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title: Building courses with MemberPress.ai
description: MemberPress.ai drafts real MemberPress courses, lessons, and quizzes in the exact structure the plugin needs, placed on your site as drafts.
image: https://memberpress.ai/og/help-building-courses.png
url: https://memberpress.ai/help/building-courses/
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# Building courses with MemberPress.ai

Updated October 10, 2026

One of the things MemberPress.ai does is **build real MemberPress courses** — not outlines or suggestions, but actual courses, lessons, and quizzes on your own site.

## Real courses, as drafts

You describe the course you want, and MemberPress.ai drafts it: sections, lessons, and quizzes, written into MemberPress on your own site as **drafts**. They stay drafts until you publish them. See [Which changes ask you to confirm](https://memberpress.ai/help/what-you-approve/).

## Why structure matters

MemberPress courses have exact shapes — section ordering, quiz slots, fixed question types. General AI tools get these details silently wrong, leaving you to clean up broken structure by hand. MemberPress.ai uses the plugin’s **own tools**, which check the structure as it writes and refuse anything malformed, so the drafts are shaped the way MemberPress expects from the start.

Courses need the **MemberPress Courses** add-on on your site. Quizzes also need **MemberPress Course Quizzes**; without it, a request that includes a quiz is refused and nothing is written.

## Working on it your way

You can ask for a course in the MemberPress.ai app’s chat (paid plan), from wp-admin, or from [your own AI client](https://memberpress.ai/help/using-your-own-ai-client/) connected to your site’s MCP endpoint. The app’s chat writes courses and lessons but not quizzes. Either way, the drafts land on your own site.

Building courses is part of the paid tier’s “does the work” side — see [Plans: free reads, paid does the work](https://memberpress.ai/help/plans-free-and-paid/). For the overview, see [What is MemberPress.ai?](https://memberpress.ai/help/what-is-memberpress-ai/).

## FAQ

### Does it publish courses automatically?

No. It writes courses, lessons, and quizzes as drafts on your own site. They stay drafts until you publish them.

### Why not just have any AI write the course?

MemberPress courses have exact shapes — section ordering, quiz slots, fixed question types. General tools get these silently wrong. MemberPress.ai uses the plugin's own tools, which check the structure and refuse anything malformed.