About This Site
Teachomatic is a guide for working teachers on what to automate in the job and what to keep.
Who it is for
A teacher with three to twenty years behind them, reading between lessons or in the evening. Not an opponent of these tools and not an enthusiast. Someone who has been told to use AI, given no clear rules, and left responsible for the outcome.
The site assumes you do not need a survey of the market. You need to know what can be handed over without cost, what cannot, and what to say when a student is accused of cheating by a machine.
About this domain
This domain previously hosted a different project, by different people, and this site is not a continuation of it.
Until recently teachomatic.net was the home of Teach-O-Matic, an open-source tool for generating instructional videos, associated with Replicate. That project has no connection to this one. The domain was purchased from its owners; the name, the branding and the work were not, and nothing here should be read as a successor to it.
If you arrived looking for that project, it lives on GitHub under its original authors, and you should go there rather than here.
What this site will not do
Rank tools. The rankings online are dominated by companies selling one of the entries, and adding another list helps nobody.
Recommend a purchase. We have no way of knowing your devices, your subject, your students or your budget.
Give legal advice. Rules on student data and academic integrity differ by country, state and district and change monthly. We explain how the questions are structured and what to ask the people who do know.
Predict. There is enough uncertainty in what is already established.
What it will do
Separate demonstrated from promised. Attribute every figure to a source with a date. Say plainly when a source is selling something — including when almost all the available sources are. Say "we don't know" where that is the honest answer, which is more often than most writing in this area admits.
Our editorial standards, funding and conflict-of-interest position are set out on the editorial page, and corrections are logged publicly rather than edited away on the corrections page.
Getting in touch
Corrections are the most welcome kind of message, particularly on anything about what a tool currently does or what a rule currently says — those claims decay fastest, and we would rather hear it from you than leave it wrong.