Mini Course Generator

What Mini Course Generator does

The Mini Course Generator MCP server gives an AI assistant access to a Mini Course Generator account and its course-building API. It supports creating courses with landing pages, modules, sections, information lessons, quizzes, surveys, certificates, and interactive content. The Mini Course Generator MCP server is relevant to the 🎓 Education category because it combines authoring, publishing, and learner reporting in one service.

An assistant can turn source material into a structured course, such as onboarding content divided into sections with a quiz after each section. It can also import images, audio, and video, or host SCORM 1.2 packages for use in lessons. After publishing, the same connection can retrieve learner progress, scores, completion status, certificates, and question-level answers.

How it works

The service is hosted by Mini Course Generator at https://mcp.minicoursegenerator.com and communicates over Streamable HTTP. Authentication uses OAuth 2.1. When a client connects, the user signs in and grants access to the relevant Mini Course Generator account; an API key is not required.

The server documents 45 tools. Authoring normally starts with get_content_format, which returns the course authoring guide for the assistant. Course, module, section, and lesson tools then create or update the content hierarchy. Publishing can apply to a complete module or an individual lesson. Destructive operations, such as deleting content or reverting published content to draft, are marked in the tool list and generally require confirmation in MCP clients.

The Mini Course Generator MCP server does not store independent application data. Calls pass through to the Mini Course Generator API using the connected account's permissions. The hosted service is located in Frankfurt, EU, according to the supplied documentation.

Setup and configuration

For Claude or another client with remote MCP support, add the endpoint https://mcp.minicoursegenerator.com and complete the OAuth sign-in flow. Claude Code can register it with:

claude mcp add --transport http mini-course-generator https://mcp.minicoursegenerator.com

Clients such as Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf can use a server entry with the endpoint as its url. Clients limited to stdio can connect through mcp-remote using npx, with the hosted endpoint passed as its argument. ChatGPT users can open the official Mini Course Generator app in the ChatGPT apps directory and connect their account.

No environment variables or API keys are specified for setup. The MCP service is available with any Mini Course Generator account, including the free plan, according to the provided pricing information.

Tools and capabilities

The Mini Course Generator MCP server groups its tools into these areas:

• Account identity and authoring guidance, including whoami and get_content_format.
• Course and module management, including creation, listing, updates, ordering, themes, certificates, publishing, and deletion.
• Section and lesson editing for information pages, quizzes, and surveys.
• Media handling for image, audio, video, and SCORM 1.2 content.
• Analytics and learner records, including course results, finishers, progress, scores, certificates, and individual answers.

Limitations and notes

The repository documents a hosted, closed-source service rather than providing the server implementation. Clients must support remote HTTP MCP or use the documented mcp-remote workaround for stdio-only clients. Access is limited by the permissions of the connected Mini Course Generator account, and OAuth access can be revoked by the user.

Publishing and editing actions change real course content. Deletion, unpublishing, replacing SCORM packages, discarding lesson edits, and similar operations should be reviewed carefully before confirmation. The available documentation describes the tools and connection methods but does not provide local deployment instructions or an offline mode.