The EduCreate AI Lab at the University of South Florida develops AI platforms that support educators, researchers, and institutions in using artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively.
TeacherServer is a free AI platform designed specifically for educators. It provides more than 1,000 AI tools supporting lesson planning, classroom activities, assessment, research, and course design.
The platform runs on a local server for speed and privacy, ensuring that educator and student data are not stored or shared.
TeacherServerPro allows educators to create their own AI wrapper tools without any coding. Users can build custom AI tools tailored to their specific teaching context, then modify, publish, and share them with colleagues, students, or the public.
The platform runs on a local server for speed and privacy, ensuring that educator and student data are not stored or shared.
GrantServer helps researchers and universities identify relevant grant opportunities more efficiently. The platform collects federal and state grant announcements and uses AI to match research project ideas with the most relevant funding opportunities.
Users can also interact with grant descriptions using AI to understand eligibility requirements, deadlines, and project fit.
AI Supported Exam Study is an AI-powered platform for certification and standardized exam preparation. It provides structured courses with modules, lessons, quizzes, and exams aligned to exam competencies.
An integrated AI assistant helps learners review concepts, understand mistakes, and improve performance through guided explanations.
The platform currently supports multiple FTCE subject areas, including Elementary Education (K–6), Computer Science K–12, Professional Education, and Exceptional Student Education.
AI Quiz Builder is an AI-powered platform that helps educators turn readings, handouts, and PDF documents into ready-to-use classroom quizzes. The system generates quiz questions from uploaded materials, allows teachers to review and edit each item, and provides a simple student-facing experience for quiz delivery.
Educators can share quizzes through a direct link or code, while the reporting dashboard tracks student scores, attempt history, and class performance. The platform is designed to reduce quiz creation time while making classroom assessment faster and easier to manage.
AI Phone Call Simulator is a voice-based practice platform that helps preservice teachers build confidence handling difficult phone conversations with parents and students. Candidates choose from six AI-driven scenarios ranging from homework complaints and grade disputes to accusations of teacher misconduct.
The AI caller speaks through the browser and responds dynamically to the candidate's tone and choices. Each session is transcribed and scored across five dimensions: empathy, professional tone, clarity, problem-solving, and boundary setting. Hard-mode scenarios apply increased pressure to stress-test responses under realistic conditions.
Classroom Management Oral Assessment is a formal voice-based examination platform for teacher preparation programs. Unlike practice tools, this system is designed for graded assessment — candidates must respond in real time to AI-simulated parent and student calls, with no opportunity to edit or retry.
Faculty assign specific scenarios and review scored transcripts through a password-protected dashboard. Each session is automatically evaluated against a structured rubric, providing instructors with consistent, evidence-based data on candidate communication skills across empathy, tone, clarity, problem-solving, and boundary setting.
AI Job Interview Coach is an AI-powered interview preparation platform for students, graduates, and career changers. Users paste a job description and optionally provide a resume. The system analyzes both, identifies relevant competencies and experience gaps, then conducts a personalized 10-question voice interview through a realistic AI interviewer persona tailored to the specific role.
After the session, candidates receive a 100-point evaluation across five dimensions, a hiring committee simulation with three independent reviewer perspectives, per-question coaching with sample strong answers, STAR method analysis, and a full written report with actionable next steps for improvement.
Dissertation Defense Simulator is an AI-powered practice platform that prepares doctoral and graduate students for their dissertation or thesis defense. Users upload their research document and the system automatically builds a personalized committee of three AI faculty — a methods expert, a content expert, and a committee chair — each drawing questions directly from the candidate's own work.
The defense runs as a live voice session with speech recognition and natural text-to-speech. After the session, candidates receive a 100-point evaluation across five dimensions, detailed committee member reports, per-question coaching with stronger sample answers, and a full readiness assessment with recommended preparation activities.
The Course Dropout Monitor uses AI to detect early warning signs that students may be at risk of dropping out. By connecting with Canvas LMS, the system analyzes anonymized course data and alerts instructors when patterns such as missed assignments or sudden grade changes appear.
This allows faculty to intervene early and support students before problems escalate.
ProgramNavigator helps students and prospective applicants explore university programs using artificial intelligence. Instead of searching through long program catalogs, users can ask questions about interests, career goals, or degree levels and receive personalized program recommendations.
The system analyzes university program descriptions and provides clear summaries, helping users quickly identify programs that match their academic and professional goals.
The AI-Integrated IES Practices platform makes evidence-based teaching strategies easier to explore using artificial intelligence. The system uses a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach to allow educators to search and interact with Institute of Education Sciences practice guides.
Educators can quickly find research-based strategies, classroom practices, and instructional recommendations.
