Who can see what they're doing?
For Teachers
AI for Teachers
Plan lessons. Support students. Teach AI literacy. See how students are using AI — all from one teacher dashboard.
Most AI tools help teachers create things. HeyOtto also gives teachers visibility and control over what happens when students use AI.
Real-time oversightClassroom-scale controlsTeacher AI chat
Why teachers use HeyOtto
AI in the Classroom
AI for educators usually starts with lesson planning, differentiation, brainstorming, tutoring, writing, and projects. The harder question in AI education is what happens when students start using AI themselves.
01 02 What happens when AI gives an answer instead of helping them think?
03 Can you control which tools students can access?
04 How do you teach students to question AI instead of simply trusting it?
HeyOtto gives teachers a way to use AI and teach students how to use it — without giving up classroom visibility and control.
In the classroom
How Teachers Use HeyOtto
What a teacher actually does with HeyOtto, before, during, and after class.
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Before class
A teacher uses the teacher chat to:
brainstorm lesson ideas
create discussion questions
differentiate a reading
create practice activities
prepare examples
build a worksheet
adapt material for different reading levels
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During class
Students can use Otto to:
ask questions
work through difficult concepts
brainstorm
practice
get hints
explore ideas
work on projects
learn how AI responds to different prompts
And the teacher can see what's happening from the dashboard.
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After class
Teachers can:
review conversations
see where students struggled
review flagged activity
adjust controls
identify patterns
create follow-up activities
The classroom difference
Academic Integrity & AI
Why not just give students a general AI chatbot? General-purpose tools weren't built as AI tools for schools, or around the needs of a K–12 classroom.
A classroom needs more than an AI that can answer questions.
Teachers need:
Student visibility
See how students are interacting with AI.
Classroom controls
Set rules and access at the class level.
Academic integrity support
Help students work through problems rather than simply handing them finished answers.
AI literacy
Teach students how to prompt, question, verify and responsibly use AI.
Teacher workflow
Use AI yourself for planning, differentiation and materials.
HeyOtto brings those pieces together in one classroom environment.
What we think schools get wrong about AI
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Giving students AI access isn't the same as teaching AI literacy.
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Blocking every AI tool doesn't prepare students for a world where AI is everywhere.
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AI shouldn't replace the teacher.
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Academic integrity isn't solved by an AI detector.
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Teachers need visibility without having to read every conversation.
Classroom AI Controls
AI classroom tools for hours, limits, filtering, and which tools students can open — control without becoming the AI police.
See what matters
Real-time alerts
Conversation archives
Student activity
Set classroom boundaries
Time windows
Usage limits
Content filtering
Tool permissions
Support learning
Socratic guidance
Hints
Tasks
Differentiation
From first login to your first AI lesson
How it works
- 01
Create your class
Add students and establish classroom settings.
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Set your boundaries
Choose grade-level filtering, tools, usage limits and available hours.
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Teach
Students use Otto for learning, questions, projects and AI literacy activities.
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Stay in the loop
Alerts and conversation history help you understand how AI is actually being used.
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Adjust
Change tools, hours, or limits once you see how the class actually uses AI.
What teachers use it for
AI Tools for Teachers
AI teaching tools for 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 for Students
AI literacy is prompting, questioning, and hands-on creation — not only opening a chatbot.
AI Literacy by Age
AI for students looks different by age. Frame prompting, structure, and project work however fits the 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
Student AI Safety
Student AI safety at classroom scale — alerts, archives, limits, and filtering, 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.