10 Great AI Google Workspace Tools for Teachers

The AI revolution has touched every aspect of the digital world. Online platforms are increasingly embracing the potential of this technology to enhance the services they provide. The Google Workspace ecosystem is one of these platforms that has seamlessly integrated AI to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and transform how we create, collaborate, and manage tasks.

For us in education, this AI integration is a game-changer. Tasks that once consumed hours (e.g., creating lesson plans, designing quizzes, summarizing research, or translating content) can now be completed in minutes.

Google Workspace Marketplace is now teeming with all kinds of AI-powered tools that can make a huge difference in the way you work. In this post, I curated for fellow educators and teachers this collection of some great AI Workspace add-ons to help enhance your teaching.

AI Google Workspace Tools for Teachers

Using these AI tools you will be able to efficiently conduct a wide variety of tasks including crafting polished presentations, analyzing student performances, creating quizzes, generating instructional resources and many more.

1. GPT for Sheets, Docs, Forms, and Slides

This add-on brings the power of AI right into your Google Workspace ecosystem. It integrates with Docs, Slides, Forms, and Sheets allowing you to enhance your overall productivity by automating repetitive tasks, generating content, and streamlining workflows. This add draws on popular AI models including ChatGPT, GPT-4 Turbo, Claude, Gemini, and more.

As a teacher, you can use it to create teaching materials, write lesson plans, design quizzes, and generate visual aids like slides and handouts in a matter of minutes. Besides creating instructional resources, you can also use this add-on to help you summarize complex information, draft emails, organize and analyze data, and more.

2. SlidesAI

SlidesAI allows you to easily generate beautiful and polished presentations using AI and without any design expertise. The process is simple and easy: type in or paste your text, select your preferred design style, choose an existing colour preset or customize with your own colors, then save and export your presentation. SlidesAI offers a free tier with the option to upgrade for advanced features.

3. Samllpdf

Smallpdf integrates with your Google Workspace enabling you to take your document management to the next level. More specifically, you can use Smallpdf to compress, merge, e-sign, convert, and AI-summarize documents directly within tools like Google Docs, Sheets, and Gmail.

Other features provided by Smallpdf include the ability to split, protect, and unlock PDFs; convertT PDFs to Word, Excel, Powerpoint, images, and vice versa; access tools directly from Gmail attachments, Google Drive, or the side panel in Docs and Sheets.

As a teacher you can use Samllpdf to generate quick summaries of various types of articles (e.g., academic and research papers), convert lesson plans int PDFs, merge student feedback into a single document, create shareable resources for students and parents like permission slips or report summaries, and many more.

4. Mindomo

Mindomo is an AI-powered add-on that helps you create, edit, and share mind maps, concept maps, outlines, and Gantt charts. With a single click, you can turn text or files into detailed mind maps. You can also invite others to collaborate with you simultaneously on the same diagram with instant updates.

Other features provided by Mindomo include the ability to create and edit diagrams offline (changes sync when back online), access different pre-designed layouts (e.g., mind maps, concept maps, task maps, Gantt charts, org charts, etc), add things like checkable tasks and set due dates, personalize your maps with images and icons, instantly turn diagrams into presentations and more.

As teachers, you can use Mindomo AI to create collaborative mind maps for lessons, generate outlines for curriculum planning, create visual aids to enhance classroom management, and more. You can also use it to convert notes into clear and organized study aids, set goals and to-do lists, manage projects visually with various chart types, and more.

5. Plus AI for Google Slides and Docs

Plus AI is another AI-powered add-on that helps you do many things with your Google Slides and Docs. For Slides, Plus AI allows you to automatically generate, rewrite, and edit slide decks, design unique slide themes and layouts, translate presentations into different languages, and more. For Docs, Plus AI helps you especially with generating content such as writing blog posts, essays, or any any document content. It is also helpful for editing existing documents.

As a teacher, you can use Plus AI to create detailed lesson plans, teaching materials, and engaging presentations without having to spend hours designing and formatting. You can also use it to translate content into multiple languages for multilingual classrooms, generate compelling ideas and prompts for student activities, and more.

6. AI for Google Sheets

As its name indicates, this add-on brings the power of Gemini AI right into your spreadsheets enabling you to perform complex tasks such as data analysis, generating content, and streamlining workflow. Here is a quick break-down of some of its main features:

• Retrieve up-to-date information directly through Google Search within Sheets.
• Extract text from images, generate alt text, and even create new images based on descriptions.
• Translate text across multiple languages.
• Summarize lengthy content into concise points.
• Rephrase or rewrite content for fresh perspectives.
• Analyze datasets with AI for trends, sentiment, etc, saving hours of manual work.
• As a teacher you can use it for various educational purposes including to:
• Generate summaries, questions, or content for teaching materials.
• Analyze classroom data or student performance trends.
• Analyze classroom data or student performance trends.

7. GPT Quiz Generator

GPT Quiz Generator uses the power of AI to simplify and enhance the process of quiz creation. Powered by the GPT-4o mini model, this add-on allows you to automatically generate tailored quiz questions from text, images (including handwritten), PDFs, and DOCX files.

As a teacher, you can use GPT Quiz Generator to create engaging quizzes from lesson notes, PDFs, or handwritten materials. Here is a quick break-down of some of its main features:

• Input text, articles, PDFs, or DOCX files to generate quiz questions.
• Analyze content with GPT-4o mini to craft diverse, nuanced questions.
• Parse text from handwritten images to create questions, making it ideal for digitizing traditional notes.
• Generate multiple-choice, checkbox, or dropdown questions tailored to your needs.
• Supports 83 languages for creating quizzes.

8. Create Presentation with AI ChatGPT

This is add-on allows users to create engaging presentations using AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more. You can generate up to 20 slides from text or a topic with a single click. The slides come with AI-chosen visuals that you can further customize and edit.The add-on also supports over 40 languages making it ideal for use in multilingual classrooms.

9. Slide Translato

Slide Translato enables you to translate Google Slides and Google Forms into over 250 languages with a single click. You can use it with your students to translate instructional content while preserving the original layout, formatting, and design of the presentation.Translations are saved as a new file in Google Drive. This is perfect for ESL students, foreign students, and multilingual classrooms to improve accessibility and learning outcomes.

10. AI Voice Generator

AI Voice Generator is a text to speech add-on that allows you to seamlessly convert text to human-like voice using OpenAI’s advanced TTS (text-to-speech) model. The add-on supports 60 languages and a variety of voices. Generated audio files can be saved directly to Google Drive for easy access. Teachers can use AI Voice Generator to enhance accessibility and engagement in their classrooms. It’s especially valuable for creating audio versions of lesson materials, ensuring students with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia or visual impairments, can easily access content.

11. Quilgo

Quilgo is an AI-powered add-on that lets you turn Google Forms into a powerful assessment platform. It offers various features including timers, scheduling, automated proctoring, and detailed analytics. Other interesting features provided by Quilgo include:

• Camera Tracking: Monitor test-takers via their camera to reduce cheating.
• Screen Recording: Track screen activity for added security.
• Behavior Analysis: Detect suspicious actions like tab switching or multiple faces.
• Trust Score: Automatically calculate a trust score based on proctoring data.
• Real-Time Dashboard: Manage tests and track progress with live updates.
• Detailed Reports: Export reports in PDF or Excel for individual or group analysis.
• Team Collaboration: Share test results and collaborate on assessments seamlessly.

Final thoughts

I hope you have found this collection of AI Google Workspace tools helpful. For practical reasons, I limited my list to eleven titles, what I consider are some of the best AI tools teachers and educators should know about. Go ahead, browse through the list and see which one works best for you. All the best!

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