ChatGPT
General-purpose conversational assistant, widely used by teachers for drafting, restructuring and explaining material.
General assistants
Most teachers start here, and for good reason: a general assistant with a well-written prompt often beats a purpose-built tool with a rigid template. The trade-off is that nothing is retained between sessions and nothing is designed around a school’s constraints.
9 tools
Claude
Conversational assistant with long-document handling, often used for working through source material and drafting teaching notes.
Doubao
Consumer AI assistant with chat, writing and image capabilities.
ERNIE Bot
Baidu’s conversational assistant, and the model behind several of its education-facing products.
Gemini
Google’s assistant, with integration into Google Workspace documents and slides.
iFlytek Spark
Assistant from a vendor with a long-standing speech and education business.
Kimi
Chinese conversational assistant known for long-context document and file handling.
Microsoft Copilot
Assistant integrated with Microsoft 365, including Word and PowerPoint.
Tencent Yuanbao
Tencent’s assistant for chat, writing and document work.