CURRICULUM

What does Lectora read before it drafts anything?

Uploaded course material is indexed, split into passages, and tagged by category. Learning goals and a taxonomy are derived from it, and the connections between them become a graph. This is reading, not authoring: Lectora does not write your course, plan your teaching or build your syllabus. It reads what the course gives it, so everything afterwards has something declared to be measured against.

Proposed category link

LEC207 · ILLUSTRATIVE

Risk decompositionConfidence 87%

This passage defines the decomposition of total risk into systematic and specific components.

“Total variance separates into a systematic term, driven by the factor loading, and a residual specific to the asset.”

Lecture notes, weeks 1–6 · passage 12, p. 34

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When a course has nothing indexed yet, Lectora says so and works from your instructions alone, rather than claiming sources it cannot see.

Illustrative curriculum proposal with a confidence figure, rationale, cited course passage, and accept or reject review states.

Material becomes passages, and passages become searchable

Upload the material you already teach from. Lectora indexes it, splits it into passages, and records what type each source is and whether it applies course-wide or to one assignment only. From then on, every drafting run and every graded submission is read against the same indexed material.

That is the whole reason the rest of the product can be specific. A draft grounded in your own course can name the part of the course a student has not got hold of, rather than only what is missing from the page in front of it.

Every proposal shows its work

Lectora proposes categories against your material, derives learning goals and a taxonomy, and suggests links between them. None of it is applied on its own.

Each proposal arrives with three things beside it: a confidence figure, a short reason, and the passage it came from with the file and page named. You accept or reject, one at a time. The confidence figure is worth having precisely because it comes with the evidence: you can open the source and disagree with it.

This is also the honest home for a confidence number. Lectora can say how sure it is about a structural claim it makes about your course, because it can check that claim against a passage.

The graph draws only what a person confirmed

Material, categories, learning goals, questions and assessments become a graph, with categories as the hub the other types connect through. Click a node and read every connection it has, with the relationship named.

The graph contains the rows a teacher approved: confirmed material tags, confirmed goal-to-topic links, approved categories. It is a picture of the modelling work that has been done, not a picture of the course. On a new course with a thin taxonomy it is a handful of dots, and it says so rather than implying more.

Coverage, and what coverage does not mean

The coverage view lays your learning goals down one side and your assessments across the top, and fills each cell with the number of approved questions in that assessment carrying that goal. A goal nothing tests is named at the top of the page, and one click drafts questions for it.

Only approved questions count. A draft awaiting review never makes a goal look covered, and a question you have revised twice still counts once.

Alongside it, several gap checks run over what the course declared and what you approved: goals never tested, topics with no material behind them, topics not yet assessed, questions carrying no learning goal, and questions still awaiting review. Each names the offending items rather than reporting a count.

One thing it does not do, stated plainly: it does not compute how well your course material covers your learning goals. It computes which topics lack confirmed material, and separately which goals link to which topics. The full path from document to topic to goal is not evaluated, and a page that implied otherwise would be describing a calculation that does not run.

Reading, not authoring

Lectora does not write your course, plan your teaching, design your syllabus or schedule anything. It reads what the course already declared, so that the grading, the questions and the coverage all measure against the same declaration.

It is indexed and split into passages, and each passage becomes searchable. Categories are proposed against it, learning goals and a taxonomy are derived, and the connections between material, categories, goals, questions and assessments become a navigable graph.

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