Use my own teaching material — turn lessons into posts and pages
You've already written the hard part. Every course you teach is hours of finished thinking — explanations you've refined, objections you've answered, sequences you know work. Then a blank blog post asks you to say it all again from scratch.
You don't have to. Bernard can read your own lessons — the written notes under each one, word for word — and use them as the raw material for whatever your site needs next.
What Bernard can see
Ask about any course and Bernard can walk its syllabus: every lesson in teaching order, which ones carry written notes and which are video (Understand how a course is put together explains the shape). From there it can open a lesson and read exactly what you wrote — so a course you moved across from another platform, notes and all (Move my courses off LearnDash or WordPress), is usable the day it arrives.
Video lessons aren't left out: what you said is readable too, through the transcript every uploaded video gets.
What to do with it
- "Draft a blog post about weaning from my own course notes." The post quotes your method, not a generic one — and drafts privately for your approval like everything else.
- "Write an FAQ page from the questions my lessons answer."
- "Rewrite my course description so it reflects what the syllabus actually covers."
- "Turn module two into a newsletter."
Reading never changes a lesson. And it works in the other direction with the same care: if you ask Bernard to rewrite a lesson's notes, it reads what's there first, so nothing you taught gets overwritten unseen.
If you're hunting for a moment in your video teaching — "where do I talk about night feeds?" — that's its own trick, covered in the find-a-moment guide in the video section.
The prompt
“Read the lessons in my [course name] course and draft a blog post about [topic] from my own notes, in my voice. Show me the draft before anything changes.”
The [bracketed] parts are yours to fill in. First time? Connect bernard to your AI over MCP — a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI — then paste the prompt above.
Questions people ask
- Can Bernard actually read my lessons, or just see their titles?
- Both. It can look down a course's syllabus — every lesson in teaching order, and which ones are written notes versus video — and then open any lesson and read the actual notes you wrote. Your teaching is readable material, not a locked box.
- My course is mostly written notes, not video. Does that work?
- Yes — written lessons are read directly, word for word. If a lesson is video instead, Bernard reads what you said through its transcript. Either way the source is your own teaching, not something invented.
- Will reading my lessons change them?
- No. Reading is just reading — nothing in your course moves. When you then ask for a blog post or page built from what it read, that lands as a private draft like any other change, and goes live only when you approve it.
- Can the AI I've connected — ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini — do this too?
- Yes. A normally connected assistant has the 'read your courses, lessons and transcripts' permission out of the box, so it can draw on your teaching material the same way. If yours says it can't see your courses, reconnecting it picks up the standard permissions.
- What's this good for besides blog posts?
- Anything that should sound like you and be true to what you teach: an FAQ page answered from your lessons, a services page that reflects your method, a newsletter drawn from one module, or a course description that quotes the real syllabus. You approve each change before it goes live.