Aila vs TeacherMatic

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.

TeacherMatic is a web platform of AI-assisted generators that produce educational, organisational and governance resources from a topic or task. Its library has more than 150 generators covering teaching, leadership, administration, HR, marketing and quality assurance. Outputs can include lesson plans, activities, reports, communications, policies, compliance documents and promotional materials. The intended users include teachers, leadership teams, quality officers, HR staff, administrators and other education roles. TeacherMatic supports LTI 1.1 and 1.3, with Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard named as learning management system examples. Export choices include Word, PDF, Google Drive, Google Classroom, Google Forms, Moodle GIFT, Canvas QTI, Kahoot, Wayground, Blooket, Gimkit, Blackboard, Brightspace and Vevox. Individual and organisational users can authenticate with Microsoft or Google. The free plan allows 15 generations per day for the first week, then 5 per day; Professional costs £6.99 a month, including 20% VAT. TeacherMatic warns generated content may be inaccurate and should be checked. It says user content is not used to train external large language models.