Quick
Identify the Smallest Useful Change
Get one or two plausible explanations and one small change to consider first.
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Human Check: Treat the diagnosis as a hypothesis. Your teaching experience and student evidence are stronger.
Promptbook Task · Fill a Gap
Fix the Missing Piece Without Rebuilding the Whole Course.
Start with the unit you already have. The Promptbook helps you figure out what is missing and look for the smallest useful addition.
More material is not automatically better.
Choose the Smallest Fix
You do not need to work through every section. Pick the route that matches the problem in front of you.
- Name the course and unit.That is enough to build a first prompt.
- Choose what the unit needs.Diagnose the gap, add practice, find a real example, or add context.
- Use Quick first.Go Deeper only if the first pass leaves an important question unresolved.
Already know you need a reading or chapter? Go straight to Find One Unit Resource.
Give the Promptbook Just Enough Context
Course and unit are required. Everything else is optional.
Required to copy a prepared prompt.
Required to copy a prepared prompt.
Optional: add context that may improve the result
Skip anything you do not know or do not need.
Privacy: Shared course details stay in your browser. By default they last only for this browser session so you can move between Promptbook tasks without retyping them. Use Remember only on a device you control, and do not paste private student information.
Figure Out What Is Actually Missing
Use this when the unit feels thin, confusing, repetitive, or disconnected but you are not yet sure why.
Go Deeper
Diagnose Before You Add Anything
Use a more systematic check when you still cannot tell whether the problem is content, practice, context, or scaffolding.
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Human Check: Do not add a resource just because AI can suggest one.
Give Students More Practice
Use this when students need to do something with the content, not read one more thing.
Quick
Find a Short Ready-to-Use Activity
Look for an existing activity that directly supports the learning goal.
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Human Check: Make sure the activity earns its place instead of simply adding workload.
Go Deeper
Compare a Few Activities
Use this when you want to compare a small number of openly licensed options and choose the easiest one to adapt.
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Human Check: Verify the license before revising or redistributing an activity.
Add a Real Example, Media, or Primary Source
Use this when the unit needs evidence, texture, a concrete example, or something students can analyze directly.
Quick
Find 2 or 3 Assignable Options
Focus on credible, usable sources rather than a giant list.
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Human Check: Verify rights, captions or transcripts, and the instructional fit.
Go Deeper
Compare the Strongest Sources
Use this when provenance, accessibility, rights, or context matters as much as the content.
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Human Check: A direct link is not proof of permission to remix or redistribute.
Add Context or a Missing Perspective
Use this when the unit feels narrow, dated, abstract, or under-contextualized.
Quick
Find One or Two Targeted Additions
Ask for the smallest useful addition that makes the unit less narrow or abstract.
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Human Check: Avoid treating one resource as a stand-in for a whole community or perspective.
Go Deeper
Compare a Few Ways to Broaden the Unit
Use this when you need better context or a more deliberate representational choice.
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Human Check: Review authorship, context, framing, and whether the addition genuinely deepens the unit.
Field Rule: Add Less, on Purpose
If the diagnosis says the unit does not need another resource, that is a successful result. The Promptbook should reduce unnecessary searching, prep, and student workload, not give you a reason to add something to every week.