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AI Tools for Educators

Full tutorials, fee breakdowns and school-fit assessments for the AI tools teachers actually use

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 8 min read

Nine AI Tools Hong Kong Teachers Keep Asking About in 2026: What Each Is Really For, What It Costs, and Whether Students May Use It

Gemini, Gamma, Edpuzzle, Khanmigo, Perplexity, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and Base44 — nine tools with nine entirely different purposes. Using official September 2026 sources, this hub sets out who each one is really built for, what the free tier allows, whether students are permitted under the terms, a which-tool-for-which-job decision list, and the four things no general-purpose tool will ever do for a school.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Base44 for Teachers: The Complete Guide (September 2026) — Build a School Web App by Describing It, and the Credit Trap

Base44 is Wix's vibe-coding app builder, letting teachers create an app with a database, login and hosting without writing code. This guide covers the September 2026 official plans (Free, Starter US$16/month, Builder US$40, Pro US$80, Elite US$160, all annual), the difference between message credits and integration credits, the age-13 minimum, and a full walkthrough building a Primary 5 reading-log tracker.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 11 min read

Claude Code for Teachers: The Complete Guide (September 2026) — Pricing, the 18+ Policy and Auto-testing Student Code

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool, included with every paid Claude plan and unavailable on Free. This guide covers the September 2026 official prices (Pro US$20/month, Max from US$100, Team standard seats US$20–25 per user, Enterprise US$20 per seat plus usage), how the rolling five-hour usage window works, what Claude's 18-and-over policy means for pupils, and a full walkthrough building an auto-test harness for a Form 6 ICT class.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 11 min read

Cursor for Teachers: The Complete Guide (September 2026) — Pricing, the 18+ Rule, and Marking Student Code

Cursor is Anysphere's AI code editor. As of September 2026 the plans are Hobby free, Pro US$20/month, Pro+ US$60, Ultra US$200, Teams US$40/user and Teams Premium US$120/user. This guide covers Composer 2.5 pricing, the Cursor Token Rate surcharge on Teams, why the 18-and-over terms rule out student accounts, and a full walkthrough of marking a Form 3 ICT class's Python homework.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Edpuzzle for Teachers: Flipping a Junior Science Lesson, and the Truth About the 20-Activity Cap

Edpuzzle is free for teachers, but the free Basic plan stores only 20 activities. This guide flips a Secondary 2 science lesson step by step, covering auto-generated questions, Autograde, Supported Assignments and anti-cheating settings, then breaks down what Pro Teacher and Pro School really cost, the parental consent duty, and the fact that there is no Traditional Chinese interface.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Gamma for Teachers: A Parents' Evening Deck in 15 Minutes, and the Age-16 Clause

Gamma meters AI usage in credits rather than a flat monthly allowance, and a free account gets 400 one-off credits that never refresh. This guide builds a Hong Kong parents' evening deck step by step, breaks down how credits actually burn, works out the per-seat cost across 100 staff, and flags that Gamma's terms require users to be at least 16.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Google Gemini for Teachers: A Full Tutorial, Workspace for Education, Gemini in Classroom and the Real Bill

Gemini for Education is included at no cost in every Google Workspace for Education edition, but the Gemini sidebar inside Docs and Gmail needs the Google AI Pro for Education add-on at US$20 per user per month, and that add-on is restricted to users aged 18 and over. This guide walks a Hong Kong teacher through building a differentiated Chinese worksheet, then breaks down what 100 staff licences really cost.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Khanmigo for Hong Kong Teachers: The Teacher Tools Are Free Here, the Student Tutor Cannot Be Bought

Khanmigo for Teachers is now free to educators in more than 180 countries and territories and Hong Kong qualifies, but the paid Khanmigo learner and parent subscriptions at US$4 a month or US$44 a year are officially available only in the United States. This guide builds a Secondary 1 maths hint ladder with the teacher tools, reviews what pupils have been working on, and states plainly what a Hong Kong school can and cannot do.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 11 min read

OpenAI Codex for Teachers: The Complete Guide (September 2026) — Plans, Credit Pricing and Building a Classroom Utility

Codex is OpenAI's agentic coding product — a terminal CLI, IDE extension, cloud tasks and an iOS app — included with ChatGPT Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise. This guide covers the September 2026 official prices, the credit rate card, the difference between GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 Astra usage, why the free US K-12 teacher plan does not reach Hong Kong, and a full CLI walkthrough for building a classroom utility.

AI Tools for Educators 11 September 2026 12 min read

Perplexity AI for Teachers: A Sourced Project Research Flow, and Teaching Pupils to Check Citations

Every Perplexity answer carries its sources, which makes it the best available tool for teaching verification. The Comet browser is free, Pro is US$20 a month or US$17 a month billed annually, and Enterprise Pro is US$40 per seat per month. This guide runs a Hong Kong Citizenship and Social Development project, supplies a citation-checking sheet for pupils, and flags the age-13 clause and the absence of teacher monitoring.

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