Copilot Teach—built into the Microsoft 365 Copilot app and Microsoft Teams for Education—offers Irish teachers a powerful, time‑saving way to plan, differentiate, and assess learning. Designed specifically for educators, it provides AI‑generated lesson plans, quizzes, rubrics, and study materials that can be adapted to your curriculum needs.
Aligning to the Irish Specification
One of the standout features of Copilot Teach is its ability to align content to relevant curriculum standards. The tool supports over 35 international standards frameworks, meaning Irish Junior Cycle and Senior Cycle learning outcomes can be integrated by prompting the tool with your subject specification, key learning outcomes, or elements.
For example, teachers can request:
“Align this lesson to Junior Cycle Science Learning Outcomes: Nature of Science (NOS) 1, 3, and 5.”
Copilot will then adjust lesson plans, assessments, and success criteria accordingly, ensuring they meet Irish expectations while still allowing teachers to customise, refine, and contextualise the material for their students.
Planning with Copilot Teach
With Copilot Teach, teachers can generate lesson plans in minutes—from learning intentions to suggested activities and differentiation strategies. The tool also allows quick modification of reading levels, language, and examples to support mixed‑ability classrooms. Rubrics and quizzes can be created instantly, grounded in your learning outcomes, and exported directly to Word, Forms, or Teams.
Accessing Copilot Teach Through Teams Assignments
Copilot Teach is integrated into Microsoft Teams for Education, allowing you to generate assessments, quizzes, and rubrics directly within the Assignments feature. Teachers can launch Teach from the Copilot app or via Teams where it appears as part of Classwork and Assignments workflows.
This means you can:
- Create or adapt a quiz with Copilot,
- Attach it to an Assignment,
- Automatically deploy it to students,
- Use insights and rubrics for streamlined marking.