FORMATS

Any game, explained like a broadcast.

Ask about a sport or a game — the offside rule, how a scrum works, a chess opening, last night’s result. CourseSmith works out what you want — the rules, a technique, an analysis or the news — researches it, and draws the plays on a field, court or board at its real proportions: players and pieces move, passes and runs draw on, the key line is marked. Licensed photos and footage show the real thing, and a sources card closes every film.

Any sport or gameReal proportionsRules · technique · analysis · newsSources on screen

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What it does

The detail that makes it work.

Fields at real proportions

Soccer, basketball, cricket, American football, tennis and rugby are drawn by hand; nearly forty more surfaces — from baseball and ice hockey to snooker, chess and poker — are drawn from measured specs.

Plays that move on the words

Players, the ball, chess pieces and playing cards move on the sentence that describes the move; passes, runs and shots draw on as they happen.

The news, from live research

A “latest” film is written only from live research on the day — if the research cannot run, the film is not made rather than written from memory.

Real pictures, credited

One licensed photo and one stock clip show the real thing beside the diagrams, and every source and image credit is listed at the end.

A subject of its own

Pick the Sports & Games subject and the format is chosen for you — soccer, basketball, cricket, American football, tennis, rugby, board games, card games and more.

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Rugby union’s rules, explained — a full Sports Breakdown

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Sports Breakdown
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Pairs well with these.

Cinematic documentariesA narrative director plans the film; stock clips, AI images with Ken Burns motion and short AI video clips bring it to life — for any subject.Whiteboard Sketch lecturesHand-drawn boards that sketch themselves part by part, each part drawn on the sentence that names it — in fifteen drawing styles.Paper Cutout lecturesVox-style collage boards — hand-cut paper, torn edges, tape and bold cut-out headlines — with a camera that moves on the narration.K–5 character videosSing-alongs, letter songs, shapes and compare lessons for Kindergarten to Grade 5, with animated cast members and built-in think time.MotionCraft bespoke animationA director plans a design system for the whole lecture; each scene is then written as its own animation and rendered in isolation.MathMotion lecturesA Manim-only format for STEM subjects: fluid typeset math, plotted functions and geometry that moves as the narration explains it.Promos, how-tos & recipesSix formats for marketing promos, how-to guides, recipes, coaching and listicles — kinetic type, glass cards, cinematic imagery and speech-synced motion.Mixed-media explainersWhiteboard sketches, paper cutouts, motion graphics and animated math in a single film, split evenly across the lesson.Presentation lecturesPitch decks, business overviews and product launches built from a template catalogue that self-heals its own props.Accessible learning profilesFour accessibility profiles that slow narration, extend pauses and simplify motion — applied per scene, not as an afterthought.Subject lanesDedicated scene libraries and pedagogy per subject: molecule engines for chemistry, orbits for astronomy, schematics for electronics, 3D for biology.Landscape or vertical, any lecturePick Landscape or Vertical before you generate, and every picture, animation and caption of any lecture type is made for that frame.

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