Tool Library
Before exploring the library, we recommend reviewing our quick guide on evaluating AI tools. While we curate these third-party resources for your convenience, we encourage you to evaluate each one to see what best fits your unique goals.
Before exploring the library, we recommend reviewing our quick guide on
How to Evaluate an AI Tool: A 5-Step Guide
Before diving into the tools, take a moment to think critically about how each one might serve your needs. This simple checklist can help:
Start with the problem
What challenge are you hoping this tool will solve? Make sure it’s clearly aligned with your goals.
Understand what it does—and doesn’t do
Explore the tool’s features, read through examples, and test it out if possible. Knowing its limits is just as important as knowing its strengths.
Check for quality
Do the results meet your standards? Look at accuracy, clarity, and how useful the outputs are for your specific context.
Think ethically
Consider how the tool handles bias, privacy, and transparency—especially if it touches on sensitive data or decisions.
Weigh the costs and support
Look at pricing tiers and any limits on free use. Make sure there’s accessible support if you run into issues.
* This was adapted from resources provided by College MatchPoint.
Large Language Models
A powerful language model that can generate human-like text on a wide range of topics, making it useful for creating educational materials and answering student questions.
Google’s AI-powered search tool that can provide concise and accurate answers to complex queries, helping students and educators find relevant information quickly.
An AI assistant developed by Anthropic that can engage in natural language conversations, making it useful for tutoring and answering student questions.
An AI-powered platform that can generate personalized learning experiences, providing students with tailored content and feedback based on their individual needs.
An open-weight AI platform designed to deliver high-performance language understanding and reasoning at lower computational cost. It was designed by Chinese developers at a fraction of the cost of other models.
An AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, integrated with X, designed to provide conversational responses with a distinctive, sometimes edgy personality.
AI Presentation and Collaboration Tools
A presentation tool that uses AI to help create presentations, making it easier for educators to develop engaging and visually appealing learning materials.
A presentation tool that helps you quickly build decks by generating draft slides, rewriting text, and creating custom images from prompts.
Uses AI to create custom presentations and documents in seconds.
Turns your text into images so you can share your ideas visually.
A free tool that creates images from your text.
Transforms text prompts into highly detailed and artistic visuals, often used for creative and conceptual design.
Creates study guides, podcasts, and summaries based on sources you choose.
Instantly summarizes YouTube videos into concise overviews.
A music generator that creates 30-second songs in various styles based on text prompts.
An online video platform for hosting interactive workshops, trainings, classes, and meetings.
Content Creation Tools
A powerful free AI image generation tool.
A powerful AI image generation tool.
Offers generative voice creation capabilities, allowing educators to create custom audio content for their courses or educational materials.
Can create a podcast from documents or websites.
Offers powerful video editing and creation tools.
OpenAI’s video generation model that turns text prompts into high-quality, realistic video clips, enabling creators to produce complex, dynamic scenes with detailed motion and coherence.
Note-Taking Tools
A powerful transcription and collaboration tool that automatically converts spoken language into written text, making it easy to capture, review, and share meeting notes and conversations.
Transcribes and summarizes recorded audio and phone calls in any language using AI.
Takes raw meeting notes and makes them useful. Available for Mac only.
College-Specific AI Solutions
The one-stop solution to college apps.
Uses AI to help with the college essay writing process. Great tool for college counselors who work with students in the essay writing process. Helps provide essay reviews.
Sign up for the Making Waves Chatbot and see how personalized AI coaching through text can help answer student questions immediately.
Assists counselors in crafting effective recommendation letters.
Helps students brainstorm college essay topics, outline essays, and edit writing using AI.
AI Tool Directories
This list has been challenging to keep up to date since it was created in early 2023, but we’re leaving this link here for now in case anyone still finds it useful.
Describes itself as “the largest AI tools directory, updated daily,” with filters and search functionality.
Large directory with filters; unclear who maintains this list.
An Airtable started in the May meeting of the AI in Education group.
Detailed listing generated and maintained by Ithaka S+R as part of their Making AI Generative for Higher Education project; they also wrote a blog post discussing the document in detail.