New Ways to Learn and Teach With ChatGPT Work and Codex
OpenAI has launched three new education-specific plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, designed to help K-12 teachers, college educators, and college students use ChatGPT’s agentic capabilities for classroom preparation, course design, and studying.
Details
- K-12 Educator plugin: Helps teachers plan lessons and build classroom materials, integrates with Learning Commons to align content to academic standards, and can generate differentiated resources and interactive visuals alongside teachers’ existing tools
- College Educator plugin: Assists with course design, syllabus updates, and teaching materials, and can produce interactive websites and multimedia assessments adapted for diverse learners; connects with calendars, documents, and other approved tools and LMS platforms
- College Student plugin: Offers personalized, guided tutoring rather than direct answers, generating study guides, quizzes, flashcards, and visual explanations grounded in learning-science principles, aimed at students across majors and skill levels
- Availability: The plugins are available through ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments; ChatGPT for Teachers remains free for verified U.S. K-12 educators
- Stated principle: OpenAI frames the effort around the idea that “AI should support learning, not shortcut it, and the best learning experiences keep educators and students in control”
- Related programs: The announcement also references the OpenAI Student Collective for peer-led learning, OpenAI Academy workshops run in partnership with the Walton Family Foundation, and the ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program, which offers 12 months of free Pro-level access
How to try it
- K-12 educators can access the new plugin through ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments; college educators and students can access theirs through ChatGPT Edu
- Details on eligibility and rollout are available on OpenAI’s website at the source link above