AI Tools | BSU

AI Tools (new addition to the toolkit)

This category features recommended AI-powered platforms, utilized through their free plans, to support both instructional delivery and student learning. The primary goal is to safely and ethically integrate AI to foster essential skill development, creativity, and professional efficiency.

For Students: Building Foundational AI Literacy

These tools provide learners with safe, free, and age-appropriate opportunities to cultivate core AI literacy skills. Students will actively practice abilities such as crafting effective prompts and confidently interacting with AI applications. This engagement encourages creativity, critical thinking, and iterative experimentation within meaningful, curriculum-aligned contexts.

For teachers: Enhancing Instructional Design and Efficiency

For teachers, these platforms streamline instructional design and significantly boost professional efficiency. They effectively assist with lesson planning, curriculum structuring, content creation, and research-driven innovation. By directly supporting adaptive and personalized learning approaches, these tools prove invaluable for both maximizing dynamic classroom engagement and improving professional effectiveness.

Teacher Support AI Tools

These platforms help teachers save time on content creation, curriculum planning, and professional communication, allowing them to focus more on direct student interaction.

BAIR

In-house, custom-built platform: Generates tailored lesson ideas, quizzes, and presentations aligned with school curricula, streamlining resource creation.

Gemini (in Google Classroom)

Provides 30+ AI tools integrated into Google Classroom. Features Guided Learning (adaptive tutoring) and generates specialized content like rubrics, differentiated texts, vocabulary lists, and question prompts. Supports accessibility and multimodal learning with built-in audio functionality.

Custom Gems (Google Gemini)

Allows teachers to quickly build and deploy tailored AI assistants (called 'Gems') based on specific learning needs or tasks. These custom bots can serve as specialized subject-matter experts, quiz masters, or brainstorming partners for both teachers and students.

Gemini Notebook

Acts as a smart research assistant where teachers can upload learning materials to generate summaries, extract discussion questions, create study guides, and produce Audio and Video Overviews (podcast-style content summaries) and much more to support personalized learning and provide multimodal support/ differentiated content.

Brisk Teaching (Chrome extension)

Free Chrome/Edge Extension (20+ tools): Forever free for Educator package. This tool focuses on efficient resource creation, generating rubrics, presentations, leveled text, podcasts and feedback directly within Google Workspace tools (Docs, Slides, Classroom). It dramatically speeds up the creation and customization of curriculum-aligned resources.

Perplexity AI

An advanced research assistant that not only summarizes complex topics but also provides source-linked responses for fact-checking. It supports teachers in generating high-quality discussion prompts, enriching classroom resources, and exploring supplementary materials with greater reliability. Advisory: Outputs should be treated as starting points—always verify accuracy and adapt content before use.

FigMake

Figma Make is an AI-powered design and prototyping tool for teachers, allowing them to quickly generate app mockups, interactive prototypes, and visual designs using simple text prompts. It helps teachers visualize ideas, create instructional materials, and support design-thinking activities—enhancing creativity and planning in the classroom.

Google Vids (part of Google Workspace)

AI-powered video creation tool: Helps teachers quickly produce engaging video content, instructional summaries, and presentations, saving significant time on media production.AI-powered video creation tool: Helps teachers quickly produce engaging video content, instructional summaries, and presentations, saving significant time on media production.

Claude (Free Version)

Claude can assist with AI-driven writing, research, summarization, brainstorming, and content creation/ refinement tasks, making it a valuable addition for day-to-day professional use.

Khanmigo (for teachers Free)

AI-powered tutoring & planning assistant: Provides Socratic-style guided learning for students and supports teachers with curriculum-aligned lesson planning, lesson scaffolding, and student engagement strategies.

Student Use AI Tools

These AI tools help students build foundational AI literacy, including crafting effective prompts and engaging with AI applications. They encourage creativity, critical thinking, and experimentation, offering safe, free, and age-appropriate platforms where learners can practice, create, and explore AI-driven outputs connected to the curriculum. Students must critically engage with the AI's output and adapt it to their needs

NotebookLM (Google)

Students upload notes to generate study guides, quizzes, concept maps, and summaries, directly improving research skills, comprehension, and independent

Research & AI Literacy
Recommended for Middle & Above

Gemini Gems

Students can take advantage of pre-made Gems, like a “Career Guide” or “Brainstormer,” to explore new ideas and academic interests. For greater productivity and efficiency, especially in higher grades, they can also design their own Gems to handle repetitive tasks such as editing or writing assistance, while simplifying prompts with clear instructions, context, and style.

Productivity and Learning Enhancement
Recommended for Middle & Above

ChatGPT (Study Mode)

Helps students understand complex concepts through step-by-step guidance and interactive questioning, promoting problem-solving, reasoning, and self-directed learning.

Research & Guided Learning
Recommended for Upper Primary and above

Canva AI (Magic Studio)

Provides simple AI tools to quickly generate visually appealing content (images, videos, presentations) from text prompts, allowing students to focus on clear

Creativity & Design
Recommended for Primary and above

Scratch + AI Extension

Enables students to code interactive games and stories with AI features, enhancing computational thinking, logic, and AI reasoning skills in a visual environment.

Creativity & STEM Learning
Recommended for Primary – Middle

Google AutoDraw

Transforms rough sketches into polished digital illustrations, fostering visual creativity, digital art skills, and confidence in expressing ideas visually.

Creativity & Design (Art)
Recommended for Early Years (EY) – Primary

Google Earth + AI Projects

Students explore real-world datasets (climate, population, biodiversity) on maps, building geospatial thinking, data literacy, and inquiry-based research skills.

STEM & Geography
Recommended for Upper Primary & Above

⚠️ Guidance on the Safe Use of AI Tools: Do's and Don'ts

As the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and similar platforms becomes increasingly common across our schools and offices, it is important that these technologies are used responsibly. This guidance is intended to protect our data, our students and staff, and the reputation of Beaconhouse.

Guiding Principle

AI tools are intended to support and enhance professional tasks; they do not replace the professional judgment, expertise, or accountability of teachers and staff.

Mandatory Verification of AI Output

All AI-generated materials may contain errors, biases, or inaccuracies. Therefore, every output must be reviewed, verified, and adapted by the teacher to ensure:

Accuracy and Reliability: The information is factually correct and trustworthy.
Relevance: The material directly meets the specific learning objectives.
Alignment: Content adheres strictly to all curriculum standards.
Sensitivity: Consideration of cultural, linguistic, and individual student needs.

Policy and Compliance Requirements

Users must comply with all Beaconhouse policies relating to data protection, safeguarding, acceptable use, confidentiality, and information security when using AI tools.

Do's

Use AI tools to support drafting, summarising, brainstorming, lesson planning, and research where they improve the quality and efficiency of your work.
Treat AI-generated content as a first draft. Always review, verify, edit, and contextualise outputs before sharing, publishing, or using them in teaching and learning activities.
Use only Beaconhouse-approved or organisationally sanctioned AI tools when work involves institutional data or official business.
Verify facts, figures, references, and quotations generated by AI against reliable and authoritative sources before including them in any official document, report, communication, or classroom material.
Adapt AI-generated content to ensure it aligns with curriculum requirements, learning objectives, and the needs of students.
Report any suspicious AI-generated content, unusual system behaviour, security concerns, or potential data breaches to the IT Department promptly.

Don'ts

Do not enter or upload personal data relating to students, staff, or parents into public AI tools, including names, CNIC numbers, grades, health information, contact details, photographs, or any other personally identifiable information.
Do not share confidential organisational information, including financial data, contracts, human resource matters, strategy documents, examination materials, or internal communications, with any AI platform unless specifically approved.
Do not use AI-generated content in official Beaconhouse communications, reports, assessments, or public statements without appropriate human review and approval.
Do not assume AI outputs are accurate, unbiased, complete, or free from fabrication. AI systems may produce inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious information.
Do not use personal email addresses or personal accounts to access AI tools for work purposes where institutional accounts or approved platforms are required.
Do not rely on AI to make professional decisions regarding student assessment, safeguarding, disciplinary matters, or other areas requiring human judgment and accountability.

Thank you for helping us adopt AI technologies thoughtfully, ethically, and safely across Beaconhouse.

⚠️ Caution / Advisory Note on AI Tool Usage

These AI tools are intended to support and augment professional tasks, they do not replace the professional judgment of teachers.

Mandatory Verification of AI Output

All AI-generated materials may contain errors, biases, or inaccuracies. Therefore, every output must be reviewed, verified, and adapted by the teacher to ensure:

Accuracy and Reliability: The information is factually correct and trustworthy.
Relevance: The material directly meets the specific learning objectives.
Alignment: Content adheres strictly to all curriculum standards.
Sensitivity: Consideration of cultural, linguistic, and individual student needs.

Policy and Compliance Responsibilities

Guidance on the Safe Use of AI Tools: Do's and Don'ts

Guiding Principle

AI tools are intended to support and enhance professional tasks; they do not replace the professional judgment, expertise, or accountability of teachers and staff.

Do's

Use AI tools to support drafting, summarising, brainstorming, lesson planning, and research where they improve the quality and efficiency of your work.
Treat AI-generated content as a first draft. Always review, verify, edit, and contextualise outputs before sharing, publishing, or using them in teaching and learning activities.
Use only Beaconhouse-approved or organisationally sanctioned AI tools when work involves institutional data or official business.
Verify facts, figures, references, and quotations generated by AI against reliable and authoritative sources before including them in any official document, report, communication, or classroom material.
Adapt AI-generated content to ensure it aligns with curriculum requirements, learning objectives, and the needs of students.
Report any suspicious AI-generated content, unusual system behaviour, security concerns, or potential data breaches to the IT Department promptly.

Don'ts

Do not enter or upload personal data relating to students, staff, or parents into public AI tools, including names, CNIC numbers, grades, health information, contact details, photographs, or any other personally identifiable information.
Do not share confidential organisational information, including financial data, contracts, human resource matters, strategy documents, examination materials, or internal communications, with any AI platform unless specifically approved.
Do not use AI-generated content in official Beaconhouse communications, reports, assessments, or public statements without appropriate human review and approval.
Do not assume AI outputs are accurate, unbiased, complete, or free from fabrication. AI systems may produce inaccurate, misleading, or fictitious information.
Do not use personal email addresses or personal accounts to access AI tools for work purposes where institutional accounts or approved platforms are required.
Do not rely on AI to make professional decisions regarding student assessment, safeguarding, disciplinary matters, or other areas requiring human judgment and accountability.

Thank you for helping us adopt AI technologies thoughtfully, ethically, and safely across Beaconhouse.