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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.

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.