Seven-step reach audit of a course¶

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Description¶

The paper offers educators a diagnostic procedure: name the outcomes the course should protect; describe the actual (not intended) setting of each lever; identify a consequential unsupervised moment; ask what remains materially present, what future requirement the student anticipates, and what norms or beliefs were internalized; identify corroborating and conflicting lever settings; ask whether reach supports the intended outcome; and make coordinated adjustments. The paper stresses that "The goal is not to maximize reach, but to ensure that what reaches the student supports the purposes the course is intended to serve."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Educators must read the course the way the student at 10 p.m. will experience it

Constraints¶

• The audit is diagnostic, not prescriptive, because the framework does not supply the targets

Target Learners¶

• educators auditing their own courses

Target Learning Goals¶

• aligning unsupervised AI-relevant lever settings with intended course outcomes

Affordances¶

• Seven Levers Course Design Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Redesign assessment toward supervised, oral, process-based and authentic formats to verify students' own reasoning under GenAI

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Halani, A. (2026). Designing for Reach: Seven Levers and the Student Alone with AI. Tang Institute at Phillips Academy. https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/t4cd2_v1