Visible Agency Design Coach
When AI can produce the work, can we still see the learner?
The Design Coach analyses a unit plan or assessment task and shows where student thinking, judgement, ownership and human capability are visible—and where the learning design may allow them to disappear.
AI can generate outputs, offer feedback, suggest alternatives and accelerate production. It cannot own the learner’s growth.
The Design Coach helps educators create learning where students must still question, compare, judge, revise, explain and take responsibility.
How the diagnostic works
Add your unit
Upload a document or paste the unit plan, assessment task or learning sequence.
See the evidence
The Design Coach identifies where human thinking and agency are clearly required, merely implied or currently missing from the design.
Strengthen the design
Receive specific, practical redesign moves, process checkpoints, student prompts and a revised task that preserve the intended learning.
The framework
Seven diagnostic dimensions
Thinking Visibility
Where does student thinking become observable?
Judgement
Where must students make and defend decisions?
Ownership
What do students genuinely own in this learning?
Metacognition
Where do students examine their own learning?
Effort Integrity
Where is sustained human effort required and visible?
Transparency
How openly is AI use surfaced and discussed?
Appropriate AI Use
Is AI use purposeful and bounded by human judgement?
Scored 0–4
From not visible, through implied, emerging and designed, to embedded and learner-owned.
The Design Coach evaluates what is visible in the submitted plan. A low score does not mean the teacher is not doing something. It means the design, as documented, does not yet make that element clear or dependable.