# A course you teach again next year After each lesson, two lines: what worked and what to change. Next September the course starts from those notes, with last year’s slides and exercises attached. ## At a glance - **For:** Teachers and lecturers who give the same course again. - **You keep:** A thread per course, and a note per lesson. - **Nothing to set up:** After each lesson: what worked, what to change, the slides and exercises as files. - **The moment:** Next September you open the thread. Week 3 says to use the class survey in week 2 too, with the exercise sheet attached. - **Plan:** Free · Free keeps the course in this browser; export a backup now and then. Plus adds Sync across your own devices. Pro with Sync adds the optional connections below. ## Before You teach Statistics 101 every autumn. Last year the second week went badly, and you meant to swap the exercise. Twelve months later the slides are in last year’s folder, the note about the exercise is somewhere in your inbox, and you teach it the same way again. ## Why a thread, not a folder of slides ### A note per lesson The plan, the materials and two lines afterwards: what worked, what to change. ### Next year starts here The same thread carries on next autumn, with last year’s notes right above. ### Exercises you can find Tag them #exercise, and Search lists every one across your courses. ## A thread, over time Your workspace starts empty. ### Statistics 101, autumn Teaching · Active #### Mon, 15 Sept 2025 *Two lines after the lesson.* **You** · 18:20 Week 2, probability with dice. The exercise took 40 minutes and half the room was lost. Next year: a different exercise for week 2. #### Mon, 22 Sept 2025 *What worked, with the sheet attached.* **You** · 17:40 Week 3, sampling. The class survey worked: they collected their own data. Use it in week 2 next year. #exercise [Image: Exercise sheet: class survey] #### Tue, 1 Sept 2026 *Next September starts from last year.* **You** · 10:00 New year. Last year’s notes say: week 2 changes, week 5 needs more time. #### Mon, 14 Sept 2026 *The change you meant to make, made.* **You** · 17:50 Week 2 with the class survey instead of dice: 25 minutes, and everyone followed. #### Mon, 19 Oct 2026 *With Pro, ChatGPT reads your plan through its app and adds a quiz.* via **ChatGPT** · 20:10 Quiz questions for week 7, from the lesson plan in this thread: - [ ] What does a 95% confidence interval say about the next sample? - [ ] Why does a larger sample narrow the interval? ## If you like, let it file itself. None of this is needed to start. It takes a few minutes once, and needs Pro. [Script or API](https://thread.page/help/connections/custom.md) ### A quiz from your plan Ask ChatGPT or Claude to read the lesson’s note and add quiz questions to the thread. #### Set it up App Read and add Selected folders and threads: Teaching Pro with Sync 1. In **Settings → Connections → Apps**, choose **Connect an app** → **Claude app** or **ChatGPT app** and follow its steps. On ThreadPage’s consent page, choose **Customize access** → **Selected folders and threads** → **Teaching**. 2. Ask: “Read week 7 in Statistics 101 and add five quiz questions as a note.” ### Ask in the thread Or write to @GPT in the thread, on your own API key. #### Set it up AI model Your OpenAI or Anthropic API key Pro with Sync 1. In **Settings → Connections**, open **AI models**, choose **Claude** or **GPT**, paste an API key from Anthropic or OpenAI and choose **Connect**. AI models need Pro with Sync turned on. 2. In the thread, write `@GPT` and what you need, then choose **Send**. ### Students’ answers after each lesson A short form after each lesson, without names: what was clear, what wasn’t. A workflow in n8n or Make adds the answers to the course’s thread. #### Set it up Automation Add notes from another app Text or Markdown Pro with Sync 1. In **Settings → Connections → Automations**, choose **Connect an automation** → **Add notes from another app**. Name it Lesson feedback, choose the course’s thread and **Text or Markdown**, and copy its URL. 2. In n8n or Make, start from your form tool’s new answers and add an HTTP request to the URL that sends `{"id": "…", "markdown": "…"}` with the answers. ## Also Preparing materials with Claude Code or Codex? With Pro, connect it with access to Teaching (see [Coding agents help](https://thread.page/help/connections/coding-agents.md)), and it reads what worked last year before it drafts this year’s exercise. ## Limits - Keep students’ names and grades out of it, and don’t invite students under 18: ThreadPage is for adults. - Search finds slides by their file name, not the text inside them. - On Free your notes stay in this browser: export a backup now and then. ChatGPT, Claude, GPT, Claude Code, Codex, OpenAI, Anthropic, n8n, and Make are the names of their owners. ThreadPage is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by them. ## Start with one thread. [Start writing](https://thread.page/app) Free in your browser. No account needed to start. More use cases ### [Literature notes, a paper per note](https://thread.page/use-cases/literature-notes.md) Each paper is a note: the PDF, the two quotes that matter with their pages, and what you think. When your supervisor asks who disagrees with Ahmed, a tag finds them. Free · nothing to set up ### [A weekly meeting in one thread](https://thread.page/use-cases/recurring-meeting.md) Keep each meeting’s decisions and actions in the same thread. Before the next meeting, read what was agreed and what is still open. Free · nothing to set up [All use cases](https://thread.page/use-cases.md)