Selfsemester

SelfSemester

A Windows desktop app that turns any subject into a full university-style course: lessons, homework, quizzes,
assignments and exams, released on a schedule with hard deadlines and real marks.

You name a subject. Claude asks a few questions about your goals and level, plans a syllabus, and tells you how well
it can teach and mark that subject before you commit. Once you approve, it writes the whole course up front. After
that the app runs the course on its own: it releases material day by day, enforces deadlines, auto-marks quizzes,
and sends written work and photos of handwritten working back to Claude for marking against a rubric. Final marks
go on a transcript, and finished courses are archived to your Documents folder.

You can also write a course yourself in the course builder, with no Claude at all, and run it on the same
schedule. What changed in each version is in CHANGELOG.md.
Status: early (0.4.0). It works end to end but has had little real-world use. Expect rough edges.

Latest update (November 2026)

Version 0.4.1 is a security update: I updated the framework the app is built on after GitHub flagged a few
issues in it. Nothing changes in how the app works, and your courses carry over like always.

Version 0.4.0 is out, and you can now download a ready-made installer. Updating keeps all your courses and
progress, and SelfSemester backs up your data before every update just in case.

In 0.3.0, courses started to feel a lot more like actual school: every course has its own classroom with a
home page, weekly modules, a syllabus, a gradebook and a materials tab, plus next and previous buttons on lessons.
The course builder got the details a real course has too: course code, term, instructor, colour, a welcome
message, learning outcomes and weekly…