Hello educator,

As I promised in last week’s newsletter, this week I’m spotlighting Teachaid.ca.

As a teacher, we have to relate to our students to educate, but sometimes we spot an issue and need a quick set of lessons. For me, when I opened up the year, I quickly saw some issues with one of my classes needing to know how to manage email (and the notifications that go with it.)

That’s why I’ve been testing TeachAid.ca – today’s newsletter sponsor – and I want you to know about it.

🌟What I Found

The unit generation tool inside TeachAid creates excellent content. It builds:

• Complete units aligned to standards
• Slides and activities (with customizable images you can select)
• Formative and summative checks put into lessons as needed.
• Downloadable lesson files you can drop into Google Classroom, Canvas, or any LMS

I tested it by planning my full email unit. Within minutes, I had a multi-day sequences with checks for understanding, student activities, and ready-to-use slides. The system didn’t give me just one lesson - it built a whole scaffolded unit that I was ready to use.

Here’s the trick to get the most out of TeachAid: the more intentional and purposeful you are at the start (standards + goals + daily objectives), the better the plan you’ll get out of it and the less editing you’ll need to do. I also like that each slide lets me edit with AI, almost like I have a personal assistant helping me with my content.

🚀Moving Past Just Lesson Planning

I’ve tested quite a few tools and it isn’t just another AI that generates a worksheet. It builds complete, customizable units. (I did test the interactive feature with the lessons and it is pretty remarkable. While it might LOOK like a worksheet it creates in some places, it certainly is not and has a custom chatbot I could turn off and on to help students with content.)

So, the unit planning tool is awesome but if you’re like me and you want to bring AI tutors to the classroom to test and want the ability to see everything – and toggle it on and off at will - their interactive feature is a great one to try out.

When I tested the interactive AI tutor, I could see every single student prompt in almost real time. No waiting for an email summary, no running around the room looking over shoulders. The instant transparency helped me teach my students who to use AI responsibly and I could also see if it was going off track.

📝My Classroom Takeaway

So for me, TeachAid’s unit planning is the feature I’d recommend right now. It’s solid, reliable, and saves me time.

I think the interactive tutor is worth testing if you want to bring this to your classroom and spark conversations about using AI responsibly in learning. I like it because it is fully transparent. That said, only use AI tutors that are fully transparent and you can see every word, like with TeachAid, because AI tutors are still growing and improving and every one I’ve tested has growth needs. That said, the transparency means when I’m going to use AI tutors, I’m using TeachAid.ca and their platform. They give me what I need to keep kids safe and on task.

I think TeachAid.ca is just getting started and think their roadmap will bring some great features that we teachers can use.

✅ Ready to Try It?

TeachAid is free to start. Sign up today, explore the features, and you can book a demo (like I did) to get started.

👉 Join TeachAid for Free
​ 👉 Learn more at TeachAid.ca
​ 👉 Book a Demo​

As always, I only share tools I believe are teacher-tested, student-safe, and genuinely helpful. TeachAid checks the boxes. I recommend starting with their unit planning today.

See you later, Educator. ✨

And I hope you'll join me today at 5pm on YouTube, LinkedIn, X or Facebook for a livestream as I take you through how I create presentations.

– Vicki Davis

@coolcatteacher

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