Introduction

Today’s teachers not only educate students but also guide them and foster their intellectual growth. They build young minds that rule the future. However, they have to juggle many tasks besides delivering lectures. They have to make presentations, prepare notes for students, create quizzes, assessments, etc. For one, handling such a number of tasks is hectic.

But you know what, that is the old day story. Things are not as hectic now as they were before. AI (Artificial Intelligence) is now emerging as a powerful assistant for them. Some AI tools make it easier for teachers to work more efficiently and boost productivity.

According to a study, around 84% of the teachers in the United States use artificial intelligence in classrooms. In this blog post, you will learn about 10 AI tools to help you work more efficiently as a teacher.

10 Helpful AI Tools for Teachers

The online market nowadays is full of online tools. After researching and trying many tools, we found the 10 handpicked tools below that will help teachers work more efficiently.

1. Magicschool.ai

For planning lessons, making a syllabus, quizzes, and assessments.

MagicSchool AI is a web-based platform that offers a suite of tools for teachers and students. Regarding teachers, at the time, they are offering more than 80+ tools, including:

• Lesson plan generator
• Syllabus generator
• Quiz generator
• Assessment maker
• Slides generator
• Feedback generator, etc.

They also have an IEP (Individualized Educational Plan) assistant. It helps teachers in making personalized educational plans for differently abled students individually.

The tools on Magicschool AI can easily be integrated with Google Workspace. Using it, teachers can save time while preparing efficient lessons, slides, quizzes, and providing personalized student support.

Yet, all the tools on the platform help teachers in some way. Here, we want to mention the Lesson Plan and Worksheet Generator. This tool saves teachers time making teaching plans and designing student learning materials.

MagicSchool AI gives teachers free access to some extent (signup is required). To access full features, one might have to buy a subscription.

2. Eduaide.AI

For lesson planning, resource creation, and feedback.

Eduaide.AI provides a workspace particularly designed for teachers. Besides helping generate instructional materials, it also assists teachers in planning their workflow. The tool handles much of the work burden, all thanks to its resources, which include:

• Engagement activities
• Assessment measures
• Differentiated instruction assistant
• Lessons plans
• Lesson seed
• Assessment outline

Evidence statements and many more.

Eduaide.AI is very easy to use. All teachers need to do is open a resource that aligns with their task, enter the topic into it, and click the generate button. Within seconds, the tool will provide them with the desired results.

Another notable thing about Eduaide.Ai is that the resources on the platform provide results per the grade level with logical explanations. This makes it easy for teachers to make things understandable for students.

Moreover, the tool allows for customization. It lets teachers tweak the outputs to suit their classroom tone or curriculum requirements. This makes it a time-saver and a creativity booster, especially during high-pressure times like midterms or curriculum changes.

3. Imagetotextconverter.net

For preserving and digitizing rare or costly learning materials.

For teachers, one hectic task is preparing presentations or other learning materials from printouts, especially those who deal with old books in the library archives.

That is where Imagetotextconverter.net seems to be a helpful tool for them. Using this tool, they can convert those books into editable digital formats. The good thing is that the tool is free to use.

To transform a physical book into a digital file, a teacher must take pictures and upload them to the tool. Once uploaded, click the convert button and download the file in your desired format.

Besides preservation of rare learning materials, this conversion can bring teachers the following benefits:

• Makes information retrieval easier. They can search and access a particular topic inside the book by adding a few keywords.
• Once digitized, teachers can easily adapt the content into their lesson plans.
• Digital files are highly collaborative, making it easier for teachers to share learning materials with students.
• Teachers can make the converter files part of the digital library (beneficial for rare or costly books). Teachers can tag and organize materials by theme or grade level for future use.

4. QR Code Generator by QRScanner.net

For sharing materials with students and collaborating with parents.

The next tool on our list is the QR code scanner by QRscanner.net. It helps teachers bridge the gap between physical and digital classrooms.

Teachers can use this tool to generate QR codes for making digital learning materials instantly accessible to students. Instead of navigating complex LMS systems, they can land precisely on the page they need to.

Moreover, teachers can add small QR codes on notes and handouts to help students explain the topic further or provide relevant tutorials.

Furthermore, teachers can also generate QR codes and place them on assessment cards or reports to communicate with parents and gather feedback.

By embedding links in QR codes, they can send them to parents via digital channels to link them to:

• Feedback forms
• Grading rubrics
• Progress dashboards

5. Curipod.com

For preparing interactive lessons and enhancing existing teaching materials.

Curpiod is another tool that helps teachers work more efficiently. Using the tool, teachers can prepare a lecture slide deck within minutes. All they need to do is provide Curipod with the topic, choose the grade level, and the objective.

Yet the tool covers a wide range of subjects, but it is mainly specialized for:

• ELA
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• SEL
• Career & technical education

Curipod also helps teachers build activities like polls, word clouds, quizzes, drawings, and open-ended questions. Teachers can do this using the lessons from Curipod or by uploading their materials. Furthermore, they can also update their outdated materials.

6. Diffit for Teachers

Finding instructional resources by grade level.

Teachers often have different learning materials by grade level, so students can easily digest the information. This is what Diffit makes more efficient for them.

Teachers can get it differentiated into different languages and grade levels by providing a resource to the tool, i.e., a topic, a YouTube video link, an article, etc.

Besides, differentiating the material the tool also provides:

• Detailed reading passages for explanations
• A to-the-point summary on the topic
• Short answer questions
• MCQs
• Vocabulary chart

This makes it easier for teachers to prepare class tests, quizzes, and examination papers.

7. Gradescope

Helps in grading for exams, tests, or quizzes.

This tool saves teachers hours when checking examination papers, quizzes, tests, etc. Integrated with Turnitin, teachers can check students' sheets in bulk using this tool. Moreover, integration with Turnitin also helps find identical text (especially useful when checking abstracts, theses, research papers, etc).

The most attractive thing that made us mention this tool is that it only handles text. It also smoothly checks and grades other materials involving:

• Mathematical equation
• Physics numericals
• Chemistry formulas
• Computer languages (coding)
• Economics, engineering, and many more.

8. QuestionWell

This is for generating quizzes from online articles or tutorials.

Making quiz questions manually by reading lengthy materials, only a teacher knows what a headache it is. But not anymore, all thanks to QuestionWell. Teachers can use this tool to make quiz questions about a topic within minutes.

To make a quiz, all one needs is to provide the tool with the learning material, or a link to an article or a YouTube video. The tool lets them choose a format, i.e., fill in the blanks, MCQs, true/false, or short answer. In simple, teachers can make quiz banks quickly by using the tool.

9. ChatGPT

For drafting lessons, examples, and explanations.

ChatGPT is another powerful AI tool, a chatbot, that many teachers have adopted to streamline various tasks such as:

• Drafting lesson plans
• Brainstorming project ideas
• Making example essays or paragraphs
• Composing emails to parents
• Building rubrics (scoring guides)
• Simplifying complex concepts

All with just one prompt (individually).

ChatGPT also helps teachers create differentiated instruction materials to fulfill individual student needs. It can also generate quizzes, make question papers, and provide interactive classroom discussion prompts.

10. Grammarly

For checking grammar errors and plagiarism.

The last AI tool on our list is Grammarly. It improves teachers' work efficiency, especially those related to language and literature, to check students' work for grammatical errors.

Besides highlighting mistakes, Grammarly provides them with real-time suggestions that help educators guide their students better.

Moreover, using the plagiarism and AI detection feature on the same tool, teachers can also check whether the work submitted by students is original.

This helps them reduce grading time and provide better feedback to students by providing the overall score of the text.

Wrapping Up

AI tools help teachers lift the heavy burden of work and work more efficiently. Those mentioned above are 10 handpicked AI tools among them. Using them, teachers can quickly prepare lessons or syllabi and provide students with better feedback. Moreover, some make it easy for teachers to preserve rare learning material and share it interactively. If you are in the teaching profession, try these tools, and if you find them helpful, let others know too.