Building a 45-minute session with AI: a worked and checked example
An AI assistant can suggest a session plan in seconds. The real work starts when you need to check that participants will be able to do something specific by the end, that the activity lets them practise and that the assessment measures the same skill. This is instructional alignment: consistency between objectives, activities and assessment methods, as described in the French Ministry of Education’s official bulletin.
Here is a fictional example, designed to demonstrate the method. It does not come from a classroom trial. Audience: adults who regularly write professional meeting minutes. Prerequisite: ability to use a word processor. Duration: 45 minutes. Objective: using supplied meeting notes, write one-page minutes that distinguish decisions, actions, owners and points to confirm, without adding facts absent from the notes.
A 45-minute session plan
0–5 min — Set the context. The trainer presents fictional notes, the objective and AI’s limitations. Participants ask questions.
5–10 min — Identify. Each person sorts the information into decisions, actions, owners and uncertain points.
10–25 min — Write. Participants work in pairs to create one-page minutes. Missing information remains “to be confirmed”.
25–35 min — Check. Each pair checks every statement against the notes and corrects unsupported additions.
35–42 min — Assess. Each person works individually on a second short set of notes. The trainer keeps the model answer until the end.
42–45 min — Conclude. The trainer compares the deliverable with the criteria and identifies two priority corrections.
A five-check review grid
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Decisions are identifiable.
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Every action has an owner or is marked “to be confirmed”.
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No date is invented.
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Uncertain points remain visible.
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The page is readable on the device used.
A session cannot be declared successful simply because a text “sounds professional”. The result must be compared with the notes and the stated criteria.
Where AI really helps
AI can suggest a structure and an initial list of questions. It must not turn an assumption into a decision. Here is a starting instruction to adapt:
Using the fictional notes below, suggest one-page meeting minutes. Separate decisions, actions, owners and points to confirm. Do not invent dates, people or commitments. Explicitly mark every missing piece of information. Then list the statements to check before sharing.
The trainer then compares each line with the source document. For a real case, remove personal data or use a tool approved by your organisation. The European guidelines on AI in education encourage examination of benefits and risks in practice; educational validation remains a human responsibility.
Three mistakes to avoid
An overly broad objective. “Understand meeting minutes” produces no observable evidence. Ask for a one-page document with specific criteria.
An activity without verification. Producing a text is not enough. The 25–35-minute stage requires statements to be checked against the notes.
A model answer shown too early. Keep the second case and its answer with the trainer until the individual assessment.
Before reusing this plan, adapt the duration, level, accessibility and professional context. Have a peer review the instructions and test the file on the device that will actually be used.
To start with a framing method, the DocPilotIA free pack of 25 prompts offers wording to adapt and review. The complete “Session ready to adapt — 45 minutes” resource is still undergoing acceptance testing: it is not announced as available here.
To extend this example, consult our review checklist for an AI-generated document and our method for checking alignment between objective, activity and assessment.
