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I built these tools because I needed them. After years of manually checking accessibility, wrestling with question bank formatting, and trying to make sense of Canvas course exports, I decided to stop complaining and start building. CourseKit is the result.

Three tools, all free, no accounts required. Course Analyzer and Alt-Scan run in your browser. Question Bank Formatter keeps pasted text local and uses temporary server-side parsing for uploaded PDF and DOCX files. File contents are not stored by CourseKit.

The tools:

  • Alt-Scan: Upload PDFs, DOCX, and PPTX files. Get a per-image report of missing alt text, with page or slide location, decorative-image detection, and tagged-PDF checks. What used to take hours of manual checking takes seconds.
  • Question Bank Formatter: Paste or upload a messy question bank. Clean it up in-browser, then export for Respondus Standard Format or Akindi-ready upload. Supports multiple choice, true/false, matching, and more.
  • Course Analyzer: Upload a Canvas IMSCC export. Get a visual breakdown of course structure, workload distribution, accessibility checks, and QM-aligned readiness signals.

Victor Iglesias

Instructional Design Consultant, FIU Online

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