1.2: Target Audience

This guide is intended for professors, lecturers, and instructional staff who are interested in incorporating PrairieLearn into their courses in a structured and sustainable way. It is especially relevant for educators teaching technical or quantitative subjects where parameterized questions, autograding, and repeated practice can significantly enhance student learning.

The primary audience includes instructors who may already be using PrairieLearn at a basic level but want to move beyond isolated question creation toward a cohesive, mastery-oriented assessment system. It is also designed for faculty who are new to PrairieLearn and want a clear roadmap that reduces the uncertainty of deployment, infrastructure setup, and large-scale integration into an existing course structure.

Of course, through the boundless hurdles of education and in pursuit of its growth, many may also doubt the utilization of new softwares, and therefore, may want to experiment via implementation before complete incorporation into the educational workflow of a specific class. This guide highly encourages the adoption of the PrairieLearn software in several manners, and aims to help eliminate the nuances that may present itself during a self guided, or preliminary approach.