Aila (Oak's AI Lesson Assistant)

The tool is designed to generate lesson plans and resources for teachers in UK schools. Generated lesson plans follow Oak's lesson template. Oak's existing corpus of lessons, which are aligned with the National Curriculum, can be provided to the LLM for context. The tool is not designed for teacher workload activities outside of lesson planning, pupils, or teachers outside the UK, or as a generic chatbot in the style of ChatGPT.

There are several mechanisms for users to provide feedback. A feedback widget is available at the bottom right of the screen, allowing users to easily submit feedback, which is then triaged by our customer support team. Users can also send feedback via email, which is processed in the same way to ensure any issues are addressed and communicated to the delivery team. There are specific forms are available at the po...

Lesson data including title, topic, key stage, starter quiz, learning cycles (including title, feedback, practice, explanation and duration), exit quiz, key stage, misconceptions, prior knowledge, learning outcome, additional materials and key learning points. It then includes generated vector embeddings used for similarity search (to return similar lesson plans to the user request).