New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex

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Introducing new plugins specifically designed to guide K–12 teachers, college educators, and college students.

AI is moving from tools that primarily answer questions to systems that can reason across context, use other tools, and help carry out complex, multi-step work. That shift is changing what it means to be prepared for school, work, and what comes next.

As students and educators return to classrooms and campuses this fall, we’re introducing three new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, specifically designed to help students and educators leverage agentic capabilities using the course materials and context they choose. A plugin is a package of apps, role-specific skills, instructions, and common workflows that helps students and educators get started immediately without having to construct complex prompts on their own.

These new plugins are available through both ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments.

This builds on the principle that guides our work in education: AI should support learning, not shortcut it, and the best learning experiences keep educators and students in control.

The new plugins include one for college students, one for K–12 educators, and one for college educators. By connecting to the tools and materials they already rely on, from documents and course materials to calendars and other approved apps, the plugins understand the context and task at hand and help students and educators move from curiosity to practice, lesson idea to classroom material, and project concept to execution.

We have been focused on partnering with schools and universities to make AI available in secure, institution-managed environments. Introduced in 2024, ChatGPT Edu gives educational institutions managed workspaces with enterprise-level privacy, security, and administrative controls. ChatGPT for Teachers⁠, introduced in 2025, is free for verified U.S. K–12 educators and districts and offers education-grade protections and compliance features.

School and district leaders can claim their domain to bring educators into a shared workspace with greater oversight and guidance, including protections to support FERPA requirements and a data privacy agreement.

The K–12 Educator plugin is designed to help teachers plan and create for their classrooms. Developed alongside K–12 educators, it can work with the materials and tools teachers already use to create differentiated resources, design interactive visuals, and surface actionable insights. It also integrates with Learning Commons⁠⁠, a philanthropic organization that funds and builds public AI datasets and resources