Intelligent Textbook Analysis and Automated Word Lesson Plan Generation with Spire.Agent.Office

In teaching work, lesson preparation is the most time-consuming and skill-demanding task for every teacher. When you receive a textbook, you need to read through each chapter and section, distill core knowledge points, organize the knowledge logic, and then design teaching objectives, determine teaching key and difficult points, arrange the complete teaching process of introduction — new teaching — consolidation — summary, and finally compile it into a standardized lesson plan. A complete lesson plan often takes several hours, and different teachers vary greatly in analysis depth and lesson plan structure, making it difficult to ensure consistent quality.

Comparison with Traditional SDK API Processing

This article explains how to use the Word AI capability of Spire.Agent.Office to analyze textbooks and automatically generate lesson plans. Together, they form a complete lesson preparation pipeline: first use AI to parse the textbook PDF, organize unit key points and key/difficult points, then generate a standardized, content-complete lesson plan based on the analysis results.

• Intelligent Textbook Analysis
• Automated Word Lesson Plan Generation

For product installation and SpireToken configuration, refer to Integrating Spire.Agent.Office in a .NET Project. The examples below assume Spire.Agent.Office is installed and SpireToken is configured.

Intelligent Textbook Analysis

Intelligent textbook analysis is the starting point of the entire lesson preparation workflow, suitable for quickly establishing an overall understanding of the textbook before reading the whole book. The core idea is: pass the electronic textbook PDF as an attachment, let AI parse the textbook content, organize the core knowledge, key and difficult points, learning suggestions, and the connections between chapters according to the chapters, and generate a Word unit textbook analysis document. Teachers can use it to complete unit teaching planning, and subsequent lesson plan generation is also based on it.

using Spire.Agent.Office.AI;
using Spire.Agent.Office.Extensions;
using Spire.Doc;

// Textbook PDF (multiple chapters can be passed in)
string[] attachments = new string[] {
    "E:\\Input\\Textbook-Rational_Numbers.pdf",
    "E:\\Input\\Textbook-Addition_and_Subtraction_of_Algebraic_Expressions.pdf",
    "E:\\Input\\Textbook-Linear_Equations_in_One_Variable.pdf"
};
// Save path
string savePath = "E:\\Output\\Textbook_Analysis.docx";
// SpireToken Key
string key = "**********************";
// Natural language instruction
string instruction =
    "Please analyze the textbook content in the attached PDFs, and from the perspective of a lesson-preparing teacher, help me organize a textbook analysis suitable for daily lesson preparation.\n" +
    "For each chapter, explain the chapter's core knowledge content, teaching key and difficult points, and recommended class hours.\n" +
    "Try to preserve the key concepts and typical example points of each section, and supplement the common difficulties and error-prone points students encounter when learning this chapter.\n" +
    "Also describe the connections between chapters. Please strictly analyze based on the actual content of the textbook in the PDFs and do not fabricate anything.\n" +
    "Generate a Word document with a clear structure so that I can arrange the unit teaching plan accordingly, and subsequent lesson plans will also be based on this analysis.";

// Call the Word document processing function
AIResult result = ExecuteDemoWord(instruction, savePath, key, attachments);

// Execute Word document AI processing
static AIResult ExecuteDemoWord(string instruction, string savePath, string key, string[] attachments)
{
    // Create an AIOptions configuration object
    AIOptions options = new AIOptions();
    // Set the SpireToken Key
    options.SpireToken = key;

    // Use the Document object to process the Word document
    using (Document doc = new Document())
    {
        // Create the AI document processor
        AIDocumentProcessor processor = doc.AI(options);

        // Execute the AI instruction
        return processor.ExecuteInstruction(doc, instruction, savePath, attachments);
    }
}

AI-generated Word textbook analysis document

The analysis document unfolds by chapter, clearly explaining each chapter's core knowledge, key and difficult points, and recommended class hours, and also supplements students' common learning difficulties, error-prone points, and the connections between chapters. Teachers only need to provide the electronic PDF of the textbook to complete the whole-book analysis, quickly identify key chapters, and reasonably allocate class hours; this unit textbook analysis can also be directly used as background material for the subsequent lesson plan generation.

Automated Word Lesson Plan Generation

Fine-grained lesson preparation for a single class can be further advanced on the basis of the textbook analysis in the first section. The core idea is: directly use the unit textbook analysis generated in the first section as input, and let AI generate a structurally complete, ready-to-use lesson plan based on the analysis of the relevant section, including student analysis, teaching objectives, teaching key and difficult points, teaching preparation, teaching process, blackboard design, and tiered after-class assignments.

using Spire.Agent.Office.AI;
using Spire.Agent.Office.Extensions;
using Spire.Doc;

// The unit textbook analysis generated in the first section (already includes the analysis of the relevant section content)
string inputPath = "E:\\Input\\Textbook_Analysis.docx";
// Save path
string savePath = "E:\\Output\\Linear_Equations_in_One_Variable-Lesson_Plan.docx";
// SpireToken Key
string key = "**********************";
// Natural language instruction
string instruction =
    "Based on the content of the \"Linear Equations in One Variable\" section in the unit textbook analysis document, " +
    "help me write a complete lesson plan Word document. It is recommended to include: " +
    "student analysis, teaching objectives (knowledge and skills, process and methods, emotional attitude and values), teaching key and difficult points, teaching preparation, " +
    "teaching process (introduction, new teaching, consolidation practice, class summary), blackboard design, and tiered after-class assignments. " +
    "The teaching objectives and key/difficult points must closely match the textbook content, and the teaching process must be specific about how the teacher guides and how students learn in each segment. " +
    "The after-class assignments should be tiered into basic and advanced questions. Please format according to a standardized lesson plan layout, unify the heading levels and fonts, and finally save and output in DOCX format";

// Call the Word document processing function
AIResult result = ExecuteDemoWord(instruction, inputPath, savePath, key, null);

// Execute Word document AI processing
static AIResult ExecuteDemoWord(string instruction, string inputPath, string savePath, string key, string[] attachmentPaths)
{
    // Create an AIOptions configuration object
    AIOptions options = new AIOptions();
    // Set the SpireToken Key
    options.SpireToken = key;

    // Use the Document object to process the Word document
    using (Document doc = new Document())
    {
        // Load the unit textbook analysis document as the context for lesson plan generation
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(inputPath) && File.Exists(inputPath))
        {
            doc.LoadFromFile(inputPath);
        }
        // Create the AI document processor
        AIDocumentProcessor processor = doc.AI(options);

        // Execute the AI instruction
        return processor.ExecuteInstruction(doc, instruction, savePath, attachmentPaths);
    }
}

AI-generated Word lesson plan document

The generated lesson plan has a complete structure and content that closely matches the textbook, covering student analysis and tiered after-class assignments as well. Based directly on the unit textbook analysis, teachers can get a first draft of the lesson, then adjust and polish it, saving the time of writing from scratch. For multiple classes in the same unit, the same unit textbook analysis can be reused to generate lesson plans section by section and then proofread them uniformly, turning lesson preparation from "writing word by word" into "localized modification".

FAQ

Teaching objectives not matching the textbook content

Reason: AI's generation of teaching objectives depends on its understanding of the textbook theme. If the textbook content is too extensive or the instruction is too general, the objectives may diverge from the actual teaching content.

Solution: Limit the analysis scope in the instruction (such as specifying the chapter name), explicitly require the objectives to be developed from three dimensions, and bind the requirement "must be written based on the actual textbook content".

Lesson plan structure not standardized, missing sections

Reason: The section structure that the lesson plan should contain is not specified in the instruction, and the structure AI generates by default may not match the school template.

Solution: List the sections the lesson plan must include in order in the instruction (such as introduction, new teaching, consolidation, summary), and AI will output strictly according to this structure.

Analysis report missing test points or knowledge points

Reason: The textbook has too many chapters, or the same knowledge point is scattered across multiple chapters, making the analysis report incomplete.

Solution: Pass the complete textbook or the PDFs of relevant chapters as attachments, and specify the knowledge types to focus on in the instruction (such as "focus on frequently tested question types and examples").

Inconsistent formatting in the generated lesson plan

Reason: The layout requirements of the lesson plan are not specified in the instruction, and the heading levels, fonts, and paragraph styles output by AI may be inconsistent.

Solution: Add descriptions such as "format according to a standardized lesson plan layout and unify heading levels and fonts" to the instruction.

Get the SpireToken Key

• Contact sales@e-iceblue.com or visit https://www.e-iceblue.com/TemLicense.html to obtain a trial/commercial API key

Configure it in your code:

AIOptions options = new AIOptions();
options.SpireToken = key;