Nobody has ever reviewed your syllabus.
A committee checked that your credit hours added up and your outcomes were listed in the right font. Then it went in a drawer. Ten prompts that put it in front of a board of 19 experts who disagree on purpose, and hand you a revised version with a changelog.
Yours forever. Delivered the second you pay.
You have taught for years without a single hard critique.
Your student evaluations arrive in May, anonymous and mostly about the parking. Your chair observes one class every three years and writes something kind. Your colleagues are as buried as you are.
So the syllabus you wrote in 2019 keeps going out. The rubric that trains students to pad word count keeps grading. The group project that produces one furious A student and three coasters runs again in the fall.
The only critic in the room already agrees with you.
Nineteen people who will not be nice to you.
Every prompt in the Vault convenes the same board. Piaget, Vygotsky, Freire, bell hooks, Kolb, and Dewey on the theory side. Pink, Mollick, the Heath Brothers, Waitzkin, Todd Rose, Robinson, Godin, Brooks, and Dintersmith on the practice side.
Then four voices whose entire job is to give you a hard time: a curmudgeon who thinks rigor died, a dean worried about complaints and accreditation, a bored junior in the back row on his phone, and an honors student who checks out when the work is padded.
They argue in rounds. Round one is unfiltered first takes with no groupthink. Round two, they attack each other by name. They keep going until they converge on a specific edit list, then hand you a verdict, a rewritten artifact, and a changelog explaining every change.
I ran Prompt 1 on my own course. It went badly.
ER2201, the foundation course of our entrepreneurship minor, Fall 2026. Mastery grading, 28 studio sessions, six industry touchpoints. A course I am proud of. The board returned a verdict of MIXED. Three excerpts, unedited:
Piaget
So there IS a canonical version. It was written before the students walked in. You have pre-built the structure, hidden it, staged its discovery, and then graded their construction against your original. That is a scavenger hunt where the professor already buried the answer. Either the filter is theirs or it is yours. Pick.
Vygotsky
The scaffolding is the best I have seen in an undergraduate elective, and it collapses at Week 10. The scaffold is densest where the task is easiest, team-based, low stakes, professor present. It vanishes where it is hardest: solo, own idea, public defense. You built the ladder for the bottom of the wall.
Freire
Week 1: have them sign it. On day one. A contract they did not write, cannot amend, and cannot decline without dropping. You have staged consent and called it a contract.
Week 10 was a real hole. I had not noticed it in three revisions. That single catch was worth more than every peer review I have received in fifteen years of teaching.
Four steps, about ten minutes
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Pick the prompt that matches what you want reviewed.
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Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. Start a fresh chat.
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Paste the prompt block, then fill in the bracketed inputs with your real material.
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Send it and walk away. Come back to a multi-round critique, a revised artifact, and a changelog.
You do not need a paid AI account, a plugin, or anything installed. The prompts are plain text and they work in whatever you already have open.
The ten prompts
Each one is tuned to a specific artifact, with its own evaluation criteria and its own inputs. No prompt engineering required on your end.
The Syllabus Review
Whether your weekly schedule actually develops the outcomes you listed, where students will burn out, and what your late-work policy tells them about you.
The AI Policy Stress-Test
What behavior your policy actually produces in the average student, the cheating student, and the diligent one. Enforceability gets tested first.
The Exam Questions Audit
Question by question: what it measures, who it is unfair to, and which ones a student answers in thirty seconds with ChatGPT.
The Group Project Brief Review
Whether your project requires teamwork or four people doing parallel solo work, and what actually stops a freerider.
The Activity Hot-Seat
Whether a single in-class activity earns its minutes, how fast students reach real cognitive work, and what you do when it dies in the room.
The Rubric Review
The lazy maximum-grade strategy your rubric rewards, and whether a student could hit an A by gaming it without doing the work.
The Assignment Prompt Audit
How much of the assignment AI can already do, and the exact point in the process where the student still has to think.
The Discussion Question Set Review
Which questions produce real disagreement and which produce students performing the answer you obviously want.
The Lecture Slide Deck Review
What students are doing while you talk, and whether the deck would teach anything if you were not in the room.
The Course Redesign Sprint
The whole course as a developmental arc: what week 12 asks that week 2 did not, and where the workload spikes.
What this will not do
It will not redesign your course while you sleep. It reads what you give it, so a vague syllabus with no learning outcomes gets you a vague boardroom.
It will not always be right. Some critiques you will read and disagree with. Mark those and move on. The board has no feelings about being ignored.
And you do not have to act on all of it. Take one structural change and one small one into the fall. Leave the rest. Nobody is asking you to blow up your course three weeks before the semester starts.
Ten prompts, the full 19-advisor library, and the instructions for running them. Yours forever, and they work on every course you teach from here on.
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See the membershipThe semester starts either way
In three weeks you hand out the same syllabus and find out in December what was wrong with it, from students who have already paid for the mistake.
Or you spend ten minutes this week finding out first, from nineteen people whose only job is to tell you the truth.
One of those two things is going to happen. You are picking right now, whether you decide or not.
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