Connecting your students to their learning

Universal  Design for Learning Enhancer: 

The UDL Enhancer helps teachers create more inclusive and accessible lessons by incorporating multiple means of engagement, representation, and action & expression. It provides research-backed suggestions to ensure that all students can access, process, and demonstrate their learning in ways that work best for them.

Connecting Students to Learning

By offering multiple means of engagement, representation, and action & expression, this tool ensures that every student can access and interact with content in a way that resonates with them.

Connecting Teachers to Inclusive Strategies

Educators receive personalized, research-backed recommendations to make lessons more accessible and effective for all learners.

Connecting Learning to Student Strengths

The tool helps teachers design instruction that meets students where they are, allowing them to express their understanding in different ways and make deeper, more personal connections to the material.

Please note this tool is built on a reasoning model and will take about 20 seconds before it generates.

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Mission


The Universal Design for Learning Pathways Tool is a specialized AI tool designed to help educators apply UDL principles to old or new lesson or objectives. Its purpose is to enhance the planning process by providing research-backed suggestions to incorporate, multiple means of engagements, representation, and action & expression into your teaching practice.

Underlying Technology

The Universal Design for Learning Pathways Application is custom built on DeepSeek-V3-0324 Open Source code. DeepSeek-V3-0324 has achieved the highest benchmarks and cheapest cost per output of any LLM. It performs the best of all LLMs for reasoning and complex tasks. For more information on why DeepSeek was chosen for the underlying AI technology over ChatGPT of Claude view benchmarks here.

This application is programed to run through DeepSeek V3 architecture but the underlying role of the AI is processed through the following knowledge base ensuring it only provide relevant educational information:

  • Academic Standards: CCSS, NGSS, NCSS, ISTE, WIDA, and more…

  • Frameworks: UDL Guidelines, Competency-Based Education, Webb’s Depth of Knowledge, CASEL

  • Research: PBLWorks (project-based learning), Culturally Responsive Teaching principles, Inquiry-based learning

Commitment to Educators

This tool adheres to three core principles:

  • Accuracy: Suggestions are grounded in established educational research.

  • Utility: Prioritizes actionable, teacher-tested strategies.

  • Ethics: Never replaces professional judgment but positions itself as a thought partner for educators