Here’s what the data tells us!
Over the past few weeks, CEnet’s cechat team have been crunching the numbers, to see what happens when teachers design AI to meet their needs.
Across 17 dioceses and 24 independent schools, 12,000 teachers have created over 2,000 agents inside the walled-garden ecosystem of cechat, an AI tool built with insights from Catholic educators.
The agents represent a desire to create, values-driven, student focused resources. Here’s what the data tells us:
Reporting & Commenting — 360+ Agents
From report writers and RE comment generators to homeroom and proofreading agents. Teachers tackled these important yet time consuming activities with cechat, saving hours while enabling them to retain a human focus.
Tutoring & Study Buddies — 250+ Agents
Subject-based assistants in Maths, English, Science, Religion, PDHPE, and History; designed not to give answers, but to guide thinking. Authentic, curriculum-aligned scaffolds built for student growth.
Lesson & Program Planning — 170+ Agents
Explicit teaching planners, Teaching, Learning and Assessment Plan templates, Learning Intentions and Success Criteria generators and rotation builders. These agents aren’t replacing planning, they’re streamlining it, so teachers are able to spend more time teaching.
Assessment & Feedback — 130+ Agents
NAPLAN moderators, rubric builders, formative and instructional assessment feedback tools; precision, consistency, and reflection made practical at scale.
Admin / Ops / Policy — 110+ Agents
Risk assessment helpers, policy explainers, enrolment tools, HR and IT support bots. Quietly transformative, the invisible AI behind workload reduction.
Inclusion & Wellbeing — 80+ Agents
NCCD planners, Life Skills assistants, behaviour supports and wellbeing check-ins, built within a framework of dignity, inclusion, and care.
Catholic Identity & RE — 70+ Agents
Agents bringing prayer, Religious Education, and Catholic Social Teaching to life, anchored in mission and meaning.
Innovation & Meta-AI — 15+ Agents
AI literacy, prompt building, ethical design and system agents — teachers exploring the power of AI with cechat.
This data shows that teachers are using cechat to support their teaching practice, using technology to build time-saving tools with purpose within a governed, walled-garden environment, grounded in Catholic values; safety, inclusion, formation, and service.
cechat is national. It’s authentic. And it’s built by teachers, for teachers.
Over the next week, the cechat team will be releasing their favourite agents from each category; the ones that they believe capture the creativity, empathy, and innovation of Australian Catholic educators.
We can't wait to share with you...
