For teachers
AI that actually survives Sunday-night lesson prep.
Lesson plans, grading, IEPs, classroom-safe tutors. Hand-picked by an editor who taught for eight years. No demo calls, no "AI lesson plan" PDFs.
How it works
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Cut Sunday prep from four hours to forty-five minutes.
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Auto-grade essays with rubric-aligned feedback you can edit.
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Draft IEPs and accommodations without staying up to midnight.
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Make slides, exit tickets and quizzes in the time it took to open Google Slides.
Prompt library
Starter prompts for you
Three prompts to try first — chosen for teachers who haven't built a routine yet.
Essay feedback with rubric
Paste a student essay and your rubric — get specific, named feedback per criterion plus two glow-and-grow comments in your voice.
Lesson plan from a standard
Drop in a standard and a grade level — get a 45-minute lesson plan with do-now, mini-lesson, guided practice, exit ticket, and differentiation.
Parent conference prep
Turn one observation and one concern into a 10-minute conference outline — opening, evidence, family question, plan.
Browse by task
Where to start
Tutors & Study Companions
Safe AI tutors and study companions. Students use them direct; teachers and parents recommend them as homework helpers.
Grading & Feedback
Auto-score essays and short answers, generate personalized comments. Also handy for students self-checking before submission.
Content Creation
Generate quizzes, worksheets, reading passages, slide decks. For teachers prepping class, students building projects, and parents making study sets.
Lesson Planning
Tools that draft full lesson plans, slide outlines and pacing guides — used by teachers, tutoring parents, and study-group leaders.
Special Education / IEP
Draft IEPs, accommodations and differentiated plans — for special-ed teachers, parents advocating for their child, and instructional coaches.
Chrome Extensions
AI sidekicks that live inside Google Docs, Slides and Classroom — useful whether you're teaching, learning, or supporting a learner.
AI Literacy & PD
Courses, curricula, and PD providers that build AI literacy for educators, students and school leaders — plus AI policy and adoption strategy support.
Teachers
Tools built for the teacher's workday
AI for Education
AI Literacy & PD
AI literacy PD and policy partner for schools — paid workshops and train-the-trainer institutes on one side, a serious free resource library on the other.
Brilliant
Tutors & Study Companions
Interactive problem-solving courses in math, computer science, data and science — by doing, not watching.
Brisk Teaching
★Chrome Extensions
Classroom Intelligence — AI that lives inside the Google and Microsoft tools you already use, plus a web app for cross-class planning and batch feedback.
CoGrader
★Grading & Feedback
Cuts essay grading time by ~80% with rubric-aligned AI feedback you can edit.
Crossplag
Grading & Feedback
Combined plagiarism + AI-content detector with 100+ language support and a free-credit starter.
Curipod
★Content Creation
Generate interactive, standards-aligned slide lessons in 30 seconds.
Diffit
Content Creation
Paste any article, URL or PDF — get it leveled and translated for every reader in your class.
Eduaide.ai
Lesson Planning
Curriculum-grade AI for unit plans, scaffolds and standards alignment.
EssayGrader
Grading & Feedback
AI essay grading aligned to all 50 US state standards — 350 essays per month on the popular Pro tier.
EverTutor AI
Tutors & Study Companions
B2B AI tutor for K-12 — personalized 24/7 study companion sold through "founding school" pilots, designed for schools rather than direct-to-student.
Examize
Content Creation
Google Workspace AI quiz maker — generate quizzes from PDFs, Docs and URLs and export directly to Google Forms, Sheets or Docs in one Drive-native flow.
Goblin Tools
★Special Education / IEP
Tiny single-purpose AI tools for executive function — break down tasks, soften tone, estimate time.
GradeWithAI
Grading & Feedback
Grade Canvas, Google Classroom and handwritten tests in minutes — sync rubrics and push grades + feedback back to your gradebook in one click.
Gradescope
Grading & Feedback
AI-assisted grading for handwritten exams, code, and essays — with consistency built in.
Grammarly
Tutors & Study Companions
AI writing assistant for both teachers and students — feedback, tone, citations.
Khanmigo
★Tutors & Study Companions
Khan Academy's AI tutor — Socratic, never gives away the answer, free for teachers.
Helperbird
Special Education / IEP
Cross-browser accessibility extension with 30+ reading and writing tools — OpenDyslexic and Lexend fonts, text-to-speech in 30+ languages, voice typing, OCR.
LessonPlans.ai
Lesson Planning
AI lesson plan generator that produces complete K-12 plans with activities and step-by-step guidance in seconds.
MagicSchool AI
★Lesson Planning
All-in-one AI workspace built for K-12 teachers — 80+ tools in one tab.
Mindgrasp
Tutors & Study Companions
Turn lectures, PDFs and YouTube videos into AI notes, flashcards, quizzes and a 24/7 tutor.
MindSnap
Chrome Extensions
Chrome / Edge / Firefox extension that turns any webpage into an AI mind map — bring your own AI key (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini), data stays in the browser.
Mote
Chrome Extensions
Assistive-tech sidebar — Read Aloud with human voices, translate to 60+ languages, voice notes and text prediction — for inclusive Google and Canvas classrooms.
NotebookLM
★Content Creation
Google's AI research notebook — upload your sources, get briefs, study guides and audio "podcasts".
Planit Teachers
Lesson Planning
AI lesson planner for K-12 teachers — generates lesson plans, activities, rubrics, quizzes and worksheets aligned to UK / US / Australian curricula in minutes.
ProWritingAid
Tutors & Study Companions
Long-form writing assistant with 25+ analysis reports — built for storytellers, useful for students.
Quizgecko
Content Creation
Turn any PDF, slide deck or YouTube video into AI quizzes, flashcards, notes and podcasts.
Wayground AI (formerly Quizizz)
Content Creation
Turn any PDF, video or topic into differentiated quizzes, presentations and flashcards — auto-graded, with reading-level supports for every student.
SchoolAI
Tutors & Study Companions
Custom AI tutors and "Spaces" you build for your class — with full teacher visibility into every student chat.
Speechify
Special Education / IEP
Turn any PDF, web page or photo of a worksheet into natural-voice audio — built for dyslexia.
Speak
Tutors & Study Companions
AI conversation tutor that gets you actually speaking a new language out loud — open-ended dialogues with Speak Tutor, 24/7.
VibeGrade
Grading & Feedback
AI essay grader that lives inside Google Docs, Canvas and Google Classroom — one-click rubric grading with built-in plagiarism and AI-writing detection.
Wisdolia
Tutors & Study Companions
Auto-generate flashcards from any PDF, lecture video or article — review with spaced repetition.
Wolfram|Alpha
Tutors & Study Companions
Computational knowledge engine that shows every step — 10+ trillion curated data points across 1,000+ domains, not LLM guesswork.
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