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Active Learning Designer

An AI-powered teaching skill that turns course material or a teaching goal into a runnable learning activity, then helps instructors adapt the task, timing and facilitation.

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Use the skill in your AI assistant. This website does not receive teaching materials or generate activities.

What the Skill Can Create

MapleWorks is a fictional manufacturing exercise about the Theory of Constraints. These actual slides and simulator screenshot show an activity developed with the skill.

Rendered from the supplied PowerPoint. Open any image for a full-size view.

MapleWorks scenario slide: Cutting 8, Assembly 5 and Finishing 7 units per round; demand is 7.
The scenario makes the production sequence, capacities and assumptions visible.
See the investment decision and simulator
Investment decision slide comparing upgrades to Cutting, Assembly and Finishing with their costs.
Teams commit to one investment and explain its effect before the later answer reveal.

The interactive companion

A standalone HTML companion can make an activity’s model visible through inputs and computed outputs. This actual MapleWorks screenshot shows capacity and demand controls after the Assembly upgrade.

Actual MapleWorks simulator with four sliders and outputs of 7 finished units, 4 units of work in progress and $350 contribution after the Assembly upgrade.
A visual demonstration of the generated simulator: four controls and the resulting finished units, work in progress and contribution.

The model starts at Round 3 with four units of work in progress. It uses hypothetical deterministic figures and omits longer-run variability. Contribution is not accounting profit. Facilitator guidance can connect the model’s assumptions to a classroom debrief.

Fit the activity to your class

Fit the activity to your class

Bring a concept, reading, lecture segment, case or existing exercise. Specify the time, class size, delivery mode and available technology. There is no fixed activity length.

Ask for student instructions, a timed sequence, facilitator notes, a debrief and a check of understanding. You can also revise an existing activity or troubleshoot participation and discussion.

Once the design works for you, request a Classroom Delivery Package: slides, a facilitator guide and, when useful and supported, an HTML companion. File generation is optional; you can teach from the activity text.

Active Learning Designer is a prototype. Review AI suggestions against your learning goals, student needs and local requirements.

The skill is shared by Naor Cohen under the Creative Commons Attribution licence (opens in a new tab) specified in its files. MapleWorks is an illustrative demonstration, not a built-in activity.