3Phase 3 · The System
Module 10 · Capstone · Your Student Life AI Dashboard
Pro · Required Capstone

Pick your pain points.

Lesson 10.1 5 screens · the opener

You made it. Module 10 is the assembly.

Nine modules in. Somewhere in your Claude Desktop app you have a Coach Cowork Project from Module 7. You probably have a Sunday Reset running from Module 9. You have a tagged calendar from Module 8.1. You have, scattered across notes apps and starred chats, a slowly-growing collection of prompts you've copied somewhere. And you have a stack of one-off chats in your sidebar that you've meant to clean up since the start of the term.

Module 10 is what turns all of that scattered work into one Student Dashboard. We're choosing, naming, wiring, and pruning — and one new build: the live page that all of this lands on. Six short lessons, a workbook record at the end.

The short version of the Capstone

Your Student Dashboard is three Cowork Projects (Coach + Applications + a small Personal one we'll set up) + three scheduled tasks (Sunday Reset + a Pre-Exam Watch + one of the M9.2 variants) + a 10-prompt "Start Here" library saved inside your Coach.

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What you'll have at the end of M10

A Coach you've actually tuned (not just set up). Three scheduled tasks running on autopilot. Ten saved prompts you can find in a couple of clicks. A 7-day record proving the system held up. And the calendar reminders to pull this out before midterms, before applications open, before you fly home for break.

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The goal isn't to use every module

It's to use the 3 to 5 that fit your actual life. The dashboard is built around your specific friction, not a generic "study + apps + life" trinity. If a piece of M10 is asking you to install something that doesn't match a real pain, skip it.

The dashboard inventory.

Your Student Dashboard is one live page (the artifact you build in 10.2) that pulls from five small pieces, all living inside Claude, all already half-built somewhere in your account. Here's the whole inventory in one card so the rest of the module makes sense.

One live page, five feeder pieces, three Cowork Projects, ten prompts, seven days.

The Capstone deliberately stays inside what you can finish in a weekend and maintain in a few minutes a Sunday. As you use your system, you'll start to learn what helps and what doesn't, and you can add or take away pieces to make the dashboard truly yours.

Pick your top 3 to 5 pain points: your dashboard is built around your friction.

Before we start wiring, you need to be honest about which parts of student life are actually eating your hours. Pick badly here and you'll set up Sunday Reset for someone who isn't you. The cleanest way to do this: stop reading and ask Claude to interview you for it. A few minutes of voice mode beats half an hour of staring at a blank workbook page.

The Capstone Pain-Point Interview prompt
I'm building my "Student Dashboard," the capstone for an AI for Students course. The dashboard is a personal Claude setup that handles my top 3 to 5 recurring pain points across school and life. I need help narrowing down which 3 to 5 pain points my dashboard should be built around. Don't suggest a list yet. Interview me first. Ask me one question at a time, in this order: 1. Walk me through last week. What took longer than it should have? What did I procrastinate on? What did I forget to do until it was almost too late? 2. Looking at the next four weeks, what's coming that I'm already dreading? 3. If a future version of me had a magic AI assistant, what's the first thing I'd want it to do for me without being asked? 4. Where in my life does the "deciding" take longer than the "doing"? (E.g., picking a topic vs. writing the paper, picking an outfit vs. getting dressed.) 5. What's something I keep doing the dumb way because I keep forgetting there's a better way? After my answers, give me back: - A ranked list of my top 5 pain points (most-friction first) - For each one, a one-sentence "what's actually going on here" diagnosis - A flag on which ones are good fits for AI help and which ones aren't (some pain points are really "I need to talk to a human" or "I just need to do the thing"; be honest) - A recommended top 3 to commit to for the dashboard Don't be diplomatic. If I'm picking pain points that AI actually can't help with, say so.

The pain-to-module crosswalk.

Nothing in the dashboard is new. Every prompt, every workflow, every Cowork Project move you'll wire across the next four lessons has already shown up earlier. Find your three pains in the left column (or the closest match), and the right column tells you exactly which lesson holds the prompt and which lesson holds the automation.

If your pain is __, the matching module is __

  • "I start studying way too late before exams" → M3.5 (the midterm stack) + M9.3 Pre-Exam Watch (the automation that makes you start on time).
  • "My notes are messy and I never review them" → M3.1 + M3.2 (lecture-to-clean-notes + one study doc) + M3.4 (the Explain-It-Back move). No automation; just a habit run inside the Coach.
  • "I can't get a paper started" → M4.3 (the green-zone brainstorm/outline workflow) + M4.4 Voice Profile, both run inside the Coach.
  • "My drafts come out flat / not in my voice" → M4.4 Voice Profile + M4.5 Edit-Don't-Write workflow + M4.6 AI-pattern scrub. All Coach work.
  • "I can't tell what's a real source" → M5.1 (the citation trap) + M5.2 (the source-checking workflow). Triage prompt pinned in your Coach.
  • "I'm overwhelmed by the application list" → M6.2 Applications Cowork Project + M8.1 (App Deadline Layer) + M9.2 App Deadline Tracker variant (the monthly auto-check).
  • "My personal statement isn't working" → M6.3 (the 4-phase brain-dump-to-draft) inside the Applications Cowork Project.
  • "My resume is one generic version" → M6.5 (master resume + tailoring prompt) inside the Applications Cowork Project.
  • "I keep forgetting to plan my week" → M8.2 (manual version) + M9.2 Sunday Reset (the flagship automation; everyone keeps this one).
  • "My calendar is a mess of conflicting things" → M8.1 (syllabi → semester calendar) + M8.2 (sports/clubs/shifts schedule layers).
  • "I can't get group projects off the ground" → M8.3 (Day-One Kickoff Pack + the polite-but-firm nudge ladder).
  • "Money / dorm / lease / health admin paperwork" → M8.4 (money basics) + the Dorm-Roommate and Health-Admin bonus pages.
  • "My head is full of stuff and I can't tell what to do first" → M8.5 (brain-dump → triaged action list, the unstuck-move lesson).
  • "I'm stuck on a big academic/career call" → M8.6 (big-call thinking-tool, for academic/career only, with the 24-hour rule).
  • "I can't keep my Friday wrap clean" → M9.2 Friday Wind-Down variant.
  • "I don't have a daily anchor" → M9.2 Daily Brief variant.

Workbook · pick your pains, map them, commit.

One panel that does both jobs: lock your top 3 (from the interview), then map each one to a specific lesson + prompt + automation. This is the only input the next four lessons need.

Workbook · Panel 1 of 5

Your Signature Decisions + Pain Point Map

Lock 3 pains, then map each to a lesson. Filled out, this panel is the spine of your dashboard.

My top 3 pain points (ranked, from the interview above) 1. ____________________________________________________ 2. ____________________________________________________ 3. ____________________________________________________
Pain Point #1 · the map Matching lesson + prompt: ______________________________ Matching M9 automation (if any): ______________________ Which Cowork Project it lives in (Coach / Applications / Personal): ____
Pain Point #2 · the map Matching lesson + prompt: ______________________________ Matching M9 automation (if any): ______________________ Which Cowork Project it lives in: ______________________________
Pain Point #3 · the map Matching lesson + prompt: ______________________________ Matching M9 automation (if any): ______________________ Which Cowork Project it lives in: ______________________________
My one-line North Star. Finish this sentence: "By the end of M10, I want my dashboard to make ___________ less of a thing in my week." __________________________________________________________

Tip: keep your top 3 narrow and specific. "Studying" is too big. "Starting to study earlier than the night before each midterm" is the right size. The narrower, the easier to wire in the next four lessons. If two of your pains map to the same Cowork Project (usually Coach), that's expected.

📸 Screenshot once filled, piece 1 of your keepsake.

Up next: 10.2: Build Your Dashboard Skeleton

You have your three pains and their maps. The next stop is the dashboard itself: a live page that lives in your Cowork sidebar, opens fresh every morning, and pulls from your calendar and Gmail. In 10.2 you'll create the Dashboard Cowork Project, run the Blueprint interview that teaches Claude your style, and watch the skeleton build in front of you with one prompt. The Coach (10.3), tasks (10.4), and prompt library (10.5) plug into the skeleton in the lessons after. This is where the thing on the homepage goes from concept to real.

Continue to 10.2 — Build Your Dashboard →