Lesson Planning Freemium

Eduaide.AI

Comprehensive platform with 120+ tools grounded in educational research and proven pedagogical methods. Every tool is mapped to evidence-based instructional strategies through internal Knowledge Graph. Features Erasmus AI teaching assistant for conversational tool use.

About Eduaide.AI

Eduaide.AI is a comprehensive platform with 120+ tools grounded in educational research and proven pedagogical methods, specifically designed by teachers for teachers. Unlike generic AI assistants, every tool in Eduaide's suite is mapped to evidence-based instructional strategies through an internal Knowledge Graph, ensuring outputs align with sound educational practice rather than just producing plausible-sounding text. For ESL teachers, Eduaide's strength is its ability to generate differentiated materials across multiple proficiency levels, with built-in language and complexity controls that account for varying English abilities. The platform’s “Enhancer” button helps teachers craft clearer, more structured prompts, significantly reducing the learning curve compared to open-ended AI tools like ChatGPT. What makes Eduaide particularly valuable in ESL contexts is its template-driven approach that guides users through specific teaching tasks, from creating vocabulary exercises to designing scaffolded reading comprehension activities, using drop-down menus for grade level, subject, tone, and language accessibility. This structured interface removes the blank-page problem by giving teachers purpose-built tools for common ESL needs such as leveling text complexity, generating cloze activities for grammar practice, or creating visual supports for vocabulary instruction. Teachers regularly report cutting planning time from over 30 minutes to around 10–15 minutes per lesson while producing a wider range of differentiated activities than they could create manually. The platform features Erasmus AI, a conversational teaching assistant that understands workspace context and can answer follow-up questions about generated materials, suggest modifications for specific student needs, or explain the pedagogical reasoning behind tool recommendations. This blend of structured templates and flexible AI dialogue creates a hybrid experience that supports both novice users who need guidance and experienced educators who want to refine ideas quickly. Eduaide’s multi-language support (15+ languages) allows ESL teachers to generate content in students’ first languages for scaffolding or build bilingual materials that connect home language with English acquisition. While the free tier limits users to 15 generations per month, the Pro plan ($5.99/month or $49.99/year) offers unlimited access to all tools, making it one of the most affordable all-in-one AI platforms for individual teachers.

Key Features

Pedagogically grounded tool suite mapped to research-backed strategies
Erasmus AI teaching assistant understanding workspace context
Flexible modular tool architecture working across grade levels
Language and complexity adjustment for diverse learners
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and scaffold outputs to fit any instructional style

Use Cases for ESL Teachers

• Differentiated Reading Comprehension at Multiple Levels: Use Eduaide’s text-leveling tools to take a single authentic text (news article, short story excerpt) and automatically generate three versions at different CEFR levels (A2, B1, B2), each with appropriately scaffolded comprehension questions. This lets multilevel classes engage with the same core content while reading at the level that matches their individual language proficiency. • Grammar Practice with Contextualized Cloze Activities: Generate cloze (fill-in-the-blank) exercises targeting specific grammar structures (present perfect, passive voice, conditionals) within thematically relevant paragraphs rather than isolated sentences, ensuring students practice forms in meaningful contexts that build both accuracy and fluency. • Vocabulary Instruction with Visual and Linguistic Scaffolds: Create vocabulary introduction materials that include definitions in both English and students’ first language (using the multi-language features), example sentences at the right level of complexity, and prompts for visual representation activities to support dual-coding and deeper vocabulary learning. • Assessment Creation with Built-In Accommodations: Design formative and summative assessments using Eduaide’s quiz and test builders, then use accessibility options to automatically generate modified versions with simplified language, visual supports, extra processing-time cues, or reduced cognitive load for students with learning differences or lower English proficiency. • Lesson Planning for Mixed-Proficiency Classrooms: Use Eduaide’s lesson plan generator to create a base unit plan, then apply its differentiation tools to build tiered activities where beginners focus on vocabulary and simple structures, intermediate students work on complex sentences and reading comprehension, and advanced learners engage in analysis and production tasks, all within the same thematic unit, streamlining planning while meeting individual learning needs.

Pros

• Pedagogically grounded tools reduce AI hallucination risks: Every tool is mapped to research-based instructional strategies through Eduaide’s Knowledge Graph, so outputs are shaped by established best practices rather than raw text prediction. For ESL teachers, this helps ensure the generated materials align with second-language acquisition principles instead of producing linguistically correct but instructionally weak activities. • Template-driven interface eliminates the AI learning curve: Instead of requiring teachers to craft effective prompts from scratch, Eduaide provides structured templates with drop-down menus for grade level, subject, tone, and accessibility options. This guided setup lets ESL teachers generate high-quality materials right away without needing prompt-engineering expertise, making AI accessible to educators with a wide range of technical comfort levels. • Multi-language support enables L1 scaffolding strategies: Generate content in 15+ languages, allowing ESL teachers to create bilingual materials where key concepts are explained in students’ first language alongside the English versions. This supports comprehensible-input principles and helps newcomer students access grade-level content while their English develops, preventing gaps between linguistic proficiency and conceptual understanding. • Dramatic time savings without sacrificing differentiation quality: Teachers consistently report reducing planning time by 50–66% (from over 30 minutes to around 10–15 minutes per lesson) while simultaneously producing more differentiated materials than they could create manually. For ESL teachers juggling multiple proficiency levels, this efficiency shift makes individualized instruction practically achievable instead of something they only aspire to.

Cons

• Limited in-platform editing tools force external workflows: Eduaide’s workspace editing features are basic and somewhat clunky, with limited formatting options and no real collaborative functions. ESL teachers often need to export materials to Google Docs or PDF for final polishing, which adds an extra step and disrupts smooth iteration. This becomes especially noticeable when adding visual supports or adjusting spacing for readability, both essential needs in ESL instructional design. • Free tier’s 15-generation monthly cap is restrictive for full-time teachers: Although the paid tier is inexpensive, the free version’s limit of 15 generations per month means a teacher planning for multiple classes would run out almost immediately. For ESL teachers experimenting with differentiated materials across several proficiency levels, often producing three or four versions of each activity, the free tier becomes impractical and pushes users toward upgrading before they’ve fully evaluated whether the platform fits their specific teaching needs. • Lacks features available in competing platforms: Compared to competitors like MagicSchool, Eduaide doesn’t support document upload (so it can’t analyze student work samples), lacks image-generation tools for creating visual vocabulary supports, restricts its chatbot to paid users, and offers no student-facing platform for learners to access AI assistance directly. Because of these gaps, ESL teachers often need to rely on multiple AI tools rather than finding everything in one comprehensive solution.

Best For

Student Levels: A1 (Beginner) to C2 (Proficient) learners. Particularly effective for A2–B2 students, where differentiation needs are most pronounced and scaffolding between proficiency levels has the greatest impact. Works across all ages, though the template categories lean toward K–12, so some adaptation is needed for adult ESL programs. Teaching Contexts: Most powerful in K–12 school settings where teachers manage multiple classes at varied proficiency levels and need to produce large volumes of differentiated materials each week. Highly effective in pull-out ESL programs, sheltered instruction environments, and co-teaching models where content and language specialists collaborate on accessible materials. Less essential in adult ESL conversation classes or contexts that prioritize spontaneous interaction over prepared materials. Pain Points Solved: Eliminates the impossible choice between high-quality differentiation and sustainable planning time. Provides pedagogically sound starting points for teachers who aren’t sure how to adapt grade-level content for English learners without diluting conceptual rigor. Supports compliance with IEP/504 accommodation requirements by efficiently generating modified assessments and accessible materials. Reduces cognitive load during planning by supplying structured templates instead of blank-slate creation, allowing teachers to devote more energy to facilitation and relationship-building rather than material production.

Tips for ESL Teachers

• Use the Enhancer button to refine vague prompts into pedagogically precise requests: When you’re unsure what you need, type a rough idea into any tool (e.g., “activity for teaching past tense”) and then click the Enhancer button. Eduaide restructures your input into a clearer, more detailed prompt that reflects best practices. This not only improves the immediate output but also builds your long-term prompt literacy by modeling how to communicate more effectively with AI tools. • Generate base materials at mid-level complexity, then differentiate up and down: Instead of starting at the lowest proficiency level, create your initial materials for B1 (intermediate) learners—the level that often represents the middle of the proficiency spread in many ESL classrooms. Then use Eduaide’s text-leveling and accessibility tools to build scaffolded versions for beginners and enriched versions for advanced students. This keeps the core conceptual content aligned with grade-level expectations while adjusting language complexity, avoiding the “watered-down curriculum” trap that limits ELLs’ academic growth. • Combine Eduaide’s structured outputs with Erasmus AI for context-specific customization: Use Eduaide’s templates to generate strong first drafts of lessons, assessments, or activities, then open Erasmus AI to make targeted adjustments based on your students’ cultural backgrounds, interests, or recent classroom experiences. For instance, after generating a vocabulary lesson, you could ask Erasmus, “How can I connect these words to [local cultural event] my students experienced?” This workflow blends the efficiency of templates with the flexibility of conversational customization.

Pricing

Model: Freemium
Details: Free: Limited monthly generations. Pro: $5.99/mo or $49.99/year ($4.17/mo). Enterprise: Custom pricing for institutions

Teaching Context

Classroom Online Hybrid

Student Age

Children Teens Adults

CEFR Levels

A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2