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Create a knowledge graph

The knowledge graph is the structure of the curriculum: what pupils must learn, and the material that teaches it, linked together. This structure is what drives the generation of manuals and lesson sheets. This page explains what a graph is made of and how one comes into being. To fill it in afterwards, see Build standards and components.

Curators only

Creating and editing the curriculum needs the curator role (or higher). Anyone can read and view it. Not sure? Ask: "What can I do?"

The graph has two layers

A helpful picture for everything that follows: the graph stacks two layers, tied to each other.

  • The standards — what a pupil must master. This is the stable backbone: the broad domains (e.g. Arithmetic), then the precise objectives inside them (e.g. Count up to 20). This layer rarely changes.
  • The content — what teaches those standards. The courses, chapters and lessons you write. This layer lives and evolves.

The two layers are stitched together: each lesson is aligned to the standard it teaches. That link is what lets the tool check the curriculum really covers every objective, and feed the right context when it generates a document.

A concrete example

The standard says: "The pupil can compare two numbers up to 20." The lesson "Bigger, smaller" in chapter 3 is aligned to that standard: it is the one that teaches it. If one day no lesson teaches that standard, the tool can flag it for you.

How a graph comes into being

There are two moments to tell apart.

At the very start: importing a starter graph

When a new subject arrives in the system (say, mathematics for a new grade), the starting backbone — the standards framework and its first tree — is imported from a file by an administrator or a developer. This is not something done through chat; it is described in Add a workspace or a subject.

Remember this: the standards framework (the root of the "standards" layer) enters the system through that import. You do not have to create it yourself.

After that: you build the structure by chatting

Once the subject is in place, everything else is built by chatting with Claude — this is your work as a curriculum expert:

You can even start a brand-new course from scratch by chatting (a course is a "root" of the content layer); only the standards root depends on the initial import.

Get your bearings before you build

Before creating anything, take stock of what already exists. Two habits:

"Give me an overview of this subject."

Claude gives you a snapshot: how many standards, courses, lessons, what the starting points ("roots") are, and whether a draft is already open. This is the best place to begin.

"Show me the structure from this course."

Claude walks the graph from a point you name and lists its contents, page by page.

You can also open the explorer to see the published tree visually — handy for getting an overall feel before you touch anything.

Nothing is official until it is published

Like any curriculum change, what you create here first goes into a draft — a separate workspace, invisible to document generation, until an approver publishes it. So you can build in peace. See Review, publish or discard a draft.