Prepare an Absence Catch-Up Link
A generic catch-up tutor link that rebuilds prerequisite knowledge, teaches the missed idea, and checks readiness for the next lesson.
Works on any free AI · Best tool: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
✅ How to use this effectively
- 1. Name the exact missed objective.
- 2. List only essential prerequisites.
- 3. Include a readiness checkpoint.
- 4. Follow up in person if the checkpoint fails.
🔧 If it is not right, reply with this: If the catch-up path is too long, require a ten-minute prerequisite check, one worked example, two practice items, and a clear stop-and-ask-teacher threshold.
THE PROMPT
ROLE: Act as a catch-up lesson designer for a student returning after an absence.
CONTEXT: A [CLASS] learner missed [LESSON OBJECTIVE] and needs [PREREQUISITES] before [NEXT LESSON].
INPUTS — FILL EVERY PLACEHOLDER:
- [CLASS]
- [LESSON OBJECTIVE]
- [PREREQUISITES]
- [NEXT LESSON]
- [TIME AVAILABLE]
SOURCE-BOUND TOOL FACTS AND EXACT URL WHITELIST:
- [CHATGPT] Whitelist template: https://chatgpt.com/?q={ENCODED_PROMPT}. It prefills but does not auto-submit, can lose the query in a phone app, and should stay under 1,800 characters; tell students to open it in a browser and never include personal data.
- [KHAN_ACADEMY] Whitelist: https://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query={ENCODED_KEYWORDS}. Use search only; never invent opaque Khan topic or exercise paths.
DO THIS:
1. Create a short prerequisite diagnostic before teaching.
2. Teach only the missed objective with one checked example.
3. Add two practice questions and one readiness decision.
4. Build a ChatGPT prefill URL under 1,800 characters.
5. Say it prefills but does not auto-submit and must be opened in a browser, reviewed, and sent.
6. Append a Khan search for the prerequisite rather than an invented direct lesson.
WORKED LINK EXAMPLE — COPY THIS EXACT ENCODING PATTERN:
Example task: Make a catch-up path for linear equations before simultaneous equations.
Expected result or check target: The student checks inverse operations, solves two linear equations, and reaches a readiness decision.
check this yourself
CHECK → https://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query=linear%20equations%20foundations
(paste-fallback: linear equations foundations)
Encoding note: Spaces are encoded as %20, so decoding yields the exact fallback.
OUTPUT FORMAT:
1. Catch-Up Prompt — exact text
2. Prefill Link — raw ChatGPT URL
3. Mini-Lesson Map — diagnostic, teach, practise
4. Readiness Rule — continue or ask teacher
5. Practice Search — approved link and fallback
QUALITY AND TOOL GUARDRAILS:
- Do not encode the learner's name, attendance history, reason for absence, or attainment data.
- ChatGPT ?q= is prefill-only and may be lost if an app intercepts it.
- Keep the URL under 1,800 characters and provide copy-ready fallback.
- Use Khan search only; never fabricate a lesson slug.
- Do not imply completion replaces teacher follow-up.
- Copy every [PLACEHOLDER IN SQUARE BRACKETS] character-for-character in every template, code block and translated variant.
- Never output a desmos.com URL with parameters, a mathsolver.microsoft.com URL, an invented GeoGebra material ID, an invented DIKSHA code, an invented Khan topic path, or an unlisted quiz or simulation slug.
- Never describe an AI answer as verified. Every external check must be labelled “check this yourself” for the teacher or student to inspect personally.
- Do not invent exam facts, source citations, marks distributions, tool IDs or inaccessible links. Separate mathematical proof from computational checking.
=== TOOL-LINK OUTPUT CONTRACT — follow every rule exactly ===
1. You may output clickable links ONLY to: wolframalpha.com/input?i= · symbolab.com/solver?query= ·
geogebra.org/graphing|geometry|3d|cas?command= · math.stackexchange.com/search?q= · oeis.org/search?q= ·
artofproblemsolving.com/community/q1_ · khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query= ·
overleaf.com/docs?encoded_snip= · latex.codecogs.com/png.image? · docs.google.com/forms/...viewform?usp=pp_url
(Forms only with entry.N IDs I paste in) · plus any URL I give you or that appears in this prompt's whitelist table.
2. NEVER output: desmos.com links with query strings (they load blank), invented geogebra.org/m/ IDs, Khan topic
URLs, DIKSHA dial codes, Wolfram quiz/demo slugs not in my table, or mathsolver.microsoft.com (dead site).
3. Write queries in plain calculator syntax (x^2, sqrt(x), pi, 3/4) — never LaTeX — EXCEPT Overleaf and CodeCogs
payloads, which are LaTeX.
4. Percent-encode the query part: space→%20, +→%2B, ^→%5E, =→%3D, [→%5B, ]→%5D; in LaTeX payloads also
\→%5C, {→%7B, }→%7D, %→%25, #→%23, &→%26, newline→%0A. GeoGebra ?command= exception: encode ONLY + as %2B;
leave ( ) = ^ ; as typed.
5. One link per line, formatted exactly: CHECK → <full raw URL> (no markdown brackets, nothing after the URL).
6. Directly below every link, print: (paste-fallback: <the un-encoded query or commands>)
7. Before printing any link, silently decode your own URL and confirm it reproduces the query character-for-character;
rebuild it if not. If a URL would exceed 1,800 characters (Overleaf: 6,000), print only the paste-fallback.
8. Label every link "check this yourself" — never claim the link proves your answer is correct.
9. On phones these links must be opened in a browser, not an installed app — say this once at the end.