7 AI Tools IB DP Teachers Can Actually Use in Class

IB Diploma Programme teachers do not need another AI tool that can produce a generic lesson plan.

They need tools that understand what makes DP teaching different.

A Biology teacher may need questions built around the correct command terms and mark allocations. An English teacher may need faster feedback without flattening every student response into the same comments. A coordinator may be managing Internal Assessments, Extended Essays, TOK milestones, mock examinations, and curriculum planning at the same time.

Generic AI can help with some of this, but it usually needs substantial prompting before it understands the context.

That creates a useful distinction when choosing AI tools for IB teachers.

Some tools are built around IB workflows. Others are excellent general education tools that solve one specific problem, such as differentiation, feedback, resource creation, or research.

The strongest setup may therefore be a combination rather than a single platform.

Here are seven AI tools worth considering for DP teaching, what each is genuinely good at, and where its limitations begin.

What Makes an AI Tool Useful for IB DP Teachers?

Before comparing platforms, it helps to define what actually matters.

For DP teachers, useful AI should support at least one of these jobs particularly well:

1. Planning lessons or units around the course being taught
2. Building assessments that reflect appropriate command terms and cognitive demand
3. Creating questions, markschemes, or rubrics
4. Giving useful feedback on student work
5. Differentiating complex material without changing the learning goal
6. Supporting IA, EE, or TOK supervision
7. Reducing repetitive administrative work
8. Working from reliable source material rather than inventing content

There is also a non negotiable requirement: teacher review.

The University of San Diego's current AI guidance tells educators to review and verify AI generated content and remain responsible for its accuracy, quality, and integrity. That principle matters even more in IB assessment, where a plausible looking question or markscheme can still be poorly aligned to the actual course.

Quick Comparison of the Best AI Tools for DP Teachers

Tool	Best use	IB specific depth
Koncepts	IB planning, assessment, papers, feedback, DP workflows	High
Toddle AI	Whole school curriculum planning and teaching workflows	High
RevisionDojo	IA, EE, TOK and coursework feedback	High
Diffit	Differentiation and accessible resources	Low
Brisk Teaching	Feedback and resource creation inside existing workflows	Low
MagicSchool	General lesson planning, assessment and admin	Low
Gemini Notebook	Source grounded preparation and research	Low

The right tool depends on the job. A platform that is excellent for differentiation does not automatically understand an IB markscheme. A platform that understands IB assessment may not be the tool you want for adapting an article for different reading levels.

1. Koncepts: Best for IB Specific Teaching Workflows

For an individual DP teacher who wants AI built around IB teaching rather than a general education framework, Koncepts is the strongest fit on this list.

Koncepts is designed specifically for PYP, MYP, and DP rather than being a general teacher platform with IB prompts added later. Its current teacher platform includes planning, assessment, feedback, slide decks, video lessons, paper mode quizzes, and related classroom workflows. The platform describes its outputs as being built around IB specific elements such as command terms and assessment structures.

For DP teachers, the practical advantage is context.

You should not need to explain from scratch what HL and SL mean every time you create material. Assessment tasks can be approached through the language of IB questions, command terms, marks, and markschemes rather than through generic grade level standards.

This is especially useful when building topic tests or mock preparation.

Koncepts also connects teacher workflows with a DP student environment containing question practice, markschemes, past papers, exam style questions, and support for EE and TOK work. Its DP platform currently advertises more than 80,000 questions alongside markschemes and current syllabus aligned practice.

Best DP uses:

• Building topic tests
• Generating and editing assessment questions
• Working with markschemes and command terms
• Creating lesson and teaching materials
• Preparing mock exam practice
• Supporting EE and TOK supervision
• Connecting teacher planning with student practice

Where it is less suitable:

Koncepts is primarily a teaching and learning platform. A school looking mainly for a full administrative system with extensive parent portals, reporting infrastructure, and whole school record management may still use it alongside another school platform.

For MYP teachers, see the companion guide on AI tools for IB MYP teachers.

2. Toddle AI: Best for Whole School IB Planning

Toddle approaches the problem from a different direction.

Its AI tools sit within a broader curriculum and school platform. The current Toddle AI suite includes a Curriculum Design Assistant, Assessment Builder, Feedback and Grading Assistant, AI Tutors, Progress Reports Assistant, and Writing Assistant.

For DP teachers, its curriculum design capabilities are particularly relevant.

Toddle's DP planning resources focus on building units, embedding assessment, and using AI within the planning process rather than simply generating isolated worksheets. Its DP unit planning materials also emphasize connecting planning decisions with assessment and learning design.

That makes Toddle attractive when AI adoption is happening at school level rather than teacher by teacher.

Best DP uses:

• Collaborative curriculum planning
• Unit and lesson design
• Assessment creation
• Feedback and grading support
• Progress reporting
• School wide consistency

Where it is less suitable:

Toddle makes the most sense when the wider school ecosystem matters. If an individual teacher simply wants to create an IB aligned test this afternoon, a large school platform may be more infrastructure than they need.

Koncepts and Toddle therefore overlap, but they do not solve exactly the same problem.

3. RevisionDojo: Best for IA, EE and TOK Feedback

RevisionDojo is particularly useful when the problem is not lesson planning but coursework review.

Its current Coursework Grader accepts Internal Assessments, Extended Essays, TOK work, and other IB coursework, then provides rubric based feedback, annotations, performance breakdowns, and suggestions for improvement.

For teachers, this can be useful as a second analytical pass.

A teacher might use it to identify whether an IA draft appears weak in a particular criterion before reviewing the paper personally, or to help structure conversations with students about revision.

The important phrase is second analytical pass.

AI feedback should not become the final authority on an IA, EE, or TOK essay. These assessments depend heavily on subject interpretation, context, academic integrity, and professional judgement.

Best DP uses:

• IA draft review
• EE feedback support
• TOK essay review
• Criterion based revision
• Identifying areas requiring closer teacher attention

Where it is less suitable:

RevisionDojo is more focused on student study and coursework support than on running a teacher's entire planning and classroom workflow.

4. Diffit: Best for Differentiation

Not every useful DP AI tool needs to understand the IB framework.

Diffit solves a narrower problem very well: making the same content accessible to different learners.

Teachers can use it to adapt texts, create scaffolds, support vocabulary development, change question difficulty, and provide different versions of the same material while preserving the underlying learning goal.

That can be valuable in DP classrooms where students may be working at the same conceptual level but have very different language backgrounds.

Imagine an Environmental Systems and Societies class reading a difficult scientific article, or a Language B class using a current affairs source. Diffit can help create a more accessible entry point without requiring the teacher to manually rewrite the entire resource.

Best DP uses:

• Reading differentiation
• Vocabulary scaffolding
• Supporting multilingual learners
• Adjusting question difficulty
• Making complex source material more accessible

Where it is less suitable:

Diffit does not replace IB assessment expertise.

A differentiated worksheet may be useful teaching material, but teachers still need to check whether questions reflect the correct syllabus, assessment objectives, and command terms.

5. Brisk Teaching: Best for Working Inside Your Browser

Brisk is useful because it reduces switching between tools.

Its Chrome based workflow can work with webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, videos, and other material teachers already have open. Teachers can create resources, change reading levels, and provide feedback without moving everything into a separate AI platform.

Feedback is one of its stronger use cases.

Brisk currently offers targeted comments, strength and growth feedback, rubric based feedback, and next step suggestions. Teachers can also upload a rubric and use it as the basis for generated feedback.

For DP teachers working heavily in Google Docs, that can be convenient.

Best DP uses:

• Draft feedback
• Turning existing resources into classroom materials
• Creating questions from webpages or videos
• Differentiation
• Working inside Google based workflows

Where it is less suitable:

Brisk does not inherently know that an IB Biology Paper 2 question and a generic high school Biology question need different design logic.

Give it the correct rubric, instructions, and context, then review the output.

6. MagicSchool: Best for General Teacher Productivity

MagicSchool is broader than the IB specific platforms on this list.

Its current teacher toolkit includes more than 80 tools covering areas such as lesson planning, worksheets, presentations, multiple choice quizzes, rubrics, academic content, communication, and differentiation.

That breadth makes it useful for repetitive tasks around teaching.

A DP teacher could use it to draft a lesson structure, generate an exit ticket, create a parent communication, produce an initial rubric format, or adapt material for different learners.

The University of San Diego also uses MagicSchool in its professional development programme for educators, describing applications across lesson planning, assessment creation, differentiation, and student engagement.

Best DP uses:

• General lesson planning
• Worksheets
• Classroom communication
• Differentiation
• Rubric drafting
• Quick formative assessment ideas

Where it is less suitable:

MagicSchool is designed for education broadly, not specifically for the Diploma Programme.

If you ask it for an IB assessment, the teacher still needs to supply and verify the IB context.

7. Gemini Notebook: Best for Source Grounded Preparation

Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook in July 2026. The product remains focused on research and learning through collections of sources selected by the user.

This makes it useful for a completely different part of teacher work.

A teacher can assemble subject guides, articles, notes, research papers, and other approved resources into a notebook, then ask questions across those materials.

Its responses can cite the supplied sources directly, making it easier to trace where an answer came from. Google still warns that AI generated outputs can contain inaccuracies, so the citations should be checked rather than treated as automatic proof.

For a DP teacher, this is useful when preparing a new unit or working across a large body of reference material.

Best DP uses:

• Synthesizing teacher resources
• Comparing several readings
• Preparing discussion questions
• Building background knowledge
• Working from a controlled set of sources
• Reviewing curriculum documents and notes

Where it is less suitable:

Gemini Notebook does not provide IB assessment expertise by itself.

If your sources do not contain the necessary IB context, the notebook cannot create that expertise for you.

IB Native Tools vs General AI Tools

The biggest mistake is assuming every teacher AI platform should do the same job.

An IB native tool is most valuable when the task depends on the framework itself.

That includes:

• Command terms
• HL and SL distinctions
• Paper formats
• Markschemes
• Internal Assessment structures
• EE and TOK workflows
• IB specific assessment design

A general AI education tool becomes more useful when the problem is universal across classrooms:

• Adapting reading levels
• Drafting emails
• Creating a slide outline
• Reformatting material
• Producing initial lesson ideas
• Generating discussion prompts
• Summarizing teacher supplied sources

That distinction can prevent a lot of frustration.

Do not force a general tool to behave like an IB assessment specialist when a purpose built platform already handles the framework. Equally, there is little reason to use a complex IB platform just to simplify one article for a multilingual learner.

Which AI Tool Should an IB DP Teacher Choose?

If your biggest problem is IB specific planning, assessment, markschemes, and connected teacher workflows, start with Koncepts.

If your school wants whole school curriculum planning and documentation with AI built into the platform, investigate Toddle.

If the immediate problem is IA, EE, or TOK draft feedback, RevisionDojo has a focused use case.

If you need differentiation, use Diffit.

If you spend most of the day inside Google Docs, webpages, PDFs, and Chrome, Brisk can remove repetitive steps.

If you want a large toolkit for general teacher planning and administration, MagicSchool is worth exploring.

If the problem is understanding a large collection of trusted sources, use Gemini Notebook.

The best AI stack for a DP department may include more than one of these.

Final Takeaway

AI becomes useful to an IB teacher when it reduces mechanical work without outsourcing professional judgement.

That is the standard worth applying to every platform.

Use IB specific tools when the framework matters. Use general education tools when the problem is general. Give AI the correct source material. Check every assessment before students see it. Review every markscheme. Keep human judgement at the centre of feedback.

The goal is not to automate IB teaching.

It is to spend less time on the parts of teaching that can be accelerated, so more time remains for the parts that require a teacher.

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You might also like Koncepts School guides on building DP topic tests, mock examination planning, markschemes, and assessment design.

For schools looking for an IB focused planning, assessment, feedback, and teaching platform, explore Koncepts for Schools.