10 Ways AI Can Help Teachers Save Time and Improve Learning

Crafting good quiz questions is a time-consuming process. You'll need to carefully select the concepts you want to test, write questions that measure understanding, author plausible distractors and ensure everything is factually accurate.

An AI quiz generator makes this process much faster by doing much of the hard work for you. Upload a PDF, add your notes or a block of text, and let the AI do the work of drafting questions that you can then review and edit.

With Waahey Quiz, teachers can generate quizzes with AI from their own materials, build a bank of quizzes to reuse and share with their classes, saving them hours of work throughout the year.

Why it improves learning: More low-stakes quizzes mean more opportunities for students to actively recall information, which is proven to be one of the most effective ways of retaining information.

Looking at a blank page is never fun. With AI as your co-teacher, you can develop a lesson plan, suggest activities, give examples of how to apply the concept in the real world and build a lesson around specific learning objectives.

Use the AI's suggestions as a starting point and then tailor it to your needs. It can be easy to get stuck staring at a blank page when you need to start from nothing, but a strong starting point can make all the difference.

Why it improves learning: Less time spent staring at a blank page means you can spend more time making your lessons engaging and relevant to your students' needs.

Feedback is important, but it can be very time-consuming to provide meaningful feedback to students on their work. With AI, you can:

This then allows you to spend your time on assessing higher-order thinking skills and giving meaningful feedback on their work as a whole.

Why it improves learning: The sooner a student can understand what they did wrong, the sooner they can correct the mistake. By providing immediate and easily understood feedback, students are more likely to learn from their mistakes.

Multiple choice and short answer questions have no place for human error in marking. Online quizzes can be automatically marked, providing students with their results broken down by question and learning objective.

This means you'll spend less time marking and more time doing things only humans can do.

Why it improves learning: Students receive their results quickly, meaning they can understand and address any gaps in their knowledge while the information is still fresh in their minds.

In a class of 30, you're unlikely to be able to provide individualized instruction for each student, as you'd need to spend 2 hours marking one assignment.

However, with AI, you can review the results of an assignment and suggest additional practice questions for individuals and groups of students.

A student who's mastered a topic can move onto the next unit, while students who need more practice can get more questions at their own pace. This also allows students to engage in self-directed learning.

Why it improves learning: Personalized learning with the help of AI will allow students to learn at their own pace and avoid the frustration of being left behind or bored.

Teachers are already brilliant at reading the room, but AI supported analytics add another layer of insight. By analysing quiz and assessment data, teachers can quickly spot things like:

It improves learning because if most of the class is struggling with the same concept it can be easily addressed in a future lesson, rather than leaving it to the last minute.

If you have mixed ability classes you likely create multiple versions of the same materials, including accessible versions, standard versions and challenging versions. This takes a lot of extra work.

Using generative AI you can:

It improves learning as you can offer materials on the same topic at different levels so each student can access the content at their level.

It's easy to forget that not all of a teacher's time is spent actually teaching. You can use AI to help with:

Always review and personalise these before sending, but a draft can save you hours. It improves learning because every hour spent on non-teaching tasks is an hour less time spent planning and interacting with students.

When it comes to revision and activities, students often struggle to engage. Quizzes are a great way to encourage interaction and participation. With some AI tools like Waahey Quiz, teachers can host live quiz sessions that let students buzz in and see results in real time.

This could be used to start a lesson, finish a unit, or play as a competitive or collaborative activity before an exam. Even beyond school, this could be a great tool for onboarding new staff, running internal training sessions or staff building activities.

It improves learning because students love to compete, and quizzes are a fun way to get them engaged and interacting.

For students who need extra support outside of class, AI can act as a patient study buddy. It can explain concepts, provide worked examples and create extra practice questions at whatever level the student needs. This could be particularly beneficial for ELL students or for those who feel to ask for help. A computer can be a judgment free zone for students to practice skills before using them in class.

It improves student learning outcomes as they gain confidence in their ability, and avoid small gaps in understanding becoming bigger issues later.

AI is most effective when educators maintain control over the tool and its outputs. Consider the following guidelines when using AI in your school or classroom:

AI is not meant to replace teachers, but to support and enhance their work. AI can take over simple, but time-consuming tasks, such as creating quizzes, grading quizzes, note-taking, providing extra information or practice, and finding patterns in data to create information digestible for humans.

By focusing on the more complex aspects of teaching and learning, educators can leverage AI to improve their practice and student outcomes. Start today: Find one task that takes too much time and try an AI tool to complete it for you.