Notes on building learning that works.
Engineering write-ups, product decisions, and customer stories from the team building Acadio.
First posts land this quarter. Below is what we're working on.
How we ground the AI tutor in your course (and why most LMSes don't)
Retrieval scoped to a course, refusal when the answer isn't in the content, and an author-facing console that shows what the tutor would say before learners see it.
Reusable learning objects: the abstraction we wish every LMS had
Why we built lessons, quizzes, and media as composable objects instead of monolithic course documents, and what that unlocks for multi-program organizations.
Item analysis isn't optional anymore
If a quiz question has a 38% correct rate and a 91% selection of one distractor, the lesson is the bug. How we surface that, automatically, in every cohort.
Two posts a month, maybe three.
When we ship something interesting or learn something the hard way, we write it up. No marketing fluff, no SEO churn. We'd rather skip a month than post a thinkpiece.
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