Building Syllabix: An AI Lesson Plan Generator for Nigerian Teachers
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
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:
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