What’s New in AInara: Creating Educational Content with Pedagogical Rigor and AI

By Daniela Castrillón, Head of Education at Smile and Learn

Quick Summary

The latest update to AInara introduces advanced solutions to generate educational content with pedagogical rigor and zero AI hallucinations: Private Knowledge Bases hosted on AWS to produce resources based strictly on school-approved materials, an AI Presentation Generator exportable to PowerPoint (.pptx), an interactive Math Engine with printable PDF downloads, and automated curriculum alignment covering regional frameworks (such as Spain’s LOMLOE) and international standards (including Mexico’s SEP).

Innovation and Pedagogical Rigor with AInara

At AInara, we continue to evolve so that designing high-quality instructional materials through generative artificial intelligence remains simple, reliable, and completely aligned with everyday classroom practice.

Unlike general-purpose AI platforms, our solution is developed directly by teachers, linguists, and educational technologists. Below is a detailed breakdown of the key features and enhancements added in this latest release to support teaching staff and educational leadership.

Key Update Highlights

• Zero Hallucinations: Generate curriculum-aligned learning materials sourced exclusively from school-verified documents using private knowledge bases.
• Automated PowerPoint Slides: Build classroom-ready slide decks with instant .pptx export capabilities.
• Advanced Math Engine: Create customizable arithmetic drills and contextualized story problems for both digital interaction and PDF printouts.
• Multi-Country Curriculum Alignment: Direct integration with regional curriculum standards (LOMLOE in Spain) and national frameworks (SEP in Mexico).
• Strict Privacy & Security: Hosted on secure AWS infrastructure; uploaded school data is never used to train public AI models.

1. Knowledge Bases: Generate Educational Content from Your Own Materials

The new Knowledge Bases feature allows educators to train AInara’s generation engine on their own textbooks, lesson plans, and teaching guides, ensuring all created activities draw from validated sources.

How Do Pedagogical Knowledge Bases Work?

• Private and Collaborative Repositories: Individual teachers or entire schools can create private storage hubs to share vetted materials across departments.
• Strict Relevance Filter (Zero Hallucinations): If a user requests content not found in the uploaded documents, AInara will notify that the information is absent rather than fabricating facts.
• Pedagogical Level Adaptation: Teachers specify target age, length, and learning goals; AInara automatically adjusts vocabulary, tone, and cognitive complexity.
• Data Security & Privacy (GDPR Compliant): All files are stored on secure AWS cloud servers. External parties cannot access your files, and no school data is used to train third-party AI models.
• Institutional Knowledge Hubs: Educational networks and multi-academy trusts can grant staff combined access to both school-level repositories and broader institutional libraries.

2. AI Presentation and Slide Deck Generator

The new slide deck creator enables teachers to assemble structured, visually engaging instructional presentations in minutes:

• Flexible In-Slide Editing: Reorder sections, duplicate blocks, embed external multimedia (such as YouTube videos), and organize key points with lists.
• Contextual Visual Assistant (“Magic Button”): Generates and inserts relevant visual assets using automated prompts derived from slide content.
• PowerPoint Export (.pptx): Download editable presentation files to customize fonts, colors, and institutional slide templates.

3. Enhanced Educational Illustrations and Infographics

Our image generation models have received a major upgrade, delivering clean, classroom-friendly vector and illustrated visuals. The system excels at generating educational infographics, conceptual diagrams, and visual scaffolding that support reading comprehension and cognitive accessibility in Primary and Secondary classrooms.

4. Math Engine: Operations and Word Problems

We are releasing Phase 1 of our interactive math calculation engine, focusing on foundational arithmetic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division):

• Direct Drills and Story Problems: Generate direct numeric drills or situational word problems written by the teacher or synthesized by AI.
• Granular Difficulty Settings: Configure digit counts, decimals, negative numbers, regrouping (carrying/borrowing), vertical layouts, and standard or long-division formats.
• Dynamic Real-Time Recalculation: Adjusting any number in an exercise immediately updates the solution key and calculation steps automatically.
• Interactive & Printable Dual Modes: Students can use an on-screen digital scratchpad and virtual keypad, while teachers can export high-resolution PDFs ready for printing.

5. Curriculum Planning & Learning Situations

The Curriculum Planning module has expanded to align with diverse regional and international mandates:

• LOMLOE Alignment (Spain): Direct mapping to core competencies, specific skills, and assessment criteria across all autonomous communities, eliminating compliance errors in instructional design.
• Curriculum Integration (Mexico): Teachers in Mexico can build lesson sequences and unit plans mapped directly to SEP curricular fields.

Summary of New Features

Feature	Classroom Application	Teacher Benefit
Knowledge Bases	Curricular content verified against institutional texts.	Eliminates hallucinations and protects school copyright.
AI Slide Generator	Visual lessons and interactive presentations.	Built in minutes and exported natively to PowerPoint (.pptx).
Math Engine	Arithmetic drills with interactive scratchpad or PDF sheets.	Customizable difficulty settings with automated answer-key recalculation.
Curriculum Planner	Lesson plans aligned with regional and national frameworks.	Automates objective and competency mapping (LOMLOE / SEP).

Upcoming Roadmap for AInara

The AInara ecosystem will introduce additional features in coming updates:

1. Native AInara LMS: A dedicated virtual learning environment to assign learning paths, track active study time, and assess student submissions combining AInara and Smile and Learn assets.
2. Dual-Role Navigation: Seamless one-click switching between teacher administration (Teaching) and student view.
3. Math Engine Expansion: Addition of algebra, linear equations, exponents, square roots, and multi-step mixed operations.
4. Vocational Training (VET / FP) Planning: Specialized modules tailored to vocational competencies and career pathways.

Authority References and Standards

• INTEF (Ministry of Education): Digital Teaching Competence Framework.
• UNESCO: Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research.
• AInara / Smile and Learn: Pedagogical Artificial Intelligence for Schools.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How do AInara’s Knowledge Bases prevent AI hallucinations?

By restricting generation parameters solely to teacher-uploaded documents. If a query requests concepts outside the uploaded files, the platform alerts the user that the source lacks the data instead of fabricating an answer.

Can presentations created in AInara be edited in external presentation software?

Yes. The platform exports presentations directly into .pptx (PowerPoint) format, allowing teachers to adjust typography, layouts, and school logos as needed.

Is AInara compliant with GDPR and student data privacy regulations?

Yes. All data is processed and stored on secure AWS cloud servers. Teacher documents and school materials remain confidential and are never used to train open public AI models.

Can AInara generate lesson plans for different state or regional curricula?

Yes. The curriculum planning module supports regional frameworks (such as all autonomous community decrees under Spain’s LOMLOE) and international structures (such as Mexico’s SEP), ensuring correct competency phrasing.