FOR INSTRUCTORS
AI-Resilient Assignment Design — Master Framework
An institution- and course-independent framework for designing assignments so AI can support learning without substituting for the evidence of learning.
View Framework PDF →AIFE TOOLS · TOOLKIT 1
Assignment Design & Review
A second set of eyes before you submit.
A coordinated toolkit for instructors and students working in an environment where capable generative AI is readily available. It combines an instructor design framework, a student-facing pre-submission review agent, a Cursor quick-start guide, and a student agent user guide.
Current release: V1.0 · September 2026
AI REVIEWS. THE STUDENT THINKS, VALIDATES, DECIDES, AND PUTS THEIR NAME ON THE WORK.
THREE COORDINATED RESOURCES
One assignment workflow.
These resources serve different roles but share the same principle: AI can assist learning while the human remains responsible for understanding, validation, judgment, and the final submission.
FOR STUDENTS
AIFE Assignment Pre-Submission Review Agent
Reviews completed work against the actual assignment requirements, surfaces possible omissions or inconsistencies, and points the student toward items worth reconsidering.
Download Agent V1.0 →GETTING STARTED
Cursor & Student Agent User Guides
New to Cursor? Start with the Cursor Quick Start Guide. Then use the Student Agent User Guide to install and run the AIFE Assignment Pre-Submission Review Agent.
INSTRUCTOR DESIGNS ↓ STUDENT DOES THE ASSIGNMENT ↓ AI REVIEWS ↓ STUDENT INVESTIGATES & VALIDATES ↓ STUDENT DECIDES & SUBMITS
STUDENT TOOL · VERSION 1.0
AIFE Assignment Pre-Submission Review Agent
A second set of eyes before you submit.
The AIFE Assignment Pre-Submission Review Agent helps students review completed homework, laboratory reports, projects, programming assignments, and other coursework against the actual assignment requirements.
Give the agent your assignment instructions, rubric if applicable, and completed work. It examines the requirements and evidence, checks for missing or inconsistent elements, and identifies places that may deserve another look.
The agent is intentionally designed not to grade your work, optimize it for a perfect score, or decide when it is ready to submit. Instead, it behaves more like an instructor walking around the classroom: it may point something out, ask you a question, or give a limited hint when appropriate— but the thinking and the final decision remain yours.
Tested with: Engineering homework and laboratory-report assignments · Status: Active classroom use and continuing cross-disciplinary validation
HOW TO USE THE AGENT
Seven steps from completed work to final verification.
DO YOUR WORK FIRST
Complete the assignment as you normally would. This agent is designed to review your work—not do the assignment for you.
START THE AIFE PRE-SUBMISSION REVIEW AGENT
Use the downloaded AIFE V1.0 agent in the supported AI development/chat environment.
GIVE IT THE COMPLETE ASSIGNMENT PACKAGE
Provide the assignment instructions, rubric if separate, completed submission, and any other relevant files needed to understand the work.
CHOOSE YOUR REVIEW
FULL REVIEW: review the entire submission against the applicable requirements. FOCUSED REVIEW: review a particular section, requirement, calculation, figure, table, code segment, or other identified issue.
READ THE QUESTIONS — NOT JUST THE FLAGS
A NEEDS ATTENTION finding does not automatically mean something is wrong. The agent may be asking you to compare evidence, reconsider an assumption, check a calculation, examine an inconsistency, or determine whether a requirement has actually been satisfied.
INVESTIGATE AND DECIDE
Recheck your own work. If stuck, you may ask for a limited hint or conceptual explanation. The agent is designed not to complete assessed work for you.
YOU MAKE THE FINAL CALL
The agent does not determine whether work is “good enough,” predict a grade, or tell you that the assignment is ready to submit.
“Is this work I understand, can defend, and am willing to put my name on?”
WHAT THIS AGENT IS — AND ISN'T
A reviewer that supports your judgment.
THE AGENT CAN
- Compare your work with assignment requirements
- Notice missing or inconsistent evidence
- Question calculations, figures, code, or reasoning
- Help you think through a problem
- Give a limited hint when you're stuck
- Help you validate your work
THE AGENT IS NOT DESIGNED TO
- Do the assignment for you
- Give you completed assessed answers
- Rewrite your work to maximize points
- Predict your grade
- Decide that your work is ready
- Replace your judgment
About This Tool — Purpose & Limitations
The AIFE Assignment Pre-Submission Review Agent was developed as an educational review tool for AI-augmented learning.
AI can help review the work. The human remains responsible for understanding, validation, judgment, and the final submission.
The agent can miss problems and can raise questions about things that are actually correct. Its review is not a grade, does not replace assignment instructions or instructor feedback, and does not guarantee correctness, completeness, or any particular score.
Students remain responsible for complying with the AI-use policies of their course and institution.
VERSION HISTORY
A versioned AIFE release.
V1.0 — September 2026
Initial public release. Validated using strong, average, weak, and known-issue student-work cases across engineering laboratory reports and homework assignments in multiple engineering courses.
Continued testing across additional assignment types and disciplines is underway. Future releases will incorporate improvements supported by classroom use and validation.
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