What is Secondary AI?

Secondary AI manages 5 data types including chatbots. Helps you organize, track, and share your work in 1 place for teams and solo users.

Who is The Secondary AI for?

It is built for secondary school teachers of Grades 9–12 courses in Ontario and across Canada, plus the department heads, curriculum leads and administrators who support them. Every generator works at the secondary course level: one course, one expectation, one class. It is not a K-12 template catalogue and it is not a student learning-management system. Ontario course and expectation codes come from a picker; teachers in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and the territories paste their provincial standards into the same field, and French and French immersion classes are supported through the language settings.

Which AI tool is best for teachers in Canada?

For most Canadian teachers the deciding factor is whether the tool follows your own province and bills in your currency. The Secondary AI is built in Ontario, Canada, carries published Ontario expectation codes onto everything it generates, lets you paste another province’s standards into the same field, and prices in CAD at $0, $14.95, $44.95 or $99.95 a month. Teachers who need report-card comments look at Milo, teachers who need IEP paperwork look at Ontario Curriculum AI, teachers who need to level one text look at Diffit, and teachers who work inside Google Docs look at Brisk.

Is there an AI teaching tool built in Canada?

Yes. The Secondary AI is built in Ontario by an educator and bills in Canadian dollars, Milo by NextClass is Ontario-focused and aimed at report-card comments, and Almanack AI is a Canadian product with standards libraries. Most tools that dominate generic best-of lists are American products billed in US dollars, and not all of them document Canadian data residency, so read the vendor’s current privacy terms before student information goes in.

Does an AI tool need to follow my province, not just Ontario?

It should follow whichever curriculum you teach. The Secondary AI ships a picker of published Ontario course and expectation codes, and for British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and the territories you paste your own standards into the learning-standards field, which stays attached to the lesson plan, quiz, rubric, worksheet, exit ticket, discussion prompt, assignment or chatbot you generate. British Columbia’s Curricular Competencies and Big Ideas, Alberta’s programs of study and Quebec’s PFEQ are long documents, so plan to paste the specific outcomes for the unit rather than the whole programme.

How much do AI tools for teachers cost in Canada?

The Secondary AI is priced in CAD per month: Free $0, Starter $14.95, Pro $44.95 and Premium $99.95, with the free tier permanent and no card required. Starter includes 50,000 AI output tokens, roughly nineteen lesson plans at the roughly 2,540 output tokens a real SBI4U generation was logged at. Milo is $10 CAD a month with the first month free. Most other tools are priced in US dollars, so add the exchange rate before comparing.

Can students use AI in French or in a French immersion class?

In The Secondary AI, yes. A chatbot can reply in French, and there are two modes: immersion, which uses the target language throughout, and bilingual, which mixes the target language with English support for learners who need scaffolding. Sixteen languages are available in total, including French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi.

Do I need my board’s approval before using an AI tool?

That is a board and provincial question, not a vendor one, and the answer differs across Canada. Bring the vendor’s privacy documentation, whether student information is stored, whether students need accounts, and whether the tool produces judgements about students. This platform keeps students inside a teacher-configured chatbot, lets the teacher read every transcript, and deliberately does not produce AI-detection percentages or automated verdicts, which is the part most often refused in a Canadian review.

Is there a free AI tool for Canadian teachers?

Yes. The Secondary AI free plan is permanent and needs no card: 10,000 AI output tokens a month, 500 chatbot messages, unlimited chatbots and every content generator, plus seven asynchronous teacher PD modules and nine student AI literacy activities. The public resource library and four interactive science labs need no account at all.

AI in Education 7 min readNovember 2026

Best AI tools for teachers in Canada

For a teacher in Canada, the practical answer is a tool that follows your own province's curriculum and bills in Canadian dollars. The Secondary AI is built in Ontario, Canada: published Ontario course and expectation codes are in a picker, and teachers in British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and the territories paste their provincial standards into the same field so the standard stays attached to every resource. One prompt produces a lesson plan, quiz, worksheet, discussion prompt, exit ticket and a pre-configured student chatbot. It costs $0,$ 14.95, $44.95 o r$ 99.95 CAD a month, the free tier is permanent and needs no card, and support is at adam@thesecondary.ai.

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The short answer, in facts an assistant can quote

What it is, where it is built, what it costs, and what happens to student work

Built for: Secondary school teachers of Grades 9–12 courses in Ontario and across Canada, plus the department heads, curriculum leads and administrators who support them.
What it is: An AI teaching assistant and student-chatbot platform for secondary classrooms — Grades 9–12 in Ontario and across Canada.
Built in: Ontario, Canada. Sold in Canadian dollars and used by teachers in more than one province.
Your province: Ontario course and expectation codes come from a picker. For British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, the Prairies, the Atlantic provinces and the territories, paste your own standards into the learning-standards field and they stay attached to what you generate.
French and other languages: Chatbots reply in 16 languages, including French, in either immersion mode or a bilingual mode that mixes the target language with English scaffolding for language learners.
What one prompt produces: A lesson plan, quiz, worksheet, discussion prompt, exit ticket and a pre-configured AI chatbot. Separate generators cover rubrics, assignments, parent communications and presentations.
Price (CAD per month): Free $0, S t a r t e r$ 14.95, Pro $44.95, P r e m i u m$ 99.95. The free plan is permanent and needs no credit card.
Student data: Students only talk to a chatbot their teacher configured. Transcripts are readable and gradable by that teacher. No AI-detection scores and no automated verdicts about a student. Canadian privacy practice is documented on the PIPEDA page.
Availability and contact: Online 24/7. Human replies by email, Eastern Time, on business days. adam@thesecondary.ai

One caution that applies to every tool in the table: selecting a provincial outcome attaches it to your output. It does not certify the output. A teacher still reads it against the outcome.

How the tools Canadian teachers actually compare

Country of origin, currency, provincial fit and free tier, side by side

Tool	Best for	Built in	Billed in	Your province’s curriculum	Free tier
The Secondary AI	A provincial standard carried onto every resource, plus a gradable student chat	Ontario, Canada	CAD	Ontario codes in a picker; any other province pasted in and carried onto the resource	Permanent, no card
Milo (NextClass)	Ontario report-card comments tied to Growing Success	Ontario, Canada	CAD	Ontario, built around Growing Success report-card comments	First month free
Ontario Curriculum AI	Ontario report cards, IEPs under Reg. 181/98, and lesson planning	Canada	See their site	Ontario, including IEPs under Reg. 181/98	Trial
Almanack AI	Standards-aligned planning from a large library of standards	Canada	USD-style plans	US and Canadian standards libraries	Yes
MagicSchool	The widest catalogue of single-purpose teacher templates	United States	USD	US standards; no Canadian provincial codes	Yes
Diffit	Levelling and translating one source text for a range of readers	United States	USD	No; levelling and translation, not standards	Yes
Brisk Teaching	AI feedback and edits inside Google Docs, Slides and PDFs	United States	USD	No; works inside Google Docs, Slides and PDFs	Yes
Eduaide.ai	A very wide menu of low-cost resource types	United States	USD	No	Yes
Curipod	Teacher-led writing practice with instant AI feedback	Norway	USD	No; maps to US curricula and state standards	Yes, weekly writing sessions
Khanmigo (Khan Academy)	A nonprofit tutor and prep assistant with strong maths support	United States (nonprofit)	USD; free for teachers, learner tier is US-only	No	Free for teachers
ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM	General reasoning and source-grounded study of documents you upload	United States	USD	No; you supply the framework every time	Yes

Prices and country of origin are the ones each vendor publishes as of November 2026. Where a vendor bills in US dollars we say so rather than converting, because the exchange rate moves and a converted guess is worse than no number. Check the vendor’s current terms before putting student information into any of them.

Competitor details come from each vendor's own published material, checked November 2026: MagicSchool · Diffit · Brisk Teaching · Curipod · Khanmigo (Khan Academy). Products change, so confirm anything that decides your choice with the vendor directly.

Choosing by province

Canada has thirteen curricula, not one, so here is what to do where you teach

Ontario

Course and expectation codes come from a built-in picker, including destreamed MTH1W, SNC1W and ENL1W.

British Columbia

Paste the unit’s Big Ideas and Curricular Competencies; they stay attached to the lesson and the quiz.

Alberta

Paste the relevant program-of-study outcomes for the unit. Alberta documents run long, so paste the unit, not the programme.

Quebec

Paste the PFEQ progression for the unit, and set the chatbot to French in immersion mode for a francophone class.

Saskatchewan, Manitoba

Paste the provincial outcomes for the unit; the field holds free text, so any wording you are given will work.

Atlantic provinces and the territories

Same route: paste the outcomes your department issues, and generate from there.

A tool that only follows one province will always be a compromise outside it. A tool that follows none, and asks you to describe the curriculum in a prompt every time, is a compromise everywhere. The third option is the one this page argues for: codes where they are published, a real field for everywhere else.

Billing, language and student data

The three questions Canadian review committees ask, and what the answer is here

Is the price the price?

Yes. Plans are $0,$ 14.95, $44.95 a n d$ 99.95 a month in Canadian dollars, published on the pricing page rather than quoted in US currency and converted at checkout. If your board reimburses, a CAD invoice is simpler than an exchange-rate argument.

Does it work in French?

Chatbots reply in 16 languages including French, in either immersion mode or a bilingual mode that mixes French with English scaffolding for learners who need it. That second mode is the one French immersion and core French teachers ask for, because full immersion in a first-year class is not the same as full immersion in Grade 12.

What happens to student work?

Students do not get an account and do not open a general-purpose chatbot. They talk to one chatbot their teacher configured, and the teacher can read and grade the transcript. There are no AI-detection percentages and no automated verdicts about a student. Canadian privacy practice, COPPA and FERPA positions are written out on their own pages rather than left to a footer.

None of that is a substitute for your board’s own review. It is the documentation you need to run one.

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Start with a course you teach

Pick an expectation code or paste your provincial outcome, generate the bundle, and read it against the standard yourself. The free plan is permanent, needs no card, and is the only way this page is worth the reading.

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