Prototyping a Brightspace Course Coach Application

dnorman@me.com (D'Arcy Norman) — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:42:55 -0700

Last night while watching the Olympics highlights, I was playing around with Claude Code to see if I could implement something I’ve been thinking of for quite awhile. What if students had an application that connected to the LMS (Brightspace in our case) and pulled all course materials, info, calendar, assignments, discussions etc. into a local database, and what if a local chatbot was able to interact with that database to guide a student as they learn? A socratic agent, coaching them without giving them answers. Prompting them as they engage with the course.

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Prototyping a Brightspace Course Coach Application