In the spirit of March Madness and how much we love Iowa Women’s basketball on our team, we have taken this idea of bracket play into the AI world and have come up with four different categories for AI tools. Within those four different categories, we have chosen two tools that we feel fall into that category to match against one another. To compare these two tools, we will share the cost, what integrations the tool has, and usability of the original output.
For the next two weeks, we will advance tools through the bracket and we will share more in-depth analysis of these tools.
Bracket 1: Productivity and Communication:
- Ghostwrite (Mindy)
- Cost: 15 emails a month, unlimited for $10/mo
Bracket 2: Lesson Planning
- School AI (Mindy)
- Cost: teachers get a freemium account, otherwise purchase as a district (schedule a call)
Cuirpod (Gina) - Cost: freemium, $7.50/mo individual account, school license or district license $4000/yr
Integrations: NA (link sharing for adding students to a lesson)Usability of Original Output: Many of the lessons that are generated are a good “starting point” however, a teacher would want to go through and add additional information and perhaps adjust some of the questions or interactions that Curipod automatically creates with AI.- Eduaide (Gina)
- Cost: Freemium: 15 generations/mo, limited feedback bot Pro account: $6/mo, school and districts accounts
Diffit (Mindy)- Cost: Free up to 2500 words, $15/mo or district license
Integrations: Print or Download (with free version), paid Google integrationsUsability of Original Output: generates content, paste in text for easy leveling, grade leveling of text can be challenging to decipher–its really about student level so worth a professional eye. Bracket 4: Assessment and Feedback
- Brisk (Mindy)
- Cost: Freemium or District Purchase
Class Companion (Gina)- Cost: Freemium, free for teachers and students, paid school/district account integrates Class Companion into LMS (Schoology and Canvas, with additional features)
Integrations: LMS integration with school or district plan.Usability of Original Output: Teachers have access to the content library on the free teacher plan. They cannot create a library of their own content. The AI is useful in coaching student and providing them just in time feedback and they are writing. It is transparent to all (students and teachers) they are getting feedback from AI and there is a place where students can dispute feedback they get from the AI. Geared towards an older audience so elementary teachers might not find this as useful. 
