I'd like a platform where each student has access to a private folder where I can share lesson PDFs after each session, while also allowing me to see all of my students' folders. Each student should only be able to access their own folder and not those of other students.

I was thinking about using a simple Google Drive, but perhaps Moodle would be more appropriate for this?

Many thanks!

So I've been using peardeck for about three years and I really love it. I pay for it out-of-pocket and I absolutely think it is a game changer. For whatever reason my district blocked it. Maybe it's Google suites security or some hypervigilance maneuver on their part. But I've already spent my money on my subscription this year and when I ask them to unblock it, they don't really understand how useful it is. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few people who actually use it in my district because no one else is willing to pay for it and no one else has the skills to make it work and be effective in a classroom. But it's very disheartening because now I have to go through all of my slides shows which amount to about 150 slides shows and make them low-tech and less fun. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. They used to pay for Nearpod, but they stopped paying for it and I really hate Nearpod. Starting to hate everyone in the technology side because they're working against us and not with us.

Our school is using Subject AI for 7-12 virtual school now that our area is allowing for ISD's to offer online school options. I would like to hear the good, bad and ugly from those with experience with it. Previous posts that pulled up didn't have much in the way of replies ... So I'm hoping that with a little bit of time there are more folks with experience they are willing to share. Are they just that new that this is the first year they are getting more use?: i tried a couple other communities before the school year started but didn't get much in the way of replies then.

I've used Powerpoint since forever, but I'm realizing that I spend way more time putting together the slides than thinking about the presentation.

I don't need pixel-level control / perfection.

I mostly want to turn ideas into structure, then turn it into a good looking ppt for daily or weekly reports.

Using gamma for quick informal doc to deck creation which works well but wanted to see what else is out there.

Has anyone actually switched away from Powerpoint for this kind of workflow?

Would love to hear what you use and what you gained/lost by switching, rather than just a list of AI tools.

If a student asks for the answer to a homework question, should the AI give it?

No one can guarantee understanding, but the task gets complete.

Doesn't this defy the whole point of education and building fundamentals?

Curious how people actually building AI/edtech products are thinking about this.

For designers working towards ai + edtech, how is the market? Flint, Magicschool etc. What's the market like?

web-based Grade 3 Math Planner & Gradebook with:

36-week pacing calendar based on the MCSD guide

Daily lesson plans generated from each weekly standard

Standards, essential questions, vocabulary, misconceptions, and resources preloaded

Daily assignments and assessments

Individual student gradebook

Automatic daily/weekly/quarterly averages

Standards-based mastery tracking

Missing-work tracking

Intervention and enrichment groups

Student profiles

9-week reports

Editable pacing, so teachers can move lessons when holidays or school events occur

Teacher notes and lesson-history records

I can also make the MCSD pacing guide data the initial curriculum, rather than making you manually enter all of those standards.

From August 2026, the EU AI Act introduces new transparency requirements around AI-generated content.

What I find more interesting than the regulation itself is what happens when these signals reach universities.

For text, watermark detection is unlikely to work like a binary “AI / not AI” test. The signal can be probabilistic, can weaken after editing, translation or rewriting, and human-written text may potentially trigger it as well.

So imagine a professor runs a student's paper through a detector and gets a 17% probability that a watermark is present.

What exactly should happen next?

Nothing? A conversation with the student? Additional assessment? At what probability does it become evidence of academic misconduct?

There is another problem I think is getting less attention: students may start adapting their writing to detectors.

One student I interviewed described a group assignment where they kept checking and rewriting paragraphs until eventually they were no longer writing in their natural style. The detector had effectively become another audience for the essay.

That seems like a bad direction for assessment. Students should be optimizing for reasoning, evidence and clarity, not for whether an algorithm considers their prose sufficiently “human.”

It also risks collapsing very different uses of AI into one category. There is a meaningful difference between using AI to organize material or reduce routine work and outsourcing the actual reading, synthesis and reasoning.

I’m curious how people working in higher education would approach this. Should watermark signals ever be treated as evidence on their own, or only as a reason to examine the student's actual understanding?

Full article and interview context: https://canvas-assistant.com/blog/ai-watermarks-are-coming-what-will-universities-do-with-them

I’ll be honest, I’m probably a bit behind on all these AI tools, but I’ve been hearing other teachers talk about using them for slides and I feel like I should probably start looking into it.

Right now I still build everything manually and it just takes way more time than it probably should.

I’m just curious what people are actually using that can take basic lesson content and turn it into decent slides without too much effort.

Imagine signing up for what you think is a $16 a month learning trial only to wake up to a sudden $218 charge on your card.
That exact nightmare happened to me with Brilliant.org. The free trial signup page made it look free 30 days experience, after the first month a regular monthly plan. But when my free trial ended my card got slapped with an $218 annual fee.
Panicked I logged in immediately to cancel. But their website trapped me in an endless glitch loop. The cancellation page literally would not work.
I messaged support within 24 hours explaining their own site broke. They did not care. They hid behind robotic script templates claiming payments are non refundable and only offered a partial refund.
I felt so cheated and helpless.

So I've been leaning on PPT for all my classroom visuals. But building everything from scratch every single week is eating up so much of my time. Feels like my slides could be way more fun to look at. The thing is that I don't have background in design.

If you're also a teacher like me, I wonder what do you use these days.

Hi everyone!

I'm currently tutoring Cambridge Science stage 7 and Florida Algebra for 2 different students. My workflow is: Using Chat GPT to create HW quizzes from the learning materials, copy those questions into a doc and grade them after the students have finished.

The problem is that copying from Chat GPT to a doc has too much friction (format is off), and grading by hand require alot of effort to analyze students' performance over time and across topics.

Is there any platform that combine AI quiz generating, allow students to do quiz directly on that platform, grade and track their performance over time and across topics?

I'm also curious about how teachers with bigger class size overcome this problem. I would love to hear from you.

Thank you so much for your time!

I wrote an article about how generative AI may be changing the learning process itself, based partly on interviews I conducted with students and a university lecturer.

What interested me most was the contradiction in their responses.

Students described genuinely valuable uses: accessibility support, explanations when teachers or parents are unavailable, practice questions, help structuring projects, and support with unfamiliar material.

But the same students also talked about thinking less, searching less, trusting AI too easily, and sometimes allowing it to do work they felt they should have done themselves.

One observation I did not explore in the article, because it was already getting rather long, was how reluctant some students were to talk openly about their AI use. My impression was that there was a degree of shame or discomfort around it.

Two things seemed to contribute to this. One was environmental guilt, which some students mentioned explicitly. The other was harder to define: an intuitive feeling that even when AI use did not clearly qualify as cheating, something about outsourcing too much of the cognitive work still felt wrong.

A lecturer I interviewed described another pattern: stronger, more reflective students can use AI to deepen their work, while students who have not yet developed independent academic habits may use it to substitute for that process.

The article asks whether AI should be understood not simply as another educational tool, but as a medium that increasingly participates in the cognitive process itself.

I’m the author, and I’m sharing it here because I’d be interested in how educators and students here are experiencing the same shift.

Where do you think the boundary lies between AI that supports learning and AI that substitutes for it?

Article: https://canvas-assistant.com/blog/the-medium-is-the-mind-what-ai-is-doing-to-education

Lecture videos are incredibly valuable. Khan Academy, Coursera, Udemy, YouTube, and others have already proven that.

The next natural step is to build AI that can create those videos on any subject, personalized for each learner and available in any language.

But it has to work properly. The videos need to be genuinely high quality, not AI slop. With the capabilities of today’s models, it feels like we’re ready to get there.

What do you think? What’s your take on this idea?

Hey everyone I'm currently working in founder's office role at campusx in India So I would love to connect with people working in Edtech field from other companies for knowledge sharing and networking

Looking for recommendations for a 75–80" commercial display for adult education classrooms.

No interactive/touchscreen features needed. It will mainly be used to display PowerPoint, PDFs, videos, websites, and instructor notes.

The most important requirement is reliable wireless screen sharing from Windows laptops.

A mobile stand/cart would also be helpful.

What brand/model would you recommend?