Instructional Agents: Reducing Teaching Faculty Workload through Multi-Agent Instructional Design

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Main Authors: Yao, Huaiyuan, Xu, Wanpeng, Turnau, Justin, Kellam, Nadia, Wei, Hua
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Published: 2025
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author Yao, Huaiyuan
Xu, Wanpeng
Turnau, Justin
Kellam, Nadia
Wei, Hua
author_facet Yao, Huaiyuan
Xu, Wanpeng
Turnau, Justin
Kellam, Nadia
Wei, Hua
contents Preparing high-quality instructional materials remains a labor-intensive process that often requires extensive coordination among teaching faculty, instructional designers, and teaching assistants. In this work, we present Instructional Agents, a multi-agent large language model framework designed to automate end-to-end course material generation, including syllabi creation, LaTeX-based slides, lecture scripts, and assessments. Unlike prior tools focused on isolated tasks, Instructional Agents simulates role-based collaboration to ensure pedagogical coherence. The system operates in four modes: Autonomous, Catalog-Guided, Feedback-Guided, and Full Co-Pilot mode, enabling flexible control over the degree of human involvement. We evaluate Instructional Agents across five university-level courses and show that it produces high-quality instructional materials that are reviewed and refined by teaching faculty prior to use, while significantly reducing the time required to prepare classroom-ready content. By supporting institutions with limited instructional design capacity, Instructional Agents provides a scalable and cost-effective framework to democratize access to high-quality education, particularly in underserved or resource-constrained settings. The project website, including source code, is available at https://darl-genai.github. io/instructional_agents_homepage/
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spellingShingle Instructional Agents: Reducing Teaching Faculty Workload through Multi-Agent Instructional Design
Yao, Huaiyuan
Xu, Wanpeng
Turnau, Justin
Kellam, Nadia
Wei, Hua
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.7
Preparing high-quality instructional materials remains a labor-intensive process that often requires extensive coordination among teaching faculty, instructional designers, and teaching assistants. In this work, we present Instructional Agents, a multi-agent large language model framework designed to automate end-to-end course material generation, including syllabi creation, LaTeX-based slides, lecture scripts, and assessments. Unlike prior tools focused on isolated tasks, Instructional Agents simulates role-based collaboration to ensure pedagogical coherence. The system operates in four modes: Autonomous, Catalog-Guided, Feedback-Guided, and Full Co-Pilot mode, enabling flexible control over the degree of human involvement. We evaluate Instructional Agents across five university-level courses and show that it produces high-quality instructional materials that are reviewed and refined by teaching faculty prior to use, while significantly reducing the time required to prepare classroom-ready content. By supporting institutions with limited instructional design capacity, Instructional Agents provides a scalable and cost-effective framework to democratize access to high-quality education, particularly in underserved or resource-constrained settings. The project website, including source code, is available at https://darl-genai.github. io/instructional_agents_homepage/
title Instructional Agents: Reducing Teaching Faculty Workload through Multi-Agent Instructional Design
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19611