27 Mar 2026
This week, we revisited the “Workflow Wizard”, one of our earlier proof of concepts.
The goal was simple yet ambitious. To create a tool that would enable teachers to configure workflows that would generate meticulously adapted teaching materials for pupils with SEND. Alongside the generation of age-appropriate content, such as questions and answers, we devised an initial specification that included features to chunk text, generate clarifying questions and glossaries, and to optimise document formatting for SEND, such as colour vision deficiency.
The tool went through a few iterations. Our first attempt was quite loose. It could generate an output, but the formatting was unreliable. Sometimes it gave us bullets. Sometimes checkboxes. Sometimes marks. As LLMs often do, it had ideas of its own. We then went back to the drawing board to devise an approach that would maintain output flexibility while simultaneously providing much-needed structure and guardrails. This meant adding controls to define, amongst other things, question types, and to generate outputs in a format we could reliably convert into downloadable documents. That made the output far more practical, and Trustcall made LLM interactions more efficient.
What worked well? The quality of the generated materials was strong, and we were able to approximate how much lesson-planning time the tool would save time-poor (or more appropriately time-broke?) teachers.
What needs more work? We attempted automated parsing of reading level and tone from a sample document provided by the user, but found it was not reliable enough. The next iteration will include explicit settings for both. We also found that the generated Glossaries varied due to the randomness inherent in LLMs, so a suitable mitigation for this aspect would also need to be devised.
We wish you a fantastic weekend.
