The AI Toolbox: Best AI Tools for Schools

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Eric Curts

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Table of Contents

🧰 General Resources        2

🏆 Evaluating AI Tools        2

🤖 AI Chatbots        3

📖 Prompt Tools        4

🗣️ Student Custom Chatbots        6

✅ Assessment Tools        7

💯 Grading Tools        9

🎓 Tutoring Tools        10

🤔 Reflection Tools        11

🔱 Differentiation Tools        11

👩‍🏫 Presentation Tools        12

🗃️ File Processing Tools        12

🎓 Research Tools        13

♾️ Multi Tools        14

🖼️ Image Tools        14

🎵 Media Tools        16

🧰 General Resources

Session Resources

More AI Resources

Selected Tools

🏆 Evaluating AI Tools

Rubrics and resources for evaluating AI tools for use in K12 schools

🤖 AI Chatbots

💬 ChatGPT

chatgpt.com

  • LLM from OpenAI
  • Free version - ChatGPT 4o
  • Newest model
  • Web browsing
  • Analyze data
  • Upload images
  • File upload
  • Use custom GPTs
  • Paid version - $20 per month includes:
  • Image generation
  • Create custom GPTs
  • 5 times more chats per day

✈️ Microsoft Copilot

copilot.microsoft.com

  • LLM from Microsoft based on ChatGPT-4
  • Free chatbot allows 30 chats per session and 300 total chats per day
  • Chats can be in three modes: Creative, Balanced, or Precise
  • Can generate new images using DALL-E 3
  • Paid version for $20 per month with more access

✨ Google Gemini

gemini.google.com - bit.ly/curts-googleai - Video (45 min)

  • LLM from Google
  • Free AI chatbot with unlimited use.
  • Modify response option
  • Images in prompts and responses
  • Spoken responses
  • Option to verify response with Google search
  • Extensions to connect to Drive, Gmail, more
  • Gemini Ultra available for $20 per month

🦀 Claude

claude.ai

  • LLM from Anthropic
  • Free version and paid version
  • Both versions can
  • Process file uploads
  • Handle up to 100K+ tokens in chat
  • Paid version at $20 per month increases amount of usage per day
  • Spelling Snake Game - Playable Game

More LLMs

📖 Prompt Tools

🔮 MagicSchool AI

magicschool.ai - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Over 80 resource types and learning objects to generate including:
  • Planning - Lesson Plan, Science Lab, Syllabus, etc.
  • Content - Choice Board, Rubric, Video Summarizer, etc.
  • Questions - Word Problems, Multiple Choice, Spiral Review, etc.
  • Intellectual Prep - Exemplars, Directions, Misconceptions, etc.
  • Student Support - Text Leveler, IEP Generator, Accommodations, etc.
  • Communication - Comments, Feedback, Letter of Recommendation, etc.
  • Community Tools - Ice Breakers, Song Generator, Observation Tool, etc.
  • Also can be used with the Chrome Extension - Chrome Web Store link
  • Demo Room - student.magicschool.ai/s/join?joinCode=oaoJVw 

🍎 TeacherServer

teacherserver.com - Blog post

  • TeacherServer is an AI prompting tool where you choose a tool, type your details into a form, and the AI generates your content.
  • However, TeacherServer has some specific benefits:
  • Absolutely Free - TeacherServer is free to use. No ads, no fees, just tools to help you teach.
  • Amount of Prompts - There are currently over 800 prompt tools for science, social studies, math, reading, writing, art, music, PE, special ed, leadership, parents, higher ed, research, and more.
  • Speed - TeacherServer uses a locally installed AI server, rather than going through ChatGPT, so you get super quick results.
  • Full Privacy & Security - All data is processed locally and never stored or shared.

🚨 Eduaide

eduaide.ai - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Over 100 resource types and learning objects to generate including:
  • Content Generator - Planning, Information Objects, Independent Practice, Cooperative Learning, Gamification, Questions
  • Assistant - Professional Duties, Accessibility, Wellness
  • Feedback Bot - Spelling, Grammar, Mechanics, Logic, Reasoning, Rubrics
  • Assessment Builder - Multiple Choice, True or False, Short Answer, Fill in the Blank, Matching, Essay

😊 Twee

twee.com - Blog post - Demo video (5 minutes)

  • Twee is a collection of 30+ AI-powered tools to help educators create content. Some of the uses include:
  • Reading - Create a text, Open questions, ABCD questions, True / False statements, Dialogue based on topic, Titles for a text, Reading bits
  • Writing - Essay topics, Famous quotes, Four opinions, Link words into sentences, Creative writing
  • Vocabulary - Fill in the gap, Word definition matching, Sentences with target vocabulary, Essential vocabulary, Word formation, Communicative situations with your vocabulary, Collocations with target vocabulary, Matching halves, Extract collocations, Word-Translation matching
  • Listening - Video Transcript, YouTube video with questions, YouTube summaries
  • Speaking - Dialogue based on topic, Discussion questions, Find facts, Advantages and disadvantages, Famous quotes, Four opinions, Lead-in activities, Link words into sentences
  • Grammar - Fill in the gap, Scramble the words, Open-the-brackets (verbs), Matching halves

🗺️ Almanack

almanack.ai  - Blog post - Demo video (4 minutes)

  • Smart course material generator and lesson planner for educators.
  • Over 35 tools to generate resources, games, curriculum, and more.
  • Tools include flashcards, rubrics, quizzes, Lexile adjuster, lesson plans, essay feedback, science lab, story generator, summarizer, and more.

🎓 Khanmigo Teacher Tools

khanacademy.org/teacher/khanmigo-tools 

  • Teachers can use the Khanmigo AI tools for free.
  • These include dozens of AI-powered tools such as Text Rewriter, Rubric Generator, Lesson Plan, Exit Ticket, Multiple Choice Assessment, and more.

🤖 Fobizz

tools.fobizz.com/ai/mini_tools

  • Fobizz offers over 55 prompt tools for educators.
  • Categories include planning, materials differentiation, assessment, organization, and inspiration.

🗣️ Student Custom Chatbots

🏫 SchoolAI

schoolai.com - Blog post - Demo video (12 minutes)

  • School AI is a free tool that allows your students to have safe, monitored interactions with AI learning activities.
  • As a teacher you set up a free account for yourself.
  • Next you select a premade AI experience or create one of your own.
  • Experiences include Bell Ringer, Exit Ticket, Topic Explorer, Historic Figures, Book Explorer, Career Exploration, Sidekick, Tutoring Session, and more.
  • You then share the invite link with the students so they can participate in the AI activity.
  • Note: Students do not sign in or get an account.
  • While the students engage in the activity, you can monitor their interactions.
  • At the end of the activity the AI summarizes the students' interactions so you can identify learning, needs, interests, and more.
  • SchoolAI demos

💬 Mizou

mizou.com - Blog post - Demo video (17 minutes)

  • Mizou is is a free tool that allows your students to have safe, monitored interactions with educational Ai chatbots. In short, here is how Mizou works:
  • As a teacher you set up a free account for yourself.
  • Next you select a premade AI chatbot or create one of your own.
  • You then share the invite link with the students so they can participate in the AI activity.
  • Note: Students do not sign in or get an account.
  • While the students engage in the activity, you can monitor their interactions.
  • At the end of the activity the AI provides a grade for the student based on their interactions with the chatbot and the rubric you set up.

✅ Assessment Tools

❓ QuestionWell

questionwell.org - Blog post - Demo video (9 minutes)

  • QuestionWell is a free tool to create AI-generated multiple-choice questions for a topic.
  • Begin by adding a "Topic" for the quiz.
  • Next choose the "Reading Level" to change the Lexile level of the content.
  • Next change the "Language" if needed.
  • Optional - Add "Learning Outcomes" if you have them, or let the AI generate them for the topic.
  • Optional - Add the "Reading" which can be copied text or a website link or a YouTube link.
  • Note: The free version limits the reading to 1,000 words.
  • Finally click "Generate" and give it a minute.
  • The AI takes the content and pulls out a number of learning objectives, creates essential questions to guide student learning, and creates multiple-choice assessment questions.
  • You can now select the questions you want to use.
  • If needed you can edit any of the questions and answers.
  • Finally export the questions in various formats for Google Forms, Quizziz, Kahoot, Canvas, Gimkit, Blooket, and more.

⚡ Conker

conker.ai - Blog post - Demo Video

  • Conker is a tool from the makers of Mote, which uses AI to generate quizzes.
  • The quiz can come from any topic, and can also include source material.
  • Questions can include Multiple Choice, Mixed, Read & Respond, or Fill-in-the-Blank
  • Quizzes can be taken right inside of Conker or can be exported to Google Forms.
  • Webinar - "Conker Your Quizzes With Mote" (30 min) - Resource link
  • EdTech Spotlight - Resource link

☑️ Quizizz

quizizz.com - Blog post - Demo video (7 minutes)

  • Create a new quiz from a text prompt, weblink, YouTube video, or existing resource (.DOC, PDF, .PPT) - Help page
  • Enhance the quiz with AI to fix grammar and errors, convert to real world scenarios, translate, add similar questions, simplify language, change voice & tone, and more - Help page

🧩 Edpuzzle Teacher Assist

edpuzzle.com - Blog post - Demo Video

  • Edpuzzle has added AI features as part of their new Teacher Assist suite of tools. These include:
  • AI Question Generator -  Information is pulled from a video and the AI generates and embeds questions automatically
  • Autograde feature - AI will help grade open-ended questions to save you time and energy

✅ Formative

formative.com/ai-powered

app.formative.com

  • Formative now includes AI
  • Generate questions for assessments including multiple choice, multiple selection, short answer, free response, true or false, numeric
  • Generate hints for questions

💯 Grading Tools

✍️ Class Companion

classcompanion.com - Blog post - Demo video (11 minutes)

  • Class Companion is a free AI tool for instant, personalized feedback on written assignments. In short:
  • You create a written assignment from scratch, imported, from the library, or AI generated.
  • Students then write their response, including short answer, essay, or outline.
  • The AI assesses the student writing based on the rubric and instructions you provided.
  • The AI gives detailed personalized feedback to the student on their writing.
  • If allowed, the student then rewrites their response to improve it.
  • As needed, the students can ask the AI questions for clarification and assistance.

💡 EnlightenAI

enlightenme.ai - Blog post - Demo Video

  • EnlightenAI is an AI-powered tool to grade written student work based off of your style and guidance.
  • Create an assignment or import submissions from Google.
  • Grade a few student submissions to train the AI.
  • Review and edit AI generated feedback, modeled after yours.

🤖 Fobizz

  • Resources - https://fobizz.com/en/ - Help page
  • Fobizz has a wide range of AI-powered tools for educators.
  • The "AI Grading Assistant" is one of the tools which is specifically designed for grading student work and providing personalized feedback.
  • First complete the "Specific Criteria" section with details on the assignment, sample solution or scope, evaluation criteria, language, and evaluation scheme.
  • Then submit a student's work in the "Enter Text" section with an abbreviation or code in place of the student's name, and a paste or image of their writing.
  • Finally the AI will generate an "Evaluation Draft" including an error table, what was done well, what can be improved, an evaluation table, and a final grade.
  • You can edit and/or copy the content however you need.

🤿 Snorkl

snorkl.app - Blog post - Demo video (12 minutes)

  • With Snorkl, students record and share their reasoning then receive instant AI-powered feedback to drive deep and meaningful learning.
  • Develop thinking and reasoning skills by giving students the tools to record their voice and visually represent their thinking on a simple whiteboard.
  • Students receive on-the-spot insights into their thinking and problem solving–which teachers can effortlessly review, edit, and expand.
  • Use AI scoring to comprehensively monitor class progress, skim through videos for insights, and gain an in-depth understanding of each student's thinking.
  • Snorkl pilot for schools and districts - Resource link
  • Snorkl Examples - student.snorkl.app/i1xdfc

🤝 CoGrader

cograder.com

  • Import Assignments From Your Platform - CoGrader works with Google Classroom, Canvas and Schoology.
  • Define Grading Criteria - Use their rubric template, based on your State's standards, or set up your own grading criteria to align with your evaluation standards, specific requirements and teaching objectives.
  • Get Grades, Feedback and Reports - CoGrader generates detailed feedback and justification reports for each student, highlighting areas of improvement together with the grade.
  • Review and Adjust - Adjust the grades and the feedback so you can make sure every student gets the attention they deserve.

🎓 Tutoring Tools

💡 Illuminate

https://illuminate.google.com/

  • Create AI-generated educational podcasts on any topic.
  • Provide a web link for the content to draw from.
  • Choose Casual, Formal, Guided, or Freeform dialogue.
  • Adjust the audience, length, and tone.
  • Generate and use the audio overview.

🧙 Sorcerer

antimatter.systems/sorcerer - Blog post - Demo video (5 minutes)

  • Sorcerer is an AI-powered tool that asks you questions about topics to see what you know and help you learn more.
  • Start by putting in a topic that you are learning about.
  • Sorcerer then asks questions to determine your knowledge and understanding.
  • Sorcerer provides help along the way if you get stuck or do not know the answers.
  • Sorcerer can be set to five levels of difficulty including middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and PhD.
  • Demo Sorcerer - https://antimatter.systems/sorcerer/control-alt-achieve 

💪 CK-12 Flexi

ck12.org/pages/student-tutor - Blog post - Demo video (7 minutes)

ck12.org/flexi/subjects

  • Flexi is a free AI-powered digital tutor for students from CK-12 for MS and HS science and math.
  • Provides immediate feedback to help students learn complex topics with real world applications.
  • Answers students’ questions and provides interactive examples to help them understand the underlying concepts.
  • Tests students’ knowledge of a concept by giving them relevant questions at their skill level.
  • Supports students with the right amount of help via hints, content recommendations, and reinforcement of foundational concepts.

🎓 Khanmigo

khanacademy.org/khan-labs - Blog post - Demo Video

  • Khan Academy's AI powered chatbot that is designed to help students without giving the answers. Activities include:
  • Tutor Me - Math, Science, Humanities
  • Refresh - Practice my knowledge
  • Write - Craft a story, Brainstorm an admissions essay
  • Debate - Elementary, middle school, or high school topics
  • Chat - Literary characters, historical figures
  • More!

🤔 Reflection Tools

🗣️ MirrorTalk

mirrortalk.ai

  • AI-powered tool to manage and analyze student spoken reflections.
  • You create a reflection assignment with a specific format, focus, and objectives.
  • The AI speaks to the student to ask them 3 to 7 reflection questions.
  • The student speaks their answers for each question.
  • The AI analyzes the student's spoken reflections on multiple measures including their understanding, ZPD, mindset, and more.
  • Dashboard collects all the recordings and insights for the teacher.

🔱 Differentiation Tools

🔱 Diffit

web.diffit.me - Blog post - Demo video (7 minutes)

  • Get leveled resources from an article, PDF, video, text passage, topic, term, or question.
  • Choose the reading level and language.
  • Adjust the length of the new passage as short, medium, long, or original length.
  • Generate a summary, key vocabulary words, multiple choice questions, short answer questions, and open-ended prompts.
  • Translate generated content into any language.
  • Print, copy, or export any of the content as a Google Doc or Google Form
  • Free versus paid options - Resource link

👹 Goblin Tools

goblin.tools - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Goblin Tools is a collection of small, simple, single-task AI tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.
  • Magic To Do - Break large tasks down into smaller steps
  • Formalizer - Rewrite text in a variety of different tones
  • The Judge - Evaluate the tone of a passage of text
  • Estimator - Determine how long a task is going to take
  • And more!
  • All tools are free

👩‍🏫 Presentation Tools

🤔 Curipod

curipod.com - Blog post - Demo video (9 minutes)

  • Create interactive lessons with content and question types including poll, word cloud, drawing, and open question.
  • Create your own lesson, or use AI to generate individual activities or an entire lesson.
  • Webinar - "Cyber Assist: Using AI as Your Teaching Assistant" (30 min) - Resource link
  • Curipod example - TBD

🗃️ File Processing Tools

📓 NotebookLM

notebooklm.google.com - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Free AI-powered tool from Google to help you interact with and learn from your own documents
  • Create Notebooks with up to 50 sources (Docs, PDFs, text, Slides, URLs) in each
  • 500,000 words per source
  • Ask questions
  • Save notes
  • Generate study guides, FAQs, timelines, mind maps, audio & video overviews

🎓 Research Tools

Blog post - "Citation Needed: AI Tools that Provide Sources"

🤝 Consensus

https://consensus.app/search/ 

  • Consensus is an academic search engine with access to over 200 million papers, which also uses AI to analyze the papers relevant to your prompt.
  • The answers provided by Consensus always cite the supporting research.

🌩️ STORM

https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ 

  • STORM is an AI tool from Stanford University that writes Wikipedia-style articles based on Internet research.
  • Based on the prompt you provide, the system conducts Internet-based research to collect references and generates an outline.
  • STORM then uses the outline and references to generate the full-length article with citations.

🤔 Perplexity

https://www.perplexity.ai/ 

  • Perplexity is a hybrid tool that is part AI chatbot and part web search.
  • By combining these two together, Perplexity can generate helpful content, while also providing sources to verify the information.

♾️ Multi Tools

💨 Brisk Teaching

briskteaching.com - Blog post - Demo video (8 minutes)

  • Free Chrome extension
  • Create a resource, exemplar, quiz, lesson plan, slideshow, etc.
  • Generate feedback on writing
  • Change reading level and language of articles and documents
  • Monitor student writing process
  • Create student AI chatbots
  • Video demo - Resource link
  • 3 months of premium for free - brisk-teaching.com/curts

🖼️ Image Tools

🖌️ DALL·E 3

openai.com/dall-e-3

  • OpenAI's text to image generator.

✨ Gemini

gemini.google.com

  • Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, can now generate images from your text prompts.

💡 Ideogram

ideogram.ai

  • Powerful and free text-to-image generator
  • Very good at understanding long, complex prompts
  • Does an especially good job with including text accurately in the images
  • Includes Magic Prompt, a creative assistant that automatically enhances, extends, and translates your prompts

🖍️ Bing Image Creator

bing.com/create

  • Microsoft uses DALL-E to power their Bing Image Creator tool

📐 Microsoft Designer

designer.microsoft.com

  • Generate new images from text including images, icons, wallpapers, invitations, posters, social posts, greeting cards, monograms, coloring book pages, backgrounds, avatars, collages, emojis, and clip art.
  • Or edit existing images including background removal, restyling, framing, generative erasing, and more.

🔥 Adobe Firefly

adobe.com/products/firefly.html

  • Adobe has added Firefly, a family of creative generative AI models, to their products.

🎨 Canva Magic Studio

canva.com/magic-home - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Free AI tools for schools including:
  • Magic Design
  • Magic Write
  • Magic Animate
  • Magic Morph
  • Text to Video
  • Text to Image
  • Magic Edit
  • Magic Grab
  • Magic Expand

🖋️ Padlet AI Images

padlet.com - Blog post - Demo video (6 minutes)

  • Free AI text to image generator.
  • Click the plus button "+" and then click the 3-dots button for "More attachment types".
  • Choose "I Can't Draw".
  • Type in the prompt for what you want the AI to draw.
  • The AI will create 6 sample images.
  • Add any images to your Padlet.
  • You can download the images later as needed to use any way you wish.
  • Help page - Resource link

😁 Meta AI

www.meta.ai

  • Take a picture of yourself and then have the AI create a new version based on a prompt such as "Imagine me surfing" or "Imagine me as a Viking".
  • Access by typing "Imaging me" in the Meta AI chat in Facebook Messenger or on the Meta AI website.

👀 Say What You See

artsandculture.google.com/experiment/jwG3m7wQShZngw

  • Learn the art of AI prompting with this interactive game.
  • Look at a sample AI-generated image.
  • Write your own prompt to try to recreate that image as close as possible.
  • The AI will make a new image from your prompt and compare the two.
  • You have three attempts per image to pass a visual similarity threshold.
  • Great way to learn about improving prompts for AI.

🖼️ Twin Pics AI

https://twinpics.ai/

  • Here is another game that can help anyone practice their AI prompting.
  • Each day the site provides a new image, and your goal is to write an AI prompt with 100 characters or less to match the image as closely as possible.
  • The closer your generated image is to the original, the higher your score.
  • In addition to your score, you also get written feedback on how similar your image was.
  • Great game for students to improve text-to-image prompting skills.

🖼️ Odd One Out

artsandculture.google.com/experiment/wAHNn4JsVTFOiw

  • Interactive game to see if you can spot AI-generated images.
  • Each round you will be presented with one AI-generated image and three images from Google Art & Culture.
  • Identify the AI image to move on.
  • Four mistakes and the game is over.
  • Great way to introduce AI images and discuss what is real and what is generated.

🎵 Media Tools

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