SchoolAI
Custom AI tutors and "Spaces" you build for your class — with full teacher visibility into every student chat.
SchoolAI teacher dashboard showing 24 simultaneous student chats with live flag indicators on three off-topic conversations.
TL;DR
SchoolAI is the most teacher-trust-friendly classroom AI we've tested. The Spaces builder lets you constrain AI to a specific lesson and persona, and the monitoring dashboard surfaces every student chat in real time — including any flagged content.
Recommend it if
You teach grades 4-12, you want students using AI in class but you need to see exactly what they're saying, or your district just signed off on classroom AI but not on consumer ChatGPT.
Skip it if
Your students need a single general-purpose tutor across all subjects (Khanmigo wins there), or your district hasn't approved any AI tool yet — SchoolAI is sophisticated but still adds compliance overhead.
Quick facts
- Platforms
- WebiOSAndroid
- Languages
- EnglishSpanish+15 more
- School fit
- K-5 6-8 9-12
- Subjects
- All subjectsespecially custom-content units
- Time to first output
- < 5 min
- Learning curve
- Moderate
- Setup
- Create teacher account; build first Space in 5 min
- Works offline
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Real-world use cases
How a teacher, student or parent actually puts this tool to work.
| Who | Scenario | Time | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teachers | Build a "Talk to a 1920s newspaper editor" Space for an immigration unit — students chat with the AI in character, you monitor live in the dashboard. | 8 min build + 30 min in class | Roleplay learning session |
| Teachers | Deploy the "Essay Coach" Sidekick to your 9th-grade English class — every student gets feedback on their draft, you see which kids haven't started. | 5 min setup | Per-student progress data |
| School leaders | District AI committee wants to approve one classroom AI tool — pilot SchoolAI with 5 teachers because the monitoring dashboard satisfies the safeguarding case. | 4 weeks pilot | Compliance evidence |
- Teachers
Build a "Talk to a 1920s newspaper editor" Space for an immigration unit — students chat with the AI in character, you monitor live in the dashboard.
- Time
- 8 min build + 30 min in class
- Output
- Roleplay learning session
- Teachers
Deploy the "Essay Coach" Sidekick to your 9th-grade English class — every student gets feedback on their draft, you see which kids haven't started.
- Time
- 5 min setup
- Output
- Per-student progress data
- School leaders
District AI committee wants to approve one classroom AI tool — pilot SchoolAI with 5 teachers because the monitoring dashboard satisfies the safeguarding case.
- Time
- 4 weeks pilot
- Output
- Compliance evidence
SchoolAI is the most teacher-trust-friendly classroom AI we’ve tested. Two design decisions make it different:
- Spaces — you build a constrained AI tutor for one unit, with a defined persona, grade level, and forbidden topics. Students can’t drift to ChatGPT-style general chat.
- Live monitoring dashboard — every student conversation streams to the teacher in real time, with off-topic and harmful-content alerts.
For districts that want to say yes to classroom AI without a permission slip war, SchoolAI is currently the easiest yes.
What we like
- + Free for individual teachers, no credit card
- + Build custom AI tutors ("Spaces") tied to a specific lesson
- + Real-time monitoring — teacher sees every student conversation live
- + Built for K-12 from day one (FERPA, COPPA, district SSO)
Heads up
- − Newer product — rough edges in the lesson library
- − District tier pricing only on request
- − Custom-tutor quality depends on your prompt-engineering chops
Pricing breakdown
Pricing
Verified directly on the vendor site. We re-check every quarter.
Teacher (Free)
Most useful- · Unlimited Spaces and Sidekicks
- · Up to 50 students per session
- · All monitoring and reporting features
- · Pre-built lesson library
School
- · SSO with Google / Microsoft / Clever
- · Bulk teacher onboarding
- · Department / grade-level analytics
- · Signed DPA, district admin console
District
- · District-wide rollout with implementation team
- · Custom data residency and retention
- · Dedicated success manager
- · Quarterly product roadmap input
Privacy & compliance
Privacy & compliance
What we found in the vendor's terms, DPA, and trust center. Verify with your district before deploying.
- FERPA
- Compliant
- SOC 2
- Compliant
- COPPA
- Compliant
- GDPR
- Partial
- Trains on your data
- No
- Data retention
- All conversations retained per teacher account; admin can bulk delete on School plan.
- Hosting regions
- US
COPPA-compliant for under-13 use through teacher-rostered accounts. Data is not used to train any third-party models. iKeepSafe certified.
Works with
- Google Workspace
- Microsoft 365
- Google Classroom (rostering)
- Clever (rostering)
- ClassLink (SSO)
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions
How is SchoolAI different from giving kids ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is a single general assistant with no teacher visibility. SchoolAI lets you constrain AI to a specific topic and persona ("you are a 1920s newspaper editor — only discuss this unit"), and gives the teacher real-time visibility into every conversation. For classroom use, SchoolAI is the safer deployment.
Is the free tier really unlimited?
Free for individual teachers — unlimited Spaces, unlimited Sidekick uses, up to 50 students per session. The paid tiers add SSO, bulk onboarding and admin features for districts.
Can I see what my kid said to the AI?
If your child uses SchoolAI through their teacher's class, the teacher sees every conversation. Parent visibility flows through teacher reports — ask the teacher for a transcript.
What happens when a student tries to misuse it?
Off-topic, harmful or jailbreak attempts are flagged in real time. The teacher gets an in-app alert; the conversation is logged. SchoolAI uses both content filters and persona constraints to reduce off-topic drift.
How does it compare to MagicSchool's student-facing chat?
Both ship classroom-AI with monitoring. SchoolAI's Spaces builder is more flexible for custom personas; MagicSchool has the deeper teacher-tool library. Districts often deploy both.
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MagicSchool AI
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