8 Best AI Tools Teachers Need for More Effective Teaching

Are you a teacher who ends the day completely exhausted? Many teachers have reported feeling drained out after a day of teaching their students. This is not something that the pillars of education need to endure. So, what can be done? Well, thanks to AI, i.e., Artificial intelligence, making its way into every department out there, there are specific AI tools that teachers can and must use.

You will always find people making statements that AI will take away jobs. It can be true, but if you know how to make the best use of such AI tools, then you the reader are a smarter person than the rest of the crowd. Let’s dive into the world of AI tools that many teachers can benefit from.

Best AI Tools For Teachers To Use In 2024

Welcome back to our AI at YTECHB monthly series, where we discuss the best AI tools useful for our readers. This month we are looking into the best AI tools for teachers. So, if you are a teacher or have friends who are teachers, we hope these tools can be beneficial to you every day. Let’s get started.

In our search for the best AI tools for teachers, we have listed several free tools that we hope can help you out.

Brainly AI

Brainly AI is the AI assistant that lets you show your student how a particular answer has been found or formulated. Sure, it is designed to help students finish off any schoolwork that needs to be done. But it shows you the steps of how you end up with the answer, which is important. The process is more significant than the result.

Suppose a student is finding it difficult to solve a math equation, as teacher you can use Brainly AI to show them the working or steps they have to follow to reach the final answer.

While Brainly uses AI to give you the results, it has various real experts behind it to ensure that the answers provided by AI are genuine. You can get answers and solutions from almost every subject that you think of. You can get the solutions from Arts to Physics and everything in between for free.

One thing you need to note is that while this is free to use, you will; have to view ads. But, if you do not want to see ads, you can pay a monthly fee of $3.

Get all the answers to your questions with Brainly AI.

Brisk Teaching

Brisk Teaching is another free AI tool for teachers. With Brisk Teaching, teachers can automate numerous tasks such as a feedback generator via Google Docs, create presentations instantly with the built-in Presentation maker, and also generate various Quizzes created within Google Docs or Google Forms.

Apart from creating such interactive sessions, teachers can use Brisk Teaching to create lesson plans with various objectives and activities for the students.

Brisk Teaching has everything from Math to Science that let teachers create an ever-engaging class. If you also want to send your students what you plan to teach them for the coming week, Brisk Teaching lets you generate and send emails so that your students are ready for the new week.

One of the best things about Brisk Teaching is that all of it runs via a single Google Chrome browser extension. Teachers and students can get access to Brisk Learning via their schools or District partners.

Supercharge and Automate various tasks with Brisk Teaching.

Gamma AI

Presentations are a great way to keep the class engaged, however, it can sometimes be a pain to create one. Thanks to the power of AI, you can now use Gamma AI to create presentations on whatever topic you plan to teach. Gamma is very simple and easy to use. All you need to do is mention what kind of presentation you want, and also give the prompts to edit or format your texts in the presentation.

Gamma AI gives you access to visually appealing designs, animations, and layouts so that your presentation doesn’t feel boring. And yes, you can easily embed images and videos into your slides with ease.

Planning to hand over the presentation to your students? Gamma AI lets you quickly export your presentations in either a PDF or PPT file format. If you and your students are on a team plan from Gamma, you can easily collaborate and help your students virtually from your own home. Gamma has 3 plans to choose from- a free plan, a $10 per month plus plan, and a $20 per month pro plan.

Create visually stunning presentations with Gamma AI.

MagicSchool AI

MagicSchool AI is a very popular AI tool used by schools and educators from around the world. From creating assignments to generating feedback for student submissions and everything in between, MagicSchool AI works like magic. MagicSchool AI has about 70+ AI tools for you to plan your next day or week. If a student seems to be having issues, MagicSchool lets you jump on a video conference and help them clear any problems.

MagicSchool also has a good deal of integrations with popular programs from Google and Microsoft. One of the good reasons why a lot of educators and schools prefer to use MagicSchool AI is because of the privacy features. The service does not ask for any easily identifiable student information, ensuring that its privacy policies are school and student-friendly.

MagicSchool also claims that educators and teachers by using this AI teaching assistant will be able to save 10+ hours every week. Teachers will always be able to access MagicSchool Ai for free. Schools and educational institutions can opt for the free plan or can choose between the $99.99 a year or custom plans so that their students can benefit from this AI tool.

Make your AI assistant do all the hard work with MagicSchool AI.

Teacher Time Machine

Teacher Time Machine is another great AI tool that helps teachers generate a lesson plan and also create various teaching resources instantly. All you need to do is create or pick your category and generate resources for the said topic. The Teacher Time Machine gives you a set of questions that you have to answer. This helps with the AI to generate the exact lesson plan for your class or grade.

A lot of teachers have stated that using the Teacher Time Machine AI tool has saved more than half of the time that would be spent when preparing lesson plans. With the resources generated by Teacher Time Machine, you can easily conduct quizzes and tests for your students to see how well they have grasped your lesson plan.

This AI tool also has the option to translate lesson plans for students who are comfortable in a particular language. To make things fun for the students, Teacher Time Machine also has a great character and prompt generator. This can help improve and increase the creativity aspect of the students.

Concerning the plans and pricing, there is a free plan that has 10 tokens, which renews every month. Additionally, there is a pro plan that will set you back for $9.99 per month. If you are a school or district, you can make use of the custom plan. Since this is a tool geared to help and assist teachers, all teachers can get free access to the Teacher Time Machine AI tool at no cost.

Save time planning out lessons with Teacher Time Machine.

Diffit For Teachers

If you are someone who prefers a simple and clean interface for a tool that helps you generate lesson plans and worksheets, Diffit is the AI tool for you. All you need to do is type the topic that you wish to generate or, you can also easily add links to various articles and even YouTube videos to generate lesson plans and worksheets. You can choose the reading level, language, and also the type of reading.

There are various worksheet templates for teachers to create and hand over to the students. From Google Docs to printable sheets and even presentation slides, Diffit has them all. Diffit has student and district plans that can be customized for pricing. As for teachers, they can get a free account and get access to all the premium features right away.

Create fun activities and worksheets for students with Diffit.

GPTZero

Now this is less of a teaching assistant and more of an AI tool that helps teachers figure out if students have been using AI tools to turn in their assignments, worksheets, and homework. While using AI tools is good, relying on and depending completely on AI is not right for students. Students need to work and figure out things on their own by researching the hard way.

As a teacher, you will not have time to sit and manually read through every student submission to detect if they have used AI to copy things from somewhere. With GPTZero, you can simply paste in the text, and it will tell you whether the text has been written by a human or if an AI tool has generated it.

GPTZero comes in three monthly plans. You can choose the Essential plan at $10 per month, or the premium plan for $16 per month, or if you want everything at your fingertips then the professional plan at $23 per month is for you.

Check for AI written submissions with GPTZero.

Chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot

We conclude this list with popular chatbots that are easily accessible and, for the most important part, free to use. These three chatbots are a great way for teachers to search and get information about any topic or content instantly. You can access these chatbots either via either dedicated apps or simply using the web browser of your choice.

One thing to note is that it is advisable to verify the information that these chatbots have provided to you as they sometime provide wrong or outdated information.

Most of these chatbots are free to use, but if you want additional features, you can always subscribe to their monthly plans.

Get your queries resolved with these chatbots: ChatGPT | Google Gemini | Microsoft Copilot

Closing Thoughts

This concludes the best AI tools that teachers can use to make their lives less hectic and eventually save time while performing repetitive tasks. With these AI tools, we hope teachers can easily make the learning experience for students easier.

There are many AI tools out there, but that doesn’t mean you have to make use of all of them. Pick up the tools that work best for you and most importantly, the free ones, as these tools are focused and designed keeping the teacher in mind. If you have wires, feel free to drop them below.

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8 Essential AI Tools Teachers Need for More Effective Teaching