Multiply for Seminaries — Modernize Delivery. Protect Faculty.
TL;DR Faculty hand over what they already have. A complete digital course comes back in 14 days — without anyone learning new software.
Faculty ask
Submit what you have
A syllabus, a lecture recording, a set of notes. No reformatting, no new tools, no training. Whatever format it's in now — that's what you send.
What comes back
A complete course
Study guides, comprehension questions, and reflection prompts — formatted for mobile, sequenced for working leaders.
How long it takes
14 days
From the day materials are submitted to a live, student-ready course. No development backlog, no instructional design queue.
Digital Delivery for Seminaries

Your Faculty Teach.
We Handle Everything Else.

Your faculty have spent decades building a theological legacy. But expecting them to become software operators to deliver it is costing you students and frustrating your best teachers.

Multiply takes your existing course materials — syllabi, lectures, reading notes — and turns them into complete, mobile-first digital courses in 14 days. No new software. No course building. Just teaching.

Nothing newfor faculty to learn
14 daysMaterials to live course
1 reviewFaculty sign-off, then it's live
What actually changes

Right now, "going digital" means your faculty become part-time software operators.

They learn an LMS. They format quizzes. They build module outlines. They do this on top of teaching, advising, and writing. Most of them do it reluctantly, and the resulting student experience shows it.

Multiply removes that entirely. Your faculty do one thing: hand over what they already have. A syllabus, a recorded lecture, or a set of notes. What comes back is a complete digital course formatted for the working leader completing it on a phone between services.

This is not a learning management system. It's the layer between your faculty's scholarship and the students who need it — translating decades of theological formation into a format that works.
Send what you have
Existing syllabi, recordings, or notes — in whatever format they already exist. Nothing needs to be reformatted.
Receive a complete course
Study guides, weekly comprehension checks, and pastoral reflection prompts — sequenced for mobile, ready for review.
Designed for working leaders
Courses are built for 10–15 minute sessions on a phone — for the bi-vocational pastor, not the residential student.
Four problems this solves

The issues keeping your provost
up at night.

Losing bi-vocational students
Working leaders are the fastest-growing segment in theological formation. If courses require on-campus presence or clunky desktop logins, you're not competing for them.
Faculty burnout
Going digital shouldn't mean turning professors into tech support. We eliminate the software burden without removing their theological voice.
Accreditation evidence
Accreditors want structured approaches to asynchronous learning, not just PDFs dumped on an LMS. Multiply provides a consistent, mobile-first course library.
Trapped institutional value
Decades of recordings, course packets, and notes sit in folders no student will ever find. We turn that archive into a living, enrollable course library.
One standard across every department

Every course feels like your institution built it.
Because it did.

Multiply brings every department to the same high standard of delivery — without altering a single professor's syllabus or theological convictions.

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Consistent Student Experience
Navigation and assessment style are identical whether a student is taking Systematics or Pastoral Care. Your brand carries through every module.
02
Intact Theology
We format scholarship for digital delivery; we do not rewrite it. What your faculty wrote goes in, preserving your exact doctrinal commitments.
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Seamless Updates
When a syllabus changes, simply submit the new material. The entire course refreshes without requiring a manual rebuild cycle.
Undeniable Proof

What goes in. What comes back.

Faculty submit what they already have — a syllabus, a recording, a set of notes. Toggle to see exactly what a finished course module looks like on the other side.

THEO 301 — Systematic Theology I  ·  Syllabus Excerpt

Course Description

An introduction to systematic theology examining the nature, sources, and methods of Christian doctrine. Students engage primary sources from the Patristic, Medieval, Reformation, and Modern periods — with attention to the doctrine of God, theological anthropology, and Christology.

Week 4 — The Doctrine of God: Divine Attributes

Required Reading: Grudem, Systematic Theology, chapters 11–13. Supplemental: Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics Vol. 2, pp. 148–194.

  • Lecture: The communicable and incommunicable attributes of God
  • Discussion: How does divine impassibility relate to pastoral care?
  • Case study: Calvin's treatment of divine accommodation in the Institutes

Learning Objectives

  • Distinguish between classical and open theist understandings of divine foreknowledge
  • Articulate the significance of divine aseity for Christian worship and prayer
  • Apply the doctrine of divine accommodation to biblical interpretation

Assessment

Weekly reading response (300 words). Midterm exegetical paper (1,500 words). Final integrative essay (3,000 words).

Faculty submits this as-is — no reformatting, no software required
Study Guide
Week 4: Divine Attributes — The Character of God
This week in one sentence: God's attributes aren't arbitrary qualities assigned to him — they reveal who he necessarily is, and that changes how you pray, preach, and pastor.
  • Incommunicable attributes (aseity, immutability, impassibility) belong to God alone — they protect worship from collapsing into sentiment
  • Communicable attributes (love, justice, wisdom) are the ones we reflect dimly as image-bearers — they ground ethics and vocation
  • Calvin's divine accommodation: God speaks as a parent speaks to a child — not falsely, but in forms the receiver can actually hold
Built from THEO 301 Week 4 source material
Comprehension Check
Sample Question — Week 4
Calvin argues that God "accommodates" himself to human understanding in Scripture. Which statement best captures what this means?
God simplifies truth by leaving out what's too complex
God communicates real things about himself in forms that human language can receive — without distorting them
God speaks metaphorically because literal statements about him are impossible
God adapts his nature to fit each cultural moment
Drawn directly from Week 4 readings — nothing invented
Pastoral Reflection Prompt
For personal or small group use — 10–15 min
Divine impassibility holds that God does not suffer. But Hebrews 4 tells us Jesus sympathizes with our weakness. How do you hold these together — and where does that tension actually surface in your pastoral practice? Think of a hospital room, a funeral, a hard conversation.
Designed for the working leader completing this on a phone
Faculty review before any student sees it. The completed module is returned to the relevant faculty member for one read-through. They confirm the theology is accurately represented. Any corrections are handled without their further involvement.
Walk through the student experience

This is exactly what your students open.

Work through a live module — the same experience a bi-vocational pastor completes on a phone between services. Your faculty's theology, your institution's voice.

Delivery formats available Reading + comprehension Video lecture Scenario-based Project submission Group cohort
THEO 301 · Week 4
Step 1 of 4
Week 4 · Divine Attributes
~12 min total
The Doctrine of God — Who God Necessarily Is
This week we move from the existence of God to the character of God — exploring the attributes that define who God necessarily is, and why those attributes change how you preach, pray, and pastor.
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Distinguish between God's communicable and incommunicable attributes
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Articulate why divine aseity matters for Christian worship and prayer
3
Apply Calvin's doctrine of accommodation to a real pastoral situation
Study Guide
~5 min
This week in one sentence: God's attributes aren't arbitrary qualities — they reveal who he necessarily is, and that changes how you pray, preach, and pastor.
Incommunicable attributes (aseity, immutability, impassibility) belong to God alone — they protect worship from collapsing into sentiment
Communicable attributes (love, justice, wisdom) are the ones we reflect dimly as image-bearers — they ground ethics and vocation
Divine accommodation is not God pretending — it is God genuinely meeting us where human language can receive him without distortion
Calvin's illustration: a parent who speaks simply to a child is not lying — they are meeting the child where they actually are
Check Your Understanding
~2 min
Calvin argues that God "accommodates" himself to human understanding in Scripture. Which statement best captures what this means?
Reflection
~5 min · Personal or small group
Divine impassibility holds that God does not suffer — yet Hebrews 4 tells us Jesus sympathizes with our weakness. How do you hold these together? Where does that tension surface in your pastoral practice — a hospital room, a funeral, a hard conversation?
Your instructor sees engagement, not content.
This is the exact student experience — no simplified mock. Built for 10–15 minute sessions on a phone.
How we know it works

What lands on your desk at day 14.

No vague outcomes. Five named deliverables — each one your Dean of Faculty can open, read, and approve. Click each item to mark it reviewed.

The 14-Day Timeline
Day 1
Materials submitted
Your department sends existing syllabi, recordings, or notes.
Days 2–5
Material is structured
Learning objectives are mapped. The theology is structured for delivery, not rewritten.
Days 6–11
Course materials are built
Study guides and questions are produced, grounded strictly in what was submitted.
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Day 12
Faculty review
The completed course is returned for one read-through.
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Day 14
Live
After faculty sign-off, the course is live and open for enrollment.
What faculty review
Your complete pilot deliverable.
Five items. Click to mark reviewed.
Course outline — learning objectives and module sequence
Per-lesson study guides — formatted for 10–15 minute mobile sessions
Comprehension questions — drawn from source material
Pastoral reflection prompts — connecting doctrine to ministry situations
Live mobile preview — a working instance of the course
Items reviewed
0 of 5
How It Works

Three steps.
14 days.

The process removes every point of friction that makes digital course development slow.

STEP01

Submit existing materials

Select the courses. Submit syllabi, recordings, or notes in whatever format they exist.

STEP02

Multiply builds the course — without faculty

The material is structured into a digital course. Faculty are not contacted during this stage. The goal is to return something they can review, not to ask them questions.

STEP03

Faculty review once — then it goes live

The completed course is returned for one read-through. After sign-off, students can enroll immediately on any device.

The Pilot

Three courses. 14 days.
See it before you commit to it.

The best way to evaluate this is to put your actual course material through the process and see what comes back. The pilot does exactly that.

Scope
3 Courses
One foundational, one advanced, one applied. All three go through the full process and are reviewed before anything goes live.
Turnaround
14 Days
From materials submitted to a complete draft returned for faculty review. No extended timeline.
Faculty ask
One review
Each faculty member reads the finished course and approves it. That's the full ask.
Leslie B. James
Leslie B. James
Impact Advisor & Founder, Multiply

Twenty years across city halls, corporate boardrooms, and church networks. Since 2018, our community transformation work has focused on closing the gap between high-level intention and ground-level execution. Multiply integrates automated digital ecosystems into theological education so your faculty can focus on scholarship, not software.

Get Started

Send us a syllabus. We'll send back a course.

Share an existing syllabus or lecture transcript and we'll return a complete sample module within 48 hours — study guides, questions, reflection prompts, formatted and ready for you to review.

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