Schooling Solutions
Classroom
• Intelligent Calendar Bookings for Individualized Instruction or Parents
• Mixed Ability Class Management
• Course Framing
• Project Based Learning
Professional Development & Administration
• AI Calendaring Teacher Reviews
• AI Calendaring General Administration
• Teacher Groups Pace-Based & Project-Based Learning
Online & Hybrid Learning
• Leverage Existing Staff through AI Cohorting
• Enable School-to-School, Gig Teaching Networks & Tutoring
Master Schedule Flexibility
• Pace-Based Learning without Grade Banding
• Bi-level Flexible AI Calendaring
• Assign Schedules Independently of Master Schedule
• Pacing Guide Calendaring tagged to Academic Standards
Classroom
It’s time to innovate Time for teachers.
Unlike typical scheduling tools, Time AI takes decision-making usually reserved for humans and automates it through dynamic, adaptive algorithms. The platform is more than just an intelligent calendar; it is a comprehensive system that manages complex time coordination, fractionalizes traditional classroom structures, and supports pace-based learning at scale.
Intelligent Calendar Bookings for Individualized Instruction or Parents
Create a “Hold” which is a block of open time across any number of days in your week that you label. It can be several hours from say 1:00pm-4:00pm and have minus times for breaks inside it, say 2:00-2:20pm. You could label this block “Parent-Teacher Meetings.” Visitors to your bookings link will be able to choose from your Holds the one with a label that fits them. The booking calendar will only show them those blocks of time and will not set over your minus-times.
If both you and the other person are members and you both have outside calendars integrated such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, when you request a meeting, the AI will pick the nearest available date and time automatically. You just fill in the amount of time and any description or prior instructions to the person you’re inviting.
Mixed Ability Class Management
Nearly all teachers manage classrooms where one or more students is well behind or well ahead of the grade level being taught. This means they need to allocate those students lessons that fit their level separately from the lesson sequence they are on.
Creating an AI Meet in Knowstory is a “floating” future moment of the teacher’s direct instruction or checkin. It has fields to enter instructions and add attachments and links. Once sent, the student completes the prior directions given and then “accepts,” which causes the AI to settle the time required onto the teacher’s calendar in a slot the teacher can do. After each assignment is done, the teacher can create another one. An AI Meet can be for just one student or many. This allows a teacher to run a parallel set of lessons to the ones being taught the main body of students.
Course Framing
With an upgrade to a “One-Teacher-School” Knowstory allows a teacher to sequence AI Cohorting Meets in a chain with instructions and quizzes between each floating meeting. These are called “Course Frames.” The students move through at their own pace and the AI calendar sets meetings at each point they have been put in the course frame.
Course frames have many functions like an LMS but also issue a link for each AI Cohorting Meet to be put in outside LMSs. The gain of using the additional Frame in Knowstory mirroring the one in an LMS is time tracking of individualized pace. The teacher has tracking panels to watch progress. Any meeting participant can use a “push-forward” function to cause the AI to reset automatically.
Project Based Learning
AI Meets are a great way to run project-based learning courses or alongside a course being taught so that students can move at their own pace through each part or be automatically cohorted in with a small group for each time the teacher needs to interact with them before the next part of the project. Using Knowstory’s Course Frames, the entire class can be added, and the AI will await each individual accepting and set them to the teacher’s calendar by cohort – one small group or individual at a time based on the teacher’s settings. With a large class of 30 set to cohorts of five, the check-in or instructional moment would likely happen six times (5-member cohorts) spread over a week or longer. Tracking panels and targets issued help the teacher move along slower students.
Professional Development & Administration
It’s Time to make professional development and general administration easier to schedule.
The Knowstory platform finds the nearest common availability among participants and automatically schedules meetings or appointments. Time AI handles large groups seamlessly, achieving the highest participant inclusion rates while optimizing for time efficiency.
AI Calendaring Teacher Reviews
Since teachers can create “Holds,” which are bracketed open time with labels, an administrator can use their bookings link to choose the right Hold, and the AI will drop in a meeting based on common time between the teacher’s Hold and the administrator’s. Any individual in an invitation can apply a Hold even after the appointment is set causing the AI to recalculate and reset.
In addition to regular bookings links, administrators can also send a “Request Appointment” for an amount of time and let the teacher pick from the administrator’s calendar the date and time appropriate for them. In a Request Appointment, all the info for the meeting is prepopulated and only the date/time is needed.
AI Calendaring General Administration
With bi-level schedules, any individual in the organization can be scheduled into time slots the same as regular master calendaring. What’s different is that then the individual can have a second level with a Hold, which is bracketed open time across any days of the week for any number of hours with minus-times in the middle of it. The Hold allows them to collapse units or take any individual meetings over the top of things already scheduled.
In addition, Knowstory has four kinds of appointments: 1) regular appointments scheduling, 2) use of Bookings links, 3) use of Request Appointments which require amount-of-time-to-be-used, and 4) AI cohorting meetings which float until the first cohort fills to book the first of multiple meetings with independent cohorts.
Teacher Groups Pace-Based & Project-Based Learning
Time AI introduces “AI Cohorting Meets,” where a single “floating” meeting splits into multiples at different dates and times for subsets of participants based on when they enrolled by accepting. One meeting with thirty participants and a cohort value of ten will set at least three times, accumulating ten as they accept, setting the nearest common time on calendars for that ten, and accumulating the next ten in the meanwhile to set another meeting at a later time until all participants have had the meeting. Meetings can have preconditions for acceptance such as instructions, documents, and links. This AI function is perfect for pacebased or project-based learning that still intersects with live professional development trainers, and other business purposes. Each meeting also generates a link that can be used in outside systems for participants to click to enroll.
Knowstory recommends a School or District group to be able to use unlimited Holds, manage the affiliations, roles and occupations of members, and to use Course Frames to sequence together the floating AI Cohorting Meets.
Online & Hybrid Learning
It’s Time to make disparate online and hybrid programs work as one with regular on-campus master schedules. This saves money and unburdens teachers for up to 50% of their time while leveraging them across more units.
A main feature of AI Cohorting Meets is that when they are tethered together in a sequence of independent study in a Course Frame, the course does not need an enrollment deadline. It will still cause intersection with live teaching at each floating AI Cohorting meet for any students put into the course at any time. Each Meet will automatically cohort large groups with a size cohort the teacher sets, but if a singleton student arrives much later after the bulk of enrolled students have moved ahead, the AI will know this and 1) set meetings for the one instead of waiting for a full cohort that doesn’t exist behind the singleton in the course sequence, and 2) will attempt to accelerate the singleton’s target time-on-task to catch up.
Time AI also fundamentally changes the concept of classroom instruction by fractionalizing traditional time blocks. Instead of whole-group classes moving in lockstep, smaller cohorts interact with teachers for focused instruction while spending independent study time in home rooms or elsewhere.
Leverage Existing Staff through AI Cohorting
Knowstory allows any school or gig teacher to be course-based and time-agnostic. Once “released” a course can have students added at any time and will intersect based on those student’s pace with the teacher(s) assigned to it. A course may have only one student or many, so a school is competitive with both electives and remedial courses. In addition, any course can add a secondary teacher so that if a gig/substitute is needed they are just added, and their calendar will populate with anything upcoming that is already on the teacher’s calendar.
Enable School-to-School, Gig Teaching Networks & Tutoring
Many schools suffer from not enough teachers or specific subject teachers. With Knowstory Course Frames and enabling classrooms to have video conferencing so that while that teacher is live teaching other students from other campuses can also participate, means a course and that teacher can be leveraged across entire network of schools. Individual gig teachers can also sell courses into schools.
Tutors can also be added as secondary teachers right into courses and see what is happening with any individual student in the course.
No Enrollment Deadline Courses
Knowstory’s Course Frames are specifically created to allow “no enrollment deadline” courses and as long as a teacher is assigned and has some days and hours blocked for the Course, the intersection with live teaching can happen on-campus or remote. This is useful for remedial learning, electives and summer programs. The courses are like a lesson sequencer with each step required to have an estimated time for the student to complete, then the optional addition of a quiz question or many questions, plus the option to add an AI Cohorting Meet. If there is not a class Meet, the student can be allowed to the next study step. If there is a Meet, they are enrolled upon completing the quiz questions or clicking “finish.” After they attend the follow-on class Meet with the teacher, they get the next study step.
Public Marketplace Course Posting
Knowstory allows any educator group to create Course Frames and then add them to the open marketplace for free to non-group members as a secondary instance of the Course or set a price and earn from those courses. They can sell the course as without a teacher for other institutions to use to teach with or sell it with live teaching.
Master Schedule Flexibility
It’s time to innovate Time in schooling.
The Knowstory platform is more than just an intelligent calendar; it is a comprehensive master calendaring system that manages complex time coordination at two levels, fractionalizes traditional classroom structures, and supports pace-based learning at scale.
Benefits of Reshaping all Schooling by Time Fractionalization
Time AI fundamentally changes the concept of classroom instruction by fractionalizing traditional time blocks. Instead of whole-group classes moving in lockstep, smaller cohorts interact with teachers for focused instruction while spending independent study time in home rooms or elsewhere. This innovative approach provides:
• Efficient Use of Teacher Time: Teachers can allocate up to 50% more time to direct instruction by reducing whole-group sessions.
• Personalized Learning: Cohorts are tailored to students at the same curriculum level, eliminating the challenges of mixed-grade abilities within a single class. AI course framing also allows a school to teach to the one so that every student gets what they need whether socially cohorted or not.
• Flexible Teaching Modalities: Teachers can instruct students both in-person and virtually, seamlessly integrating online participants with physical classroom cohorts.
• Enabled Gig and Fractional Teaching: Teachers can set up courses and offer windows of their time to teach independently from institutions or as fractional employees.
• Better Equity and Outcomes: Time AI helps remove the inequity of non-homogeneous learning levels through assignment to grades and courses by age, even adjusting underlying time-on-task in one subject over others to catch individual students up. Every student can be placed at the right point on any course in any grade. Absenteeism becomes a non-issue as every student is self-paced. Algorithms quantify task and teaching time to meet any instructional minutes requirements.
• Improved Social Dynamics: Schools using Time AI as a backdrop to reorganizing the physical learning environments put students in age-and-grade-level appropriate homerooms while allowing any aged student to be on any grade-level in all subjects. Socialization can be done with intentionality in homerooms.
Benefits for Schools and Teachers with Partial Shift to Time AI
Time AI addresses many challenges faced by modern educators and schools, including:
• Resource Sharing and Simplification: Schools can collapse online programs into live campus programs and vice versa because the live-teaching intersection, whether small group or just an individual student check-in, is managed by the Time AI and any member can be remote or in-person, including the teacher. This also allows teachers to be resource-shared across multiple institutions.
• Easier Professional Development & Reviews: Managing the moment of togetherness for trainers is far easier with AI calendaring.
Pace-Based Learning without Grade Banding
Pace-based Learning can be a portion of your school schedule for certain programs or subjects, or it can be the transformative idea for your entire schooling structure. AI calendaring for schools is the first real solution for all pace-based learning using a structure of correct course level rather than grade-banding only. Courses can still be roughly tagged by grade and age. The AI takes care of the critical component of the continued social learning of small groups and live teaching.
Bi-level Flexible AI Calendaring
Schools can create master calendars that allocate hours, breaks and lunch in nearly infinite ways. Schools can even operate with multiple master calendars, summer calendars, bi-weekly schedules, remote and hybrid days, and run multiple tracks with the same hourly blocks or different sets of blocks.
Master calendars can even be made for single individuals.
Assigning staff and students is simple, and every individual schedule can be modified to give more time on one subject or a teacher more units on the fly. Remote students can pace with the on-campus students.
The second level is the use by individuals of Holds, bracketed open time with a label. This allows teachers to collapse units and have the AI put several rosters into one in courses which then cohort from a larger group for each class meeting based on pace.
Assign Schedules Independently of Master Schedule
With AI calendaring, schooling can personalize the ultimate commodity leading to learning acceleration: time. The amount of time per subject can be rearranged per student so that if one is behind in math but ahead in language, administrators can reduce time in language and increase it in math. The student remains in the same courses and still intersects with live teaching classes.
Every student and teacher has a schedule of what they are to be working on in their account, plus they will see class meetings pop on their calendar dynamically. Those appointments for classroom teaching will be set by the AI in time the teacher has allocated to that subject along with other students pacing equally.
Pacing Guide Calendaring tagged to Academic Standards
Districts or schools can help in teachers or curriculum specialists by creating pacing guides that tag a set of academic standards by subject onto another set of calendars mirroring the master calendar in use. This means subject teachers can select their subject and see on the calendar separate units of standards would need to be taught in a time frame of days or weeks. This anchoring of what and when helps set the baseline for creating Course Frames.
Those units can be added directly into Course Frames which themselves have each lesson step and each class meeting tagged for time to roughly fit the length given in the pacing unit.
Students can be enrolled in any Course Frame at any time and can take the course and intersect with teaching at their own pace, but the baseline of how long a course should take is part of its architecture so that student progress tracking panels always show which students need help.
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