Aila vs TeachShare

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.

TeachShare is a teaching platform for planning instruction, creating materials, adapting them for students, and reviewing assessment results. Its pacing planner builds guides from adopted curriculum or standards, district calendars, and fixed dates, then adjusts them when schedules change. Teachers can describe a resource in plain language to get a standards-aligned draft, or upload PDF, DOCX, or PPTX files up to 50 MB to create scaffolded, enriched, translated, or accommodated versions. Formative assessment results are grouped by standard and question, helping identify weak areas and students who missed them. The free plan supports assigning and exporting through Google Classroom. TeachShare Copilot, a Chrome extension, reads articles, YouTube videos, and other pages and suggests three classroom ideas. Students do not need paid accounts, and there is no per-student charge. The free plan includes five resources a week; paid plans start at $15/mo (annual). School and district pricing is available by request.