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CourseForge

Plan courses, track student grades, and print transcripts — a native Windows app that runs fully offline.

Windows desktop app (.exe) US$30 · one-time

CourseForge is an offline course-planning and gradebook app for educators — from online course creators to classroom teachers and professors — who want to run a curriculum and a class without an account, a browser tab, or the cloud. Build each course as a nested outline of modules and lessons, reorder anything with move up / move down, and tag lessons as Video, Text, Quiz, Assignment, or your own custom types with optional durations. A live dashboard rolls your catalogue into totals — courses, published count, lessons, and content hours — with a lessons-per-course chart, a content-type breakdown, and a Class Performance table showing the average and median final grade in every course, so you can see at a glance whether you're grading harshly and curve a class on overall performance.

It runs as a real installed Windows application, not a web app in a wrapper, and your data lives in a single local file you can optionally encrypt with a password. The built-in gradebook works one student at a time: pick a course and a student and record their grades element by element, with points-based or weighted-category grading (per-category weights, drop-lowest, extra credit, excused items, a manual final-grade override, and a configurable plus-minus letter scale), a live final percent, letter, and 4.0 GPA, and a class-statistics panel showing the class average, median, spread, and grade distribution. Every student gets a profile with a photo, bio, and up to three labelled contacts, and you can export or print a branded PDF transcript for one student or for everyone at once — alongside outline PDFs and CSV exports of your courses, curriculum, and class gradebook.

What it does

  • Outline Builder: a nested, reorderable tree of modules and lessons with move-up / move-down ordering and live module, lesson, and duration totals
  • Dashboard with live KPIs — courses, published, lessons, and content hours — plus a lessons-per-course bar chart and a content-type breakdown
  • Class Performance overview on the dashboard: the average and median final grade, the grade range, and the number of students failing in each course — so you can spot harsh grading or curve a class on overall performance
  • Per-student gradebook: pick a course and a student and grade element by element — points-based or weighted categories with per-category weights, drop-lowest, extra credit, excused items, a manual final-grade override, and a configurable plus-minus letter scale; with a live final percent, letter, and a 4.0 GPA
  • Class statistics beside every gradebook: class average, median, high/low, and the full letter-grade distribution, recomputed live as you enter grades
  • Student profiles: a photo, bio, status, and up to three labelled contacts (student, parent / guardian, emergency contact, or other), with per-course enrolment and current grades
  • Transcripts: export or print a branded PDF transcript for a single student, or export / print every student's transcript at once in one combined document
  • Course list with search and Draft / Published filtering, plus an editable content-type vocabulary (add, rename, or remove lesson types) that never changes lessons already using a type
  • Exports: a branded single-course outline PDF and CSV exports of your courses summary, full curriculum, and class gradebook
  • Runs fully offline as a native Windows app — data in a single local file you can optionally password-encrypt, with no account, cloud, or tracking; ships with removable sample data
US$30 one-time payment · yours to keep forever · Windows desktop app (.exe)
  • 14-day refund if it doesn't work as described — Refund Policy
  • Instant download, delivered by email — re-download anytime from your receipt
  • No subscription, no account — works fully offline
  • No activation server — the app keeps working even if this website disappears
Works on
Windows 10 & 11 (64-bit)
Download
~125 MB · CourseForge-win64.zip
Installs
On computers you personally own or control (EULA)
Updates
Free fixes and improvements for the version you buy — notices by email, never by the app phoning home

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Safe to download & install

A genuine, local-first desktop app — no telemetry, no account. Because we're a new independent maker, Windows may show a one-time SmartScreen prompt on first run; just click More info → Run anyway. Your download lists a SHA-256 checksum so you can verify it's authentic and untampered. How to install & verify →

SHA-256 · CourseForge-win64.zip1a022b4cc1d01bb591f0db0ce736623b47b9406e02b5750825e8d2a75ef9c61d