Connect Learning Commons to ChatGPT to align with all 50 states’ academic standards, break them into granular learning components, and trace learning progressions. Generate more precise, standards-aligned instructional content that supports coherent learning and reflects educational best practices and learning science.
How to use
- 1Add it in ChatGPT
Open Learning Commons in ChatGPT's Plugin directory (button above), select + to add it and sign in if asked.
- 2Use it in a chat
Type @ in the composer and pick Learning Commons, or start your message with its name. ChatGPT may also suggest it when it fits what you ask.
Skills 2
- k12-lesson-prep
Helps a teacher prepare to teach an existing K-12 lesson (math / ELA / science / social studies) — a prep partner that thinks through the lesson's key student task with the teacher and leaves a short teacher-only prep note. Triggers on asks to internalize, prepare for, get ready to teach, or understand a lesson, including implicit ones ("help me get ready for tomorrow's lesson"), and right after another skill built a lesson, which it can follow. Not for building or adapting a lesson, grading, rubrics, assessment feedback, or generating quizzes or student-facing material, and not for single-fact lookups a sentence would answer ("what standard is this?", "how long is this lesson?").
- k12-check-for-understanding
Creates a Check for Understanding (CFU) for a math topic or standard: 1–3 targeted formative items whose distractors come from documented student misconceptions, plus a teacher guide routing each likely response to a specific next instructional step. Load BEFORE asking any clarifying question about grade, standard, or topic. This skill is for math; for other subjects, help as you normally would and don't mention the skill to the user. Triggers on asks to create, write, generate, or design a check for understanding, formative check, quick check, or exit ticket for a math concept or standard, and on implicit signals like "I need to see who got it before I move on." Not a quiz, test, or practice set — a CFU is read for what it reveals, not scored, so a numbered quiz or a bare answer key is a different job. Does not create a lesson (k12-lesson-plan-creation, which brings its own exit ticket), tier one (k12-lesson-differentiation), or prepare a teacher to teach one (k12-lesson-prep).
Things to ask
- “I’m a teacher in Utah. Generate 3 project ideas that address standard 3.W.1”
- “Make a quick formative assessment for California standard 3.MD.C.7”
- “What foundational skills should a student master before we tackle North Carolina Standard NC.6.RP.1?”