aime™ Lesson Studio™ 2.0.0 “Calabash™” — from reader to studio

aime today released aime Lesson Studio 2.0.0, codenamed “Calabash”. Where version 1.0.0 “Baobab™” was a lesson reader — open a lesson, view slides, annotate, mark complete — Calabash is a studio. The same app a teacher used to consume a lesson now lets them shape it: edit the assessment baked into a .aimepack, rewrite slides, swap images, print clean student-facing sheets, and do it all in English or French.

The release is named after the calabash gourd, which is harvested, hollowed and carved into whatever the moment requires — a cup, a drum, a milk vessel, a resonator for music. Across sub-Saharan Africa, from the palm-wine gatherings of Cameroon's Northwest to the carved milk vessels of Fulani herders and the calabash resonator of the Beti and Fang mvet, the same object becomes many things in the hands that use it. Calabash takes the same shape in software: one app, many jobs, shaped by the teacher.

What Calabash adds

• Assessment Editor — open the assessment pack baked into any lesson, edit question text, marks, options, answers and bloom-level metadata, and save it all back into the .aimepack file so the assessment travels with the lesson.
• Assessment Viewer — a clean read-only view with markdown rendering, optional answer highlighting, homework display and a metadata strip showing total marks, estimated time and assessment type.
• Print to PDF the right way — assessments and homework render through the OS print dialog as markdown-formatted HTML, with proper page breaks and no teacher-only data leaking through to students.
• Slide editing with the aime Image Library — modify slide content directly in the presentation viewer and pick images from a curated, cloud-hosted library purpose-built for African educational contexts, with local upload as a fallback.
• Bilingual interface — every string in the app is now available in English and French.

Assessment Editor

The Assessment Editor is the centrepiece of Calabash. Every question in the assessment pack is presented as a collapsible card. Expand it to edit the question text in full markdown, change the question type (MCQ, short answer, structured or a custom type), adjust marks, rewrite each option individually for multiple-choice questions, edit the teacher-only answer, and review the bloom level and rationale that the AI generated alongside the question. Changes are written directly back into the .aimepack file, so the assessment stays bound to the lesson it belongs to.

Print to PDF — the right way

The previous release generated PDFs in memory with @react-pdf/renderer, which was fragile. Calabash replaces that approach entirely. Assessments and homework are converted to styled HTML with marked and printed through the OS print dialog via a hidden iframe — an approach that also works inside the Tauri webview, where window.open is blocked. Markdown renders correctly, questions don't split across pages, and the printed document is strictly student-facing: no answers, no bloom levels, no rationale, no question-type metadata.

Slide editing and the aime Image Library

Teachers can now edit slide content directly in the presentation viewer, powered by EditView from @aime.ai/renderer-react. When a slide needs a new image, the Image Picker opens into the aime Image Library — a curated, cloud-hosted collection of educational images covering science, history, literature, culture and geography, built for African classrooms. Teachers can browse, search and paginate through thousands of images, or drag and drop a local file when the library doesn't have what they need. Selected images are downloaded and embedded into the .aimepack, so the lesson remains fully portable and works offline.

“Calabash is the release where aime Lesson Studio stopped being one thing and became many. The same app a teacher used to open a lesson now lets them shape it — the assessment, the slides, the images, the printed sheet a student takes home. That is the difference between a reader and a studio, and it is the difference between software that serves teachers and software that is shaped by them.”

“We named this release Calabash because of what a calabash actually is. You harvest it, you hollow it, you carve it, and it becomes what the moment requires. That is the relationship we want teachers to have with this software. Not a fixed tool. A vessel they shape.”

“Printing assessments correctly, editing slides inside the same window, working in English and in French — none of these are glamorous engineering problems. They are the difference between a teacher being able to use aime on a Monday morning and not. Calabash closed those gaps.”

Availability

aime Lesson Studio 2.0.0 “Calabash” is available from today, April 22, 2026, for Linux and ChromeOS (including ChromeOS Crostini, with automatic dependency installation), ARM-based Debian systems, Windows and macOS. A single install script handles OS detection, system libraries and cleanup of any previous installation, and the studio works fully offline on .aimepack files once installed.

What comes after Calabash

aime Lesson Studio releases are named alphabetically, rooted in the region. Baobab was the first. Calabash is the second. D is next — and, like Calabash, it will be shaped by the teachers using it.

About aime

aime builds the operating system for educational intelligence — the foundational infrastructure layer that future education systems will run on. aime's stack combines structured curriculum knowledge, pedagogy-aware reasoning, compact education-tuned models, agentic orchestration and offline-capable deployment, and is designed for ministries of education, universities and national school systems.