Frame the problem.
Decide what needs to be solved before asking for help. Atlas can ask for precision, but it does not choose the problem.
The learning system for the AI era.
gives teachers a way to assign AI, not chase it. Students work with a course-grounded agent, and the reasoning behind the result stays available for feedback and assessment.
Three layers. One learning record.
The project is built in three layers: AI Assignments, a full term of coursework, and the learning system they belong in.
AI Assignments
Turn a teacher's own words into a guided student session, then return the work as evidence the teacher can review.Atlas Course
Build a sequence of assignments for the whole term, with shared course material, policies, feedback, and grading.Atlas LMS
Courses, materials, modules, people, assignments, grades, and agents share one learning record.“Okay, I want them to figure out why this pricing idea might fail, but do not let Atlas tell them the answer. Make them use the elasticity reading, ask why their assumptions hold, and if they change their mind I want to see what changed. They can use AI, obviously, but the point is that they have to make the call.”
- Evaluate a pricing strategy with elasticity.
- Question assumptions. Do not make the decision.
- Use the Week 2 reading and the class model.
- Keep the initial claim, challenge, revision, and final rationale.
AI changes the assignment, not just the answer.
Use the course.
Bring the relevant reading, concept, or method into the reasoning and keep it attached to the claim.
Revise under challenge.
Test a counterexample, answer a hard question, and show whether the evidence changed the original position.
Assess the work against your rubric.
Leila teaches first-year composition at a public university. She loves helping students find their own point of view. She cares less about a polished first answer than whether students can read closely, defend a claim, and revise it honestly.
“I want to hear their thinking in the final draft, not a version of what they think I want to hear.”
Her rubric asks three questions.
- Make a clear claim.
Does the student take a specific position that another reader could challenge?
- Use the text.
Does the student support the claim with close reading instead of general summary?
- Revise with purpose.
When the evidence pushes back, does the final draft show what changed and why?
Atlas brings the relevant work to each question. Leila makes the final judgment.
The assignment belongs to a complete learning system.
Materials, people, assignments, grades, and the agents working across them share the same course record.
Built in the open.
Atlas is an open exploration. The source is public, the design decisions are written down, and the ideas are free to borrow.
Take the idea further.
Atlas is open. Explore the code, fork it, borrow the concepts, or ask how it was built.