What You’ll Learn

The thing that eats an educator’s time isn’t teaching — it’s everything around teaching: building the agenda, making the slides, writing the handouts, sending the reminders. James built a system to hand all of that off. In this session he introduces his 3P Teaching System — Prepare, Prep, Present — an agent team that does the work a teaching assistant would, so you can spend your time with real people instead of on prep.

By the end you’ll understand what the system replaces, how its three stages hand off to each other, and how the presenter board solves the “where did that slide go?” problem.

The Problem: You’re Doing a Teaching Assistant’s Whole Job

James started by asking Claude what a teaching assistant actually does: answer student questions, grade quizzes, take attendance, moderate live sessions, send reminders, prepare handouts and worksheets, research case studies, transcribe recordings, manage the calendar, and report on progress. If you’re a solo course creator, you do all of it — plus defining learning outcomes, building the agenda, designing activities, making slides, and writing the launch and follow-up emails.

“If you want to stop spending more time prepping than you do actually talking to people, this is something you need to consider.”

💡 In Plain English: teaching live is the fun part. The prep is a mess of scattered slides, half-written emails, and outdated PDFs. The 3P system cleans that up.

What It Is

The 3P Teaching System is an agent team that plugs into Claude as a plugin, with 13 specialized “employees” across the stages. It works standalone — with Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or Codex — whether or not you run the full campus operating system. The three P’s are the three stages.

Stage 1: Prepare

You give Claude a topic (and if you’ve been using a campus operating system, it already knows your expertise and past work). Back comes a complete class design ready to teach: a structured agenda with time blocks, two to three interactive activities with debriefs, a curated resource list for before/during/after, three to five use cases you can teach from, and a slide presentation — James recommends HTML slides over PowerPoint — all built upfront.

Stage 2: Prep

The Prep stage inherits everything the Prepare team designed — briefs, agendas, resources — and turns it into delivery materials. That means a facilitator agenda with speaker notes and time blocking, printable and digital handouts (PDF, PPTX, whatever you need), quick-reference cheat sheets, practice worksheets, a student-facing delivery slide deck, and the emails plus prep and follow-up notes. You stay the human in the loop and can approve the design before it’s built.

Stage 3: Present

This is the piece James struggled with most. Between Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini he’d accumulated slide decks, PowerPoints, and markdown files scattered everywhere — 250 to 300 valuable sessions in a couple of months. So he built a presenter control board: a visual wall that auto-detects the current run and pulls up the right presentation. Every asset is fair game — not just PowerPoint, but markdown, HTML, PDF, or a chart — and you can move backward and forward through them, with a sortable card library of supporting material to click to on the fly. Best of all, it runs locally.

One More: One-on-One Coverage

Beyond the three P’s, James points to a companion agent team — the campus ambassador — that works inside your community, reaching out, engaging members, and handling one-on-one conversations. Between the two, the teaching-assistant role is largely covered by agents.

The Takeaway

The value in education isn’t the content anymore — it’s the live delivery, guidance, and mentorship only you can provide. The 3P Teaching System takes the prep, materials, and presentation logistics off your plate so you can focus there. Because it’s an operating system, it gets better the more you use it, until you can hand off “create a course on this” or “prep my class on this” start to finish. It plugs into Claude or Codex, and there’s more at trainingsites.io.

Teach more, and let the agents do the rest.

This tutorial is a recap of a live demo session.