What are the best AI tools for teachers?
The best AI tools for teachers are ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for drafts, MagicSchool or Eduaide.ai for planning, and Edcafe for quizzes.
Brisk Teaching and CoGrader handle feedback, Diffit handles leveled readings, NotebookLM handles sources you upload, and Jellypod turns lessons into podcasts.
MagicSchool, Brisk, CoGrader, and Edcafe were checked on their sites on October 14, 2026.
Why pick by task
Pick by task because a planner does not grade, and a grader does not publish audio. One login will not cover a week of prep.
Which AI tool should you use for planning?
MagicSchool and Eduaide.ai are the planning picks, because the prompts are already written for classroom tasks. MagicSchool's homepage describes an AI platform for school districts (October 14, 2026).
Use the plan as a draft, then cut what does not fit your students.
A general assistant can draft too. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini can invent citations, so the plan is a draft until you check it.
What is a good AI tool for quizzes?
Edcafe is a good AI tool for quizzes and assignments. Read every answer key before students see it.
Which AI tools help with grading and feedback?
Brisk Teaching and CoGrader help with grading and feedback by drafting comments you still approve. Brisk's homepage calls its tools free for teachers, and CoGrader's homepage calls itself an AI essay grader that is free for teachers (both October 14, 2026).
If a comment would change a grade, you read the student's work.
Turning lessons into audio and video
Jellypod turns a lesson into audio or video after you edit the script.
Eligible teachers can turn lessons into podcasts on a six-month Educator plan: 3,000 credits a month, about 100 minutes at 30 credits a minute, and two voice clones.
Upload notes with notes to podcast. For a deck that should stay on screen, use an AI voiceover for training videos.
A Private podcast has no feed or share link. Episodes are downloaded from the Studio, so a class uses a public feed or a file in the LMS.
NotebookLM can make an audio overview of sources you upload, with little control over the script and no class feed. Teachers who want to publish look at NotebookLM alternatives.
Audio is also another way into a lesson, which is the idea behind UDL examples that include audio. For study use, see AI podcasts for studying.
How do teachers use Jellypod?
Steve DeNunzio and Chris Read both publish short episodes from their own material, then check the script before students hear it.
Steve DeNunzio teaches logistics in the MBA program at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business.
He adds credible source articles, edits the script, and records with an AI co-host in his cloned voice so a seven to nine minute episode goes out every Tuesday. Read his story.
Chris Read teaches high school history in Canada, where students would not do the readings.
He turned lesson notes into roughly 10-minute episodes, checked them, and shared them in Google Classroom, where students open the transcript and read along. Read Chris's story.
How to choose
Choose a tool your school can approve. Check what student data it stores, what it costs after a trial, and whether it offers school accounts.
District rules differ, so the vendor page is not the approval.
