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1. Click your profile image in the bottom-left corner, then open Settings.
2. Go to Curriculum Defaults.
3. Under Curriculum Standards, search for your curriculum and select it.
4. Check the Planning Framework and Assessment Language that come with it.
5. Save Changes before starting a new plan.

1. Open Settings from your profile image, then Uploaded Curriculum Sources.
2. Add your curriculum: upload a file, paste a Google Docs, Sheets or Slides link, or enter it by hand.
3. Choose whether it starts a new source or joins one you already have, and name it.
4. Review the extraction. CARL lists what it found, and only the outcomes you confirm are kept.
5. Confirm the terminology, the subjects and grades, pick the source role, then Finish setup.

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1. Open Settings from your profile image, then Uploaded Curriculum Sources.
2. Select Enter curriculum by hand. No upload is needed.
3. Name the source. That name is what you will see in the subject list later.
4. Click Enter curriculum items and add each outcome. CARL maps three levels: theme, skill and topic.
5. Add any other grades or subjects, then Save document review and Review mappings.
6. Confirm the subjects, choose the source role, and Finish setup.

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1. Click your profile image in the bottom-left corner, then open Settings.
2. Choose Saved Class Profiles from the menu, then Add Profile.
3. Step one is the basics: class name, grade, subject, lesson language, period length and class size.
4. Carry on through Location, Tech and Learners, or stop there. The more CARL knows about the room, the closer a plan starts to it.
5. Save & Exit when you are finished. The profile saves to your account as you go.

1. When you create a lesson, use Select class on the first screen, “What are you teaching today?”.
2. CARL applies that profile’s context to the lesson it builds.

1. Click New in the left sidebar. You land on “What are you teaching today?”
2. Type what you’re teaching in your own words (e.g. “a 60-minute Grade 8 science lesson on cells, with a hands-on activity”). The more detail, the more CARL pre-fills.
3. Optional: Attach a file to build from, Select class to apply a Saved Class Profile, or flip “Not sure? Keep chatting” to talk it through first.
4. Press the next arrow. CARL opens “Let’s build your lesson,” with the fields auto-populated from what you typed.
5. Check or adjust subject, grade (single or split), duration, and the learning goal. (Use Get CARL’s Input for a suggested goal.)
6. Optional: add context chips, Success indicators, Classroom & space, Technology, Learners & accessibility, Notes.
7. Click Generate lesson plan.

1. Click New in the left sidebar to start a lesson.
2. Open the Attach menu and choose Upload a file.
3. Confirm you own the plan, or have permission to use it.
4. Wait for the scan. A long file can take a minute or two, and the next arrow appears once it finishes.
5. Read the scanned details. This is the page CARL builds from, so use Edit on a section to correct anything it misread, then Save changes.
6. Choose Follow the document to stay close to your plan, or Use as inspiration to let CARL rework it.
7. Click Generate. It takes a minute or two depending on how long the plan is.

1. On a Saved Class Profile, set the language mode for the class if every lesson is the same.
2. While creating a lesson, open the language / mode option, choose English, French, or Spanish, and confirm. CARL generates the lesson in that language.

You bring something you already have: a worksheet, a reading, a lesson plan. You pick a tool and say what needs to change. CARL proposes the change next to your original, and you apply it, revise it or leave it.

Change what you have

• Level It. Raise or lower the reading level. Same meaning, different load.
• Scaffold It. Keep the task, add the supports you choose around it.
• Suggest Lesson Supports. Practical supports for the barriers in this task.
• Rewrite It. Same content for a new audience, tone or purpose.
• Summarize It. Shorter, with the main ideas and key terms kept.
• Hook It. A why-this-matters line and two hooks from your content.
• Translate It. Into the language you choose: everything, student text only, or key terms.
• Explain It. An analogy, a worked example and a misconception to head off.
• Make a Rubric. From a task you wrote. Never from student work.

Make something new from it (under See more)

• Question ladder. DOK or Bloom’s climb, from recall to extended thinking.
• Vocabulary cards. Frayer cards for the key terms.
• Exit ticket. Ten formats, filled from this content.
• Graphic organizer. The right shape for the thinking.
• Writing frames. Optional frames for the language the task asks for.
• Discussion protocol. Questions plus the routine to run the talk.
• Warm-up / Do-Now. A five-minute opener from a lesson you choose.
• Reflection. Lesson, unit or portfolio reflection.
• Answer key. On a separate teacher page: an answer key for closed questions, suggested responses for open ones.

How do I adapt a resource I already have?

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1. On the Create page, open Adapt materials and choose a tool, like Level It or Scaffold It. A starting prompt appears in the box.
2. Choose Add material and add a file, pasted text, a website, a YouTube link or a Compass plan. Confirm you are allowed to use it when asked.
3. Edit the prompt to say exactly what you want, for example “Add a word bank for the last question only.”
4. Send it. CARL names the biggest barrier it sees, then plans, changes, checks and previews.
5. Read the proposal card, open Review details, and switch to Compare to see your page and the change side by side.
6. Choose Apply change, Revise if it is close but not right, or discard it. CARL confirms when a change is applied.

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1. On Create, choose the Worksheets chip, then Add material and add your worksheet. A PDF keeps its table and layout, so upload it if you can.
2. Describe the new one, for example “same layout, question types and difficulty, but about Arctic animals.”
3. CARL shows what it found in your material. Choose Follow the document to stay close to it, or Use as inspiration to go your own way.
4. Choose a single grade. A range like “Grades 5–7 in document” is not accepted, but split-classroom options such as 5/6 and 6/7 are.
5. Choose Generate worksheet. CARL builds it in the editor and you edit it like any worksheet.

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1. Open Review details on the proposal card to read each change in full.
2. Switch the document view between Proposed, Original and Compare. Compare shows both pages with each change numbered.
3. Read the checks list, for example No new figures or Source numbers kept, then check the wording and layout yourself.
4. Choose Apply change, Revise or discard. CARL confirms when a change is applied.

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1. Open Adapt materials and choose Level It.
2. Add your material and edit the prompt to name the level and the part, for example “About Grade 4, intro paragraph and table only. Keep every fact the same.”
3. Review the proposal. CARL states where the reading landed, for example from about Grade 9 to about Grade 2.
4. If it is not where you wanted, apply it and ask again, or choose Revise and say higher or lower.

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1. Open Adapt materials and choose Scaffold It. The starting prompt reads “Add clear steps and scaffolds without giving away answers.”
2. Add your material, then narrow the request: “Add a short word bank and two sentence starters for the last question only. Do not add any numbers or change anything else.”
3. Open Review details. In our test CARL added a short word bank and two starters, and left the question itself as written.
4. Check the preview. The extra lines can push a page over, and CARL says so when space is tight.
5. Choose Apply change. Add another support if you want one.

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1. Open Adapt materials, choose Translate It, and add your material.
2. In the tool options, set the Target language and the Language mode: Full immersion, Student material only or Core content only.
3. Choose whether you want an answer key, suggested responses or no key, and type a short request such as “Translate the student worksheet into French, keeping the layout.”
4. Review the proposal, then apply it. In our test the table layout, numbering and answer lines stayed put.

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1. Open Adapt materials, choose See more, then Answer key. The starting prompt reads “Create a separate teacher answer key. Keep the student pages unanswered.”
2. Add your worksheet and send it.
3. Review the new teacher page. Closed questions get answers and open ones get suggested responses. We got seven answers and two suggested responses.
4. Choose Apply change.

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1. Open Adapt materials, choose See more, then Vocabulary cards. The starting prompt reads “Add vocabulary cards with definitions and examples.”
2. Add your material and send it.
3. Review the new page. Each card has a definition, a visual cue, an example and a non-example. We got three cards.
4. Choose Apply change.

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1. If the message says the change did not pass CARL’s checks, your document is unchanged. Ask again with a smaller change and say what not to touch.
2. If CARL stopped partway, choose Keep draft. Then use the ready-made Continue request to ask CARL to resume. Review the result before you apply it.
3. If you see “CARL’s AI service is busy”, keep any draft and try again in a minute.
4. If a worksheet build says a page check failed, ask for short table cells and one page of questions, then add more.
5. If a bold word shows with ** around it in Review details, check the page view. That is how it will print.

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1. Open your lesson in the editor and switch the toolbar from Manual to Edit with CARL.
2. The panel opens beside your document, so you can watch the plan change as CARL works rather than waiting on a result.
3. Set the scope with the dropdown, either the whole plan or just the part you are working on.
4. Type what you want in plain language, for example “go through the unit and put in recent, relevant examples to share with students”.
5. Or type / for a command instead, like /check-facts, /simplify or /translate. See the slash command list below.
6. Send it. Stop halts CARL mid-change if it is heading the wrong way, and you review what it wrote before you keep it.

1. Open a worksheet or lesson plan and click Edit with CARL.
2. Type / in the chat box. The list filters as you keep typing; arrow keys browse, Enter picks.
3. The command lands in the box as a chip. Send it as-is, or add a note first.
4. Check the scope chip under the box: Whole worksheet, or Selected section for the block you clicked on the canvas.

Rewrites (they change the page)

/improve/simplify/shorten/expand/grammar/translate/student-friendly/accessibility/continue/summarize

Reviews (they report back; nothing changes until you ask)

/check-facts/health-check/pacing/alignment/structure/clarity/engagement/approach/explain

Reviews first, rewrites second, you in the middle. After any rewrite CARL runs a page check and reports the US Letter page count.

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• Stage 1, Learning Standards: the province/curriculum-specific levels (key concepts, essential skills, learning objectives, core content), pulled from your curriculum.
• Stage 2, Assessment Evidence: summative tasks, formative checks, and a proficiency scale (BEG · DEV · PRO · ADV).
• Stage 3, Learning Experiences: the 5E / BOPPPS hybrid flow (Engage → Explore → Explain → Apply → Reflect) with I-do / We-do / You-do, plus inline Recommended Worksheets.
• Stage 4, Reflect & Revise: post-teaching reflection prompts.

1. Open Tools in the left sidebar. It offers Browse Activities, Create Worksheet and Browse Teaching Resources.
2. From a template. In Browse Activities, browse the worksheet templates. Hover or click a sheet for more about it, or preview it before you add it. Add it and CARL fills it from your lesson content.
3. CARL’s Worksheet Generator. Beta Choose Create Worksheet and describe what you want, down to the detail, and CARL builds it on the page for you.
4. Print ready. Switch to the Print Ready tab in the Activity Library for finished printables. Pick one, preview it, and add it. Nothing is generated, so nothing needs reviewing first.
5. However it got there, edit the worksheet by hand or with Edit with CARL. The facilitator guide comes with it automatically.

1. Open Tools → Browse Teaching Resources.
2. On Lesson & Unit Enhancements, choose modules: UDL & Differentiation, Equity & Inclusion, SEL Focus, Student Voice, Trauma-Informed, Indigenous Resource Pathways.
3. Or switch to ELL Supports.
4. Click Generate enhancements.

1. Open Blocks in the left sidebar.
2. Find a block, browse a category (Teaching, Assessment, Organizers, Data, Science, Layout) narrow it by Grade, or use Search blocks.
3. Drag it onto the sheet where you want it, then drop.
4. Click in and edit its content directly.

• Library, images you’ve saved or generated.
• CARL, reusable classroom visuals from CARL worksheets, filtered by grade and subject.
• Web, open-licensed image search.
• AI, generate a brand-new image from a prompt. (Uses image credits.)

1. Add an image block from Blocks → Layout.
2. Open Media and pick a source: Library, CARL, Web or AI.
3. For AI: describe what students should see, pick a Visual Type (Scene, Diagram, Map, Timeline, Lab, Vocab) and options (e.g. Inclusion), then Generate and insert. (Uses image credits.)
4. Or upload your own (drop a file in the Library tab).

1. Open Customize in the left sidebar.
2. Upload School Logo (or pick a preset).
3. Choose an Accent Colour set (CARL Default, Ocean, Sunset, Forest).
4. Choose a Plan Theme (Default, Typeset Document, Editorial).

1. Click Publish in the top bar to open Publish lesson.
2. On Sharing, choose who can see it: Public (in the library), District, Unlisted (anyone with the link), or Private (you, and anyone you have shared it with directly).
3. On Downloads, choose the documents and formats (PDF, DOCX).
4. Click Publish lesson.
5. Review the lesson details page, then download each file when it is ready.

1. Publish the lesson.
2. On the details page, use the download buttons (PDF, DOCX).
3. If a download is still spinning, wait a moment and refresh, longer lessons take longer to prepare.