Open Tools

Free tools for the field

Everything we build is open. Games, assessment infrastructure, research instruments, and AI tools — free for educators, researchers, and developers.

Games & LearningLive
10M+US students reached

PlayPower Games

50+ free K-8 math games

Free educational math games covering half of K-8 topics, available in English and Spanish. Built by Play Power Labs, distributed freely for the field.

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Assessment & DataLive
34K+CC-licensed items

Open Assessment Items

34K+ CC-licensed K-12 math items

Creative Commons licensed assessment items with psychometric data, AI generation, LLM evaluation, and 18 interactive math widgets — built on the Learning Commons Knowledge Graph.

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Assessment & DataLive
5M+assessments processed

SmartPaper

Computer vision for paper-based assessment

Teachers print worksheets, students write by hand, AI scores instantly. Deployed across government schools in Rajasthan, India. UNESCO-recognized.

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Research ToolsLive

Item Difficulty Estimator

LLM-powered difficulty estimation for assessment items

Estimate assessment item difficulty using chain-of-thought analysis with bias correction. Supports 9 item types and 28 interactive math widgets across K-8. Based on our AIED 2026 research.

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Research ToolsLive
Opensource

UpGrade

Open-source A/B testing for education

Experimentation platform purpose-built for educational software. Supports multi-armed bandit and factorial designs. Funded by Gates Foundation and Schmidt Futures.

github.com/CarnegieLearningWeb/UpGrade →
AI ToolsBeta

AI Teacher Tools

Lesson planning, worksheets, text leveling

AI-powered tools for teachers: lesson planning, activity planning, worksheet creation, and text leveling. Full K-12 curriculum generation at $25 total cost.

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