80 percent of the surveyed students in Hesse use AI for school, 38 percent regularly and 42 percent occasionally. The figures come from the third Hessian student survey, whose results the State Student Council (LSV) Hesse has now published.
From March 9 to June 3, 2026, 15,978 children and young people from grade 5 upward took part in the online survey; the evaluation was carried out by the IMC Institut in Aachen. The LSV considers a comparison with the 2022 survey possible only to a limited extent, because the topics have changed.
What do the respondents use AI for?
Additional explanations of lesson topics come first: 64 percent have AI explain the material to them once more. For homework, 54 percent get support, 49 percent have texts summarized and 45 percent look for ideas for texts or presentations. A good one in five (22 percent) has already had AI do homework completely.
What Hesse's students use AI for
Share of the 15,978 respondents from grade 5 upward, multiple answers possible
- Explanations of lesson topics64 %
- Support with homework54 %
- Summarizing texts49 %
- Ideas for texts or presentations45 %
- Having homework done completely22 %
Online survey from March 9 to June 3, 2026, results weighted
Source: Landesschülervertretung Hessen, Ergebnisbericht HeSchüB 2026
The LSV places these answers alongside another question from the same survey: 70 percent want more understandable explanations from their teachers, 57 percent more help understanding the lesson material and 56 percent more individual support. That AI replaces missing explanations is described by the student council in the results report as "an alarm signal for teaching quality".
31 percent consider dealing with AI as a lesson topic very important and 37 percent rather important. School should above all teach its use (68 percent), risks (64 percent), data protection (57 percent) and how it works (54 percent). "Students need orientation instead of mere bans," writes the LSV.
Which chatbot does Hesse provide to schools?
Since October 1, 2025, the chatbot AIS.chat has been available free of charge to all Hessian schools in the Schulportal Hessen; it was introduced under the name telli. The data is stored on servers in Germany or the EU; the chats do not flow into the training of the language models. Nobody may enter personal data, including that of the class.
First, the school must activate AIS.chat in the administration of the school portal for teachers. For use in lessons, each teacher needs a proof of competence. The proof can only be obtained through offerings of the Hessische Lehrkräfteakademie, such as the self-study course "Fit für AIS.chat" with an online test or a 60-minute compact training followed by a test. Afterwards, teachers generate links or QR codes through which their classes use the chatbot.
For rules on data protection and labeling, the school portal refers to the guidance document of the Ministry of Education, whose version on the Digitale Schule Hessen portal states it is as of July 2023.
In a nationwide Bitkom survey of 501 teachers, 70 percent considered their students' AI use hardly controllable and 92 percent were in favor of a requirement to label AI help on school assignments.
What this means for you
If you teach in Hesse, it's best to check in the school portal whether AIS.chat has already been activated for your staff. If not, the school management or the school's administrators can activate the tool in the administration of the school portal. You can get the proof of competence without an appointment via the self-study course with a final online test.
If your students are getting explanations from AI anyway, you can create a learning scenario in AIS.chat on the topic that causes the most trouble in your class and review the answers together. For homework, a clear agreement helps, such as labeling AI help with date and prompt; the school portal recommends this form for content from AIS.chat.
If you yourself learn with chatbots or accompany your child in doing so, basic knowledge about the technology helps. What a prompt, a model and generative AI are is explained in the lesson on AI terms in TutKit's ChatGPT Masterclass. Before a class test, it's best to check a chatbot's explanations against your notebook or textbook, because even a school chatbot can be wrong.
The State Student Council Hesse published the results on October 28, 2026.
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