AI Teaching Assistant
Your co-teacher that drafts, watches your roster, and never sends anything without you.
Ember's Teaching Assistant reads your schedule, gradebook, and messages the way a co-teacher would — surfacing who needs a check-in, what's due today, and which submissions are piling up. Ask it to draft an announcement, summarize your day, or find at-risk students in a live chat grounded in your real courses. Every message, grade suggestion, and announcement it drafts waits in a queue for your approval before anything reaches a student or parent.
At a glance
The challenge
Teachers drown in invisible work
Between drafting parent updates, tracking who's missing work, and spotting quiet disengagement before it becomes a crisis, the mental load never stops. Generic chatbots don't know your roster, your rubrics, or which student just missed their third assignment.
How Ember helps
An assistant that already knows your classroom
Ember's Teaching Assistant pulls live from your schedule, gradebook, and roster to surface what actually needs attention, then drafts the first pass. Chat with it to summarize your day, draft an announcement, or ask who's falling behind — every suggestion links straight to where you'd act on it.
Real scenarios
When you'll use it
Concrete moments in the school week — not abstract features.
Monday morning triage
Open the Teaching Assistant and see roster alerts, a grading queue count, and any scheduled announcements — all ranked by urgency before first period starts.
A student starts slipping
The moment a student's course average drops below 70% or they miss a second assignment, Ember surfaces it with a draft check-in message you can edit and send in one click.
Quiz day, missed accommodations
Before a quiz goes live, Ember flags any student whose IEP or 504 accommodations haven't been applied yet — so nobody takes a test without the support they're owed.
Capabilities
Everything included
Daily schedule brief
Today's classes, live sessions, and what's due — pulled straight from your calendar, no setup required.
Roster risk alerts
Flags students whose course average drops below 70% or who are missing two or more assignments, ranked by severity.
Grading priority queue
Shows exactly how many submissions are waiting per assignment and links straight into Speed Grading.
IEP accommodation reminders
Warns you before a quiz goes out if a student's accommodations haven't been applied yet.
Draft parent & student check-ins
One-click message drafts for at-risk students, cited with the exact issue — editable before you send.
Announcement drafting & reminders
Catches draft announcements you forgot to publish and flags the ones scheduled to post today.
Unread message triage
Groups unread student and parent messages by urgency so nothing sits unanswered.
Streaming, course-aware chat
Ask it to summarize your day, draft something, or check on a student — responses stream in real time with full course context.
One-tap quick actions
Summarize your day, draft an announcement, check grading priorities, or find at-risk students without typing a prompt.
Deep-linked suggestions
Every suggestion card routes straight into Speed Grading, Announcements, or Messages.
Multi-course context
Switch courses and the assistant's schedule, roster, and prep list update immediately.
FERPA-safe by design
Runs on your classroom data only — never used to train public AI models.
How it works
Up and running in three steps
Ember reads your day
Schedule, gradebook, roster, and messages sync automatically — no setup required.
Suggestions surface as cards
Grading queues, at-risk students, and reminders appear ranked by urgency, each with a one-click action.
Ask it anything
Chat directly to draft a message, summarize your week, or check who needs support — it answers with your real course data.
You approve every action
Nothing sends, posts, or grades until you say so. Ember drafts; you decide.
“It's the first AI tool that feels like a co-teacher, not a chatbot in another tab.”
Maya Kapoor
Biology Teacher
FAQ
Common questions
No. Every draft — messages, announcements, grading suggestions — waits in a queue until you approve, edit, or reject it.
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