SMART Technologies transforms lesson planning with AI Assist powered by Amazon Bedrock
SMART Technologies, a Canadian education technology company, embedded AI Assist in its Lumio platform to help teachers generate lesson plans, activities, and assessment materials from their learning objectives. The platform runs on AWS and uses Amazon Bedrock guardrails to support privacy, security, and global scalability for classrooms that range from urban centres to remote communities.
- Organization
- SMART Technologies
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- Canada
- Published
- June 2026
Reported outcomes
+75%
teacher productivityProductivity & throughput
Strategic outcomes
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Use case focus
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- 1Lesson planning automation
- 2Employee productivity
- Teachers spend hours on lesson planning, grading, and creating materials.
- Remote classrooms such as those in Nunavut face limited resources and fragile connectivity.
- SMART needed to improve productivity while maintaining trust, privacy, and security for schools and ministries.
- SMART built Lumio on AWS and added AI Assist as an embedded feature.
- Teachers enter learning objectives and AI Assist generates lesson plans, activities, and assessment materials tailored to students' needs.
- AWS hosts the platform's data and Amazon Bedrock provides built-in generative AI guardrails, security, and privacy support.
- Teachers report lesson planning moved from hours to minutes.
- Teacher productivity increased by up to 75%.
- Teachers can spend more time meeting diverse learning needs, enriching lessons, and connecting with students.
- The tools help maintain instructional quality in low-connectivity and resource-constrained classrooms.
Architecture
Lumio is built on AWS, which hosts the platform data and powers AI Assist in every country where SMART operates. Amazon Bedrock provides generative AI guardrails. Teachers provide learning objectives and the embedded AI Assist feature generates lesson plans, activities, and assessment materials.
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