Design a sharper assignment. Walk away with the brief, the rubric, and the reflection prompts.
The skills that last — and the ones AI can't replicate for a student — are transferable, durable, human skills. You can only build and measure them when you teach them in the open. This tool walks you through naming those skills out loud, building a matching rubric and reflection prompts around them — then download everything to use in any class, on any platform.
Why it's worth ten minutes
You can only teach — and only assess — what you've made explicit. A vague brief produces vague work and no real evidence of growth. A sharp, intentional one produces stronger work and lets you see the thinking behind it.
Employers hire for transferable, durable skills, not just technical output — and those are exactly the skills AI can't produce on a student's behalf. They live in how a student reasons, decides, and revises, which a finished artifact alone never shows. That's why capturing student thinking through reflection is not a nice-to-have: metacognition is how you read the real depth and capacity of a skill. And it only works when you teach transparently — telling students which skills they're building and why they'll carry them into a career. This tool exists to push you toward that clarity, on purpose.
Why a sharper brief
Explicit purpose, expectations, and success criteria raise the quality of the work — and turn that work into legible evidence of the skills behind it, instead of a guess.
Why the reflection prompts
The human skills AI can't replicate live in how a student thinks, not what they hand in. Reflection surfaces that thinking — and metacognition is the only way to see a skill's true depth and capacity.
Why name the skills out loud
When you tell students which skills an assignment builds and why they transfer to their careers, a task becomes a recognizable skill they can name, own, and carry forward.
What you'll leave with
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A clear brief
Purpose, goals, success criteria, and an AI-use policy in one clean handout.
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A matching rubric
Drafted from your own success criteria and the skills you're targeting.
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Reflection prompts
Timed to the assignment and aimed at the skills students are building.
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Teaching notes
A companion page for your own use — the intent behind the assignment, in your words.
How it works
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Start from an assignment you already have — or a blank slate.
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Answer a few guided questions: purpose, AI use, skills it builds.
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Review what the AI drafts and make it yours.
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Download the brief, rubric, prompts, and teaching notes.
Free, no account. Nothing to sign up for, ever.
Nothing stored or shared. What you make is yours to download.
The AI drafts, you decide. Every word is yours to keep or change.
Mindful of the environmental cost. A full build — brief, rubric, prompts, and teaching notes — uses roughly the electricity of charging a phone partway.
Make the assignment clear, capture the thinking through reflection, and teach the skills out loud — that's how a project becomes durable, transferable skill that students can see, name, and carry into their careers.