How the Academy works

Connect Claude (Code or Desktop) to the Academy and you can search courses, pull up lessons and quizzes, and generate coaching prompts without leaving your AI session.

Claude Code (one command):

claude mcp add --transport http ams-academy https://academy.impactcommerce.app/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"

Claude Desktop / config JSON:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ams-academy": {
      "url": "https://academy.impactcommerce.app/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_TOKEN with the Academy MCP token — ask an Academy admin (it's the MCP_TOKEN in the project's Vercel settings). Then restart Claude and try: “list the Academy courses”, “search the Academy for incident management”, or “give me a challenger-style coaching prompt for the SIAM course”.

Read-only — it can search and read courses, lessons and quizzes, but can't change anything.

A single training item — an inspiration session (video + transcript), a set of course notes, or a course lesson. It can carry a video, a transcript, markdown notes with images, and tags. Resources are the atomic unit; everything else is built from them.

The home page — the searchable index of every resource. Use it to find anything: full-text search across titles, notes and transcripts, plus filters by tag, presenter, course and date. A resource shows up here automatically as soon as it's added.

To keep things tidy, lessons that belong to a course are grouped under that course rather than listed loose here — but they still turn up when you search.

A curated grouping of resources you choose and arrange. Two kinds:

• Learning path = a Course. Ordered lessons meant to be worked through in sequence (e.g. ITIL v4 Foundation, ITIL v5 Foundation). These appear as the Courses cards on the home page.
• Collection. An unordered folder of related resources — no implied sequence.

Many lessons have a Knowledge check — a set of multiple-choice questions to test yourself. Open it from the Knowledge check button on a lesson, or the Quiz button next to a lesson on its course page.

• Pick the best answer — you get instant feedback and a short explanation for each question.
• Your running score is shown as you go, with a summary at the end (pass mark 50%).
• For quizzes with more than 10 questions you can choose a random 10 for a quick check, or the full set.
• Finished? Retake it, or review any question to see the right answer again.

Quizzes are for self-study and aren't recorded — take them as often as you like.

• Add a resource from the top nav — paste a video link or upload a file, add a transcript, and write notes (images can be embedded).
• Search from the home page; if there are no exact matches it falls back to fuzzy matching, so typos still work.
• Tag resources and set a presenter/course so the filters and grouping stay useful.
• Build a course or collection under Topics — add resources and drag them into order.