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General

What tools does Learning Commons offer?

Tool	What it does	Use cases
Knowledge Graph	Consolidates academic standards, curricula, and learning science in expert-annotated datasets	Identify how your AI-generated educational content supports specific academic standards; Follow meaningful learning progressions when planning instructions; Adapt content aligned to one state standard to other states, etc.
Evaluators	Measures the quality of AI-generated educational content	Optimize your product’s AI-generated outputs; Select the right model for your task; etc.
Agent Skills	Helps AI assistants produce standards-aligned instructional materials for teachers	Ship lesson planning and differentiation features; Deploy district AI assistants; Generate or adapt classroom-ready lessons; etc.

Do I need to pay to use Learning Commons tools?

No. Creating a Learning Commons Platform ↗ account is free and gives you full access to Knowledge Graph and Evaluators. Most Knowledge Graph datasets and all Evaluators are openly licensed and free to use. A small number of gated Knowledge Graph datasets may require users to accept separate licensing terms and fees from the dataset publishers.

Do I have to use both Knowledge Graph and Evaluators?

No. Knowledge Graph and Evaluators serve different stages of an AI content generation pipeline and can be used independently.

Tool	When to use	Description
Knowledge Graph	Before or during content generation — to ground your AI with structured, standards-aligned data	Input-side tool that gives your AI structured, standards-aligned data to work with
Evaluators	After content generation — to score output against pedagogical criteria	Output-side tool that scores the content your AI produces against pedagogical criteria like grade-level appropriateness and vocabulary

With that said, many teams find value in integrating both tools – Knowledge Graph to ground content generation and Evaluators to verify the output.

Learning Commons Platform

Why do I need a Learning Commons Platform account?

Your Learning Commons Platform ↗ account allows you to:

Demo our evaluators in the Evaluators Playground ↗
Explore our datasets using the Knowledge Graph Explorer ↗
Generate API keys ↗ to integrate Learning Commons tools into your project

Why do I need an organization associated with my Learning Commons Platform account?

The Learning Commons Platform ↗ manages access to API keys, gated datasets, team collaboration, and permissions by organization.You will be prompted to create your organization when first signing in to your Learning Commons Platform account. Any API keys you create will be linked to that organization automatically.

My API keys are linked to the wrong organization. What can I do?

Unfortunately, API keys can’t be transferred between organizations. You’ll need to create new API keys in the correct organization and update your projects to use them.Your old API keys will continue to work until you manually delete them, so you can migrate at your own pace.

Knowledge Graph

Why should our team integrate Knowledge Graph?

With our datasets, edtech developers can more reliably produce AI-generated educational content that:

Aligns to academic standards
Incorporates high-quality curricula
Is rooted in learning science
Can be translated across states

Check out some common use cases of Knowledge Graph before getting started.

Can I use Knowledge Graph with any LLM?

Yes. Knowledge Graph is LLM-agnostic — you can use it with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or any other provider.If you’re building an agent-based workflow, the MCP server makes it easy to connect Knowledge Graph data directly to tools like ChatGPT or Claude or Cursor without writing custom retrieval logic.

What Knowledge Graph datasets are available now for my region?

Knowledge Graph covers all 50 U.S. states, with availability varying by dataset and subject. We do not currently offer international coverage.

Dataset	Coverage
Academic Standards	All U.S. states for Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies, plus WIDA English Language Development Standards
Learning Components	Math: Common Core and 40+ state frameworks. ELA: Common Core and select states, currently grades K–2. Supported frameworks
Standards Crosswalks	In U.S. states where Learning Components alignment exists
Learning Progressions	All U.S. states for Math (uses Common Core State Standards)
Curriculum	Math
Learner Variability Navigator	Learning science

We are actively expanding coverage across states and subjects.See our Roadmap for what’s in progress, or contact support@learningcommons.org ↗ if you need help finding data for your region.

Can I request a dataset or standard that isn't available yet?

Yes. We actively expand Knowledge Graph coverage based on demand.Check the Roadmap for upcoming datasets and standards support, and share your coverage requests with us at support@learningcommons.org ↗.

How long does integration take?

You can get up and running with Knowledge Graph in minutes, using one of our 4 access methods.Check out our Quickstart for more information.

Evaluators

Why should our team integrate Evaluators?

AI often fails educators in predictable ways (e.g., grade-leveling text, aligning to standards, etc.). Our evaluators address this known credibility gap:

Validated against expert-annotated datasets
Grounded in human expertise, learning science, and academic standards
Provide actionable guidance on filling the gaps in your AI-generated content

Check out common use cases for Evaluators to get started.

I already have an evaluation process – why should I integrate your evaluators?

Our evaluators allow you to incorporate standards-aligned educational data into your AI content generation pipeline – all without having to rely on slow and expensive human evaluation.Our evaluators are also interoperable with many industry tools (e.g., BrainTrust ↗, LangSmith ↗, Arize ↗, LangWatch ↗, and Langfuse ↗), so you don’t have to completely overhaul your tech stack.

Our team has unique requirements and constraints for evaluation. Will your evaluators meet our team-specific needs?

Most users’ requirements can be generalized relatively easily, and it is unlikely that your team’s unique setup will degrade the accuracy of our evaluators’ output.Reach out to support@learningcommons.org ↗ if you have further questions about integration.

How does Learning Commons handle the content I send to evaluators?

You retain ownership of any content you submit to Learning Commons evaluators.Learning Commons uses your submitted content as described in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to provide, operate, develop, and improve our services. Some evaluators rely on third-party large language model (LLM) providers to generate evaluation results. When an evaluator uses one of these providers, the content you submit is sent to that provider to perform the requested evaluation. Those providers operate under their own terms and privacy practices.For more information, see our Terms of Use ↗ (Section 3.3) and Privacy Policy ↗, or contact privacy@learningcommons.org ↗.

What evaluators and datasets are available now?

We currently provide the following evaluator families and evaluator datasets:


Evaluator families	Literacy evaluators Feedback evaluators
Evaluator datasets	Literacy Feedback (Coming soon)

Check out our Roadmap for upcoming evaluators and datasets.

How long does integration take?

You can get up and running with Evaluators in minutes, using one of our 3 access methods. Check out our Quickstart for more information.

Agent Skills

Who are Agent Skills built for?

Agent Skills are for edtech developers who want to use AI assistants to produce standards-aligned instructional materials for teachers.While teachers are the end users of these materials, Agent Skills are mostly installed and run in agent environments by edtech developers.See the Agent Skills docs for more information, or check out the Quickstart to get started.

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