# University

> A plan for a university or a teaching lab: the Teacher plans courses and tutors students, and the Scientist backs the research.

StellarFirm for universities puts two AI Agent Assistants first: the **Teacher** and the **Scientist**. The Teacher prepares your courses and tutors your students. The Scientist backs the research behind them. You are the CEO: the instructor or the head of the lab. You approve every email, calendar hold, and file that leaves the chat.

## Who this is for

| | |
| --- | --- |
| Company | A university department, a school, a teaching team, or a teaching and research lab |
| Team size | 1 to 50 |
| Main goal | Spend less time preparing material and more time with students and research |
| Start with | One Teacher for your main course, then a Scientist for the research group |
| Biggest risk | A student handing in work the assistant wrote, or an unchecked solution reaching a class |

## Your assistants

| Assistant | Role in this plan |
| --- | --- |
| [Teacher](/docs/personas/teacher) | Course syllabi, lesson plans, worked examples, exercises with checked solutions, quizzes and exams, rubrics and feedback, slides and handouts in LaTeX, and one-to-one tutoring |
| [Scientist](/docs/personas/scientist) | Literature searches with checked sources, experiment plans, symbolic and numerical checks, reproducible analyses, and papers in LaTeX |

Hire a Teacher per subject if you teach more than one, for example a programming teacher and a mathematics teacher, each with its own focus.

## Suggested house rules

```text
House rules
1. The Teacher gives hints before answers. Full solutions only when I ask for them.
2. The Teacher never writes graded work for a student to hand in.
3. Every solution, example, and computation is checked before it is shown.
4. The Scientist never invents a result, a source, or a citation, and never calls a conjecture proved.
5. Emails to students, calendar holds, and files saved to our drive wait for my Approve.
6. Course policies and grades come from me. The assistants never make them up.
```

> [!IMPORTANT]
> These rules are already how the Teacher and the Scientist work. Writing them in your company brief makes them visible to everyone on your team. See [house rules](/docs/ceo/house-rules).

## Preflight

- [ ] Sign in at https://stellarfirm.ai/app with your invitation.
- [ ] Connect your mail, calendar, and files on [Integrations](https://stellarfirm.ai/app/integrations): [Gmail](/docs/integrations/gmail) or [Outlook](/docs/integrations/outlook), [Google Calendar](/docs/integrations/google-calendar), and [Google Drive](/docs/integrations/google-drive), [OneDrive](/docs/integrations/onedrive), or [SharePoint](/docs/integrations/sharepoint).
- [ ] Put one folder per course in your drive: the syllabus, past exams, and reading lists.
- [ ] Hire a Teacher for each subject you teach, and a Scientist for your research group.
- [ ] Write your house rules in the company brief.

## Launch: Day 1

1. **Plan one lesson.** Start with the next class you teach.

```prompt title="Plan a lesson"
Teacher, plan a [length] lesson on [topic] for [course and level]. Give learning outcomes, the order of activities, one worked example, and a short check for understanding at the end.
```

2. **Write exercises with checked solutions.**

```prompt title="Exercises with solutions"
Teacher, write [number] exercises on [topic] for [course], from easy to hard. Check every solution before you show it, and give a hint for each one.
```

3. **Start the research brief.**

```prompt title="Research brief"
Scientist, write a research brief on [question]: what is known, the key papers with their sources, the open problems, and what we could test first.
```

4. **Approve what goes out.** Anything sent to students or saved to your drive waits in [Approvals](https://stellarfirm.ai/app/approvals).

## First week

```prompt title="Course syllabus"
Teacher, draft a syllabus for [course]: learning outcomes, a week by week plan, readings, and how students are assessed. Leave the grading policy for me to fill in.
```

```prompt title="Quiz and rubric"
Teacher, write a [length] quiz on [topics] with a marking rubric and model answers. Check every answer.
```

```prompt title="Slides in LaTeX"
Teacher, make lecture slides in LaTeX for [topic], with one worked example per idea. Publish them so I can edit them beside the chat.
```

```prompt title="Tutor a student"
Teacher, tutor me as if I were a student in [course] who is stuck on [problem]. Ask me questions and give one hint at a time. Do not give the full answer.
```

```prompt title="Literature search"
Scientist, find the most cited and the most recent work on [topic]. Give each source with a link, one line on what it shows, and say which you could not check.
```

> [!NOTE]
> **Checkpoint.** By Friday you have a lesson, an exercise set, and a quiz you would use, and a research brief your group has read.

## Steady orbit

- **Every week.** Ask the Teacher for next week's lesson and exercises, and read them before class.
- **After every assignment.** Ask for feedback drafts against your rubric, then edit them yourself.
- **Every month.** Ask the Scientist for a literature update on your group's topics.
- **Every term.** Ask the Teacher to update the syllabus from what worked.

You can set the weekly preparation as a [routine](/docs/ceo/routines-and-loops), so it is waiting for you every Monday.

```prompt title="From research to teaching"
Scientist, summarize our latest result on [topic] in plain words. Teacher, turn that summary into a short lesson for [course].
```

## The rest of the team

The Teacher and the Scientist lead here, and the other assistants are there when you need them:

- **Coder:** builds a course site, a small app for a lab exercise, or turns an analysis into a tool.
- **Copywriter:** helps you edit grant text, announcements, and papers in your own words.

## Pitfalls

- **Answers instead of hints.** Keep "hints before answers" in your house rules, and ask for full solutions only for your own answer keys.
- **Unchecked material.** Read every exam and answer key before it goes to a class.
- **Made-up policies.** Give the Teacher your real course policies and grading scheme. It never invents one.
- **One Teacher for everything.** Hire a Teacher per subject so each one keeps its own focus.

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Source: https://stellarfirm.ai/docs/playbooks/university