LessonUp Studio — company session

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Introductie

A 25-minute company session on LessonUp Studio: the idea behind it (making lessons as efficient as writing code with an agent), how the loop of writing, checking, looking and pushing works, what it can make, what colleagues already built with it, and its limits and next steps.

NEDERLAND · 52° N 5° E

LESSONUP STUDIO · v0.2.7 · BETA

C O M P A N Y S E S S I O N · O C T O B E R 2 0 2 6

LessonUp Studio

25 minutes plus questions. The one message: Studio makes building a lesson feel like a developer working with an AI agent. You say what you want, Claude builds it, checks it, looks at it and fixes it, and you review the result. Image credit: itsiken / Unsplash

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THE QUESTION

What if building a lesson were as efficient as writing code with an agent?

AN IDEA BROUGHT BACK FROM VACATION

Tell it as a story: back from vacation with one question. Developers already work this way every day; lessons didn't.

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POLL · 1 MINUTE

How long does it take you to build one good lesson of 15 slides?

1

Under 30 minutes

2

About an hour

3

Half a day

4

I've never built one

Remember what the room voted. Come back to it on the numbers slide: JW filled a whole channel, 37 lessons, in 30 minutes.

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HOW WE BUILD SOFTWARE NOW

Developers already work like this

STEP 1

Describe

Say in plain words what you want built.

STEP 2

Claude writes

Claude writes the code. Nobody types it by hand.

STEP 3

Checks run

Lint, types and tests flag every mistake. Claude fixes them before a person looks.

The speed isn't Claude on its own. It's the loop around it: mistakes are caught before anyone looks.

The speed comes from the loop, not from Claude alone. The computer immediately tells Claude what is wrong, and Claude fixes it before a person ever looks.

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WHAT NOBODY COULD SEE

Lessons never had that loop

An AI could already write lesson text. It just couldn't see the slide.

So these were only caught when a person opened the editor, or avoided by playing it safe: plain, simple slides.

TEXT RUNS OUT OF ITS BOX

Fine in the file, broken on the board.

A PICTURE DOESN'T LOAD

The slide shows an empty hole.

A QUESTION BEHIND A SHAPE

Correct, but nobody can read it.

An AI could write lesson text, but it couldn't see the slide. Click three times: each target is a mistake that only showed up once a person opened the editor.

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THE STUDIO LOOP

Claude checks its own work first

You ask

what lesson you want

Claude writes

the lesson as text

Studio checks

renders every slide

Claude looks

where something's off or it needs to

SOMETHING OFF? CLAUDE FIXES IT ITSELF

You review

in Studio

LOOKS RIGHT

Push

to LessonUp

GOOD

CHANGES? JUST ASK

The top loop is what's new: Claude writes, Studio renders and measures every slide, Claude looks at the ones Studio flags, and at the ones it needs to see anyway: slides with a hand-placed layout, like a drag-and-drop. It fixes what's off by itself. You step in at the bottom: review the lesson in Studio, as we are doing with this deck, ask for changes in plain words, and push it to LessonUp when it's good. Push comes last.

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IN PLAIN WORDS

Four ideas

THE LESSON

A lesson is a text file

Like a recipe. Claude writes text well, so it never clicks through the editor.

STUDIO

Spellcheck and print preview

It flags what breaks the rules, then shows Claude how each slide will really look.

PUSH

The publish button

The result is an ordinary LessonUp lesson, editable like any other.

BRIEFING & RESEARCH

The more it knows, the better

Brief it like a new colleague, and it researches the rest: sources, pictures, details.

Analogies for a non-technical room. Studio is spellcheck and print preview, like in Word; push is the publish button; templates and PDFs are a briefing, as you'd give a new colleague.

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INPUT → OUTPUT

Start from whatever you have

A ONE-LINE PROMPT

A full series with questions, images and teacher notes

A PDF CHAPTER

Lessons in the book's style, with pictures cut from the PDF

A POWERPOINT

LessonUp lessons, with interactivity added

AN EXISTING LESSON

New lessons in the same layout, or fixes pushed back

A MUSEUM WEBSITE

Lessons with high-resolution details it finds itself

AN ONLINE CURRICULUM

Lessons built on SLO goals or an exam board's specification

AN UPDATE OR ARTIFACT

A branded LessonUp presentation, like this one

Pick three or four to mention, not the whole list. Sophie: 'a better PPTX converter than the PPTX converter'. The Rijksmuseum series and the tech team's updates (most of the last weeks, starting with Lennart's BigQuery update) are good examples. This deck was built in Studio too.

LIVE DEMO

Give me a topic.

I'll build it live.

ONE PROMPT · ONE PUSHED LESSON · NO CLICKS IN THE EDITOR

Live demo, 7 minutes. Pick an answer that fits a 6-slide lesson with an open question, a quiz and a drag-and-drop; if nothing fits, use the prepared prompt (how a vaccine works, havo 3). Then: 1. Studio and Claude side by side. 2. Give the prompt. 3. Narrate the loop, point out the moment it renders and looks. 4. Ask for a change in plain words. 5. Push and open it in the normal editor. Keep the finished backup lesson ready. Image credit: NASA / Unsplash

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GUESS · 1 MINUTE

How many lessons have colleagues published in LessonUp channels with Studio since 18 September?

???

A

Fewer than 100

B

100 to 500

C

500 to 1,000

D

More than 1,000

The answer is more than 1,000: at least 1,035, revealed on the next slides. It is a lower bound, not an exact count: English UK counts only Timothy's three Studio series, and channels nobody posted about are missing.

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BETA SINCE 18 SEP 2026

Three weeks of beta, real channels live

16

colleagues in the beta channel

#LESSONUP-STUDIO-BETA

37

lessons in one channel, made in 30 minutes

JW · DE KWESTIE

1,035+

lessons published in eleven channels

AT LEAST · SINCE 18 SEP

0.2.7

the current version, which updates itself

MAC + WINDOWS

Studio has been in beta since 18 September. 16 colleagues joined #lessonup-studio-beta-testers. JW built De Kwestie: 5 themes, 37 lessons, icon, banner and settings in 30 minutes. Together, at least 1,035 lessons are published in eleven channels (see the channels slide).

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#LESSONUP-STUDIO-BETA-TESTERS

In their own words

“I didn't do anything.”

JW

after a 37-lesson Maatschappijleer channel

“A better PPTX converter than the PPTX converter.”

SOPHIE

turning decks into lessons

“Die lampen-slide, met dat oplichtende hesje… that's Claude!”

LIEKE

on her Veilig over straat lessons

“The guardrails are very refined now.”

TIMOTHY

on his News Focus lessons

Quotes straight from the beta channel and DMs. Lieke on how she works: everything in text with Claude, check in Studio, back to Claude.

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WHAT PEOPLE MADE

Built across the company

JW

Whole channels

De Kwestie (37 lessons), protest songs with a Spotify playlist, an AI-literacy path.

TIMOTHY

The weekly News Quiz

Plus News Focus lessons and GCSE English series kept to the AQA exam board.

LIEKE

Veilig over straat

Traffic lessons with multi-hotspot slides. The glowing-vest slide was Claude's idea.

IRIS · LIEKE · TIMOTHY

A Traitors template

Three versions built and compared; Claude helped simplify the winner.

JW · ARTEZ

School of Rock

13 pop-history lessons for his hogeschool, plus a website with a genre map and playlists.

TECH TEAM

Tech updates

Most tech updates of the last weeks were built in Studio, as LessonUp lessons.

Show three or four of these live, strongest first. Links are in #lessonup-studio-beta-testers.

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OLD OR NEW?

One of these lessons was remade with Studio. Which one?

A

B

A

The left one

B

The right one

Both are the first lesson on the First World War in JW's Geschiedenisleraar channel. A is the original (1. Een land om trots op te zijn), B the Studio remake (WO I vmbo, Les 1, Europa op scherp). JW: 'Ook bestaande lessen een nieuw likje verf geven is waanzinnig.' Image credit: Geschiedenisleraar.nl (JW) Image credit: Geschiedenisleraar.nl (JW)

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CHANNEL SALES & ONBOARDING

A first lesson on day one

Marleen is starting to use Studio for channel partners.

Instead of an empty channel, a new partner sees a first lesson in their own style during the kick-off.

LIFT-OFF · DAY ONE OF A NEW CHANNEL

OPEN: ask Marleen for one concrete example, or a 1-minute story, before the session. The Rijksmuseum series shows what a partner-styled first lesson can look like. Image credit: SpaceX / Unsplash

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LIVE ON LESSONUP.COM · 8 OCT 2026

1,035+

lessons published with Studio in eleven channels since 18 September. That is a lower bound: the real number is higher.

By the book now covers biology, history and aardrijkskunde.

Examenstof

JW

384

By the book

TIM · STUDYGO

426

Luider

JW

75

English UK

TIMOTHY

48

De Kwestie

JW

37

AI, slim bekeken

JW

28

Geschiedenisleraar

JW · REMADE

32+

Single lessons

4 CHANNELS

5

Counted on the public channel pages on 7 October. Examenstof 384 (three lessons per exam topic). By the book 426: biology 143, history 118, aardrijkskunde 165 (published 8 October), unlisted. Luider 75 protest-song lessons. English UK 48 of Timothy's: AQA English Language 20, OCR English Language 23, Romeo and Juliet 5. De Kwestie 37. AI, slim bekeken 28. Geschiedenisleraar 32+: at least every new-editor lesson created since 27 September, all in the new cover style (WO I and WO I vmbo, De Oude Grieken, Kijken naar...). Single lessons: News Quiz, two News Focus, the Traitors lesson, Iris's lesson in the LessonUp channel.

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STATUS: BETA

What it doesn't do yet

You still review.

Iris needed a few manual tweaks. Timothy's quiz shipped with boxes over a question.

Editor fixes and Studio don't mix yet.

Fix something in LessonUp, push from Claude again, and the fix is gone.

It takes setup.

A desktop app, a Claude subscription and a sign-in. Internal only, for now.

Content questions are open.

AI-Act labelling, and how to credit methods and sources.

Be honest about the limits; it makes the wins more believable. For now: make every change through Claude, so a push doesn't overwrite a fix made in the editor.

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NEXT

What comes next

01

By the book

02

Beta evaluation

03

A safe round trip

04

Channel partners or Studio Light

MAYBE

Want in? Join #lessonup-studio-beta-testers. The beginner workshop recording is there too.

01 By the book: Ambassadors review the lessons. Then we decide what comes next. 02 Beta evaluation: A round with the beta testers on what works and what doesn't. 03 A safe round trip: Edit in LessonUp or in Studio, without either losing the other's work. 04 Channel partners or Studio Light: Studio for a few channel partners, or Studio Light: the lesson format as a plugin for claude.ai or ChatGPT. Close with how people can join. The fourth is a maybe, in one of two forms: give Studio to a few channel partners so they build their own lessons, or Studio Light, which brings the lesson DSL to claude.ai or ChatGPT as an extension or plugin, no desktop app needed.

What would you, or we, make with Studio?

Y O U R T U R N

Q&A · 5 MINUTES

Let the room fill the web before the questions. Seed questions if it stays quiet: Could a teacher use this one day? How do we know the content is correct? What does this mean for Education? How do I get access?

SEE YOU IN THE BETA

L E S S O N U P S T U D I O

Questions?

#lessonup-studio-beta-testers

Questions. Image credit: Mara F / Unsplash