Mr. W's List of the Most Amazing AI Teacher Tools of 2025

This is a curated list of AI tools for teachers, organized by grade level and use case. It ranges from foundational, everyday tools to more specialized applications.

General LLMs

• ChatGPT ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI. It's widely used for generating text, translating languages, writing different kinds of creative content, and answering questions in an informative way. For teachers, it can assist with lesson planning, creating differentiated materials, and drafting communications.
• Gemini Gemini is Google's large language model, designed to be a multimodal AI. It can assist with writing, generating ideas, summarizing information, and creating various text formats. Its integration with other Google services makes it particularly useful for educators already using Google Workspace.
• Copilot Microsoft Copilot is an AI companion integrated into Microsoft 365 apps like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook. It helps teachers with summarizing documents, drafting emails, creating presentations, and analyzing data, all within the familiar Microsoft environment.
• Claude Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic, known for its focus on safety and nuanced understanding. It excels at tasks requiring careful reasoning and reliable responses, making it a strong option for generating high-quality educational content.
• Mistral AI Mistral AI offers Le Chat, a conversational AI that serves as a good alternative to ChatGPT and Gemini. It provides a wide range of capabilities from answering questions, to creating original content.
• NotebookLM NotebookLM is Google's AI-powered research assistant, designed to synthesize information from multiple sources. Teachers can upload documents, and NotebookLM can answer questions, summarize key points, and generate outlines, making it excellent for research and lesson preparation. Note, the NotebookLM team has been disbanded.
• AI Studio Google AI Studio is a platform for developers and advanced users to create and customize AI models and prompts. For educators, it offers the potential to build tailored AI solutions for specific classroom needs, although it requires more technical expertise.
• Meta AI Meta AI is Facebook's (Meta's) AI research division. This site provides access to various models and tools, from generative models, to image recognition.
• Hugging Face Hugging Face is a platform and community for open-source AI models. It provides a vast library of pre-trained models for various tasks, including natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. Teachers can explore these models for educational applications.
• Deepseek DeepSeek Coder is a specialized large language model focusing on code generation and programming assistance. It can help educators in computer science or STEM fields with coding examples, explanations, and debugging.
• Cohere Cohere provides natural language processing models for businesses, with a focus on text generation, understanding, and summarization. Educators may be able to utilize it for tasks such as simplifying text or extracting information.
• Lmarena.ai A leaderboard that provides a way to evaluate different LLMs.
• Livebench.ai Platform to test prompts with different LLMs, useful for comparing results.
• Perplexity.ai AI powered search engine, providing direct answers with citations.

Universal Teacher Tools (K-12)

• Brisk Teaching Brisk Teaching is an AI-powered teaching assistant that automates tasks like providing feedback on student work, generating lesson plans, differentiating instruction, and adjusting reading levels of materials. It integrates with popular learning management systems.
• app.briskteaching.com Brisk app access.
• Diffit Diffit is a tool specifically designed to differentiate reading materials for students. It can adapt texts to various reading levels, generate summaries, create vocabulary lists, and provide comprehension questions, making it easier for teachers to meet diverse learning needs.
• app.diffit.me Diffit app access.
• Canva Canva is a user-friendly graphic design platform that allows teachers and students to create visually appealing presentations, posters, social media graphics, and other educational materials. It offers a wide range of templates, images, and design elements, making it easy to create professional-looking visuals without needing extensive design experience. Canva for Education is free for K12 teachers.
• MagicSchool AI MagicSchool AI is a comprehensive platform offering a wide range of AI tools for educators, including lesson planners, report card comment generators, IEP (Individualized Education Program) assistants, and text levelers.
• SchoolAI SchoolAI is an AI platform specifically designed for education, providing tools for lesson planning, assessment creation, student support, and integration with Google Classroom. It aims to streamline administrative tasks and personalize learning.
• app.schoolai.com SchoolAI app access.
• Eduaide Eduaide is an AI-powered workspace for teachers, providing tools for lesson planning, resource creation, generating feedback, and creating assessments. It aims to be a one-stop shop for various teaching needs.
• www.eduaide.ai/app Eduaide app access.
• MyShortAnswer MyShortAnswer is an AI tool that automates the creation and grading of short-answer questions. This can significantly reduce the time teachers spend on assessment, allowing them to focus on other aspects of instruction.
• app.myshortanswer.com MyShortAnswer app access.
• Curipod Curipod is a platform for creating interactive lessons. It uses AI to assist with slide generation, incorporating interactive elements like polls, quizzes, and drawing activities to enhance student engagement.
• AlmanackAI AlmanackAI is a platform focused on creating educational materials, providing AI-powered tools for lesson plans, content creation, and other teacher-related tasks.
• TeacherServer TeacherServer offers a diverse collection of online tools specifically designed for teachers, covering a range of functionalities, including AI-powered features.
• Padlet Padlet functions as a digital bulletin board, providing an online space for collaboration, brainstorming, and resource sharing.
• padlet.com/dashboard Padlet user dashboard.
• Knowt Knowt is an AI powered platform that creates notes, and quizzes from uploaded materials.

Tools for Elementary School Teachers

• Book Creator Book Creator is a platform for creating digital books, allowing students and teachers to combine text, images, audio, and video. It's particularly well-suited for elementary students to create their own stories, reports, and projects.
• app.bookcreator.com Book Creator app access.
• Google Arts & Culture Google Arts & Culture is not specifically for elementary, but offers a wealth of virtual museum tours, high-resolution artwork images, and interactive experiences that can be used across grade levels, including enriching elementary curriculum with art, history, and culture.

Fun Tools for Students

• Quick, Draw! Quick, Draw! is a game where the AI tries to guess what you're drawing. It's a fun and engaging way for elementary students to interact with AI and develop their drawing skills.
• AutoDraw AutoDraw is an AI-powered drawing tool that helps turn rough sketches into polished drawings. It's a fun and accessible tool for elementary students to create artwork, even if they don't have strong drawing skills.
• Character.ai Create and interact with virtual characters. This can help engage students in lessons, role-playing, and creative uses.

Tools for Middle School Teachers

• Gamma Gamma is an AI powered tool for creating presentations, documents, and websites.

Fun Tools for Students

• Suno Suno is an AI music generation tool that allows users to create original songs by providing text prompts. Middle school students can use it for creative projects, exploring music composition, or adding soundtracks to their presentations.
• D-ID D-ID allows users to create AI-generated videos with talking avatars. Middle school students could use this for creating presentations, historical character re-enactments, or explaining concepts in a visually engaging way.
• studio.d-id.com D-ID Studio access point.
• National Gallery Mixtape This is a Google Arts & Culture tool that will match music with art, for a unique learning experience.
• Talking Tours Create custom tours using Google Street View.

Tools for High School Teachers

• LTX Studio LTX Studio is a tool for creating and editing LaTeX documents, which are commonly used for typesetting mathematical and scientific papers. It's primarily useful for high school math and science teachers and students.
• app.ltx.studio LTX Studio app access.
• Snorkl Snorkl creates interactive learning activities and provides instant, personalized AI feedback to students. This can be valuable for high school students working on more complex projects or assignments.
• app.snorkl.app Snorkl app access.
• teacher.snorkl.app Teacher area within Snorkl.
• Yellkey Yellkey is a classroom management tool that assists with monitoring student activity and engagement, primarily useful in settings where students are using devices.
• Napkin Napkin is designed for visual thinking, helping connect, and organize ideas. This can be used by teachers to help with brainstorming, and planning.
• app.napkin.ai Napkin app.

Fun Tools for Students

• MusicFX MusicFX is an AI music generation tool from Google Labs, allowing users to create music using text prompts. High school students can use this for creative projects, exploring different musical styles, or composing original pieces.
• PlayAntimatter.com/sorcerer This is an AI powered image generator.
• Google Career Dreamer This tool helps match students to possible careers, that match their skill sets.

Utilities, Resources, and Experimental Tools

• lesliefisher.com Leslie Fisher's website, containing information and resources on educational technology, presentations, and workshops.
• ControlAltAchieve.com An educational blog by Eric Curts, with valuable resources and articles.
• HollyClark.org Contains resources, blog posts, and information about edtech services.
• TeachAI Resources for teaching *about* AI. Valuable for integrating AI literacy into the curriculum.
• Atom A URL shortener, useful for creating more manageable links.
• CamelCamelCamel An Amazon price tracker, that can help in finding deals on classroom supplies.
• Reddit Online forums, including communities focused on education.
• BlueAppleTeacher.org Offers premade lesson plans, such as their "You and AI" plan.
• blueappleteacher.org/lessons/you-and-ai/ Ready made lesson plan.
• Almanack.ai AI-powered platform for lesson plans, content creation, and other tasks.
  • app.almanack.ai Almanack app.

Google Learning Lab Experiments & Emerging Features

• Labs.google Hub for Google's experimental AI projects. A place to discover cutting-edge technologies.
• Learning.google.com/experiments Collection of interactive learning tools.
• quickdraw.withgoogle.com AI guesses drawings.
• autodraw.com AI turns doodles into polished drawings.
• Illuminate.google.com (Function still needs clarification.)
• Search Playground Interface for testing experimental Google search features.
• labs.google/musicfx Create music with AI prompts.
• artsandculture.google.com/experiment/national-gallery-mixtape Mix a personalized soundtrack inspired by paintings
• artsandculture.google.com/experiment/talking-tours Create a custom tour with Street View on Google Arts & Culture.
• Photos.google.com "Ask Photos" AI feature coming soon (waitlist available). This will allow natural language search within your photos.
• Food Mood Create a recipe based upon combining two cuisines.