Website Approval Request

Submitted Website Approval Request

Submitted By: bmonson on 1/22/2025 10:38:41 AM
Requestor Work Location*: Youth Education Support School (YESS)
Requestor Title*: Technology Specialist
Website Name*: Alayna
Website Description*: Site is for teacher use that has tools that use AI. Google slides Generator - Craft stunning, captivating, and powerful presentations—featuring images, lecture notes, charts, and beautiful themes—all in a matter of minutes. Ask Alayna Chatbot - Chat with Alayna AI to brainstorm ideas, answer questions, create images, and get handheld assistance with over 100 different teaching tasks—all with reliable citations from the web. Teaching Resources Generator, Curriculum Co-Designer - Create over 20 types of leveled teaching resources for any topic, YouTube video or file upload—MCQs, reading passages, discussion questions and more. Image Generator - Create over 20 types of leveled teaching resources for any topic, YouTube video or file upload—MCQs, reading passages, discussion questions and more..
URL (Required)*: https://alayna.ai/
Purpose / Use / Notes*: Teacher like using the google slide creator. Putting in the objectives and standards or lesson plan and it creates the slide deck that can then be edited. It includes citations which is helpful. We also like the Teacher resource Generator that generates several teaching resource ideas from lesson hook to discussion questions. Word banks and assessments based on your lesson plan.
Vendor Technical Contact Name: Hrishi Vora
Vendor Technical Contact Phone Number: hrishi@alayna.us
Lower Grade Range for Website*: Kindergarten
Upper Grade Range for Software*: 12th Grade
Category*: Curriculum / Classroom Educational Technology
Is student data shared with the software vendor?*: No
Does the website allow Clever logins?*: I'm not sure

Submitted Educational Software Specialist Form

Submitted By: cslarsen on 1/22/2025 10:52:38 AM

Content/Simulation

Instructional Content*: Not Applicable
Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Teacher/Learning Approach*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Assessment*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Flexibility*: Not Applicable
Technology Effectiveness*: Not Applicable

Productivity

Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Technical Aspects*: Not Applicable
Flexibility*: Not Applicable

Assessment

Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Assessment*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Technical Aspects*: Not Applicable

Technology Effectiveness

Technology Effectiveness*: Not Applicable
Comments: We have other district or state provided resources that meet these needs such as School AI (student lessons, lesson plan creator, curriculum co-designer), Adobe Express (image generation), Canva for Edu (image and presentation generation), Screencastify (AI-generated video questions)

Approved*: No

Submitted Educational Software Specialist Form

Submitted By: ajbirrell on 1/22/2025 11:32:49 AM

Content/Simulation

Instructional Content*: Not Applicable
Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Teacher/Learning Approach*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Assessment*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Flexibility*: Not Applicable
Technology Effectiveness*: Not Applicable

Productivity

Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Technical Aspects*: Not Applicable
Flexibility*: Not Applicable

Assessment

Curriculum Connection*: Not Applicable
Age/Grade Level*: Not Applicable
Assessment*: Not Applicable
Perspective*: Not Applicable
Technical Aspects*: Not Applicable

Technology Effectiveness

Technology Effectiveness*: Not Applicable
Comments: I agree with the previous approval comment. "We have other district or state provided resources that meet these needs such as School AI (student lessons, lesson plan creator, curriculum co-designer), Adobe Express (image generation), Canva for Edu (image and presentation generation), Screencastify (AI-generated video questions)."

Approved*: No

Submitted Website Review Form

Submitted By: ancameron on 1/22/2025 12:42:38 PM
District Firewall Exceptions?*: No
Firewall Notes:
iBoss Exception?*: No
iBoss Notes: Action Not Blocked Categories Informational Status Url Known
Notes:
Approved*: No
Approval Notes: From the technical side, this website would work if it is approved by other members of the review committee.

Submitted Final Approval Form

Submitted By: rranthony on 1/22/2025 1:50:29 PM
Approved*: No
Notes: We have other district or state provided resources that meet these needs such as School AI (student lessons, lesson plan creator, curriculum co-designer), Adobe Express (image generation), Canva for Edu (image and presentation generation), Screencastify (AI-generated video questions)