Claude Learning Commons connectorWhat Claude can do in your Learning Commons account.
The Claude Learning Commons connector exposes 3 tools, and all 3 read. 0 write anything, 0 are undocumented. Below: what Claude can look up about a standard, where the math-only coverage stops, and who in your school can switch it off.
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What changes when you plan a lesson
Instead of opening a standards PDF and guessing what sits under a code, you ask Claude. It pulls the official wording of the standard from the Learning Commons knowledge graph (a structured database of academic standards), breaks it into smaller skills and, for math, shows what comes before and after it. The answer rests on that data rather than on what the model remembers.
Read the exact standard, state by state. Type a code such as RI.5.2 or 3.NF.A.1: find_standard_statement returns the official text, in the Common Core version by default, or in the version a state adopted if you name one.
Turn one standard into a set of targets. find_learning_components_from_standard splits a broad standard into smaller teachable skills. That is the grain you want when each practice item or quiz question should test a single skill.
Find the gap behind a struggling student. find_standards_progression_from_standard lists the standards that come before or after one in a math progression, so you can see which earlier skill is missing.
Now what the connector does not do. It does not write a lesson plan into any system, and its sheet exposes reading only by default. The skill breakdown and the progressions cover mathematics (Common Core and the state frameworks mapped to it), not every subject. Nothing runs on its own either: Claude looks things up while it answers you, and stops when you stop typing. The publisher says the service is still evolving and that breaking changes may occur. To compare with other connectors, the Integrations hub lists the full family.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will run into while setting this up.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account or service you use, so Claude can work with it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing a connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs on its own, and the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of the service itself, where you hand Claude the access it will use. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes an account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service.
Add Learning Commons to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find it in Claude's settings
Open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Learning Commons in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it first before each member can connect.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Learning Commons in the window the service opens itself. If the link breaks later, use Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read the authorization screen before you accept it. It belongs to the service, not to Claude, and it sets what the access covers. You can also withdraw that access later from the service side.
The 3 tools, sorted by what they do
Learning Commons gives Claude 3 tools: 3 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
All three read. Tool names stay in English, exactly as Claude shows them.
- 3 read
What Claude reads (3)
3 toolsThree lookups in the standards database. None of them changes anything.
find_learning_components_from_standard
Breaks a standard into its learning components, the smaller skills a teacher can actually target one at a time. Claude first needs the standard's identifier, which the statement lookup provides.
find_standards_progression_from_standard
Walks a math standard backward to its prerequisites or forward to what follows, using the Student Achievement Partners coherence map, and returns the matching state standards when they exist.
find_standard_statement
Turns a code like RI.5.2 or MP1 into the official statement of that standard, with its metadata. Add a state name and you get the version that state adopted; leave it out and Claude gets the Common Core text.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks before any action it takes on an account for you. Here that rule has little to catch: the three tools only look things up.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether members can let some actions through without being asked each time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance keep reading open and close writing, and nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with the access of the person who connected it and nothing more. The official read-only versus write labels per tool exist only inside a connected account's settings, not on any public page.
Which plans it is on
None of the 819 connector sheets in the official directory shows availability per plan. That answer is not published anywhere, connector by connector.
The general rule is published: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner enables a connector for the organization before members can connect one by one. For the current state of this one, check its sheet in the official directory from your own account.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, and nothing starts by itself when a new school year or a new standard comes along.
The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise: by default its sheet exposes reading only, and an administrator could open more that no public page shows. The partner badge in the directory is not a security audit either, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it does not choose the tools a publisher exposes nor guarantee they behave as described. Only Learning Commons documents this connector; neither Claude's help center nor Anthropic's developer docs have a page on it.
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