Build Your Course Record By Hand

Open one syllabus from a course you have already taught. Answer four sets of questions. You finish holding a one page Course Record you can paste in front of any tool for the rest of the term. Nothing is saved, nothing is sent, and there is no account.

Before you start. Have the old syllabus open in another window. Not the new template. The one from the last time you actually taught this course. Twenty minutes, by hand. This is the Seed phase of SeedStacking and it only works if the answers are real.

What you actually teach

Not the catalog description. What the course really covers, and what you really cut when the semester runs short.

Course number, title and level

What you genuinely cover, and what gets cut first when time runs out

Who is actually in the room

Not the demographic sheet. The room you walk into. This is the single field that changes AI output the most, and it is the one nobody ever writes down.

Describe your real students in three sentences

Where do they predictably stall, every single term

How you actually sound

Go to your old late policy and your old welcome message. Read them out loud. That voice is yours, not the template’s. Copy three real phrases out of them.

Three phrases you genuinely use with students, copied verbatim

One thing you would never say to a student, even though the template does

What you never let slide

Your non negotiables. The places where you do not bend, and the reason you do not. This is the field that keeps a tool from quietly lowering your standards for you.

Two or three things you never let slide, and why

Copy this and paste it above any request you make of any AI tool for the rest of the term. Paste it first, then ask.

Copy the Course Record

That is one course. Now count your teaching load for this term.

Every other section needs its own Course Record, and the outcomes list has to be retyped for each one. Twenty minutes is fine. Twenty minutes times five, in the week before classes, is not, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.

Do the first one by hand anyway. You need to feel what a Course Record does to output quality before any tool is worth paying for. When you want the rest built from a syllabus you drop in, that specific job belongs to the Course Refresh Assistant.

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Keep going. The full teaching session for this working session is on the Harvest Kernel channel, and the conversation about it is in the free Learning Community.

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