Topic Planner

Education

Create detailed topic specifications with learning outcomes and source mapping.

Topic Planner produces a granular content specification for a single topic. It defines learning outcomes with taxonomy levels, maps content to source materials with confidence ratings, and flags gaps for research. Every specification is development-ready.

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Who this helps

Instructional Designer
Subject Matter Expert
Content Development Lead

Pain points

Writing topic specifications takes a full day of cross-referencing sources and standards.
Learning outcomes are often misaligned with the intended cognitive level.
Source material gaps are discovered too late in the development process.

Use cases

01
Learning outcome design

Writes learning outcomes with correct taxonomy alignment and competency links.

02
Source mapping

Maps each concept to source materials with page references and coverage confidence ratings.

03
Research gap flagging

Identifies topics with low source coverage and recommends whether to proceed or research first.

Example outcomes

✓
Reduced topic specification time from 8 hours to 90 minutes.
✓
Aligned learning outcomes correctly to taxonomy levels across all topics.
✓
Flagged 12 source gaps early, saving weeks of rework downstream.

Time comparison

Without AI

8 hours

Cross-referencing sources, writing learning outcomes, and mapping coverage manually.

With gecco

90 minutes

A complete topic specification with outcomes, source mapping, and gap analysis.

Inputs and outputs

What goes in

Topic brief from unit plan
Source materials
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What comes out

Detailed topic specification
Source coverage matrix
Research gap report

Example workflow

1
Provide topic brief
Share the topic details and unit context from your plan.
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2
Specification drafting
The assistant writes outcomes, maps sources, and rates coverage.
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3
Review and proceed
Check the specification and decide whether flagged gaps need research.
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✓
A development-ready topic specification with full source mapping.

Try asking

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Create a topic specification for Directors' Duties with learning outcomes at taxonomy levels 2 and 3.
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Map all concepts in this topic to our source materials and rate the coverage confidence for each.
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Plan this topic and flag any areas where our source materials score below 3 out of 5 for coverage.

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