SchoolAI’s main AI chat tool that students interact with are Spaces. Spaces act like chatbots, tutors, or text-based games, allowing students to explore topics in a dynamic way.
How it works
Set up: Create a Space or choose (and edit) one that’s already been created. The Space creator is where you write the prompts that guide the AI with how to respond to and engage with your students. The clearer and more specific your instructions, the better the AI will follow them. You can even create a space that follows specific Common Core standards. You can preview how the AI responds to your prompt before you give your students access, allowing you to refine and improve the Space to ensure everything works as you intend.
Share: When you’re ready, you’ll share the Space so your students can interact on their own devices. Students access the Space through a link or code that is shared through your preferred communication method, such as email, your school's learning management system (like Google Classroom), or directly in class. They can scan a QR code or use a link and password to jump in and start engaging with your Space.
Interact: Students engage with the Space, which typically involves text-based interactions. These can include role-playing scenarios, quizzes, or guided discussions with historical figures or fictional characters.
Features are designed with universal accessibility standards in mind, including options to change the language or use voice recording responses.
Monitor: You monitor student activity through sessions, receiving real-time insights into student engagement, sentiment, and learning outcomes. As you monitor the Mission Control dashboard, you’ll see both a big picture and the details of how things are going, with options to make changes to adjust the AI in real time.
As students interact, you’ll be given sentiment overviews, insight summaries, and learning outcome reviews to see if the material is clicking. You’ll be notified if students begin to use the AI inappropriately, or even if they say they’re feeling sad. The dashboard automatically groups students based on their interaction patterns and learning needs, enabling personalized instruction.
Adapt: Based on the insights gathered, you can tailor instructions using prompts to better meet students' needs as they go. Or you can adjust the Space for future use.
With Spaces, you’re always in control. You can make the Space as open or as rule-bound (like a game) as you’d like. We even set up a few different types of Spaces for you to explore:
Pulse: Bellringer or Pulse: Exit Ticket allows you to start or end class with an activity in a Space you create
Historic Figure chatbot allows students to ask questions to the person of your choice
Topic Explorer allows students to freely ask questions about the topic of your choice, at their own level
Sidekick is a student’s very own generalized AI assistant, where they can take advantage of AI’s powerful capabilities to explore various topics, answer questions, quiz themselves, and more
Pro tip: If you feel overwhelmed, or can’t get a sense of how it works, go to the Discover library and choose a random Space (you can use Chat with Abraham Lincoln as an example). Select Start preview and begin to interact with the Space, typing answers to the questions as if you were a student. As you begin to understand how it works from the student perspective, you can explore more Spaces or create your own.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are the benefits of using Spaces?
What are the benefits of using Spaces?
Spaces offer personalized, engaging learning experiences that can reinforce lessons and connect classroom content to real-world skills.
How do I use Spaces in the classroom?
How do I use Spaces in the classroom?
Your use is only limited by your imagination! You can create and share Spaces with students to enhance learning through interactive experiences, like historical role-playing or subject-specific activities.
You’ll create the Space on the SchoolAI website using prompts, then share it to your students through a link or code (through email, your school's learning management system like Google Classroom, or directly in class). Students will interact with the Space on their own devices as you monitor their activity on your SchoolAI dashboard.
Are Spaces aligned with Common Core educational standards?
Are Spaces aligned with Common Core educational standards?
Yes, many Spaces are designed to align with specific learning standards, which can be searched on the Discover page or inputted as you create a Space.
Can Spaces be used for different subjects?
Can Spaces be used for different subjects?
Absolutely! Spaces can be utilized for a wide range of subjects, from history and science to language arts and math.
Is there a cost to use Spaces?
Is there a cost to use Spaces?
There is no cost to use Spaces. On a free account, you’re limited to 75 student sign-ins per day. The rest of the Tools and Assistants are free and have unlimited use for teachers.