Edexia vs Teacher's Buddy: AI for schools, compared (2026)

Teacher's Buddy helps teachers make lesson plans, worksheets and report comments. Edexia is where students do their classwork, tasks and exams, and where you can see whether the work is their own.

Teacher's Buddy

Teacher planning and admin.

Lesson plans, worksheets, quizzes and IEPs.
Report comments.
Feedback on work a teacher uploads.

Edexia

Classwork, tasks and exams, Years 7 to 12.

Set work from the question bank or your own questions.
An optional AI tutor that explains and asks questions back, but can't write the work. You can read every chat.
Writing replay shows how a typed piece came together.
Feedback against your board's criteria, released only once you've checked it.

Feature by feature

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Classwork and the AI tutor

Edexia: Classwork, assessments and exams, typed or handwritten.

Teacher's Buddy: Student accounts aren't described. It is a teacher's toolkit.

Integrity

Feedback and marking

Exams and departments

Security

Does it Partly Not described on their websiteChecked 16 October 2026. Tap a row for the detail.

Based on Teacher's Buddy's website as of 16 October 2026. Features change, so check their website for the latest.

Where Edexia goes further

An optional AI tutor that won't do the work

Students can ask it what a question is asking, how to plan an answer or how to make a paragraph better. It explains and asks questions back, but it can't write into their work or give the answer, and you can read every chat.

See how every typed piece was written

Writing replay plays a response back keystroke by keystroke, and every response carries an AI-likelihood signal. Neither one decides anything. Together they give a teacher something real to talk to a student about.

Handwritten work, marked against your criteria

Most of what students write in class and exams is still on paper. Scan it on a phone or laptop, or drop in a PDF of a whole set of exam scripts. Edexia transcribes it beside the original page and drafts feedback against VCAA, NESA, QCAA, SCSA or IB criteria.

One standard across the department

Mark blind, then compare with colleagues and Edexia side by side and settle the final mark together. Heads of department see how every teacher marks, from their own assessments.

Instructions

20 marks

Explain how the composer represents the tension between individual freedom and collective control. Refer closely to the text.

Response

Orwell positions Winston's private diary as the first act of resistance, yet the novel never lets that freedom stand alone. Each entry is written in the knowledge that it will be found, so the act of writing becomes both defiance and surrender.

The Party's control is most visible in language. Newspeak narrows what can be thought by narrowing what can be said, and Syme's enthusiasm for the destruction of words shows that collective control is sustained by willing participants rather than force alone.

By the final chapter the tension is resolved in the Party's favour. The closing line, that Winston loved Big Brother, reframes every earlier moment of rebellion as a stage in his re-education.

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Due Fri 16 Oct, 3:30pm Release

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StudentSearch students	Teacher 2	Teacher 3	You	Edexia	Final	Spread
Student 471	13/20	14/20	14/20	15/20	14/20	2
Student 128	11/20	12/20	11/20	11/20	11/20	1
Student 305	14/20	9/20	15/20	15/20	13/20	6
Student 219	17/20	16/20	17/20	18/20	17/20	2
Student 064	8/20	11/20	9/20	9/20	9/20	3
Student 092	15/20	15/20	16/20	16/20	16/20	1

Common Module assessmentYear 12 English

Student 305

Approve question

Instructions

20 marks

Explain how the composer represents the tension between individual freedom and collective control. Refer closely to the text.

Response

The novel suggests that freedom begins in memory. Winston's attempts to recall the past before the Revolution are fragmentary, and the Party's rewriting of records means that individual memory has nothing to hold on to.

Julia offers a different model of resistance, one grounded in pleasure rather than ideas. Her rebellion is real but limited, and Orwell uses the contrast to show that private freedoms can coexist with total public control.

Room 101 removes the last private space. When Winston betrays Julia, the Party has proven that even loyalty to another person can be turned into an instrument of the collective.

How a school uses both

One unit of work, start to finish.

Teacher's Buddy

You

Edexia

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2
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Plan

A unit plan and worksheets.

Teach

In your classroom.

Set the task

From the question bank or your own questions.

Do the work

Typed or on paper. The tutor helps; it can't write it.

Feedback and exams

You check feedback before it's released, and moderate exams together.

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Teacher's Buddy
Plan
A unit plan and worksheets.
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You
Teach
In your classroom.
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Edexia
Set the task
From the question bank or your own questions.
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Edexia
Do the work
Typed or on paper. The tutor helps; it can't write it.
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Edexia
Feedback and exams
You check feedback before it's released, and moderate exams together.

Which one, when

Teacher's Buddy: Choose Teacher's Buddy to make a worksheet, quiz, unit plan or report comments fast.
Edexia: Choose Edexia if students using AI to do their work worries you, or you want feedback on handwritten and typed work against your board's criteria, checked by you before students see it.

Common questions

What is the difference between Edexia and Teacher's Buddy?

Teacher's Buddy uses AI to generate resources, like lesson plans, worksheets and quizzes, and gives feedback on work a teacher uploads. Edexia doesn't generate resources. Students do their work in it: you set tasks from the question bank or your own questions, students can use an optional tutor that can't write the work, and you see how typed work was written and where the class slips, question by question.

Can Teacher's Buddy mark student work?

Its website describes a marking tool: upload or connect student work and get feedback tailored to the marking style you choose.

Do students use Edexia?

Yes. Students do their activities, assessments and exams in Edexia. The optional tutor can question and explain but can't write into their work, and teachers can read every chat.

Is Edexia free?

Free for teachers with a school email. School and department plans on request.