Tools to Use for Teaching
NotebookLM
Turn a boring reading into a fascinating podcast in one simple step. Great for student engagement.
Visit SiteConsensus
An AI-powered academic search engine that surfaces evidence-backed research findings.
Visit SiteMagicSchool
Tons of tools for educators — built specifically for teaching and learning workflows.
Visit SiteKhanmigo
Khan Academy's AI tutor and educator assistant — purpose-built for education with strong pedagogical guardrails.
Visit SiteBrisk Teaching
Chrome extension for grading assistance, feedback generation, and AI-integrated assignment creation.
Visit SiteBoodlebox
Education related tool that enables teams to build custom bots, share chat sessions, and create assignments with enterprise-grade security.
Visit SiteGamma App
A content generation tool designed to create presentations, documents, websites, and dashboards from simple text prompts.
Visit SiteGoblin.Tools
A set of simple and fun tools to help you do your job better and more efficiently.
Visit SiteCharacter AI
Chat with historical figures like Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, or Karl Marx, or book characters.
Visit SiteMicrosoft Designer
Create class banners, presentation images, icons, posters, and other visual content.
Visit SiteGeneral AI Tools
Google Gemini
Best for multimodal tasks and deep integration with Google Workspace and Search.
Visit SiteAnthropic Claude
Best for long-document analysis, nuanced reasoning, and instruction-following accuracy.
Visit SiteChatGPT
Best for general-purpose assistance with the broadest ecosystem of plugins and integrations.
Visit SiteMicrosoft Copilot
Best for productivity within Microsoft 365, including drafting, summarizing, and analyzing across Word, Excel, and Teams.
Visit SitePerplexity AI
Best for real-time, cited web research. Functions as an AI-powered search engine.
Visit SitexAI Grok
Best for real-time access to X/Twitter data and unfiltered, current-events reasoning.
Visit SiteMeta AI
Best for free, open-weight model access — Llama powers much of the open-source AI ecosystem.
Visit SiteMistral
Best for efficient, open-source models deployable on your own infrastructure with strong multilingual support.
Visit SiteGitHub Copilot
Best for AI-assisted coding directly inside your IDE for autocomplete, explanation, and code generation.
Visit SiteHugging Face
Best as a hub for discovering, sharing, and deploying open-source AI models and datasets.
Visit SiteAI Image Generators
AI Video or Music Creation
ElevenLabs
Best for realistic AI voice synthesis and audio cloning for content, podcasts, and accessibility.
Visit SiteAI Detection Tools
Please be aware that AI detection is not foolproof and can generate false positives (and false negatives). For more information about the issues and problems with AI detectors, please see:
- "The Effectiveness of Software Designed to Detect AI-Generated Writing: A Comparison of 16 AI Text Detectors" — Copyleaks, Turnitin, and Originality.ai have very high accuracy rates.
- "Can ChatGPT Detect GPT3 Generated Texts?" — from OUseful Info
- How to Detect if an Essay was Generated by OpenAI's ChatGPT — Medium
- AI Text Detection and How to Better Address The Issue — Medium
If you have students write papers or reports, I recommend asking them to use Google Docs because it saves every edit, then use Draftback, a Chrome plugin that lets you replay the history of a Google Doc as if it were a movie.
Note: Turnitin.com and Blackboard's Safe Assign have both implemented AI detection tools within their existing plagiarism-detection workflows.