What is SchoolAI?
Classroom-first AI platform built around monitored 'Spaces' - teacher-created AI experiences that students enter, with the teacher seeing every conversation live and receiving safety alerts. Includes Dot, a student companion, and Sidekick for teachers.
Giving students direct AI access with real-time teacher supervision.
Main features
- Spaces (teacher-designed AI activities with defined objectives)
- live teacher dashboard showing every student conversation in real time
- automated safety and wellbeing alerts escalated to staff
- Dot student companion that adapts to each learner
- Sidekick teacher assistant
- historical character simulations
- standards alignment
- district admin controls.
Practical use cases
- Letting a whole class interview a historical figure safely
- running a differentiated practice activity with live teacher visibility
- flagging a student in distress through content alerts
- teacher lesson prep.
Who is it for?
- K-12 teachers, school leaders and districts wanting supervised student AI access.
Pricing, free access & limits
Freemium for teachers; per-student district licensing
Plans described in the source
Free tier for individual teachers with limited Spaces and student seats. Paid teacher tier roughly $10-15/mo. School and district licensing quoted per student per year (commonly in the $8-20 per student range depending on scale and modules). Verify with sales - district pricing is negotiated.
Free plan
Yes - free teacher tier with limited Spaces and students.
Free trial
School pilots offered through sales; free tier serves individual teachers.
Usage limits to consider
Free tier limits the number of active Spaces and concurrent students. Full analytics, SSO and rostering require a paid school plan.
Confirm current plans and pricing ↗Strengths & tradeoffs
These points summarize the supplied research, rather than hands-on test results.
Strengths noted in the source
- The live monitoring dashboard is the strongest student-safety implementation in this category - teachers see every message as it happens
- wellbeing alerts have real duty-of-care value
- Spaces give structure that open chat lacks
- rostering integrations are solid.
Limitations to consider
- Less breadth of teacher-productivity tools than MagicSchool
- requires teacher setup time to design good Spaces
- per-student pricing gets expensive at district scale
- younger company with a shorter track record
- US-centric.
Platforms, languages & integrations
Platforms
- Web
- Google Classroom and Clever/ClassLink rostering
Languages
- Multilingual output; interface primarily English
API access
Enterprise integrations rather than a public API
Integrations and exports
- Google Classroom, Clever, ClassLink, Canvas, Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft 365 Education
Evaluation notes
The safety-alert system is the reason districts buy this rather than a general chatbot. Review the alert escalation workflow and data-retention policy carefully during procurement.
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Frequently asked questions
What is SchoolAI best for?
Giving students direct AI access with real-time teacher supervision.
What free access does SchoolAI offer?
Yes - free teacher tier with limited Spaces and students.
What limits should I check before using SchoolAI?
Free tier limits the number of active Spaces and concurrent students. Full analytics, SSO and rostering require a paid school plan.
Does SchoolAI provide an API?
Enterprise integrations rather than a public API
Sources & editorial notes
Based on the directory editor’s supplied research. The source does not provide a verification date for this row. Importing a record does not independently verify every product claim.
Additional references named in the research
schoolai.com/pricing; SchoolAI trust and safety documentation