Curriculum
Who this is for: teachers · Where: Curriculum in the sidebar.
What this page is for
The curriculum is the spine everything else hangs from. A lesson, a lesson plan, homework and an exam all point at a curriculum unit, so getting this right once saves work everywhere else.
Folders
Curricula live in folders, grouped by where they come from:
| Origin | What it is |
|---|---|
| Mine | Yours. Only you see them until you share |
| Templates | Starting points provided with the app |
| School | Shared by colleagues in your school |
| Global | Shared across schools, after director approval |
A folder carries the subject, the grade, and — for lyceum — the profile (real or umanist). Copy to my library takes a copy you can edit freely; the original is untouched.
The structure
Three levels, matching the MECC layout:
Section (unit of learning, has a total number of hours)
Topic
Subtopic
Hours are set per subtopic, and the section total is added up for you rather than typed twice.
One lesson is generated per subtopic. A section with four subtopics becomes four lessons in the calendar wizard, each named after its subtopic — which is what pupils then see on their timetable, rather than a repeated unit name.
Creating one
By hand
Add sections, then topics, then subtopics, with competences, content units, learning activities and hours.
From a PDF (AI import)
Give the address of a MECC curriculum PDF and the page range. The token cost is estimated before anything is generated, and the result lands in the editor as a draft for you to correct — it is never saved straight to your library.
MECC tables give REAL and UMANIST hours side by side. The import reads the column for the profile you chose, and tells you which one it used. If the chosen column is missing, it says so rather than guessing.
Administrative rows — evaluations, synthesis hours, hours left to the teacher's discretion — are skipped, since they are not teachable content.
The competence profile
A curriculum can be scored against the eight EU key competences — Literacy, STEM, Digital, Citizenship, Entrepreneurship, Cultural, Multilingual and Personal & social. The profile answers one question: if I teach this subtheme, how much does it move each competence?
Every subtopic gets a score per competence:
| Score | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 0 | not addressed (not stored) |
| 1 | touched in passing |
| 2 | genuinely practised |
| 3 | a core focus of that subtopic |
Those scores are then multiplied by the subtopic's lesson-hours, so a
six-hour subtopic that practises Digital moves that segment three times as far as
a two-hour one. Open a curriculum's preview to see the profile: a bar per
competence, and — under Per subtheme — every subtopic with what it adds,
written as +6 · 12% meaning six points, which is 12% of this curriculum's
whole Digital coverage.
Only the per-subtopic scores are saved. Every total, share and percentage is recalculated when you open the profile — so changing a subtopic's hours updates the whole profile immediately, with no second AI run and no extra tokens.
Creating it
Two ways, both of which show the token cost before spending anything:
- With an AI import. The import dialog has a Also build the competence profile tick box, on by default. It is a second AI pass, billed separately — untick it to import the curriculum alone. If that pass fails, the curriculum still imports; only the profile is missing.
- For a whole folder. The radar button on a personal folder card scores every curriculum in it. It first shows how many curricula and unscored subtopics it would process and the estimated tokens, and only runs when you confirm.
A folder run skips subtopics that already carry scores, so running it again after adding a few subtopics costs only those. If everything is already scored, the button tells you so instead of billing for a repeat.
Two things a folder run will not touch: folders that are not yours (the Templates, School and Global tabs are views over other people's work), and a curriculum you have shared globally, which is frozen for editing.
What pupils get from it
The profile is not only a planning view. Once a calendar lesson covering a subtopic has been taught, every pupil on that lesson's register banks that subtopic's competence points, and they appear on their report card under Competences you have earned — visible to the pupil and to their parents.
| Rule | Why |
|---|---|
| A lesson counts once it has ended — the date has passed, or it is today and its end time is behind us | A lesson that has started has not yet been delivered |
| A lesson with no end time counts only after its whole day is over | There is no honest moment to call it finished |
| A pupil marked absent for that subject that day gets nothing for it | Otherwise the profile would report the timetable, not the pupil |
| Points are banked per lesson and never double-counted | Each lesson credits a pupil exactly once, however often the sweep runs |
Points appear within about fifteen minutes of a lesson ending, not instantly.
A calendar lesson stores its subtopic's title, not its id. If you rename a subtopic after its lessons were placed on the calendar, those lessons can no longer be matched to it and award nothing — rather than guessing at a different subtopic. Rename before scheduling, or re-place the affected lessons.
Because points are only banked going forward, lessons taught before you built the profile award nothing. The profile starts counting from the moment it exists.
Sharing
| Action | Who approves |
|---|---|
| Share with the school | Nobody — immediate |
| Share globally | Your director |
You can share a whole folder in one action, and unshare at any time. Sharing globally as a director is immediate.
Rules and limits
- Editing yours does not affect copies others took, and vice versa.
- Deleting a curriculum unlinks the work built on it. Lesson plans, exams and homework survive; calendar lessons attached to it are removed. The confirmation tells you what is affected.
- Pupils never see provenance. They see topics, not which folder a curriculum came from.
Troubleshooting
"The import produced no subtopics." Bullets are reconstructed from the PDF text where the model misses them. If a section is genuinely flat in the source, add subtopics by hand.
"Hours look wrong." Check the profile — you may be reading the other column. Hours are editable per subtopic.
"The competence profile says some subtopics are not scored." The run scores what it can and reports the rest rather than quietly leaving gaps. Run it again from the folder — it charges only for the subtopics still missing.
"Every competence scores high, so the profile tells me nothing." That is worth reporting. The scoring is deliberately asked to be discriminating — at most three competences per subtopic and at most one top score — because a profile where everything is a core focus carries no information.
"My global share has not appeared." It is waiting for director approval. School shares are immediate.
"A colleague's curriculum is missing." They have not shared it, or shared it globally and it is still pending.