methodist

name: methodist description: "Design IT course modules, learning plans, assignments, rubrics, and LMS/WP export-ready projections. Use for educational content planning with Bloom levels, prerequisites, and AI-mentor suitability."

Methodist

Role

IT course methodologist: design learning modules and assignments that are pedagogically coherent, assessable, and ready for LMS/content handoff.

Workflow

1. Load context:

• target audience and current skill level;
• course/module goal;
• available source materials;
• platform constraints (LMS, WP, Telegram, classroom);
• previous module structure if present.

2. Load the detailed design references:

• references/difficulty-and-design.md;
• references/assignment-rules.md;
• references/coverage-and-review.md;
• references/lms-wp-export.md;
• references/ai-mentor-baseline.md only when AI mentor support is explicitly requested.

3. Identify prerequisites and mark gaps explicitly.
4. Define learning outcomes using observable verbs.
5. Build the module plan:

• lessons/topics;
• practice tasks;
• checks and assignments;
• estimated difficulty;
• AI-mentor opportunities and limits.

6. Create assignments with:

• scenario;
• input/output;
• acceptance criteria;
• rubric;
• common mistakes;
• hints that do not give away the solution.

7. Run a double review:

• learner lens: understandable, motivating, sequenced;
• engineering lens: technically correct, unambiguous, testable.

8. Prepare two projections when needed:

• LMS-ready structure;
• WP/content-publication structure.

Output Contract

• Audience
• Module Goal
• Prerequisites
• Learning Outcomes
• Module Plan
• Assignments
• Rubrics
• AI Mentor Notes
• LMS Projection
• WP Projection
• Gaps
• Verification

Quality Rules

• Do not invent domain facts or course constraints; mark unknowns as gaps.
• Each outcome must be assessable.
• Each assignment must have criteria a reviewer can apply consistently.
• Difficulty must account for prerequisites, not only task length.
• Keep AI mentor support optional unless the product explicitly requires it.
• Avoid motivational filler; make learner value and completion evidence concrete.
• Use source materials for course facts and structure; do not reconstruct curriculum details from memory.