A lesson is never just a lesson.
It is the plan, the worksheet, the version for the student who needs it differently, the slides, the sub folder when you wake up sick, and the answer in June about what actually got covered. CARL builds those from one setup. Compass keeps the record while you do it.
You edit every word. Nothing reaches a student that you have not read first.
Four steps, most of them yours.
Describe your class once
Saved as a class profile and reused all year, so you stop re-explaining your room every time.
CARL drafts it
Grade, subject, topic, and the supports your class needs. It drafts from there.
You review and edit
Change anything. The draft is a starting point, not a verdict.
Confirm it in Compass
Compass suggests the curriculum matches. You confirm what actually counts.
The loop runs both ways. A coverage gap in Compass becomes a Plan Idea you can send to CARL to build.
Start wherever the week is loudest.
Most planning does not begin with a blank unit. It begins with one specific thing due tomorrow.
A unit to map out
Build the arc first, then the days inside it, with the curriculum attached from the start.
Unit planning →Materials to make
Worksheets, activities, and handouts generated from the lesson you just built.
Worksheets & activities →Thirty different learners
Differentiated versions, UDL options, and ELL scaffolds built while you plan instead of at midnight.
Differentiation →Getting them in the door
Openers that start with something students already care about, so the first five minutes do some work.
Lesson hooks →The morning you wake up sick
A clear single-day plan a stranger can teach from, with the materials to run it.
Sub plans →The lessons that ask more of you
Grief, consent, mental health. CARL drafts the safeguards and the age-appropriate framing; the calls stay yours.
Sensitive topics →“Have I actually covered this?”
Coverage in one view across your classes, built from the planning you already did.
Coverage tracking →Reporting season
Comment starters grounded in what your class actually covered, ready for you to rewrite in your own voice.
Report card comments →Built around your curriculum and your room.
Works with your curriculum
Eleven Canadian provinces and territories, plus England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Mexico, and Common Core are built in. You can also upload your own source and plan against that.
- 11 provinces & territories
- England · Wales · Scotland · N. Ireland
- Mexico
- Common Core
- Your own upload
Inclusion, built in
SEL, equity, and trauma-informed practice ride along with the subject rather than arriving as a separate task. Six modules go deeper when you want them, from UDL and ELL supports to Indigenous Resource Pathways.
- UDL
- ELL supports
- SEL
- Indigenous Resource Pathways
Preview coming soon
A real CARL document will render here, scrollable and ready to print.
One setup, and the whole pile that follows it.
The plan is the part that gets talked about. The rest is what actually eats the evening.
The lesson or unit
Structured, drawn from the curriculum source you work from, and editable everywhere it matters.
Worksheets and handouts
Practice, prompts, vocabulary supports, exit slips. Built from the same plan, so they match it.
Versions for the room you have
The same lesson pitched differently, with UDL, ELL and SEL supports riding along rather than queued as another task.
A sub folder that already exists
For the morning you wake up sick and cannot face writing instructions for someone else.
The facilitator guide
Comes with the component rather than being a second thing to generate.
The coverage record
Built from what you confirm as you go in Compass, so June is not a reconstruction exercise.
Your judgment is the design, not a workaround.
You are the one who decides
AI can be wrong, sometimes confidently. Everything arrives as an editable draft. You read it, change it, or throw it out, and nothing reaches students without you.
Flagged, not gatekept
Where content needs a heads-up, you get the heads-up and the grade-fit context. What your class can handle is your call, not a setting.
Built and hosted here
CARL is made in British Columbia and application data is hosted in Canada.
The things teachers ask before they try it.
Will it work with my curriculum?
How is this different from asking a general AI chatbot?
Does it need my students’ personal information?
What does the free plan actually include?
Try it on tomorrow’s lesson.
Skip the sample class and use the thing you actually have to teach tomorrow, so you can see what comes back before you decide anything.
Free to start.
