This work describes the design and
implementation of a functional assistant system to support
instructors to design or re-design the curriculum of their
courses. The system uses automatically generated ontologies
from textbooks that reflect the structure of a specific body of
knowledge. Twelve instructors participated in the generation
of curricula for a programming fundamentals course, using the
assistant system. An initial evaluation of this tool suggests that
the system was successful in helping novel instructors with the
design of a new curriculum.
