Professor asks how to automate course docs, student tracking with AI agents
CurlyMope · reddit · 2026-11-02
An academic posts on Reddit seeking practical AI automation for administrative work, not ethics debate. He already uses Ollama, a ChatGPT subscription, and month-to-month Claude plans.
His pain points:
- Course documentation: 4 courses per semester with syllabi, attendance, question sets, grading schemes, and outcome analysis; he wants question banks generated using prescribed textbook terminology, and semester-end Excel breakdowns mapping each student's per-question marks to course/program outcomes — formats keep changing, forcing re-prompting.
- Student management: many undergrad/postgrad/hobby projects tracked in folders and emails, wishing for a queryable system; mentoring reminders via Excel mail merge.
- Grants/patents/admin: sudden requests for sanction letters or 3-month activity summaries are slow to resolve.
- File renaming: wants an interactive script with preview suggesting dateusefulname conventions.
He's asking the community for guidance on automating this workflow.
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