Introduction

The field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has advanced significantly in recent years. With AI models capable of generating text, images, programming code, and more, their applications to the education sector are becoming increasingly useful. Generative AI has the potential to restructure the way we learn by providing outside-the-classroom guidance, personalized assistance, and creating engaging content for students. This article highlights twenty useful GenAI products that have the potential to enhance the education experience of students as well as educators.

ChatGPT

Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT offers various solutions to the educational needs of students and teachers. Students can leverage ChatGPT’s ability to generate human-like text to understand complex concepts in various fields through step-by-step simple guides. Furthermore, they can use ChatGPT’s writing ability to serve as inspiration for their coursework. 

Additionally, the excellent code-generation capability of ChatGPT allows students to generate, debug, and understand programming tasks. The chatbot can also serve as an invaluable tool for educators by helping them create engaging content, drafting quizzes, and offering insights on student assignments. By automating these tasks, teachers can spend less time on administrative tasks and more time understanding the needs of their students. 

ChatGPT offers a free plan for its GPT 3.5 model that is limited to text input/output. Users that require a more advanced version with support for various input methods and the ability to generate images can subscribe to ChatGPT’s “Plus” or “Team” version at $20 and $25 per month respectively.

Duolingo Max

Duolingo Max elevates the language-learning experience by taking advantage of advanced AI features. The platform was one of the earliest to partner with OpenAI to integrate their GPT-4 model. Here are some of the key features that it offers to students:

Personalized learning: The platform uses AI to analyze the user’s learning pace and strengths and weaknesses to create personalized learning paths.

Real-time Feedback: Using speech recognition technology, the platform offers real-time feedback on the user’s pronunciation and grammar exercises.

Roleplay: Students can interact with AI-powered personas to practice language in various scenarios and contexts.

Duolingo Max is currently priced at $29.99 per month or $168 per year.

Course Hero

Course Hero is an online learning platform that provides study resources, tutoring services, and tools to help students in their academic courses. They have added a feature called “Learn This Document” that offers GenAI-powered tools to help students better understand their course materials:

Content Summarization: Allows students to upload study documents and summarize the concepts along with key points to allow students to easily digest information.

Interactive Quizzes: Based on the uploaded document, the AI model can create interactive quizzes and questions that help students test their knowledge to identify if they are lacking in certain concepts.

Personalized Explanations: Students have access to personalized explanations, analogies, and examples to help them understand specific concepts that they are struggling with.

In addition to the “Learn This Document” feature, Course Hero has also launched an “AI Academy” course for educators that can help them understand techniques for using AI to improve learning.

Course Hero currently provides two membership tiers at the moment: Premier (priced at $29.95/month, $19.95/quarter, or $119.40/year) and Hero Trio ($34.95/month, $23.95/quarter, or $143.40/year). The Hero Trio membership offers access to additional tools like QuillBot and Symbolab.

Fetchy

Fetchy is a GenAI-powered platform designed to help educators by streamlining their tasks. Here are some of the key features it offers for educators:

Lesson Plan Generation: Fetchy can generate lesson plans across different topics instantly with clear goals, structure, and organization. In addition to this, it can create comprehensive questions based on any written text.

Generate Writing-Related Content: The platform offers expansive solutions for writing-related tasks including writing emails, creating newsletters, and writing articles/short stories. 

Streamlining Administrative Tasks: Fetchy further offers tools for managing administrative tasks such as the creation of permission slips.

Enhancing Teaching: By allowing educators to optimize their teaching methods and by giving them access to expert help with classroom-related challenges.

Overall, Fetchy is a useful tool for educators as it allows them to automate various teaching-related tasks which results in greater productivity and more time for attending to the students’ needs and achieving a work-life balance.

Fetchy is currently priced at $10 per month or $99 per year.

Coursera Coach

Coursera is an online platform that offers courses, certificates, and degrees from universities around the world. It was co-founded by Andrew NG, who is a prominent figure in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Therefore, it is no surprise that Coursera has announced a GenAI-powered feature called “Coursera Coach”. Here are some of the key features that it plans on offering:

Personalized Learning Mentor: Gives students access to a virtual coach that can answer questions and share feedback. In addition to this, it can also provide summaries of video lectures and direct students to related resources.

AI-Assisted Course Building: Helps educators streamline their course creation process by automatically generating course content such as the overall structure, assignments, readings, etc. 

Machine Learning Powered Translations: Expands the current courses’ accessibility by using machine learning to translate them into multiple languages.

Consensus

Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine that extracts, aggregates, and summarizes scientific results. It is particularly useful for users who are looking for quick answers and sources for literature review purposes. Here is an overview of the features it has to offer:

Extraction and Clustering of Findings: Consensus leverages AI and natural language processing to analyze, extract, and distill key findings from various research papers into summaries. 

Consensus Copilot: Like ChatGPT, the Copilot feature can answer questions and draft content for any query you might have.

Relevant Results: Consensus applies advanced fine-tuning to their results to rank them according to how well they address the user’s question to provide the best possible overview of the topic. Furthermore, it tags certain results with useful metrics to show if they are highly cited and come from high-quality journals.

Consensus Meter: The meter offers an aggregated result of “Yes/No/Possibly” answers to a yes/no question. This provides quick information to the user about how many research papers agree with a certain answer.

Study Snapshot: This feature shows all key information about a research paper like population, sample size, methods, conclusion, and discussion. 

Consensus offers a premium membership at $8.99/month for unlimited access to its GPT-4 summaries, Consensus meters, and Study Snapshots. However, they also offer a free membership that includes limited access to these features. Additionally, students are eligible for a 40% discount on the membership.

Brainly

Brainly is a homework-help platform that leverages the knowledge of students and experts worldwide to offer educational support across subjects. Brainly has also launched a GenAI learning companion for students. Here are some of the features it offers:

AI Tutoring: Offers personalized assistance in various subjects to students. This tool is designed to meet individuals' learning needs and uses the extensive Brainly database of moderated answers to ensure accuracy.

Scan and Solve Questions: This feature allows students to simply scan their questions and get step-by-step solutions with explanations to them. 

Test Preparation: Allows students to get prepared for tests through AI-generated study sets and questions based on documents the student uploads. However, this feature is not available yet but should be coming soon on their platform.

Enhance Expert Answers: Using AI, the platform enables students to expand the already existing expert answers to provide further details. 

Brainly is offers two membership tiers: Brainly Plus ($10/month) which provides access to personalized learning paths and test preparation, and Brainly Tutor ($29.00/month) which provides access to AI tutors.

Speechify

Speechify is a GenAI-powered text-to-speech tool that transforms written content into high-quality voice overs that can help students and educators learn information at a much faster rate than reading.

Multiple Language Support: Accommodates a variety of languages, which increases accessibility and usability across different users.

Customizable Voice Settings: Offers personalized voice speeds, personas, and speed to enhance user experience as well as understanding. 

Support for Third-Party Applications: In addition to reading PDF documents, it can read documents from a wide array of third-party applications. Examples include Gmail, WhatsApp, Messenger, Medium, the New York Times, Wikipedia, Google Docs, and much more. For a more detailed list of supported third-party applications, visit their website. 

Speechify can significantly speed up the pace at which users learn new content. In addition to this, it provides users with visual impairments access to material in an easy-to-absorb manner.

Speechify currently offers a free membership as well as a premium membership priced at $139/year for increased customizability.

Nolej

Nolej is an innovative AI platform that aids in the creation of interactive educational material. It is designed for educators to transform traditional learning content into engaging, interactive modules that can enhance the learning experience for students. Educators can simply upload or provide a URL to content (Text, Video, Audio, Websites, etc.) and the platform generates the coursework. Some of the key features that Nolej offers are:

Interactive Video Creation: Creates interactive videos that include quizzes, flashcards, pop-up texts, and games. 

Flashcards and Glossary Generation: Automatically create flashcards with sourced images as well as a glossary based on key concepts, terms, and their definitions.

Interactive Games: Creates crosswords, drag-the-word, and find-the-word games as well as interactive books based on the input content.

Question Sets: Generates various types of questions such as yes/no and MCQs to test students’ understanding of concepts.

Compatibility: Nolej is compatible with many popular learning management systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, Brightspace, Microsoft Teams, and more.

Nolej offers customized plans for schools and companies.

Explainpaper

Explainpaper is an AI-powered research tool that helps users understand complex research papers. It allows users to better understand research papers that may be confusing. Here are the key features it offers:

Upload Any Paper: Allows users to upload any research paper that they need help understanding. 

Explanations for Concepts: Allows users to highlight parts of the paper that they do not understand and receive detailed explanations in easy-to-understand terms.

Follow-up Questions: Allows users to ask questions about the explanation the platform generates. This enables users to maintain a conversation with the model to understand anything that they might still be struggling with.

Explainpaper is beneficial for students who are struggling with their course readings as well as for educators who need to present research findings to students in easy-to-understand terms.

Explainpaper currently offers a free membership as well as a “Plus” and “Pro” memberships that offers access to further features and better language models.

ChatPDF

ChatPDF is an AI tool that enables users to interact with PDF documents by providing a conversational interface. Users can upload any PDF document onto the platform and use the GenAI capability to gain further insights. Here are some key features:

Q&A with PDF Content: Users can engage in a dialogue with the PDF document to get answers as well as explanations about its content.

World Wide Language Support: Accepts PDFs in any language and is capable of chatting in any language as well.

Cited Sources: Includes references from the original paper when answering questions to facilitate the organization of insights and information.

ChatPDF offers a free membership with limited uploads and a “Plus” membership ($19.99/month or $139.99/year) that supports unlimited uploads with increased PDF size support.

CENTURY

CENTURY is an AI teaching and learning platform that is designed for parents and educators. Its approach has been proven to achieve ten times the national average grade improvement as well as a 30% improvement in students’ understanding of topics after using this platform. Here are some of the key features that the platform offers:

Personalized Learning Paths: Uses AI to create learning pathways for students by assessing their strengths and weaknesses.

Insightful Data: Provides educators with data on student performance which helps them better understand what a specific student might need help with.

Automate Tasks: Saves educator's time by automating tasks like grading assignments and planning. 

Home Learning: Supports students’ learning at home through their programs for primary, secondary, and higher education exam preparation - for example, SAT and GCSE. 

CENTURY offers customized plans for schools and institutions.

MathGPTPro

MathGPTPro is an AI-powered tool that is specifically designed for mathematics problems. It allows students to have access to instant help through their mobile devices. Some key features that it offers include:

Detailed Solutions: Allows students to upload math questions and receive detailed step-by-step solutions to the questions.

Multimodal input: Supports questions in different formats such as text and handwritten questions.

Interactive Chat: Allows students to chat with the AI model to further discuss the question as well as the solution for a better overall understanding of concepts.

MathGPTPRo offers a free tier as well as a “Pro” membership plan ($8.99/month, $22.47/season, or $71.88 per year) that increase the user’s quota of questions and better explanations.

Khanmigo

Khanmigo is Khan Academy’s GenAI-powered teaching assistant and tutor aimed to improve both the educators’ and students’ experience. It uses Khan Academy’s extensive content along with GPT-4 to deliver personalized learning opportunities and support. Here are some of the key features of Khanmigo:

Class Snapshots: Offers summaries of current class performance based on student data and recommends next steps.

Lesson Planning Assistance: Generates high-quality lesson plans based on the topic of interest. 

Writing Coach: Provides real-time feedback, debate, and collaboration to students to improve the quality of their content while teaching valuable lessons.

Interactive Learning Tools: Generates interactive elements such as quizzes to engage students and ensure strength of understanding.

Khanmigo stands out for its ability to not only provide answers to questions but also guide learners to find the answers themselves, hence developing their critical thinking skills. 

Khanmigo is currently priced at $4/month or $44/year.

Cognii

Cognii is an educational platform that is designed for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training sector. It includes a GenAI-based virtual learning assistant which accommodates personalized learning and improves overall user engagement. Some of the key features that Cognii offers include:

Personalized Learning: Offers adaptive, personalized learning that is based on assessments to ensure students get the correct level of coaching they need.

Personal Tutoring: Cognii offers a virtual tutor that is available at any time and promotes conversation through human-like interaction. Students can use this to explain and understand concepts conversationally.

Innovative Assessments: Offers real-time formative assessment and feedback. This is different from traditional assessments that focus on summative assessments as they focus more on continuous learning by highlighting knowledge gaps and providing key insights for both students and educators.

Cognii offers customized plans for schools and institutions.

Plaito

Plaito is an AI-powered learning platform that features various subjects for students to learn from. Here are some of the key features that it has to offer:

Personalized Tutoring: Offers one-on-one tutoring to students to bring deep understanding, confidence, clarity, and empowerment to students.

Detailed Answers: Leveraging GenAI, the tutoring service provides detailed answers to any questions that the student may ask. Instead of just giving the correct answer, the platform helps guide students to reach the solution themselves.

Productivity Tools: Helps students with essay writing, document summaries, and transcription of class lessons into easy-to-read notes for better understanding.

Plaito offers a free plan as well as a “Pro” plan that access to premium features without any use limit.

Pictory

Pictory is a video creation platform that aims to simplify the process of video production for those users who have little to no editing experience. It uses GenAI to create engaging videos. Here are the key features that Pictory offers:

Text to Video: Converts scripts into videos by selecting relevant visuals, adding music, and integrating all the elements within minutes. 

Content Refactoring: Allows for the transformation of content such as blog posts into videos as well as long videos into short clips for social media which can enhance content visibility and engagement.

Automatic Captions: Generates subtitles for the videos automatically, which, according to the platform, results in 12% longer view times.

Pictory can be a helpful tool for educators who need to convert textual information into an engaging, accurate, and fun video to allow for a better understanding of the content.

Pictory is offers two membership tiers: Starter ($29/month or $228/year) and Professional ($59/month or $468/year).

Curipod

Curipod is an AI-powered platform that is designed to generate interactive lessons on any subject. It offers a list of key features including:

AI-Generated Lessons: Utilizes GenAI to create engaging and interactive lessons that include polls, personalized feedback, podiums, word clouds, and drawings. These features engage the students and encourage participation throughout the lesson.

Customization: Allows educators to customize lessons with their own content that aligns with their teaching style and caters to the diverse needs of students.

Content Suggestion: Suggests various content (images, videos, etc.) to educators for them to include in the generated lessons to increase student engagement.

Curipod can help save educators time by aiding in the lesson-planning aspect of things. Utilizing this platform can help them create more engaging lessons and spend more time catering to the needs of their students.

Curipod is currently priced at $3,999 per school. For smaller institutions, Curipod offers cheaper and customized plans.

Grammarly

Grammarly is a platform that aids its users in making sure that the grammar in their writing content is correct. In addition to this, Grammarly has introduced GenAI-based tools that can further enhance their content. These include:

Composing: Allows users to enter a prompt and receive a high-quality draft of the writing piece.

Rewriting: Offers to generate new versions of texts according to the users’ needs in terms of tone, clarity, and length.

Personalization: Allows users to set up profiles that the AI model considers to generate content according to their context (for example, formal vs informal). 

Summaries: Provides summaries to content such as emails that include the key points along with the context.

Integration with Apps: Offers a large array of third-party applications that Grammarly can integrate with. These include Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and LinkedIn through plugins and browser extensions.

Overall, Grammarly is a great tool for content creators to use to not only ensure that their content uses correct grammar, but to also streamline and enhance the content creation process.

Grammarly offers a free tier with 100 AI prompts per month. Additionally, they offer a Premium plan ($12/month with 1000 prompts) and Business ($15/member/month with 2000 prompts per member).

Canva

Canva is a graphic design platform that allows users to create graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. In October 2023, Canva launched a suite of tools powered by GenAI called “Classroom Magic”. Here is a list of key features that Classroom Magic offers for students and educators:

Magic Write: Generates initial drafts, summarizes content, and rewrites content according to the user’s needs. 

Magic Animate: Adds animations to presentations and static images that can make lectures/presentations more creative and engaging.

Magic Grab: Extracts elements from images such as text for easy customization when imported into a Canva project.

Translation: Allows users to translate their projects into 100+ different languages to increase accessibility across the globe. In addition to this, it can help users learn and teach new languages.

The Classroom Magic feature is available in the Canva Pro membership, which is priced at $120 per year. For schools and institutions, Canva Pro offers customized plans.

Conclusion

In this article, we have analyzed twenty different GenAI products that are useful for both educators and students. As more research is done in the AI sector and innovations come to light, we will likely see more applications that aid educators and students with their coursework. However, it is also important to highlight the misuse of certain AI tools such as plagiarism or cheating on assignments. While AI can be beneficial when used responsibly, measures need to be set in place that support growth via the use of AI tools instead of exploitation that goes against academic integrity. Educators and institutions will need to adapt to the vast list of innovative applications that are rapidly being launched to ensure fair use of AI to fully realize their positive impacts on education.