own review, documents in hand. Complement advises allowing 1 hour of review per hour of generated training. OpenAI's help page for educators warns that the model doesn't always produce correct information, and that you remain the expert, responsible for the content.
Prompts 4 and 7 apply 3 Anthropic recommendations for Claude: stick to the documents provided, cite sources, admit uncertainty. Anthropic adds that these techniques reduce errors without eliminating them. Advice checked in the vendors' documentation on October 3, 2026.
Document or online module: what to do with this content?
Creating a training course with ChatGPT gives you text. For classroom training, or if you only need an outline, a chapter and a quiz, that's all it takes. For an online module, you also need to host it, deliver it to your learners and track their progress.
Complement's AI authoring tool, shown in our step-by-step tutorial, also starts from a prompt and your documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint), then generates chapters, slides, scripts and quizzes, all editable. An AI avatar talks learners through the module and answers their questions, and can be set to stick to your sources. You share it by link or, as an option priced on request, in your learning management system (LMS) via the LTI 1.3 standard, with a tracking dashboard. One limitation to keep in mind: modules can't be exported, to SCORM or any other format, which is a blocker if your LMS only accepts SCORM packages.
The 7-day free trial, no credit card required, lets you generate a module from your scoping brief and your documents.