Google Classroom
Google Classroom is a free web service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google Account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools.Teachers can set up a class, invite students and co-teachers. In the class stream, they then share information—assignments, announcements, and questions. They save time and paper by distributing assignments virtually, communicating, and staying organized, all in one place.
Students can share resources with each other and see assignments on the Work page, in the class stream, or on the class calendar. All class materials are automatically filed into Google Drive folders. Teachers can also quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and give direct, real-time feedback and grades. Classroom is free, contains no ads and works seamlessly with other google products.
Edmodo
Designed to bridge the gap between how students live their lives and how they learn in school, Edmodo was created to bring education into a 21st century environment by designing a social learning community where teachers, students, and parents can connect safely and securely. This free tool includes places for teachers to create assignments, differentiate, provide appropriate resources, connect about the assignment, respond to student questions, design assessments for the learning and so much more.
Planbook.com
Online lesson planning and grading where teachers and administrators can create class schedules, print or save lessons, create class templates, connect to standards, create student gradebooks, define weighted categories for assignments and assessments, allow students to view performance online, attach files and links, easily adjust schedule, share plans with peers and provide feedback, and reuse the lessons yearly. Cost: $12 per year
Planboard
This app makes it simple to get organized and reduce your classroom prep time. Accessible from anywhere, you can plan lessons, add curriculum sets, and manage your schedule with ease. Create lessons in the intuitive online editor with attachments, photos, and videos to bring lessons to life. The Standards Progression tool shows curriculum progress for each class, and which standards have been covered, keeping classrooms on track.
Class Dojo
ClassDojo connects teachers with students and parents to build positive classroom communities. Teachers can encourage students for any skill or value — whether it's working hard, being kind, helping others or something else. Students can showcase and share their learning by adding photos and videos to their own portfolios and parents become engaged as teachers share photos and videos of wonderful classroom moments. Parents can translate messages into any language, on any device, with just a tap!
Bouncy Balls
This tool activates your computer’s microphone and detects the noise level in the classroom. If the class is too noisy, you will see that the balls will be flying and jumping in the screen, if the noise is fine in the classroom, the balls will not go that wild and they will remain still.
GoNoodle
GoNoodle helps teachers and parents get kids moving with short interactive activities. Desk-side movement helps kids achieve more by keeping them engaged and motivated throughout the day. GoNoodle is designed with K-5 classrooms in mind. With research-based activities that range from 1 minute to 20, this free tool is designed for to motivate kids to stay active. We recommend previewing the videos in their entirety before they are shown.
Plickers
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Use Plickers for quick checks for understanding to know whether students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills. Students are given the chance to participate and engage in learning without feeling self-conscious and there is no waiting for students to log-in on a computer or even open the right app. Plickers integrates seamlessly into the way you already teach.
Google Forms
Using Google Forms, teachers can plan events, make a survey or poll, give students a quiz, or collect other information in an easy, streamlined way. They can be created from Google Drive or from an existing spreadsheet that can record the responses to the form. It is great for creating assessments, building rubrics that are easily shared, collecting web-based assignments, and soliciting feedback from parents of students.
Socrative
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Use Plickers for quick checks for understanding to know whether students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills. Students are given the chance to participate and engage in learning without feeling self-conscious and there is no waiting for students to log-in on a computer or even open the right app. Plickers integrates seamlessly into the way you already teach.
Formative
Formative is a classroom response system designed to track and accelerate student growth with our form builder you can create formative classwork homework or assessments there are multiple types of questions available including show your work where students can respond by drawing or uploading pictures. Content can also be added like images or YouTube videos or any pre-existing PDF, doc or Google Doc. While students work, teachers can see all incoming responses in real time. It's free for teachers and students.
Kahoot
Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform where teachers create a fun learning game in minutes with a series of multiple choice questions or jumbles. The format and number of questions are entirely up to you. Add videos, images and diagrams to your questions to amplify engagement.Kahoots are best played in a group setting, like a classroom. Players answer the questions on their own devices, while games are displayed on a shared screen to unite the lesson.
Quizizz
It is very similar to Kahoot, with a few key differences.No projector is necessary because players see questions and answer options on their own screens. The question order is randomized for each student, so it’s no easy for players to cheat. With Quizizz, players don’t have to wait for the whole class to answer a question before they continue to the next one. Also leaderboards and timers can be turned off so students don’t feel too much anxiety when competing. They can also be assigned as homework.
Powtoon
Fight distractions in class and grab your student attention by making educational material come to life through a Powtoon! Powtoon is a user-friendly and intuitive online animation software anyone can use to create engaging, animated videos with a professional look and feel. Powtoon is free but Pro subsciptions are available with additional features.
Prezi
This presentation resource reinvents how people share knowledge, tell stories, and inspire their audiences to act. Unlike slides, Prezi provides a limitless zoomable canvas and the ability to show relationships between the big picture and fine details. The added depth and context makes the lesson more likely to resonate, motivate, and get remembered. If you have a valid school email address, Prezi’s’ standard version is free, but if you want other features like offline access, voice-over and export to PDF it costs $7 per month.
Wideo
Wideo is an online animated video creation platform that allows you to create, edit, and share videos. People use Wideo for all kinds of things: explainer videos, product demos, school projects, animated narratives, and more. The possibilities are endless! There is a 7 day free trial, but after that the basic plan cost is $19 per month billed annually.
Stop Motion Studio
The Stop Motion Studio app is an excellent way for students to explore the world of movie making and share their stories by creating their own stop-motion animations using any mobile device. Its photo and video tool makes creating animations simple and easy. Kids can select photos from their libraries or record new images from within the app. This app is free, but a pro version is available for in-app purchase that allows a person to include other movie effectssuch as green screen.
Padlet
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Use Plickers for quick checks for understanding to know whether students are understanding big concepts and mastering key skills. Students are given the chance to participate and engage in learning without feeling self-conscious and there is no waiting for students to log-in on a computer or even open the right app. Plickers integrates seamlessly into the way you already teach.