Written by Rajesh Vora

January 26, 2025 2:00 AM (PST)

Our chatbot is the first of four components within AskAlayna. This is where teachers can chat with AI to brainstorm ideas, get explanations, and get help with various teaching tasks. Ask Alayna provides an intuitive interface for educators, making it easy to enhance their teaching methods.

Easy-To-Use Chat

Think of this as chatting with a helpful friend. Alayna’s chat interface is designed to be straightforward and user-friendly. Just type your questions or requests, and Alayna will provide the information or assistance you need. It's like having a knowledgeable teaching assistant available anytime. Check out our guide for educators on how to write effective AI prompts:

Guide for Educators: Writing Effective AI Prompts

Shortcuts

One of the most common struggles educators face when using tools like ChatGPT is figuring out the best prompts to use. To make things easier, Alayna offers nearly 100 quick tools that provide step-by-step assistance for over 100 teaching tasks, such as creating lesson plans, suggesting accommodations, generating choice boards, and more. These quick tools are like having a personal assistant dedicated to each task:

Web Research Mode

Understanding the limitations of large language models is essential. Our AI tool is powered by a large language model, which has three major limitations:

  1. The content created by the AI is not directly extracted from web sources but generated based on a probability function, which means it may not always be accurate.
  2. It only knows information up to the cutoff date of its training, so it lacks knowledge about current events.
  3. It does not provide citations for where the data comes from.

Our web research mode addresses these limitations by allowing Alayna to:

  1. Access real-time information online.
  2. Utilize third-party sources.
  3. Provide citations to ensure you have the most accurate information.

Here are a few example prompts you can give Alayna in Web Browsing Mode:

"Create a 7th grade lesson plan on fractions using video lessons and practice from Khan Academy."

Alayna will scour Khan Academy, identify the most relevant and high-quality videos/exercises, and synthesize them into a comprehensive lesson plan complete with teacher notes.