🧰 Free Tools and Resources

A curated set of free tools, collections, instruments and formats for AI in education — things you can go and use today rather than research you have to read first. They are made mostly by educators, instructional designers, librarians and researchers, and many were built with AI assistance by people who are not professional developers.

Not everything here is interactive. Alongside browser tools and AI tutors you will find libraries of ready-made prompts and "gems", collections of classroom activities, briefing and policy documents, assessment instruments, and open file formats. Each entry says who made it, what kind of thing it is, whether the source code is available, and what it costs to use.

Every entry links out to an external site that this knowledge base does not control, and the links are re-checked periodically — each page shows the date its link was last confirmed. If a tool has moved, gone closed, or deserves to be here and is missing, the fastest route is to open an issue on the repository.

Software

DrawSplatA free browser platform of small teaching tools: whiteboard, spreadsheets, slides, documents, lists, concept maps, quizzes, charts, images and video.DrawSplat project · Free · K 12 Jev SandboxAn AI that answers with probabilities instead of prose: you write the rubric or the question, it returns a number per item, and its uncertainty stays visible.mwatkins03-netizen · Free · Higher Ed PAUSE: Patterns of AI Use Self-ExaminationA ten-minute, browser-only self-check on what you offload to AI, with every item traced to the research paper behind it.Mahbub Ul Alam · Free · Higher Ed PlaylabA nonprofit creator platform where educators build, share and evaluate their own AI apps — grounded in their curriculum, run on the model of their choice, with teacher visibility built in.Playlab (501(c)(3) nonprofit) · Free With Account · K 12 · Higher Ed

Prompt Or Gem Library

EduGems'A growing library of pre-made Google Gemini 'Gems' — shareable, pre-written prompts for planning, feedback, forms, images and AI-use reflection.Eric Curts · Free With Account · K 12

Collection Of Tools

TeacherServerA large free library of single-purpose teaching generators — lesson plans, worksheets, IEP goals, rubrics, case studies, math problems — for K-12 teachers and college faculty.TeacherServer project · Free With Account · K 12 · Higher Ed The ID ToolboxMore than fifty free single-purpose browser utilities for instructional designers: scoping, estimation, caption and translation tooling, readability and consistency checks.Curt Zilbersher · Free · Higher Ed

Collection Of Activities

Pressing PromptsOpenly accessible higher-education activities and resources for pressing critical questions about AI, organised into three thematic clusters.Hannah Rozear, Remi Kalir and Aria Chernik · Free · Higher Ed

Assessment Instrument

The Institutional AI Readiness PackA university-wide AI readiness assessment and implementation toolkit: maturity self-assessment, researcher and supervisor surveys, gap analysis, role briefings and model policy.Michael J. Zyphur (Instats) · Free · Higher Ed · Graduate

Open Format Or Specification

LESSON.mdAn open, plain-text format for block-based eLearning lessons, plus an agent skill that writes lessons, assessments and whole course bundles in that format.Dan Bashaw (LXD Integral) · Free · Higher Ed