MATLAB Course Instructor Setup Guide

Generate a short instructor-facing setup guide for adopting the MATLAB Course Designer Generator skill package. The guide prepares an instructor to run matlab-generate-course, review MATLAB and Simulink activities, use the matlab-create-course-activity skill to wrap matlab-generate-grader-assessments and validate MATLAB Exercise .m files, use simulink-create-course-activity for Simulink Exercise starter and solution model files, and review the final Common Cartridge package as the persisted course representation.

The guide must frame generated content around the MATLAB Course Designer organization model: a course contains ordered modules, and modules contain ordered learning activities. Common Cartridge is the persistence format used outside the web application until future API work creates course instances directly.

Input Handling

Treat the user's course title, syllabus idea, module description, audience, lab sequence, existing course, or rollout goal as the guide input. If the input is missing, ask for one sentence describing the course or rollout context.

Infer:

• Course context and learner level
• MATLAB and Simulink scope
• Likely assessment approach
• Common Cartridge persistence target and any downstream LMS import target
• Course Designer module and learning activity structure
• Prerequisite skill/toolkit readiness
• Whether MATLAB Exercises are likely needed and should be generated through matlab-create-course-activity
• Whether Simulink Exercises need starter and solution .slx files generated by simulink-create-course-activity

Do not ask follow-up questions unless the input is too vague to identify a course goal.

Guide Workflow

1. Restate the inferred course goal.
2. Identify the best-fit course generation context.
3. List prerequisite skill packages and MathWorks access assumptions, always including IDStack, the MATLAB MCP Server, and the activity skills by name.
4. Recommend a matlab-generate-course starter prompt.
5. Recommend when and how to use matlab-create-course-activity for MATLAB Exercise component generation, MATLAB MCP validation, and Course Designer-only fields.
6. Recommend when and how to use simulink-create-course-activity for Simulink Exercise model artifacts.
7. Define Course Designer module and learning activity review gates.
8. Define Common Cartridge export and persisted course review checks.
9. Propose a first pilot with one module or one short course shell.
10. Include a concise instructor checklist.

Read references/setup-guide-template.md for output format, context mapping, prompt patterns, and checklist content.

Output Rules

• Default to Markdown unless the user asks for another format.
• Keep the guide practical enough for an instructor to act on immediately.
• Include a concrete matlab-generate-course starter prompt.
• Include concrete matlab-create-course-activity prompts when MATLAB Exercises are likely.
• State that Common Cartridge persists the course shell and instructions outside MATLAB Course Designer; MATLAB and Simulink execution happens in the appropriate MathWorks environment.
• Keep institutional policy language adjustable unless the user provides local requirements.