Artificial Intelligence
AI in school software is usually sold as a revolution. In practice the useful version is narrower and duller: it takes the repetitive parts of a teacher's week and gives the hours back.
SCL Connect in 60 Seconds
SCL Connect is the AI inside SCL. It writes questions against the standards an assignment assesses, drafts lesson plans from your unit, and suggests a mark and feedback on written answers for the teacher to decide. Your school chooses what is switched on, and no AI writes for parents or students.
SCL Connect is the service that brings AI into SCL. Your school switches it on and pairs it to your own divisions, grades and subjects, so everything the AI does is grounded in your own curriculum.
Once it is on, teachers get real help with the slowest parts of the week: an assistant that suggests a score and feedback on written answers, a writing helper for messages, comments and announcements, and tools that build a quiz from a topic or a document.
Nothing happens behind a teacher's back. Every AI suggestion is theirs to apply, edit or discard, grading stays human unless you decide otherwise, and SCL records each suggestion so you can always answer which marks were AI-assisted.
On an interactive assignment, a teacher can ask SCL Connect to read a written answer and suggest a score, feedback and a confidence level. The suggestion only fills the boxes to apply, edit or discard, so the grade always stays the teacher's own.
Give the AI a rule for a single answer, such as accept any two valid causes or ignore spelling, or auto-correct every unmarked answer in a submission at once. Each result waits as a suggestion with a confidence level, ready for the teacher to review and apply together.
A writing assistant in messages, newsletters, discussions, report card comments and marking feedback composes, rephrases, improves or summarizes what staff type. Each teacher sets their own tones and instructions in AI Settings, so what goes home still sounds like them.
The Assignment Generator builds ready-to-use questions from the topics and number a teacher picks, and can extract or generate more from a document you upload. Every question waits on a review screen, and only the ones the teacher ticks join the assignment. Teachers assemble an interactive assignment in minutes instead of writing every question by hand.
In the planner, a teacher can generate a lesson's activities from the unit it belongs to: its objectives, standards and assessments, and for IB units its key concepts, statement of inquiry and global context. Coordinators get planning that starts from the framework, not a blank page.
With SCL Connect on, students get Quick Review and Flash Cards drawn per subject from the Global Question Bank, for self-paced practice that is never scored. Revision stops depending on a teacher building every set by hand, and it grows with each subject you pair.
Report card comments written with AI: compose, rephrase, improve or summarize
SCL Today
Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code or Codex through SCL Connect, and staff ask in plain words: add a classroom, check this term's absences, reword a notification. The assistant signs in as that person and never does more than their role and educational levels allow.
Assistants read freely, but they preview each change and wait for the person's yes, deleting starts switched off, and the Activity tab records every request. Administrators choose which staff groups may connect, and can revoke a connection or block a program at any time.
Ask Claude or ChatGPT for this term's absences, a roster or a custom report, and it runs the same built-in reports as the Reports page, with the same figures. Billing, wellbeing and message logs stay closed, and health or identity details hidden, until the school opts in.
Paste next year's term dates and the assistant adds every holiday and exam week to the Calendar, or hand it a publisher's list and it catalogues the library. It also checks grading scales for gaps, sets up criteria, appointments and behaviour, and shows each change first.
With SCL Connect on, staff choose Ask a question in the Help menu and get steps, the guide's video and links to the sections used, written only from the SCL Help Center guides. What's new answers for the school's own version of SCL.
The Assignment Generator writes a mixed quiz in one request from what the assignment is aligned to: its standards, subject objectives and unit. A Standards coverage strip counts the questions per standard, and nothing joins the assignment until the teacher ticks it.
Connected modules
These modules share the same student record, so what happens in one shows in the others.
Set your own grading scales, weight assessment types per subject and score IB criteria in one gradebook, with a live earned grade for every student.
Assignments, gradebook, discussions, virtual classrooms and curriculum planning, on the same database as your student records. One system, not two.
Generate American, British, Egyptian and IB report cards from the grades teachers already enter, for a whole quarter at once, with no re-keying.
Every screen and every action governed by permissions you grant per role, down to whether a user may access, create, edit or delete. Not a fixed set of roles.
