Teachino
Austrian all-in-one platform for teachers and schools that plans lessons, generates and differentiates teaching materials with AI, delivers real-time feedback to pupils and records grades. Data is hosted in Germany and models are never trained on customer content.
What is Teachino?
Teachino is a web platform for teachers and schools, published by Teachino FlexCo in Vienna, which entered the Austrian commercial register on 3 June 2022 as Teachino GmbH and took its current legal form in April 2024. The site describes it as the smart all-in-one solution for modern teaching, and it is organised around four blocks: planning and organising lessons, teaching interactive lessons, supporting learners individually, and grades and evaluation.
The centrepiece is an in-house AI assistant called Thena. Unlike a general chatbot, it is primed with the actual context of the course: country, region, school type, year group, the usual age of pupils at that level, subject, curriculum, language of instruction, along with the folders, materials and lesson plans already in the course. From that context it drafts and differentiates materials, reads the subtitles of a YouTube video or the text of a document and builds exercises from them, and digitises existing worksheets, including handwritten text through optical character recognition.
What pupils receive are not static handouts but interactive tasks: open questions carrying AI feedback, multiple and single choice items, and chatbots whose behaviour the teacher steers through an editable system prompt. Pupils need neither an email address nor a Teachino password; the teacher creates access through a code or single sign-on. Teachers watch progress live, see exactly which hints and feedback each pupil received, and record grades, participation and observations on a scale matching their country.
The boundary is drawn firmly. The AI never awards a mark: assessment is manual and human, and the vendor rules out automated grading, exam surveillance, emotion recognition, biometric identification and social scoring by name. Every generated item must be accepted or discarded by the teacher, and AI-generated content is labelled as such until reviewed.
Underneath, Teachino orchestrates third-party models from Microsoft Azure, Google and Mistral, selected per task. Content is available in twenty-one languages, the interface in four, and the subject catalogue spans German-speaking curricula from languages and sciences to art, music, sport, religion and design. The company reports more than 40,000 teachers using it.
What it does
- Generate and differentiate teaching materials with AI from the real context of a class
- Turn existing worksheets, documents, YouTube subtitles and handwritten text into usable material
- Publish interactive tasks: open questions, multiple choice, single choice and chatbots
- Give pupils real-time AI feedback bounded by an expected outcome the teacher defines
- Plan the year and each lesson, with the timetable imported from WebUntis, iCal, Digitales Register or Edupage
- Track how far every pupil and the whole class has progressed, task by task
- Record grades, participation, observations and notes on a scale matching the country
When to use Teachino / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Teachino is the right fit.
When to use Teachino
- Primary and secondary teachers who build and differentiate their own materials every week and want the preparation time back
- Schools and education authorities that need AI inside a signed Article 28 processing agreement, with EU hosting and a documented model inventory
- Teaching teams practising team teaching, sharing collections between colleagues and handing lesson plans over to substitute staff
- Schools already running WebUntis, Digitales Register, Microsoft 365, Edupage or Eduplaces, where the timetable and single sign-on can be reused as they are
- Teachers working in German-speaking curricula and the systems Teachino serves directly: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and South Tyrol
When not to use Teachino
- Anyone looking for automated marking: summative grading and competence assessment are explicitly outside the product's declared scope
- Schools wanting exam proctoring, cheating detection, emotion recognition or biometric identification, all of which the vendor rules out by name
- Developers who need an API: none is published, and the terms forbid using any interface without prior written consent
- Teachers who want a native mobile app, since no iOS or Android application has been released and everything runs in the browser
- Institutions that want to enter real pupil data immediately, because until the processing agreement is signed only generic test profiles are permitted
How to use Teachino
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Sign up free on app.teachino.io as a teacher, giving your name, institution and role; no credit card and no upfront payment
- Explore every feature during the seven-day trial, after which the account switches automatically to the permanent free tier with all materials kept
- Fill in the course context — country, region, school type, year group, subject, curriculum — so the AI produces material that fits the class
- Import your timetable from WebUntis, Digitales Register or Edupage, paste an iCal link, or enter it by hand
- Ask Thena for a material, or upload a document, an image or a YouTube link, then accept or discard each suggestion
- Turn the result into interactive tasks and set the expected outcome and model answer that will shape the AI feedback
- Create pupil access through a code or single sign-on; before a processing agreement is signed, use the generic test profiles only
- Follow progress live, review the hints each pupil received, then record grades, participation and observations
- Upgrade from the Upgrade entry at the bottom left of the account, entering any discount code at the payment step
- Cancel yourself from Profile, then Licence and Upgrade, then Manage, up to twenty-four hours before renewal
Pros & Cons
Pros
- The teacher stays in charge by design: the AI proposes, the teacher accepts or discards, and marking is never automated
- Unusually transparent about its AI, with a public page listing every function, its inputs, outputs, risks, safeguards and the exact third-party models behind it
- An unconditional commitment that customer data never trains AI models, with no sale of data and no advertising profiles
- Core data hosted with OVHcloud in Germany, subprocessors in the EU or EEA, and a free Article 28 processing agreement signable inside the product
- A permanent free tier after the trial, so materials and pupil work remain accessible even without a paid licence
- Pupils need no email address and no password, which keeps the volume of personal data to manage low
- Deep integration with the school systems already in place in German-speaking countries, including single sign-on and timetable import
Cons
- No native mobile application on either store, even though the privacy policy still refers to native apps and mobile device data
- No public API, and the terms forbid using any interface without prior written consent
- The imprint, privacy policy and terms exist in German only, although the interface runs in four languages and the site in two
- Those three legal pages are rendered entirely in JavaScript and appear empty to anything that does not execute it
- The headline price of EUR 7.95 requires a twenty-four month commitment; six months costs EUR 12.95 and twelve months EUR 9.95
- School licences carry no published price, and subscriptions are indexed yearly to the Austrian consumer price index
- The vendor holds no security certification of its own; the ISO and SOC badges on display belong to its subprocessors
Pricing & Plans
A permanent free plan is available. Every new account opens with a seven-day trial of all features, requiring neither a credit card nor an upfront payment, and reverts automatically to the free tier afterwards, with all materials and data retained. The lowest paid entry point is EUR 7.95 per month for the teacher licence, a rate that applies to a twenty-four month commitment; the same licence costs EUR 9.95 per month over twelve months and EUR 12.95 per month over six. Prices include VAT for teachers and private individuals and exclude it for institutions and companies. School licences are quoted on request, with volume discounts. Subscriptions renew automatically and may be indexed annually to the Austrian consumer price index, with one month's written notice.
- simple AI suggestions
- 250 MB of storage
- materials and data retained after the trial ends
- unlimited AI-generated materials
- unlimited AI support for pupils
- individual pupil access
- automatic analysis of pupil responses
- grades and documentation
- external integrations
- unlimited storage and continuous updates
- every teacher feature available school-wide
- a dedicated contact
- administrative and rollout support
- a data processing agreement and volume discounts
- the school licence bundled with the AI package
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Teachino handles your data.
GDPR overview
Compliance is claimed in plain words: Teachino is fully GDPR-compliant. The controller is Teachino FlexCo in Vienna, so no Article 27 representative applies. Legal bases are set out article by article: consent, contract performance, legal obligation and legitimate interest. A processing agreement under Article 28 is offered free of charge to every school and can be signed inside the product; central agreements already cover Austrian federal schools, Luxembourg through SCRIPT, and South Tyrol through Limitis. Transfers outside the EU rely on standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision. The competent authority is the Austrian Datenschutzbehörde. Declared safeguards include TLS in transit, encryption at rest, password hashing, tenant separation and separate backups. One caveat: the ISO and SOC certificates shown belong to the subprocessors, not to Teachino, which claims none of its own.
Who owns the data?
Ownership splits in two. Where a teacher uses Teachino without pupil data, Teachino FlexCo is the controller under its own privacy policy. As soon as pupil data is involved, the school or education authority becomes the controller and Teachino acts as a processor on its documented instructions, under an Article 28 agreement. Uploaded content stays with the user: the terms state that Teachino processes it only to perform the contract and acquires no usage rights of any kind over it. Rights in the software itself remain with Teachino, which grants a non-exclusive licence. Users can delete individual items at any time, and closing an account removes everything uploaded through it.
Reuse rights
Users keep full control of what they create. Because Teachino acquires no usage rights over uploaded material, teachers may reuse, edit, duplicate and carry their own content from one school year to the next without asking permission, and share it with colleagues through collections or with substitute staff. Two limits apply. Content may only serve teaching-related activity, and reselling material to other users through the platform is forbidden. Personal data of third parties, pupils above all, may only be entered where a lawful basis exists and where the school has authorised it in writing. On its own side, Teachino commits that customer data never trains AI models: its agreements and technical flows exclude submitted content from model training, and data is neither sold nor used for advertising profiles. Third-party models from Microsoft Azure, Google and Mistral receive pseudonymised content stripped of identifying data and of any key that could link it back.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Core Teachino data — accounts, database contents, teaching materials, pupil answers and backups — is stored with OVHcloud, operated by OVH GmbH in Cologne, Germany. Subprocessors sit in the EU or EEA: Pathfindr ApS in Denmark for document previews and audio and video features, Microsoft Ireland Operations and Google Cloud EMEA for structured text processing and selected generative models, Mistral AI for transcription and text recognition, Productlane for the help centre and support, Mailjet and Brevo for email, and Mave for training videos. Content sent to Microsoft and Google is pseudonymised, carrying neither identifying data nor any key that would link it back. Downstream providers in third countries may be involved in the help centre, support and email delivery; those transfers rely on standard contractual clauses or an adequacy decision. The homepage summarises the arrangement as certified EU providers with servers in Germany. Jurisdiction is Austrian: the controller is established in Vienna and the competent supervisory authority is the Austrian Datenschutzbehörde.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Teachino.
- Accepting AI-generated material without reading it: the vendor names this as the main misuse risk, and an unchecked worksheet reaches pupils with its errors intact
- Typing pupil names or other personal details into prompts, which pushes data outside what the processing agreement covers even though a filter screens for it
- Letting drafting skill fade: when the first version of every worksheet, question and comment arrives ready-made, the habit of building one from scratch quietly erodes
- Treating AI feedback as a mark: it is designed for practice, and using it to judge tests or exams misreads what the tool produces and what the teacher owes the pupil
- Pupils leaning on the chatbot instead of thinking, and being unaware their teacher can read the whole conversation unless the on-screen notice is actually read
- Committing to twenty-four months for the headline price before knowing whether the tool suits your teaching, then paying an indexed subscription that renews automatically
- Assuming the ISO and SOC badges on the compliance page belong to Teachino: they are its suppliers' certificates, and the vendor holds none of its own
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low for an individual teacher. Nothing is installed: an account is opened in a browser with a name, an institution and a role, and the timetable can simply be typed in. Difficulty rises only with integrations and institutional use. WebUntis and Digitales Register need an administrator to enable them before a teacher links an account; iCal and Edupage need only a pasted link, Microsoft services only a sign-in. Working with real pupil data requires a processing agreement — an administrative step, free and signable in the product, not a technical one.
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Behind Teachino
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Frequently asked questions
How does the free trial work and what happens afterwards?
Is there a permanent free plan?
What does a paid licence cost?
Where is the data hosted?
Is customer data used to train AI models?
Which AI models does Teachino run on?
Do we need a data processing agreement?
Does the AI grade pupils?
Do pupils need their own account?
Is there a mobile app or an API?
Should you pick Teachino?
Teachino is a deliberately narrow product, and that is its strength. It was not built as a general assistant with a classroom skin: the AI is primed with the country, curriculum, year group and subject of an actual course, and everything it produces lands as interactive material a pupil can work through rather than as text a teacher must reshape.
Two things set it apart. The first is transparency: a public page walks through each AI function, its inputs and outputs, the decisions that must stay human, the ways it could be misused, and the exact third-party models behind it. Few vendors publish that much. The second is the refusal to automate assessment: marking stays manual, and automated grading, exam surveillance, emotion recognition and biometric identification are ruled out by name.
For schools, the compliance package is unusually complete for a company of this size: core data with OVHcloud in Germany, subprocessors named with their locations, an unconditional commitment not to train models on customer content, and a free Article 28 agreement signable inside the product.
The reservations are practical rather than fundamental. There is no mobile app and no public API. The legal documents exist only in German, which sits oddly with an interface in four languages. The advertised EUR 7.95 is a twenty-four month rate, and six months costs EUR 12.95. And the platform holds no security certification of its own.
The natural fit is a teacher or a school in a German-speaking system, already running WebUntis or Microsoft 365, who wants AI in the classroom under a contract that a data protection officer will actually sign off. Outside that setting, the case is thinner but the free tier costs nothing to test.
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