For Teachers
Bring AI Learning to Any Class
Plan lessons, differentiate, support students, and watch how they use AI — with real-time oversight, classroom controls, and your own teacher chat.
Real-time oversight
Classroom-scale controls
Teacher AI chat
What teachers use it for
Cover the work you already do
Planning, supporting students, and watching how they use AI — in one place. Not a separate lesson-plan suite.
Lesson planning
Use your teacher chat to draft a lesson outline, warm-up, or next-class move — separate from anything a student sees.
Brainstorming
Generate options for examples, hooks, and activities, then pick what fits the room. Otto is a thinking partner, not the lesson.
Differentiation
Take the same objective and adjust reading level, pace, or supports so more students can enter the work.
Student support
When a student is stuck, Otto can hint and question instead of handing over a finished answer they can submit.
Classroom activities
Turn a chat into a worksheet, practice set, or in-class prompt and push it to the class from the dashboard.
AI literacy
Teach students how to prompt, question outputs, and use AI responsibly — not only how to open a chatbot.
Monitoring student AI use
See the room as it happens: live conversations, archives, tool controls, and alerts when something needs you.
Academic integrity
Socratic, hint-first student help plus teacher visibility — so AI supports learning instead of finishing the work.
What students can do
AI literacy, by grade band
Prompting, structure, and hands-on creation — framed however works for your class.
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Grades K–2
Simple, guided prompts — building basic intuition for how AI responds
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Grades 3–5
Writing and improving prompts — seeing how wording changes results
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Grades 6–8
Structured prompting and formatting — plus recognizing AI-generated media like deepfakes
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Grades 9–12
Building reusable AI skills, verifying AI output, and real project work
The dashboard
Feature by feature
Everything in the teacher dashboard is built for classroom scale — not one student at a time.
Manage 20–30+ students at once
Batch controls and quick actions built for classroom scale. Turn tools on or off for a whole class in one action instead of student by student.
Flagged content alerts
Otto automatically notifies you when a conversation includes concerning content — self-harm language, bullying, attempts to bypass academic integrity settings — so you’re not relying on catching it by reading every transcript yourself.
Conversation archives
Every student conversation is stored and searchable, meeting the record-keeping expectations schools already have for other classroom tools.
Time-based restrictions
Otto is only accessible during the windows you set — school hours, class periods, or specific assignments. Students can’t access it before homeroom or after the bell if you don’t want them to.
Usage limits & quiet hours
Teachers and admins can set message/token caps and quiet hours for a class, and override for an individual student. Defaults for everyone; custom limits when one student needs different rules.
Content filtering tiers
Elementary and high school students don’t need the same settings. Filtering tiers adjust by grade level automatically, and you can adjust further per class.
Personalized tool access
Choose which of Otto’s tools your students can use — including code, image generation, and web search — rather than giving blanket access to everything by default.
Tasks
Teachers and parents create quizzes, homework, and similar assignments, then assign them to a whole class or one student.
Teacher AI chat
Lesson planning, brainstorming, and materials — in your own chat
Teachers get a separate AI chat, distinct from the student product, for lesson planning, brainstorming, and differentiation. Draft a worksheet, adjust the same activity for different readers, put together a slide set, or work through an explanation before class — then turn what you built into an artifact and share it with the class.
A private teacher chat
Your own space to plan, draft, and think out loud with AI, separate from anything a student sees.
Build artifacts
Turn a chat into a reusable piece of material: a worksheet, slide deck, study guide, or practice set.
Share directly to students
Push an artifact to your whole class or an individual student from the dashboard — without exporting or re-uploading elsewhere.
Getting started
What week one looks like
A simple path from first setup to a classroom that runs itself — with you still in control.
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Set up your class
Add students, set grade-level filtering, and choose which tools are on for the room.
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Set your hours
Decide when Otto is available: class periods only, school hours, or a custom window.
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Turn on alerts
Flagged content notifications go to you by default — so concerning moments surface without reading every chat.
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Watch the first week
Use the conversation archive to see what students are actually asking, then adjust tool access or filtering from there.
FAQ
Teacher questions, answered
Direct answers about the dashboard, controls, and your own AI chat.
Next step
See the teacher dashboard in action
Request a demo to walk through live oversight, classroom controls, archives, and your own AI chat for building materials.