Add and organise curriculum materials

AIPLA teacher guide — T3

Where this fits

Curriculum materials are added inside an activity (guide T2). Open an activity, go to its Materials section, and attach the documents you want the tutor to draw on. There is no separate library to manage — you organise materials in place, in the context of the activity that uses them.

What materials do

When you attach a document to an activity, the tutor can cite it — ground its answers in your source rather than in general knowledge. You can attach:

• documents from the shared corpus — material already available to you, and
• your own uploads — a PDF, slides, a worksheet, notes, or an image.

Each attached document is either visible to students or hidden (used only to ground the tutor). You choose per document.

The co-pilot can help here too

When it drafts an activity, the AI co-pilot can also suggest curriculum materials to attach — see T4 — Author with the AI co-pilot. You can always add and organise materials by hand as below.

Step 1 — Open the Materials section

Open an activity for editing (or create one — guide T2). In the builder’s section navigation, select Materials. The section lists the shared corpus you can browse, with an Upload button and controls to filter and organise.

The Materials section: browse the shared corpus, upload your own, filter by level, tag, subject or folder.

Step 2 — Attach a document

You have two ways to attach material:

• Cite an existing document. Use the Search materials box or the level, tag, subject and folder filters to find what you want, then select Cite on its row. It moves into the activity’s cited list.
• Upload your own. Select Upload and choose a file (PDF, Word, slides, spreadsheet, plain text, or an image). AIPLA extracts the text and shows you what it extracted, so you can confirm the document was read correctly before relying on it.

After an upload, AIPLA shows the extracted text so you can verify the parse.

Step 3 — Organise: folders, tags and subject

Keep a growing corpus navigable:

• Folders — group related documents; create one with New in the folder rail. Deleting a folder unfiles its documents rather than deleting them.
• Tags and Subject — set on a document so the filters can find it later.

These are shared organisation, so a document you tag well is easier for you and your colleagues to reuse across activities.

Step 4 — Control what students see

Each cited document has a Visible / Hidden toggle. Hidden documents still ground the tutor’s answers; visible documents also appear to students in the activity. New uploads default to Hidden — make a document visible only when you want students to read the source directly.

Tip

Grounding works whether a document is visible or hidden. Use hidden for source material that should shape the tutor’s answers without being handed to students verbatim.

Next steps

• Let the AI co-pilot assemble an activity — including suggested materials — from a description: T4 — Author with the AI co-pilot.