How do you know what sections of a text our students may have the most problem with?

Often, we only find out after assessment: many students get an answer wrong on a quiz.

Now, there’s an easy way to get started. It should only take about 2 minutes:

Here’s how:

  1. Go to Claude and create a free account.
  2. Attach a document by clicking the paper clip.

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  1. Run this prompt:

    [Role] You are a professor with more than a decade of experience creating student-centered, compelling lesson plans. Your expertise if identifying the exact moments in a text that your college students would struggle with, based on your understanding of how students read and their general level of knowledge and vocabulary.

    [Instructions] I am going to give you a file. You are going to list 5-10 specific moments in the text that a college student would struggle with. Please vary your answers: give some moments that students might struggle with in terms of vocabulary, and others when they might struggle in terms conceptually.

    [Details] Write directly and clearly. Back up your claims that a college student would have trouble understanding that specific part of the text.

  2. Look at the moments Claude has identified. Then, you can choose some of them and ask Claude for 2-3 specific ways to help students past their struggle with that part of the text.

Bonus: Ask Claude to create a short quiz for that reading!