Special educational needs

Adapting materials for students with additional needs — without quietly teaching them less.

Every teacher knows the students who need the lesson to arrive differently. Very few have the hours to rebuild it for each of them, three times, before Sunday. So differentiation becomes the thing that gets promised in the planning document and abandoned in the week.

An accommodation changes the route, not the destination

This is the distinction the whole feature is built on. An accommodation changes how a task is worded, structured, and presented. It does not change the learning objective, and it does not lower the level of cognitive demand.

That matters because the failure mode is so easy and so invisible. An "adapted" worksheet that quietly asks less is not an accommodation — it is a different, easier lesson, and the gap it opens does not show up until much later. EdSmartly holds the objective fixed and changes only the way in.

Profiles for the groups you actually teach

Save a named, colour-coded set of accommodations for a group of students with similar needs, and reuse it. Profiles are named for the need — "Working memory support" — never for a child.

Compare three approaches in one generation

The question worth asking is rarely "should this be adapted." It is "which adaptation actually suits this class" — a simplified text, a scaffolded one, or a chunked one?

Pick up to three saved profiles and EdSmartly produces the core material once, then one accommodated version per profile, side by side, in a single generation. You read them together and choose, instead of generating three times and holding the comparison in your head.

One honest limit: bilingual output runs about twice the length, so a bilingual generation fits one adaptation. Choose a single output language to compare two or three. The app tells you when it has had to drop one rather than silently shortening the result.

What the student sees

Nothing. Accommodated material never announces itself — no line anywhere in a student-facing document says the text was adapted or that it was made for a particular group. The note naming which accommodations were applied is written for the teacher, and stays on the teacher's side of the page.

Individual plans, drafted not decided

Plan & Review turns a teacher's description of a need into a draft support plan — a specific target, the evidence behind it, the steps, and how progress gets checked.

Every draft arrives marked AI-generated draft — not yet reviewed, and it keeps that marking until a teacher approves it. The tool does not diagnose and it does not decide provision. It drafts, so the time goes into the judgement rather than the typing.

What we send, stated precisely

The child is referred to by a short reference you choose — a code or initials, like S3-04. That reference is sent to the AI as the label the draft refers to the child by, so whatever is typed into the field goes with the request. It is not kept in your generation history: we record only that a reference was supplied, never its value.

We are spelling this out rather than rounding it up to "nothing ever leaves the platform," because that would be untrue and it is exactly the sentence a school would later hold us to. A code identifies the child to you and to no one else. A full name would be sent as written — which is why the field asks for a code.

Your content is never used to train any AI model, ours or a third party's, on any plan including free ones.

What we do not claim

Seeing it properly

If you lead SEN provision in a Gulf school and want to put this in front of real material rather than a demo script, write to hello@edsmartly.com. Bring a topic your teachers actually find hard to adapt.