Aila vs RockettAI

Aila is Oak’s free web-based AI lesson assistant for teachers. It creates editable, downloadable lesson packages containing one lesson plan, one slide deck, two quizzes, and one worksheet. Teachers can also request glossaries, tasks, and quizzes for Oak lessons or their own material. Lessons can be adapted by changing content, reading age, geographical context, tasks, and activities. Aila uses retrieval-augmented generation from Oak content written by teachers and checked by subject experts, with emphasis on the English national curriculum. Its FAQ says the system is built to use ChatGPT-4 while Oak evaluates other models. Usage is subject to request limits for lessons and resources, and fair-use limits may apply. Aila is in beta and under active development, so Oak advises checking generated material. It does not currently make images or diagrams, and results are weaker in some subjects, particularly STEM and modern foreign languages. Use requires a laptop or computer with internet access; mobile use is unsupported.

RockettAI is a web platform for teachers, school leaders, support staff and multi-academy trust teams. It provides task-specific tools for lesson sequences, worksheets, presentations, quizzes, feedback, reports, policies, briefings, recruitment and communications. Staff add teaching, learner or school context, generate a structured draft, then review, edit and save it. Linked workflows can reuse shared context to produce aligned plans, presentations, worksheets, assessments and related documents. GDPR Safe Mode is enabled by default. For supported AI requests, detected supported personal details are replaced with placeholders and restored after the response. RockettAI says pupil and school data are not used to train its models, and provider storage is disabled for supported calls where available. Safe Mode masks or pseudonymises information rather than irreversibly anonymising it, and does not itself make a school UK GDPR compliant. Generated work should be reviewed and adapted using professional judgement and school policies. The free plan allows 10 successful generations daily; Pro, school and MAT plans avoid that allowance.