MagicSchool is a promising AI-powered platform for teachers and educators. It offers a wide collection of AI tools that enhances teachers’ instructional practice and facilitates their day-to-day work including their administrative tasks. I have been using it for some time now and find it really worth the shout out here in Educators Technology.
If you rather watch a video tutorial to see how MagicSchool works, scroll down to the bottom of the page and you will find one I created walking you through the process of using MagicSchool.
What is MagicSchool?
MagicSchool is an educational platform that combines the services of multiple AI tools into a single place. In it you will be able to access various kinds of AI generators from lesson plan and worksheet creators to text and YouTube video summarizers.
In fact, I don’t find MagicSchool any different from other AI lesson plan tools I covered in the past especially Eduaide and Brisk Teaching. They offer pretty much the same AI tools and they all work the same way.
You browse through the various AI tools, pick the one you are interested in, type in your prompts, and click to generate content whether it is a detailed lesson plan or a teaching resource.
The great thing about these AI tools is that, unlike general AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini, they are custom trained to cater only to educational content. That being said, anything you generate through AI needs to be vetted and further edited before using it in your teaching.
MagicSchool Tools
MagicSchool offers access to a wide array of over 60 AI tools designed particularly for teachers and students. These AI tools are arranged into different categories including: lesson planning, content creation, student support, communication, community tools, question generators, and more.
Here is a quick run-down of some of the AI tools provided by MagicSchool:
- Rubric Generator: Have AI write a rubric for an assignment you are creating for your class in a table format.
- Choice Board (UDL): Create a choice board for a student assignment based on the principles of UDL.
- Lesson Plan:Generate a lesson plan for a topic or objective you’re teaching.
- Report Card Comments: Generate report card comments with a student’s strengths and areas for growth.
- Multiple Choice Quiz / Assessment: Create a multiple choice assessment, quiz, or test based on any topic, standard(s), or criteria!
- Worksheet Generator: Generate a worksheet based on any topic or text.
- YouTube Video Questions: Generate guiding questions aligned to a YouTube video.
- Text Summarizer: Take any text and summarize it in whatever length you choose.
- Unit Plan Generator: Generate a draft of a unit plan based on topic, standards and objectives, and length of unit.
- Writing Feedback: Based on a custom criteria, have AI give areas of strength & areas for growth on student work.
- YouTube Video Summarizer: Get a summary of a YouTube video in whatever length you choose.
- Project Based Learning (PBL): Based on the principles of Project Based Learning (PBL), create a full project plan.
- Chat with Docs: Upload a document and have an AI powered chat based on the resource uploaded!
- Survey Creator: Create a survey to collect information or solicit feedback.
As you can see from the list above, MagicSchool offers an AI tool pretty much for any instructional activity you have in mind from creating surveys and quizzes to generating report card comments and writing feedback.
Raina Chatbot
Raina chatbot is an AI teaching assistant that you can use to interact with in real time. You can ask your specific teaching-related queries and Raina will provide suggestions and recommendations.
For instance, you can upload your lesson plan or copy-paste it into the chatbox and ask Raina for her feedback or ask it to come up with teaching activities to include in the lesson. You can also use it to get help with teaching activities and instructional methods.
The trick is to make your prompts as detailed as possible. You need to articulate your prompts in a clear and structured way. Raina also offers a ‘Custom prompt’ feature which allows you to create and save your frequently used prompts so that you can access them easily in future interactions with the chatbot.
Watch this video to learn more about MagicSchool
MagicSchool AI Pricing?
MagicSchool is available at no cost for educators, providing access to a selection of its powerful tools with some functionality restrictions. For those looking to unlock the platform’s full potential, MagicSchool Plus offers an enhanced suite of features. With a subscription priced at $12.99 per month or an annual fee of $99.96.
Final thoughts
If you are familiar with Brisk Teaching or Eduaide then MagicSchool is no different. It offers a wide collection of similar educational AI tools to help you with different teaching tasks from creating lesson plans and teaching resources to generating in-class activities and writing feedback. These AI tools will definitely save you so much time and will further facilitate your workflow.
