Point Pedagrade at a course and it reviews the instructional design against learning science — Bloom's, Mayer, Gagné, Merrill, and WCAG — then returns a scored, prioritized improvement plan that cites the principle behind every note and rewrites the fix for you.
I'm an instructional designer with 15 years of experience. I built Pedagrade to double-check my own work — because even after 15 years, when a deadline's looming, it's easy to miss a fuzzy objective, a quiz that doesn't match what we taught, a missing transcript, or a wall of text that should've been chunked.
It turned out useful enough that I cleaned it up and made it available. If you're an ID or on an L&D team and you'd find a rigorous second set of eyes helpful, it's here for you too.
— Todd K. Edwards, Instructional Designer
Three steps. No setup beyond pasting your Anthropic key once.
Paste a storyboard, script, or transcript — or upload a PDF, PowerPoint, or text file. Slide text and speaker notes are pulled in automatically.
A quick Draft pass for triage, or a deep Rigorous pass for the courses that matter. Each is anchored to the same learning-science rubric.
An overall score, per-framework scores, and findings ranked by learning impact — each with the principle cited and a concrete rewrite you can paste in.
Here's an actual finding from a Rigorous audit of a weak compliance module — the kind of thing it catches, with the principle cited and the fix written for you.
This module presents content but is badly misaligned: it opens with a non-measurable objective, then assesses only a trivia fact rather than the ability to recognize and report phishing.
Bloom's Taxonomy · Measurable, observable verbs — Anderson & Krathwohl (2001)
"Understand" and "be aware of" aren't observable or measurable, so neither the learner nor the designer can tell when the outcome has been met — which forces the quiz to drift toward whatever's easy to test.
RewriteBy the end of this module, you will be able to: (1) identify the warning signs of a phishing email in realistic examples, and (2) correctly report a suspicious email using your organization's reporting tool.
Open, established learning-science frameworks — no proprietary black box. Every finding tells you which principle it's drawing on and where it comes from.
Pedagrade runs on your own machine and your own Anthropic API key. Your course content goes straight from the app to Anthropic — it never passes through my servers, because there are none. Ideal for confidential corporate courseware.
Pedagrade is launching soon. Join the waitlist and I'll email you the moment it's live — and everyone on the list gets the $29 launch price before it goes to $49. One-time license, no subscription; you bring your own Anthropic key and pay Anthropic directly (a few cents per audit).
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