AI Ready for Schools - IAMAI Mecha
Mecha is School AI Management System, purpose built for schools and systems
Your Azure cloud, your curriculum, your AI tools, your control.
Mecha has got you covered.
It's simple, because we do most of the heavy lifting, turning prompts into reusable AI tools such as a chatbot for students to ask questions about an assignment. All data and AI tools use stays within your own Azure. Control the AI app sprawl and bring AI use back under the enterprise, securing your data and IP, use your own AI tools instead of paying for SaaS AI tools.
Mecha can enable alternative AI licensing options, content moderation and LLM oversight. It can also add AI context such as school values, principles and your local curriculum to guide Gen AI. It contains learnings on LLM instructions which dramatically improves the quality when in creating content, quizzes, notes, homework, acting as a tutor, course guide or socratic chat bot to help both students and staff.
As long term experts in AI and with 30 years of working with schools we knew that there are risks of hundreds of single use AI applications that aren’t integrated with a school’s existing digital systems. The challenges schools are facing with their early attempts to put AI to work in the staffroom or the classroom. We’ve heard about 4 key problems from school CIOs and digital leaders:
Huge variation in AI confidence and use - some schools (and some teachers) are racing ahead, using in lots of ways to great benefit, whilst others are stuck at the start
Staff can struggle to use Chatbots and need help to make the most of AI - in AI trials in Australia, staff reported there being significant learning in how to get quality educational outputs and were not sure what to do.
Little control over apps, data and what teachers and students are using AI for - With so many different tools, data IT departments are stuggling to assess apps, and new licensing costs for tools which are mostly wrappers around the same LLM.
New high costs for AI and LLMs - that aren’t in budgets and inflexible licencing options and they are looking for sustabibale options where use and reporting on use can help t cap or have oversight of usage
Book a demo or talk to us about how Mecha can help you
Mecha puts you back in control and lowers the learning barrier for staff and students. It protects them (and you) by guiding them to learn about AI as they use AI (safely). All done in your own cloud with own data, using tools you create and control.
Mecha’s benefits are:
Reduce the App explosion - no need to explore the 1000+ AI apps on the market, Mecha covers the 6 key school use cases with 200 tools as templates. You can easily have your own DIff-it or Khanmigo. Embed tools in your existing LMS so people can use AI tools within the environment they are already familiar with using your authentication.
Reduces teacher’s learning burden - Level the AI playing field across staff, catering for staff with low digital literacy with scaffolded AI tools and associated professional learning as well as providing advanced AI automation and Chatbot extension tools for your AI leaders that can be shared amongst staff bringing the best practices to the surface.
Global LLM Controls - You can set school and system wide guides and guardrails over all prompts used. Set your expectations around AI responses setting curriculum, approaches to learning and values, all of which reduces your exposure for high risk AI use by staff and students. There is an additional Content Moderation AI, hosted within your environment which uses a special fine tuned AI to categorise track and report students interactions with AI.
Works with and extends co-pilots - Mecha tools help teachers be better prepared for co-pilot and other ‘built in’ AI by combining teachers’ use of enterprise tools with learning about sophisticated prompting. Mecha tools add an educational layer, with relevant curriculum and pedagogical context and prompt management.
Own your destiny by making and controlling your own AI tools - Leverage innovators across your schools, capture innovation in your system by reusing versions aligned to your own guidance and curriculum. Create and keep your own IP for what makes your school and system unique. Build and learn from each new automation across your environment.
Your own Cloud; your data protected and under your control - Deployment on your environments with Terraform. Reduce data leakage, because AI use is happening in your environment you can direct users away from 3rd party systems with personal logins, reducing the apps where you have no visibility or control on what school information is being shared potentially breaching privacy, confidentiality and copyright protections.
Sustainability and Oversight - Control costs by using usage based caps rather than fixed per seat licensing. No more paying for a licence and wondering if they will be effectively used. Additionally directing users and uses to the most cost effective LLM for the particular job. Get reports on the most popular, most used and most expensive activities as well as individual users.
