Building Syllabix: An AI Lesson Plan Generator for Nigerian Teachers

Abubakar Sadiq Tajudeen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:08:13 +0000

Every week, Nigerian teachers spend hours writing lesson plans and copy notes by hand — mapping content to NERDC/UBE and WAEC/SSCE curricula, formatting for approval, doing it all over again the next week. It's necessary work, but it's also repetitive work that eats into time that could go toward actually teaching. That's the problem Syllabix was built to solve.

The problem

Lesson planning in the Nigerian school system isn't optional paperwork — it's tied directly to curriculum compliance and inspection. But the tools available to teachers haven't caught up: most are still working from Word templates, copying structure from term to term, and manually cross-checking against NERDC and WAEC syllabi. There wasn't a tool built specifically around how Nigerian teachers actually work, so I built one.

Syllabix is a PWA that generates curriculum-aligned lesson plans and copy notes, letting teachers go from "I need a plan for JSS2 Basic Science, next week" to a structured, exportable document in minutes instead of hours.

Tech stack

React + Vite for the frontend — fast dev cycles mattered a lot given the hackathon timeline
TypeScript throughout, for the type safety that catches mistakes before they hit a teacher's actual lesson plan
Shadcn/UI and Radix UI for accessible, composable components without reinventing form controls and dialogs from scratch
Lovable AI gateway model for the generation layer that turns a topic and grade level into a structured lesson plan
Supabase for backend use for storing workspace collaborations, generated contents on cloud.
Built and deployed as a PWA so it works reliably on the patchy connectivity many teachers deal with.

Implementation

The core flow is simple on the surface — teacher picks a subject, grade level, and topic, and gets back a lesson plan — but the harder part was making sure what comes out is actually usable in a Nigerian classroom, not a generic template. That meant structuring prompts around the NERDC/UBE and WAEC/SSCE curriculum framework rather than just asking for "a lesson plan," and building the UI around shadcn/Radix components so the output could be reviewed, edited, and exported without friction.

Challenges

I faced different challenges especially base on network and internet connectivity. There where times where I will want to fix a bug and the internet connection will be so bad that I get frustrated and feel like giving up. But nevertheless, my consistency brought me here. There are also fews challenges I faced technical which are as follows:

Getting AI-generated output to reliably match curriculum structure rather than drifting into generic lesson-plan boilerplate
PWA offline behavior and caching for low-connectivity use.

What's next

Syllabix is live at syllabix.vercel.app, and I've been pitching it to the Federal Ministry of Education as a tool that could scale beyond individual teachers to school- and state-level curriculum planning. Building this for HACKHAZARDS '26 was also a chance to pressure-test the idea against a tight deadline and see how far the core concept holds up.

If you're a teacher or work in Nigerian edtech and want to try it or share feedback, reach out — I'd rather build this with the people who'll actually use it.

Bukarr

DEV Community: Abubakar Sadiq Tajudeen

Building Syllabix: An AI Lesson Plan Generator for Nigerian Teachers