Best AI tools for teachers

ChatGPT is OpenAI's chat assistant. You describe what you need in plain language and it drafts, rewrites, explains or brainstorms with you. It handles a wide spread of everyday jobs: emails, outlines, summaries, study help and quick coding questions.

Best for: drafting and rewriting everyday text, brainstorming ideas and outlines, quick explanations and summaries.

Worth knowing: Check facts and figures it gives you before relying on them, especially for recent events.

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Gamma builds a presentation, document or simple web page from a prompt, an outline or pasted notes. You then edit the result in its editor and share it as a link or export it.

Best for: first drafts of slide decks, turning notes into a clean presentation, quick one-page sites and docs.

Worth knowing: Expect to edit the structure and wording; the first draft is a starting point.

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QuillBot rewrites sentences and paragraphs in different styles, checks grammar and spelling, and summarises long text. It is popular with students, teachers and anyone writing in a second language who wants clearer wording.

Best for: rephrasing awkward sentences, checking grammar and spelling, summarising long articles.

Worth knowing: Paraphrasing someone else's work is not the same as citing it; follow your school's or workplace's rules.

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Canva is a drag-and-drop design editor with templates for social posts, presentations, posters and more. Its AI features help generate images, write copy and resize designs for different platforms.

Best for: social media graphics, simple presentations and posters, resizing one design for many formats.

Worth knowing: Some AI features and assets need a paid plan.

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Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant. It is often chosen for working through long documents, careful writing and editing, and help with code. You can upload files and ask it to summarise, compare or rewrite them.

Best for: summarising and questioning long documents, careful drafting and editing, coding help.

Worth knowing: Like any assistant, it can be wrong. Verify important details against the source.

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Murf turns a script into a voiceover using a large library of AI voices across many languages and accents. You can adjust speed, pitch and emphasis, and line the voice up with video or slides, which makes it a common choice for training and explainer content.

Best for: voiceovers for explainer and training videos, narration for slides and lessons, trying many voices and accents.

Worth knowing: The free plan is for testing; check which plan allows downloads and commercial use before you commit.

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Synthesia turns a script into a video presented by a realistic AI avatar, in many languages. It is widely used for training, onboarding and explainer videos, where filming a real presenter every time would be slow and costly, and videos can be updated by editing the text.

Best for: training and onboarding videos, explainer videos in several languages, updating a video without reshooting.

Worth knowing: The free plan is limited to a few minutes a month and adds a watermark; downloads need a paid plan.

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