What's your best feature update for the start of the 2026/27 academic year?
I wrote an article on mine, I'd love to hear what you're excited about.https://aieducator.tools/articles/10-back-to-school-ai-updates-for-educators
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If I had to pick just one update for my classes this September, it’s hands down Contextual Gemini in Google Classroom. Teaching both Spanish and Computer Science, my biggest headache with AI has been stopping students from either getting confused by out-of-scope answers or just copy-pasting code solutions. This feature locks the AI strictly to whatever files I’ve uploaded for a lesson. For...
I agree! The chrome extension for both Diffit and SchoolAI make huge difference in real-time decision making for actionable use of formative data!
Not really a feature per se, but I've been using ChatGPT to create an Instructor Guide (well, in its words, an "Instructor Excellence Guide") for one class and had it help me clean up a shell that I inherited for another. For the first class, I fed in all of the PowerPoints and originally asked it to give me some filler material to make the class last more than 30 minutes. After mentioning UDL...
The new Chrome extension for Diffit is one I see me using a lot and the inclusion of Kahoot into ChatGPT will make life easier.
The standout is Gemini embedded directly inside Google Classroom. The important shift isn’t simply “more AI”. It’s that AI is becoming grounded in the learning environment I have designed. Gemini can work from the class context, assignment instructions and teacher-selected curriculum materials, then help students generate study guides, quizzes, flashcards and audio overviews. It moves us away...
Wish I could put students on it. :-( Still not allowed
I love the updates to Gemini Notebook and the ability to make copies, where students can truly work from scaffolded starting points and then personalize them to their needs!