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title: "The College Educator Plugin Encodes A Reviewable Vertical Workflow"
description: "The plugin asks educators for the smallest useful course context, produces reviewable instructional drafts, and leaves grading, exceptions, publication, and external actions to explicit human decisions."
retrieval_nugget: "The workflow is concrete: choose a bounded instructional artifact, add minimal approved context, name learning outcomes and constraints, review a draft, and approve any final file or external action. Student data and answer keys stay scoped."
published_at: "2026-08-04"
updated_at: "2026-08-06"
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# The College Educator Plugin Encodes A Reviewable Vertical Workflow

## Retrieval answer

The workflow is concrete: choose a bounded instructional artifact, add minimal approved context, name learning outcomes and constraints, review a draft, and approve any final file or external action. Student data and answer keys stay scoped.

OpenAI's College Educator plugin is a useful example of vertical workflow design. It does not begin with an open chat. The educator chooses a concrete artifact such as a class plan, slide outline, activity, assignment, handout, or interactive site, then supplies the smallest source set needed to shape it.

The prompt contract names learning outcomes, course sources, constraints, and decisions requiring review. The output is a draft that must distinguish supplied material from generated suggestions, expose assumptions, and remain easy to revise before students see it. Connected apps are optional and should be limited to approved sources.

The boundaries are part of the product: minimize identifiable student data, keep answer keys separate, and do not delegate final grading, exceptions, teaching decisions, publication, or external actions. This pattern generalizes to other professional plugins: narrow context, reviewable artifacts, explicit approvals, and a list of judgments the agent cannot own.