It's okay to have questions.

We’re actively building deeper integrations with Blackboard and Canvas. For now, you can easily link your LMS course page directly to your course on Semestr, allowing students to move seamlessly between systems.

Semestr isn’t trying to replace your LMS. Think of it as the best place for your course content to live.
You can continue using Blackboard, Canvas, or any LMS for grading, assignments, and roster management. Semestr complements those systems by providing a far better experience for creating, organizing, and accessing course materials—for both students and educators.

In short: keep your LMS for administration, Semestr elevates how course materials are created and experienced.

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No problem.

You can use Semestr purely as:

• a structured course organizer
• a reading material creator
• a file distribution system
• a quiz builder
• a textbook builder

AI is optional—but most educators find it saves hours per week.

Getting started takes less than a minute. After signing up, you’ll land on your dashboard where you can create a course. Inside each course, you can add modules and start building content right away—just click any of the content options to begin.

Semestr is a free platform for educators to upload lecture videos, create reading materials, build quizzes, and organize all course content into a clean, easy-to-navigate module system. Students subscribe to your course materials for a low monthly fee, while educators use the entire platform at no cost.

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Yes. Everything is free and unlimited—uploads, AI tools, storage, modules, quizzes, notes, subtitles, textbooks, all of it.

Students pay a small subscription if you choose to publish materials, and Semestr will even pay you to share on our platform.

Semestr dramatically improves accessibility and comprehension:

• AI-translated subtitles for all lecture videos
• Clear, well-formatted reading materials that feel like professionally edited content
• Lower-cost course materials (avg. $8/month vs. $80–$350 textbooks)
• All content organized in one place—videos, notes, quizzes, readings, downloads

Students spend less, learn more, and stop hunting for resources across multiple platforms.

Educators replacing traditional textbooks can expect to save each of their students around $250 each per semester.

With Semestr, course subscriptions are capped at $20/month, and most professors set the price between $5 to $8 per month.

You upload your lecture video → Semestr generates AI-powered, line-by-line translated subtitles in seconds.

They preserve:

• tone
• meaning
• context
• humor
• technical terminology

International and multilingual students benefit immediately.

Upload a lecture video or document and Semestr automatically produces structured, readable, beautifully formatted notes.

These notes can include:

• summaries
• definitions
• examples
• key ideas

Many lecturers use this to fully replace student note-takers.

Yes. Semestr turns your uploads into clean, professional reading materials designed by award-winning UX/UI designers.

You can:

• write readings/chapters/articles using Semestr's Creator
• edit and refine them
• publish them into modules
• convert them into a full textbook or course pack by semester’s end

Modules keep your course organized and intuitive.

Inside a module you can place:

• lecture videos
• reading materials
• notes
• practice quizzes
• downloadable files
• assignments or study guides

Students always know exactly where to find what they need.

Semestr offers a KaTeX-enabled quiz builder and writing tools so you can easily type:

• equations
• symbols
• proofs
• chemical formulas
• physics/engineering notation

STEM professors consistently rate this as one of our most helpful features. With practice, you can type beautiful equations fluently!

Absolutely—and many professors are already doing this!

Textbooks are costly and rarely match your course. Semestr lets you create tailored materials that replace them and save your students thousands.

Students (or anyone wishing to read access your materials) join your course on the course page which can be shared with a link.

They instantly gain access to all organized modules, updates, videos, notes, quizzes, and readings. Subscribe and unsubscribe with the click of a button - reactivate at any time.