AI tools for teachers

Prepares lessons and presentations, grades work, writes to parents and reports to the administration, runs the class or school page.

Tools ranked for this role

Best tool for each task

ChatGPT

All-purpose chat assistant with web search, file and spreadsheet analysis, voice and custom GPTs. Paid plans from $20/mo. Free plan available.

Claude

Assistant for long documents, contracts and careful writing, with a Project for each matter. Paid plans from $20/mo. Free plan available.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Assistant inside Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams and PowerPoint with access to company data. Paid plans from $20/mo. Free plan available.

Data that stays out of public AI tools

• Student names, grades and assessments: children's personal data, into a service only as [Student 1]
• Medical and family circumstances of students: never into third-party services
• Photos and videos of students: into image and video generators only with written parental consent
• Student work for grading: without names, the teacher assigns the grade and the model only suggests
• Letters to parents about a specific child: draft them with anonymized data and add the name outside the service

Tasks with a prompt and steps

• Summarize a long PDF 10 min
• Build a quarterly results presentation 40 min
• Write a business letter 10 min
• Write a series of company social media posts 20 min
• Write a weekly report to your manager 10 min
• Write meeting minutes from an audio recording 20 min
• Write AI usage guidelines for your team 20 min
• Get a spreadsheet formula from a plain-language request 10 min