From enduring understanding to standards-aligned unit plan — with AI-powered assessments, rubrics, and learning activities. The full Understanding by Design framework, built in minutes.
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Wiggins & McTighe's Understanding by Design framework, powered by AI. Plan from the end goal backward.
Type what students need to understand. AI maps to your state standards, classifies the Bloom's level, and generates essential questions that drive inquiry.
Get GRASPS-based performance tasks with multi-criterion rubrics, plus formative checks for understanding — all shareable via link, auto-graded with results.
Activities sequenced to scaffold toward the performance task. Each lesson builds a specific skill, with formative checks placed at natural diagnostic points.
There are 3.7 million teachers in the United States. The person closest to the problem — the teacher who just planned the unit, who knows exactly what enduring understandings students need, what discussions they had, what concepts they struggled with — has always been locked out of building their own curriculum tools.
They copy unit plans from textbooks that don't match their students. They Google for rubrics that don't align to their standards. They spend entire weekends writing assessments from scratch — and then discover what to reteach only after it's too late.
Backward Builder puts the power of Understanding by Design back where it belongs — in the teacher's hands.
Mrs. Crabapple's 7th grade science unit is pre-seeded and ready to explore. Walk through all three stages of backward design in under two minutes.