Assignment Coach.
Every assignment you give makes a quiet promise about what students will actually do. Assignment Coach reads the thing you wrote and tells you whether it keeps that promise.
Review gives you an honest read on rigor, workload, grade fit, and how easily the whole task could be handed to a chatbot. Redesign rebuilds it so students have to show their own thinking — at whatever AI policy you decide on.
You’ll find it inside Planning Coach, under the Review an Assignment tab.
You wrote it. You can’t read it cold.
You know what you meant. A student opening it on a Tuesday night doesn’t — and neither does the tool they might paste it into.
Find out what it actually asks
Not what you meant it to ask — what a student opening it cold would do.
See the AI risk honestly
Some assignments can be finished in thirty seconds by a chatbot. Better to know which.
Separate learning from completion
Busywork looks a lot like rigor at 11pm when you’re writing it.
Check the grade-level fit
Especially on a new prep, where your calibration isn’t built yet.
Get a policy you can hand out
Student-facing AI guidelines, written for the assignment in front of you, ready to copy.
Keep the assignment, fix the weak part
You don’t have to throw out a task that mostly works.
Skip the intake form
Grade, subject, type, and time are read from the assignment itself. You paste; it figures the rest out.
Nothing here is scored. There are no numbers anywhere in the snapshot — every finding is a plain phrase with an explanation behind it, because “moderate AI risk, and here’s the step that causes it” is useful and 62/100 is not.
Good times to run one through
Two paths, almost no setup
Pick what you want, add the assignment, and answer at most one question.
Review an assignment
You want an honest read.
Coaching on clarity, rigor, student thinking, accessibility, differentiation, and assessment alignment — plus a snapshot of grade fit, learning value, workload, and AI completion risk.
Redesign for meaningful AI use
You want it to survive AI.
Adapt the task so students have to show their own thinking — whether AI is fully allowed, limited to approved steps, or not allowed at all. You choose the policy; it does the redesign.
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Add the assignment
Paste the text, or upload it — .docx, .pdf, .pptx, .xlsx, .xls, .txt, and even a photo of a worksheet as .jpg or .png. There’s no form to fill in: grade level, subject, assignment type, and estimated time all get read from the assignment itself.
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Make the one real choice
Review asks nothing else. Redesign asks how students should be allowed to use AI — a policy decision, not something to guess at. If you’re genuinely unsure, tick the box and let Wivoza recommend a level.
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Read the snapshot
Grade fit, thinking and rigor, learning value, workload and clarity, and AI completion risk — each in plain words with an explanation, never a number or a grade. Up top, the single most important opportunity, named.
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Work on it, right there
The assignment sits in the workspace as editable text that saves as you type. Use a quick action to push on one thing, or talk it through in the chat, then edit until it’s the version you’ll actually hand out.
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Save it the way you’ll use it
Revise the whole assignment, then choose Word, PDF, or PowerPoint. You see a preview first — a modern layout that keeps your sections and wording, with a slide theme that fits the subject. If the original had pictures, add that file and they come along.
The AI policy is your call, not the tool’s
Redesign asks you to pick one before it starts, because the right answer depends on your course, your department, and what you’re actually assessing.
Genuinely unsure? Tick let Wivoza recommend and it will pick one and tell you why.
One-tap ways to push on it
Instead of composing a request, tap one — the coach takes it from there.
Review · Snapshot
SampleMost important opportunity
The task asks for a product, not the thinking behind it
A 500-word essay on a well-documented topic is something a chatbot can produce in one pass. The reasoning you actually want to assess never has to appear.
Reviewed an assignment and want it rebuilt? There’s a one-tap handoff from a finished review straight into Redesign — no retyping.
Mr. Nowak’s story
A four-year-old essay prompt, a chatbot that could finish it in one go, and a fix that took an afternoon.
Mr. Nowak has assigned the same thing for four years: a 500-word essay on the causes of the First World War. It used to produce decent writing. Last year half of it came back sounding like a textbook that had swallowed a thesaurus.
He pastes it into Review. AI completion risk comes back High, and learning value reads “mostly completion-focused.” The most important opportunity names the real problem: the assignment asks for a product a machine can produce, and never asks for the thinking that would have produced it.
None of which is news, exactly. It’s just the first time it’s been said plainly.
He switches to Redesign and picks Limited AI use — brainstorming allowed, drafting not. The redesign flags which steps are outsourceable, then adds safeguards: students pick two documents from the class set, mark where their reading differs from the textbook’s, and defend the difference in a short in-class write.
The student AI guidelines come out ready to copy. He pastes them straight into the handout. He also rewrites the revised assignment in the workspace, because the version he got assumed two weeks and he has four days.
Some students will still use AI. But now the part that counts happens in a room he’s standing in, which is a problem he can actually manage.
The goal was never to make an assignment AI-proof. It was to move the thinking to a place where he can see it happen.
Start with the one you already suspect
Not your best assignment. The one you’ve had a bad feeling about since last spring.
A photo works
Uploads take .docx, .pdf, .xlsx, .xls, .txt — and .jpg or .png, so a picture of a paper worksheet is a valid way in.
Review before you redesign
Knowing what’s actually wrong makes the redesign land better. And the handoff carries your text over.
Edit the revised version
It doesn’t know you have four days, not two weeks. The workspace text is yours to change, and it saves as you type.
If one detail genuinely changes the read — how long students get, whether it’s done in class — you’ll get a single clarifying question with options rather than a guess presented as fact. Answering it takes a tap.
Come back after students have done it
The redesign is a hypothesis. What came back in the pile is the evidence — and that’s what should shape next year’s version.
This is the loop almost nobody closes. You rewrite an assignment, hand it out, grade the results — and then never connect the two. Five minutes here is what turns one fixed assignment into a better instinct for writing the next one.
Five questions, that’s all
- What did you try?
- What happened?
- What seemed to help?
- What would you adjust next time?
- What’s your next step?
What you get back
A short summary
What you learned, in a few lines you can actually reread.
One honest observation
Something you did well — named specifically, not flattered.
One practical next step
The single thing worth carrying into the next assignment.
Then it’s your call
Continue This Conversation
Keep talking if the debrief opened something up.
Set a Next Step
Write down the one thing you’re committing to.
Save My Reflection
Keep it to read before you assign this again.
Start a New Talk It Through
Begin fresh on something else.
Assign the thinking, not the product.
The task is the lesson. It’s worth ten minutes of somebody reading it back to you.
Review an Assignment