Google AI Pro for Teachers in Nepal: Lesson Prep Guide

Set up once, before the term starts

The single highest-value hour is the one you spend building a source-grounded notebook for each subject you teach. Gemini Notebook, the tool Google renamed from NotebookLM, answers only from the documents you give it and cites the passage each answer came from. That constraint is what makes it safe enough for lesson prep: it works from your curriculum, not from whatever it read on the internet.

Gather the official material. The syllabus or curriculum document, the prescribed textbook chapters, the school's scheme of work and any exam specifications. Digital PDFs give better results than photographs of photocopies.
Make one notebook per subject and level. Class 9 Science and Class 11 Physics should not share a notebook. Mixing levels is how you end up with a Class 9 worksheet pitched at Class 11.
Add the material you actually trust. Your own past lesson plans, model answers and the reference books your department uses. On the free tier a notebook holds 50 sources, which covers a subject; Google AI Pro raises that to 300, which is where a whole department's material fits.
Ask it to map the unit. "List the learning outcomes in this unit and the pages of the textbook that cover each one, with citations." You now have a planning document that points at real page numbers.
Check three answers against the source. Do this before you trust the notebook with anything you will hand to a class. If the citations hold up on three spot checks, the setup is sound.

The full Gemini Notebook guide covers the limits, sharing and what the Pro tier adds.

The weekly jobs it takes off your desk

Worksheets with answer keys

Ask for ten short-answer questions on a specific outcome, in the vocabulary of the prescribed text, with a separate answer key. Generate more than you need and throw half away.

Three versions of the same task

The same worksheet rewritten for pupils who are behind, on track and ahead. This is the job that takes an evening by hand and minutes with a draft to edit.

Quizzes and revision sets

Multiple choice with plausible wrong answers, or a mixed paper built from past questions in the notebook. Always check the marked answer yourself.

Summaries of dense material

A twenty-page government circular or a research article reduced to the parts that affect your teaching, with citations so you can verify the bits that matter.

Explanations and analogies

Ask for three ways to explain one concept, then for an example set in a Nepali context rather than an imported one. Pick the version that suits the group in front of you.

Parent and admin writing

Progress notes, notices, permission letters and replies to parents, drafted in Gmail and edited by you. Google's wording for this is "Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Vids, and more".

The pattern in all of these is the same: it produces a draft, you produce the judgement. A generated worksheet you have not read is not a saved evening, it is a problem waiting for Sunday morning. More on the Gmail and Docs side in Gemini in Gmail and Docs, where Google does not publish a full list of which apps are enabled for personal accounts, so treat availability as something to check on your own account.

Visuals, slides and short clips

For diagrams, illustrations and poster-style images, the Gemini app's image tools go further on a paid plan: subscribers get the Pro image model, which handles higher resolutions and renders text on an image far better than earlier models did. That matters for a labelled diagram or a classroom display. Every output carries Google's SynthID marking plus a visible watermark, image generation is for users aged 18 and over, and Google does not publish the daily limits. Test Nepali text on an image before you plan a display around it, because script rendering is not guaranteed. See the image generation guide for what the models can and cannot do.

Short video clips are possible too, through Google Flow, which comes with the plan and runs on a credit system. A 30-second explainer of a process, a historical scene or a science phenomenon is realistic. A full lesson video is not: clips are seconds long, credits are finite, prompts work best in English, and generated speech is unreliable for Nepali, so record your own narration over the top.

Rules worth setting for yourself

Never upload pupils' personal data. Names, addresses, exam records, medical or family information. If you want feedback on a piece of pupil writing, strip the identifying details first, and check your school's policy before doing even that.
Check every fact you will teach. Dates, formulas, definitions and anything specific to Nepal's curriculum. A notebook grounded in your syllabus reduces this risk but does not remove it.
Do not let it decide a grade. Marking is a professional judgement with consequences for a pupil. Use it to draft comment wording if you like, then make the call yourself.
Nepali output quality varies. Google publishes no guarantee here. Read anything you will print in Nepali line by line.
Say when material is AI-assisted where your school or your pupils would expect to know, and follow whatever policy your institution has set.
Model good practice. Pupils copy what teachers do. The student guide sets out the same boundaries in their language, and it is a reasonable thing to hand out.

A personal plan or a school account?

Google AI Pro is a personal subscription on one Google account. For an individual teacher preparing their own lessons, that is the right shape, and the 5 TB of storage handles years of resources, scans and recordings that currently live on a laptop with no backup.

A school is a different problem. Once you need staff email on the school's own domain, an administrator who can create and close accounts when teachers join or leave, shared drives that stay with the institution rather than an individual, and central control over who can use what, you are looking at Google Workspace rather than a stack of personal plans. A college in Butwal buying twelve personal subscriptions will regret it the first time a teacher leaves and takes the account with them. Start at Google Workspace for schools for that route.

Getting it from Nepal

Google sells AI Pro directly at $19.99 a month in US dollars and needs a card that works for international online payments. Where that is the obstacle, WebsNP sells the same plan in rupees@if($aiPro['product']) at $1.06 a month, billed as a single 18-month term@endif, activated on the Gmail address you already teach from. You give us the address only, never a password or an OTP, and the subscription then appears in your own Google account. If a department wants several accounts upgraded, the order form takes a quantity, and you are welcome to ask us first what makes sense before anyone pays.

Frequently asked questions

Can I put my school's curriculum documents into Gemini Notebook?

Yes, and that is the recommended setup, because the notebook then answers from your curriculum with citations rather than from general knowledge. Avoid uploading anything containing pupils' personal information, and check your school's own policy on institutional documents first.

Do I need Google AI Pro to do this, or is the free tier enough?

A teacher handling one or two subjects often manages on the free tiers, which allow 50 sources per notebook, 50 chat questions and three Audio Overviews a day. The paid plan matters when you are running several subjects, want 300 sources in one notebook, or need the higher usage limits and storage.

Will it produce good worksheets in Nepali?

Quality varies and Google publishes no guarantee for Nepali output. Draft in the language you are most able to check, proofread everything you print, and test a small piece before committing a whole unit to it.

Can I use it to mark pupils' work?

Do not hand over the judgement. Marking has consequences for a pupil and the responsibility is yours. Drafting comment wording or building a marking scheme is a reasonable use; deciding a grade is not.

Is this the same as buying Google Workspace for the school?

No. Google AI Pro is a personal subscription tied to one account. Workspace gives an institution its own domain, administrator control and accounts that stay with the school when staff change. Schools should look at Workspace and can add personal AI plans separately if individual teachers want them.

Can I make a lesson video with it?

You can make short clips through Google Flow, which is included with the plan and works on credits. Generations are seconds long, prompts work best in English, and generated Nepali speech is unreliable, so plan on assembling clips and adding your own narration.

Sources and further reading

Product facts on this page were checked against Google's own documentation on the date shown above. Google changes plan contents, limits and country availability over time, so treat the official pages as the final word.