The start of a new school year is full of possibilities. New students, fresh ideas, and exciting opportunities are just around the corner. But alongside that excitement comes the reality of lesson planning, classroom setup, assessment preparation, and the ongoing challenge of meeting the needs of every learner. That's why our team spent the summer focused on one goal: helping teachers spend less time managing teaching tools and more time teaching.
Whether it is building lessons, checking for understanding, or leading whole-class activities, Lumio is designed to support teachers throughout the entire teaching day. It's the one tool that brings lesson planning, student assessment, and collaboration together in a single platform, removing the need for having multiple teaching tools while reducing workload and creating more engaging and inclusive learning experiences for students. With student accessibility built in, Lumio helps every learner get the most out of the lesson.
Save Time with AI Assist: Faster Lesson Planning
What if teachers could get back up to 4 hours every week1 to focus on what matters most: their students? With Lumio's AI Assist, teachers can. Lesson planning, resource discovery, and activity creation are some of the most time-consuming parts of teaching, with lesson planning alone taking an average of 3-4 hours each week, not including the time spent searching for resources or building assessments. Lumio's AI Assist helps teachers reclaim that time by generating complete, curriculum-aligned lessons from a simple prompt and transforming existing content into interactive activities that drive classroom engagement, in seconds instead of hours.
AI Assist is one of the teaching tools inside Lumio that helps teachers quickly generate:
- Standards-aligned questions and answers
- Formative assessments
- Interactive activities
- Practice worksheets
- Complete lessons from a single prompt
Rather than starting from scratch, Lumio allows teachers to transform an idea, PDF, slide deck, or existing resource into an interactive learning experience in minutes. Teachers remain in full control of how they teach, while AI speeds up lesson planning and preparation.
And now, it goes even further. New AI-powered activity generation allows teachers to create engaging activities using lessons they already have. Simply import the lesson into Lumio, launch AI Assist, and select the desired activity types. In seconds, Lumio generates lesson-aligned activities that lift classroom engagement and integrate seamlessly into existing content, helping create interactive learning experiences without starting from scratch. The result: less time spent on lesson planning and building materials, and more time spent teaching.
Gain Real Time Visibility into Classroom Engagement and Student Learning
Imagine this: students are working through an activity while a teacher monitors everyone's progress from a single dashboard in real time. No jumping between submissions. No opening individual handouts. Just one consolidated view of the entire class. That's the power of Lumio's live Handout Dashboard.
Live Handout Dashboard is one of the teaching tools that gives teachers a real-time view of student work from a single dashboard. Teachers can quickly see who is actively participating, who may need additional support, and where learning gaps are emerging. Instead of spending valuable time opening individual submissions or switching between screens, teachers can respond to student needs in the moment and adjust instruction as learning unfolds.
Combined with Lumio's interactive activities and formative assessment tools, these insights help create more responsive learning experiences and sustain classroom engagement throughout the lesson.
Export Handouts to PDF (Beta)*
More Ways to Share, Save, and Support Student Accessibility
Sharing and preserving student work shouldn't require extra steps. Whether communicating with families, providing materials for student review, or maintaining records for future reference, teachers often need a simple way to take learning beyond the live lesson. With Export Handouts to PDF, this is possible.
Export Handouts to PDF makes it easy to convert Lumio handouts into a universally accessible format for sharing, printing, and archiving. Developed in response to teacher feedback, this feature makes it easier to extend learning beyond the live lesson while keeping everything organized in one place.
Whether it's sending work home, supporting student review, or maintaining classroom records, PDF export provides greater flexibility without adding extra steps to a teacher's workflow.
Want to try it early? Join the Lumio Beta program for early access to upcoming teaching tools and features.
Improve Student Accessibility and Support More Inclusive Learning
Every student deserves access to meaningful learning opportunities. In Lumio, student accessibility is not an add-on. It is built into the platform.
This summer, Lumio introduced significant student accessibility enhancements that bring the student experience into conformance with WCAG 2.2 accessibility standards. Students using assistive technologies can now participate more independently through improved keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and support for alternative text.
These improvements build on Lumio's student accessibility foundation. Designed with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, Lumio supports multiple ways for students to access and engage with content. Existing student accessibility features include Microsoft Immersive Reader, which provides text-to-speech and translation support, along with teaching tools that allow teachers to add audio recordings directly to lesson content.
Together, these updates help create classrooms where more students can participate, contribute, and succeed independently, and where classroom engagement includes every learner.
Teaching Tools for the Whole Teaching Day, in One Place
Teachers already balance enough responsibilities without managing multiple disconnected teaching tools.
That's why Lumio continues to evolve as the one tool for the whole teaching day. From lesson planning and classroom engagement to assessment, student accessibility, collaboration, and classroom delivery, Lumio brings everything together in a single platform.
Research from our teacher community shows that Lumio can help return more than four hours per week to teachers by streamlining lesson planning, resource discovery, assessment creation, and classroom workflows.
Whether a longtime Lumio user or just getting started, there's never been a better time to explore what's happening in Lumio. Existing users can try these new teaching tools in their account today*, and new teachers can get started for free with no credit card required.
Here's to a great year ahead.
Features marked as Beta are available to users enrolled in the Lumio Beta program. To get early access to upcoming features and enhancements, select join Lumio Beta in the User Menu of your Lumio account.
1 Source: RAND Corporation, Gates Foundation, NASUWT surveys; SMART Technologies analysis and educator research.