Courses, groupings & lessons¶
This is where the curriculum's content gets written: a course, its groupings, its lessons and their activities. You create them, put them in order, and link them to the standards they teach. The documents that present them come afterwards (see Compose a document).
Curators only
These changes require the curator role and stay in draft until they are published.
The content layer at a glance¶
Course → Grouping(s) → Lesson → Activities
- The course is the root of a subject's content.
- A grouping gathers lessons together. Your curriculum calls it a chapter, unit, module, week or day, and it can nest several levels of them (a week that contains days, for example).
- The lesson is the unit of teaching. It is the lesson that you align to an objective.
- The activities are what the pupil does: each exercise, with its instruction, and its expected answer when it has one. An assessment (an end-of-unit review, a test) sits at the same level as a lesson.
The curriculum carries the words
The text of an exercise is written on the activity, not in a document. That is what lets every document reuse the same instruction word for word, and lets the tool spot a page that strays from it. A new question means a new activity here.
Create¶
Describe what you want and where:
"Add a grouping 'Decimals' at the end of the course."
"Add a lesson 'Adding two decimals' to this grouping, aligned to the objective 'Add decimal numbers'."
"In this lesson, add three activities: …"
You can describe everything at once. Claude prepares the whole set, shows the preview, and only writes after you agree. A new element takes the shape of similar elements already in the graph: a new lesson looks like the existing lessons, without you having to say so.
Edit and reorganise¶
| You want to… | Say, for example… |
|---|---|
| Correct a title | "Rename this grouping to 'Decimal numbers'." |
| Rewrite an instruction | "Replace the instruction of the second activity with: …" |
| Move a lesson | "Move this lesson to the next grouping." |
| Reorder | "Put this lesson in first position." |
| Delete | "Delete this activity." |
Moving a lesson does not set off a chain of renumbering: belonging to a grouping is a link, not a fixed number. For a deletion, the preview shows everything that would go with the element.
For a series of corrections, give them all at once: "In lessons 3 to 8, replace 'work out' with 'calculate' in the instructions." Claude prepares a single grouped change, which you confirm in one go.
Link a lesson to its objective¶
"Align this lesson to the objective 'Compare two numbers up to 20'."
"Which objective does this lesson teach?"
The details are in Standards & components.
Give a lesson its flow: routines¶
An instructional routine is a reusable session plan. You apply it to a lesson, to an activity, or to the whole course so that it holds for every lesson in it:
"Apply the 'Mental maths session' routine to this course."
Everything is explained in Instructional routines.
See the result before publishing¶
"Show me the pending changes."
Claude lists what will change when the draft is published. To see what your changes would produce in a document, without publishing anything:
"Preview the section for lesson 12 from the draft."
The preview is isolated: it never appears in the official documents. Preview the smallest piece you changed — a section rather than a whole document. When everything looks right, see Review, publish or discard a draft.