SchoolAI Platform

What it is

SchoolAI (schoolai.com) is an AI platform built specifically for K-12 education, founded by Caleb Hicks. The premise: give every student a personalized AI learning companion while giving teachers real-time visibility into what students are asking, where they struggle, and where understanding breaks down.

Key features:

• Dot — a student-facing AI assistant that adapts to individual learning styles, supports 60+ languages, and is scoped and supervised by the teacher. It is not a general chatbot.
• Spaces — 200,000+ premade interactive lesson environments teachers can assign; students join with a simple code.
• Mission Control — a teacher dashboard showing in real time what students are asking, where they struggle, and gaps in understanding.
• Content tools — lesson planning, rubric, and assessment builders, plus a browser extension for Google Docs; LMS integrations and SSO on higher tiers.
• Safety — FERPA and COPPA compliant, 1EdTech certified, SOC 2 certified; conversations are monitored for concerning signals such as bullying or abuse and flagged for the teacher.

Pricing

• Free plan for individual educators — the way most teachers start.
• Team plan around $1,270/year.
• Organization/district plans via custom quote.

One friction point: paid tiers typically require requesting a demo or talking to sales, which slows things down for individual teachers who just want to try the paid features.

Honest takeaway

SchoolAI is the best fit for teachers and schools that want students interacting with AI directly under supervision — that supervised-student-use problem is what the whole platform is designed around. It is less suited as a general lesson-drafting tool: for plain writing tasks like parent emails, worksheet drafts, or quiz keys, a general chatbot (ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) is still the faster, simpler choice.

Mini-tutorial: getting started with SchoolAI

1. Sign up for the free educator plan at schoolai.com.
2. Create your own Space or pick one from the 200,000+ premade environments.
3. Set the guardrails: write the Space’s instructions — what the assistant should do, which topics are off-limits, and how it should respond when a student is stuck.
4. Share the student join code with your class.
5. Watch Mission Control during and after the session to see student questions, struggles, and gaps — then use that to plan tomorrow’s lesson.

Prompt: configure a Space’s instructions

Prompt: analyze Mission Control insights