Using Features

Adding Components & Facilitator Guides

Add ready-made worksheets and activities to your lesson — then generate a teacher-facing Facilitator Guide for any activity with one click.

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What's a Facilitator Guide?

It's a teacher-only document CARL generates for any activity you add to your lesson. It includes facilitation notes with timing, differentiation strategies for Approaching, On Track, Advanced, and ELL students, a rubric, and teacher tips — all written specifically for that activity, not your lesson as a whole. This is where a lot of your UDL and differentiation support lives.

Finalize Your Lesson First

Components generate based on your lesson content. CARL reads what you've written and fills templates with aligned material, so the more complete your lesson plan is before you start browsing, the better your results will be.

Pro Tip: Finish your unit overview, learning goals, and daily plan before opening the component library. You'll get much more relevant content.

Open & Browse the Library

Click the blocks/grid icon in the left sidebar to open the Components & Resources tab, then click Browse Components. This opens the activity drawer on the right side of the editor — your full library of worksheets, quizzes, graphic organizers, reflection prompts, and more.

Recommended Worksheets: CARL will suggest activities directly in your lesson or unit plan based on your content. Look for the Recommended Worksheets tags throughout your plan — it's a quick way to find relevant activities without opening the full library.

Opening the components drawer and filtering in CARL

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Filter the Library

Use the filters to narrow down the library to what fits your lesson.

Filter	How It Works
Subject icons	Filter by Math, Science, ELA, Social Studies, Arts, Music, Assessment, or General
Grade buttons	CARL shows your current grade level ±1 to give you more variety and options
Discover	Browse the full library of available worksheets and activities
My Worksheets	Access worksheets you've created — coming soon
Saved	View worksheets you've saved for later — coming soon

Note: Want to see everything at once? Scroll down and click Show All Worksheets to browse the full library without any filters applied.

Preview & Add to Your Lesson

Before adding any worksheet, click the Preview button to inspect it first. The Activity Preview modal shows you the activity template — the layout, structure, and sections — so you know what you're getting before CARL fills it with your lesson content.

Previewing and adding a component in CARL

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View Mode	What You See
Student	The student-facing activity layout — the sections and format your students will work through
Guide	The Facilitator Guide layout
Both	Student activity and guide side by side

Pro Tip: Previewing first saves you from adding something that doesn't fit — you can see the full activity layout before committing.

Add to Your Lesson

Once you've found a worksheet you want to use, select it and click Add to Lesson. CARL fills the template with content aligned to your lesson automatically — no manual setup required to get started.

The component appears in your lesson as its own activity block. You can edit any part of it, reorder it, or remove it at any time.

Note: You can add up to 10 components per lesson. Each one generates independently based on your lesson content.

Generate a Facilitator Guide

Every activity you add can have its own teacher-facing Facilitator Guide. This is separate from the student worksheet — it's built for you, not your students, and gives you everything you need to run the activity confidently.

Scroll to the bottom of any activity block and click Generate Facilitator Guide. CARL builds it automatically using your lesson content and the specific activity type.

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What's Inside a Facilitator Guide

Everything in the guide is written for this specific activity — not your lesson or unit as a whole. That means the differentiation strategies, rubric, and facilitation notes are grounded in what students are actually doing in that worksheet, not generic advice that could apply to anything.

Section	What's Inside
Facilitation Notes	Numbered steps for running the activity, each with a suggested time so you can pace the lesson
Materials & Guiding Questions	What to prepare beforehand, plus discussion questions to use during the activity
Common Misconceptions	What students often misunderstand about this topic, and how to redirect their thinking
Differentiation Strategies	Specific supports for Approaching, On Track, Advanced, and ELL students — written for this activity
Assessment Criteria	A rubric across Beginning, Developing, Proficient, and Extending — based on the activity's learning goals
Teacher Tips	Practical classroom advice based on the activity type

Note: Facilitator Guides are teacher-only. They don't appear in the student-facing version of your lesson when printed or shared.

Ready to Explore the Library?

Open your lesson, finalize your content, and start browsing. Generate a Facilitator Guide after you've added your first activity.

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