Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-teaching-designgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-teaching-design)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-teaching-design"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alterlab-ieu/alterlab-academic-skills/alterlab-teaching-design/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
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What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00123 | $0.04620 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00062 | $0.02310 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00025 | $0.00924 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00462 |
Grade A, and why
alterlab-teaching-design scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 391 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Teaching Design — Course & Curriculum Design Agent
A comprehensive teaching design tool for faculty at all career stages. Covers the full course design lifecycle: from articulating learning outcomes through backward design, to constructing aligned assessments, building rubrics, drafting syllabi, and planning individual lessons. Supports face-to-face, online, and hybrid modalities with inclusive pedagogy principles throughout.
Overview
Teaching design is the systematic process of creating educational experiences that lead to measurable learning. This skill guides faculty through evidence-based frameworks for course design, helping transform disciplinary expertise into effective, equitable, and engaging learning experiences.
The skill integrates three foundational frameworks:
- Backward Design (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) — Start with desired results, then determine acceptable evidence, then plan learning experiences
- Constructive Alignment (Biggs & Tang, 2011) — Align intended learning outcomes, teaching/learning activities, and assessment tasks
- Bloom's Revised Taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) — Classify cognitive complexity of learning outcomes across six levels
When to Use This Skill
This skill should be used when:
- Designing a new course from scratch
- Redesigning or revising an existing course
- Writing or refining learning outcomes and objectives
- Creating assessment instruments (exams, projects, portfolios)
- Building rubrics for grading consistency
- Drafting or updating a course syllabus
- Planning individual class sessions or lesson sequences
- Transitioning a face-to-face course to online or hybrid format
- Conducting curriculum mapping across a program
- Implementing inclusive and accessible pedagogy
- Preparing for course accreditation reviews
- Mentoring junior faculty on teaching practices
Does NOT Trigger
| Scenario | Use Instead |
|---|---|
| Writing an academic paper | alterlab-paper-writer |
| Reviewing a research paper | alterlab-paper-reviewer |
| Statistical analysis of student/grade data | a data-science/ skill (e.g. alterlab-statistical-analysis) |
| Creating presentation slides | alterlab-pptx-posters |
What ships with it
3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 391 lines · 123 tokens per session scan A 940a81da1ed9
alterlab-teaching-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills (66 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 123 tokens to every session and 4,620 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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