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Lumio Updates Speed AI-Powered Lesson Creation

Key Takeaways

  • SMART Technologies is introducing new AI-powered enhancements to its Lumio learning platform, aimed at helping teachers create and launch lessons more quickly by streamlining lesson setup, workflows, and content creation.
  • New features include Instant Start Lessons, Team Libraries, and expanded accessibility support, enabling faster classroom activity launches, shared lesson resource collaboration, and improved compatibility with screen readers and keyboard navigation.
  • The updates build on Lumio's AI Assist feature announced last summer, which allows teachers to generate complete, editable lessons from prompts while maintaining control over instructional content.

Lumio, the learning platform from SMART Technologies, is introducing new AI enhancements to help speed lesson creation for teachers. The updates "were created in direct response to feedback from teachers and focus on the challenges educators say slow them down most: lesson setup, workflows, and the need to create engaging content quickly, all without sacrificing creativity, control, or student engagement," the company said in a news announcement.

What's New

The new features include:

  • Instant Start Lessons, enabling teachers to more quickly launch common classroom activities, such as polls and quick checks for understanding, within a click or two.
  • Team Libraries, providing a shared space for educators to share, organize, and build on lesson resources together.
  • Accessibility Improvements, offering improved keyboard navigation and expanded compatibility with screen readers, including ChromeVox, Narrator, VoiceOver, JAWS, and NVDA.

Product Background

The enhancements add to Lumio's AI Assist feature announced last summer, a generative AI tool that can help create learning activities, discussion prompts, and assessments.

"AI Assist was designed to remove friction from lesson creation by giving teachers a fast, flexible starting point while keeping them in full control of the content," the company explained. "With the latest enhancements, teachers can begin with a simple prompt and instantly generate a complete, editable lesson with activities, handouts, and discussion tools already built in. Educators can then quickly review, refine, and personalize the lesson before delivering it."

Executive View

"Teachers tell us time is their most limited resource," commented Dan McMahon, vice president of software at SMART Technologies. "AI-powered lesson creation helps educators move from idea to instruction in moments, while still teaching the way they know works best. That's a game-changer for everyday classroom practice."

For more information, visit the Lumio site.

About the Author

Rhea Kelly is editor in chief for Campus Technology, THE Journal, and Spaces4Learning. She can be reached at [email protected].