Fifty-seven percent of college students now use AI tools every week, according to a 2024 Tyton Partners survey. The other 43% are mostly doing things the hard way. Whether you're trying to pass organic chemistry, survive parent-teacher conference week, or get your kid through a book report due tomorrow, AI is faster than Google and more patient than most tutors.
This is a catalog of 33 prompts from AgentDock's education library, split between students and teachers, grouped by what you actually need to do. Every link goes directly to a working prompt. Nothing requires a login.
For Students: Study Smarter, Not Longer
A 2023 Stanford Human-Centered AI study found students who used AI tutoring tools before exams scored 15% higher on average. The gap wasn't intelligence. It was preparation quality.
When You Have a Test in Three Days and No Plan
"Study chemistry this weekend" isn't a plan. It's a vague intention that becomes three hours on YouTube. The Exam Study Coach asks what you're being tested on, how much time you have, and what you already know, then builds a day-by-day schedule with specific topics and time blocks. For longer timelines, the Study Plan Generator maps an entire semester so you don't discover three exams on the same week.
When You Can't Make a Concept Click
You've read the same paragraph four times. Still nothing. The Concept Explainer takes whatever you're stuck on and explains it in plain language with a real-world analogy, adjusted to your level. For physics, chemistry, and biology, the Science Concept Explainer handles the intuition behind formulas that textbooks skip.
When You Need to Memorize a Lot of Things Fast
Flashcards work. Making them is tedious enough that most people skip it until the night before. The Flashcard Generator turns your notes or a chapter summary into question-answer cards in one pass. Output drops straight into Anki or Quizlet. Thirty seconds versus an hour of writing by hand.
When You Have a Homework Problem You Can't Solve
Your kid has a math worksheet and you haven't thought about long division in 20 years. The Homework Helper walks through problems step by step, showing reasoning rather than just answers. For math specifically, the Math Problem Solver goes deeper on algebra, geometry, and calculus with each transition shown clearly enough to reproduce on a test.
When You Need to Write an Essay and Have No Idea Where to Start
Staring at a blank page is a structure problem, not a productivity problem. The Essay Outline Creator takes your topic and thesis and outputs main points, subpoints, and a suggested approach for each section. For research papers, the Research Paper Outline Generator follows academic conventions including methodology and literature review.
When You Need to Understand a Book Quickly
A 400-page novel assigned four days ago, discussion is Tuesday morning. The Book Summary Generator gives you chapter-by-chapter summaries with themes, key characters, and important passages flagged. It won't replace a close reading for essay purposes, but it's the fastest way to participate in class discussion honestly.
When You Need to Research a Topic from Scratch
Opening twelve browser tabs and losing track of all of them is the default research experience. The Topic Research Assistant gives you a structured overview (key concepts, main debates, important figures) before you start finding primary sources. For comparing two theories or approaches, the Comparison Analyzer builds a side-by-side breakdown.
When You're Learning a Language
Language classes move at the pace of the slowest student and give you feedback on a schedule that doesn't match how you learn. The Language Learning Helper provides personalized practice based on your level. For translation beyond word-for-word, the Translation Helper handles register, nuance, and common usage so you don't end up with technically correct but obviously unnatural sentences.
For Teachers: Less Admin, More Teaching
Teachers spend up to 50% of their time on tasks that have nothing to do with instruction: grading, planning, writing parent emails, generating materials (McKinsey). MagicSchool AI grew to 3 million teacher users in under 18 months, which tells you something about the demand for tools that reduce that overhead.
When You Need a Lesson Plan by Tomorrow
The Lesson Plan Template generates standards-aligned plans from grade level, subject, learning objective, and available time. Full structure: warm-up, instruction, guided practice, independent practice, closure. For differentiated classrooms, the Differentiated Instruction prompt generates tiered versions (below, at, and above grade level) from one day's content.
When You Need to Build an Assessment
Three types, three prompts. The Quiz Maker generates multiple-choice and short-answer questions with answer keys. The Test Maker builds full summative assessments with varied question types. The Exit Ticket Generator creates two-to-three question formative checks for end of class. A quiz that takes 20 minutes to write takes about 90 seconds.
When Grading Is Taking All Night
The Essay Grader provides rubric-aligned feedback on student writing with scores by category and specific comments. You're editing a draft of feedback rather than writing from zero. The Rubric Maker generates the rubric itself if you don't have one yet, with clear criteria and descriptors for each level.
When You Need Discussion Questions That Actually Work
Bad discussion questions get one-word answers because they're recall questions disguised as discussion questions. The Discussion Questions Generator produces questions requiring students to take a position or defend a claim. The Writing Prompt Generator does the same for written assignments: enough direction to start, not so much scaffolding that everyone writes the same essay.
When You Need Worksheets or Word Problems
The Worksheet Maker creates practice sheets for any skill at any grade level, handling formatting and difficulty gradation. The Math Word Problems prompt generates grade-appropriate story problems with the right vocabulary and real-world context. Both save you from hunting through workbooks for problems that are almost right but need editing.
When You Need Writing Scaffolding for Students
Students who struggle with writing need a starting point more than feedback. The Sentence Starters Generator creates age-appropriate sentence frames for any genre or topic, giving students the opening syntax to get a thought on paper. The Study Guide Generator transforms your notes into a formatted guide with key terms and review questions.
When a Student Needs a Book Report Template
Assigning a book report without structure is asking students to invent a genre while also reading a book. The Book Report Template generates a structured outline with section prompts for plot summary, character analysis, theme identification, and personal response, in language appropriate to the grade level. Standardizes the format so you're not explaining it to fifteen students individually.
When Parent-Teacher Conferences Are This Week
You're translating months of classroom observation into a ten-minute conversation with someone who has strong feelings about their kid. The Parent Teacher Conference Prep generates structured talking points per student: what's working, what needs attention, actionable next steps. The Report Card Comments Generator handles written feedback with specific language instead of the same three sentences with names swapped.
When You Need to Build a Syllabus
A syllabus with missing sections creates problems all semester in the form of questions that should have been answered upfront. The Syllabus Template creates a course document with all standard sections: description, objectives, weekly schedule, grading breakdown, late work policy, academic integrity. What takes an afternoon from scratch takes about twenty minutes.
When You Have Students with IEPs
Writing SMART IEP goals is a specific technical skill that takes real time per student. The IEP Goal Writer generates goals meeting Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound criteria across reading, math, writing, and behavior. Give it current performance level, target skill, and timeline. Faster and more consistent than a goal bank that doesn't quite fit.
When You Need to Set Classroom Rules
Rules written in negative language ("no talking," "don't touch") create an adversarial frame. The Classroom Rules Generator creates age-appropriate rules in positive language (what students should do, not shouldn't) for your grade level and classroom type. Specify your priorities and it produces a clear set for the first day.
Two More That Fit Both Audiences
Two prompts serve both sides of the classroom. Citations and math are universal pain points.
When You Need to Cite Sources
Nobody has every citation format memorized. The Research Paper Outline Generator includes citation scaffolding as part of the structure, and the Topic Research Assistant identifies which sources are worth citing. Useful for students writing papers and teachers checking formatting.
When You Need Math Problems at the Right Level
Students and teachers are on opposite sides of the same problem. The Math Problem Solver gives students step-by-step solutions with reasoning. The Math Word Problems gives teachers grade-appropriate problems without workbook hunting. One generates, one solves.
How to Get the Most Out of These Prompts
Specificity is everything. "Help me study" is a situation. "Help me study the causes of World War I for a 10th-grade AP exam in four days, focusing on the alliance system because that's what the essay question is about" is a request the Exam Study Coach can actually act on.
For teachers building a unit: Lesson Plan Template for the main lesson, Differentiated Instruction for tiered versions, Exit Ticket Generator for daily comprehension checks, Quiz Maker for the end-of-unit assessment. Complete unit arc in under an hour.
For students before a test: Exam Study Coach for a day-by-day plan, Concept Explainer for anything still unclear, Flashcard Generator for final review. Three prompts, a study system better than most tutors.
For parents helping with homework: The Homework Helper covers most subjects. When it's specifically math and you haven't factored a polynomial in fifteen years, the Math Problem Solver explains steps clearly enough to walk your kid through it. When the assignment is a book you've never read, Book Summary Generator gets you both up to speed.
None of these prompts do the learning for you. The study coach doesn't take the test. The essay outline doesn't write the essay. What they eliminate is the setup time, the time spent figuring out where to start, which is the thing that makes studying, teaching, or helping with homework feel impossible before it even begins.