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Build Programs That Perfectly Match Employer Demand

Turn your curriculum into a competitive advantage. We translate your courses into actionable skills data so you can adapt faster, secure accreditation, and graduate highly hirable students

  • Extract skills directly from course syllabi
  • Visualize strengths and gaps across your curriculum
  • Align to careers, workforce demand, or accreditation expectations
  • Compare sections, certificates, and degrees side by side
  • Move from insight to structured curriculum updates
Curriculum skills analysis dashboard showing strengths, gaps, and alignment across courses and programs
The context

Curriculum Design Shouldn't Be a Guessing Game.

Curriculum teams are expected to improve outcomes, align to careers, and satisfy accreditation - without a clear view of what the curriculum actually builds.

Dashboard

Program chair / curriculum committee

A program review meeting to decide what to update before the next catalog cycle.

“Course titles, descriptions, and learning outcomes across the program, plus scattered feedback and labor market links - but no consistent, skills-level view of strengths and gaps.”

What they do
  • Collect syllabi and outcomes from faculty across multiple sections
  • Compare courses manually to find overlap and missing coverage
  • Pull job postings or labor data separately to guess what to prioritize
  • Debate changes without shared evidence of what students actually gain
What comes out
A clear skills profile for the program and key coursesVisible strengths and gaps across the curriculumA shortlist of high-impact changes tied to target careers or standardsA defensible summary to share with faculty and leadership
The structural friction

Curriculum improvement lacks a common language.

Courses, sections, and programs are described in narrative form across departments and systems. Labor market expectations and accreditation standards are interpreted separately. Without a common language to discuss what the curriculum actually builds, improvement efforts become manual, fragmented, and difficult to scale.

  • No shared way to describe what students actually learn
  • Overlap and gaps are identified through manual comparison
  • Career expectations are discussed separately from curriculum content
  • Accreditation mapping requires one-off interpretation and documentation
  • Improvement decisions rely on judgment rather than structured evidence
Multiple curriculum documents, spreadsheets, and labor market reports displayed separately without a unified skills framework.
The skills infrastructure behind the decision

Turn curriculum review into a skills-based process.

Skills become the common language for identifying strengths, gaps, and high-impact changes across courses and programs.

1

Translate curriculum into skills

Courses, sections, and program requirements are extracted and translated into a structured skills profile.

Curriculum-to-skills extraction and normalization

Skills extracted from syllabi and course outcomesMapped to a consistent skills libraryProgram-level skills profile

The curriculum is no longer described only in narrative form - it is expressed in a structured, comparable way.

2

Visualize strengths and overlap

Skills coverage is aggregated across courses and sections to show depth, redundancy, and concentration.

Skills coverage and overlap analysis

Coverage heatmaps by course and sectionRedundant or concentrated skills identifiedComparisons across programs or certificates

Strengths become visible and measurable instead of anecdotal.

3

Reveal gaps against targets

Program skills are compared to target careers, workforce demand, or accreditation expectations.

Skills-based gap analysis

Shared and missing skills highlightedAlignment scores to selected careersCoverage against external standards

Gaps are identified structurally, not through manual cross-checking.

4

Prioritize curriculum updates

High-impact skill additions or adjustments are surfaced based on alignment and demand.

Actionable curriculum recommendations

Suggested skill additionsImpact estimates tied to careersExportable summaries for committees

Curriculum change moves from debate to evidence-backed prioritization.

The Structural Shift

Skills become the common language

Faculty, chairs, and leadership use the same structured skills framework to review and improve curriculum.

Shared skills intelligence across stakeholders

Program-level skills dashboardsReusable alignment reportsConsistent metrics across reviews

Improvement becomes repeatable, defensible, and scalable across the institution.

What this looks like in practice

A clear, skills-based curriculum review view.

This is the artifact used in curriculum review meetings. Strengths, gaps, and alignment to target careers are visible in one structured view.

Curriculum review report showing program skill coverage, strengths, gaps, and alignment to target careers.
  1. 1
    Actionable recommendations

    Program recommendations to improve career outcomes with fact-based justifications

  2. 2
    Strength concentration

    Quickly understand the areas your program excels in

  3. 3
    Occupation and Job Alignment

    Get a visual list of occupations and jobs ranked on how well they match your program's skills

  4. 4
    Skills attainment and gaps

    Easily visualize how your program stacks up against occupations and real jobs

Under the hood

See the infrastructure behind skills-based curriculum review.

From extraction to gap analysis to structured workflow, explore the components that power skills-driven curriculum improvement.

Skills Extraction & Translation

Translate courses and programs into structured, comparable skills profiles.

Skills Extraction & Translation

Matching & Alignment

Compare curriculum skills to target careers, workforce demand, or standards.

Matching & Alignment

Skills Intelligence Workspace

Explore strengths, gaps, and alignment across programs with reusable reports and dashboards.

Skills Intelligence Workspace

Curriculum to Careers

Connect curriculum improvement directly to career alignment and workforce demand.

Curriculum to Careers

Make curriculum improvement skills-driven.

See how your courses and programs translate into strengths, gaps, and actionable updates - all backed by a shared skills framework.

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