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CurricuLLM Creator Dan Hart on Why the Tool is Different from Other LLMs
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CurricuLLM Creator Dan Hart on Why the Tool is Different from Other LLMs

Nov 3, 2025 | 3 mins

Dan Hart is using large language models (LLMs) to support Australian public-school students with a new domain-specific tool that he believes could be a world-first for students. The project builds on his earlier creation, NSWEduChat.

Hart, who previously managed the product development and engineering team behind EduChat for NSW students, has now launched CurricuLLM, an AI tutor that embeds the Australian school curriculum directly within it.

As students use the tool, it assesses their performance and progress in different subjects in real time mapping them against roughly 20,000 outcomes and content points from the syllabus.

“I think it might be a world first; I hope it is anyway because I’m pretty proud of it”, he tells ADAPT.

“It [CurricuLLM] is not there to…assign grades or do assessments, it’s there so when they [students] start a conversation, we can load up where they’re up to. Every conversation gets started with the…

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