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Hutton Grammar School AI Utilities Hub

Outsource the doing, not our thinking.

Teacher Guide & Responsible Use

Quick ideas, workflows and safe-use guidance for getting the most from the Hutton AI Utilities Hub.

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Planning

Plan lessons and structure curriculum resources. Note - Our preferred approach at Hutton is to avoid reliance on AI generated full lesson plans.

10 tools

Starters, Plenaries & AfL

Quick checks, hinge questions and response systems. Use with HGS colour response cards.

8 tools

Adaptive Teaching & Accessibility

Make tasks clearer, more scaffolded and more accessible.

7 tools

Cover, Referral & Catch-Up

Support pupils working away from the normal lesson.

3 tools

Resource Creation

Create visual and interactive classroom resources.

10 tools

Recommended external AI sites

Useful external tools for teachers who want to explore beyond the Hutton utilities.

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NotebookLM

Create mind maps, audio, slide decks, video, and flashcards.

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MagicSchool AI

Recommended. Create a free account and select the teacher tools menu.

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Diffit

Create differentiated readings, summaries, vocabulary and questions from topics, links or pasted text.

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Chalkie

Generate lesson slides, worksheets and activities from topics or existing resources.

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Brisk Teaching

Browser-based AI support for creating materials, feedback, quizzes and adapted resources.

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Curipod

Create interactive, teacher-led lessons with writing, discussion and classroom participation.

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Overleaf

Online LaTeX editor for polished scientific, mathematical and academic documents.

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Teachmate AI

More UK-focused. Useful teaching tools, though free resources may be limited.

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Teachermatic

Worth a look for teacher resource generation, but free resources are limited.

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Khanmigo

AI support from Khan Academy. Worth a look, but access and free resources may be limited.

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Khan Academy AI tools

Explore Khan Academy's AI learning and teacher-support tools.

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Aila

Oak National Academy's AI lesson assistant for teachers.

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Oak National Academy

Curriculum resources, lesson materials and AI-assisted teaching tools.

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Microsoft Copilot

Excellent all-round AI assistant. Included with many Microsoft education subscriptions.

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ChatGPT

General-purpose AI for planning, teaching resources, coding and image generation.

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Claude

Particularly strong for long documents, reports and detailed writing tasks.

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Gamma

Create presentations, webpages and visual documents from prompts.

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Wayground

Create quizzes and retrieval activities, including AI-assisted generation. Formerly Quizizz.

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Canva

Create classroom graphics, posters, presentations and AI-generated images.

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Teacher guide

How to use the utilities: open a utility, complete the form, generate a prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Copilot or Claude, then paste the structured response back into the utility when requested.

1. Configure
2. Copy prompt
3. Paste into AI
4. Format output

Recommended starting points

  • Planning a whole lesson: use Lesson Package Generator.
  • Creating a printable topic summary: use Knowledge Organiser or Glossary Generator.
  • Checking understanding: use Hinge, True/False, SRS or Plenary Generator.
  • Supporting accessibility: use Reading Age, TTS, Instruction Simplifier or Scaffold Generator.
  • Student absent or removed from class: use Catch-Up, Cover Work or Referral Work Generator.

Tips for best results

Upload source documents first.
For catch-up, cover, TTS and reading-age tasks, upload slides or worksheets to the AI chat before pasting the generated prompt.
Paste only the JSON when possible.
Most utilities can cope with extra text, but copying only the JSON response is usually more reliable.
Edit before downloading.
Most final previews allow direct editing. Downloaded versions remove editing and are cleaner for sharing.
Check accuracy.
AI output should be checked by the teacher, especially for subject knowledge, hyperlinks, mark schemes and safeguarding-sensitive content.