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eLearning Tips and tools for classroom
Prezi
  • Presentation creation tool that uses one large virtual poster, with movement and zoom, for presenting information instead of using a series of slides.
  • Web-based editing platform.
  • Import text, images, sound, videos, and more.
  • Online storage; presentations can be used by others, shared through links, or presented on any computer.
  • Free version provides public presentations and 100 MB storage.
  • Paid version offers additional storage space and private presentations.
  • Mobile application available.

Prezi

Slideshare

SlideShare is a hosting service for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or OpenDocument format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites.

Slideshare

Emaze

Emaze is a growing online presentation software that boasts a remarkable upgrade to the traditional PowerPoint presentation. Its easy-to-use interface lets you choose from a wide array of templates and create awesome visual learning aids, including 3D presentations in minutes, so you can provide your students a better learning experience.

Since it is cloud-based, it also allows you to edit or update your presentations on other handheld or mobile devices on any computer, mobile device, and other devices anywhere online.

Emaze

Google Slide Presentation

Equipped with a Google research tool that you can use if you need to conduct research about your presentation. The search bar has a drop-down menu that lets you specify the type of research or information you are looking for in terms of images, videos, quotations, etc.

Google Slide Presentation

Nearpod

Easy-to-use, interactive Description that can bring the classroom to life.

Teachers can easily create interactive classes using different multimedia contents like images, videos, quizzes, polls, and other activities that are relevant to the lesson.

Teachers can also monitor students in real time and allow distance learning. This means that students from anywhere can join your Nearpod learning sessions.

It's compatible with different platforms and can work on any device.

Nearpod

Tellagami

Tellagami is a free app that you can use to create animated video presentations with a character that resembles you. You can create tutorials and instructional videos to keep things interesting. Even when your students miss your class, they can easily access your videos and it would feel like a face-to-face lecture.

Tellagami

Powtoon

Powtoon is another online presentation software that allows users to create animated videos and presentations to capture students' attention and increase engagement. This undoubtedly helps students avoid unnecessary distractions and to focus on the discussion.

Powtoon

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation tool. Create presentations that stand out. Get your ideas across with beautiful design, rich animation, cinematic motion, 3D models and icons. Let intelligent technology help you bring your presentation to life with a few clicks. Tell your story with confidence with slide-by-slide notes only viewable by you. Easily translate your slides into the preferred language and use the built-in accessibility checker to be sure your audience doesn’t miss a thing.

Download Work online

Microsoft Sway

Sway is a new app from Microsoft Office that makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more. Create newsletters, presentations and communications using Sway. With Sway, there’s no need to spend lots of time on formatting. Its built-in design engine takes care of making your creation look its best. If the initial design doesn’t quite match your taste or mood, you can easily apply another — or fully customize your layout to make it your own.

MS Sway

Visme

Visme is a web-based tool that lets you create presentations, reports, infographics, and even web pages. By simply dragging and dropping elements from a toolbar, Visme allows you to customize your slides and add various kinds of media to your presentation—including video and audio. Visme is a free tool with an option for a paid version.

Visme

Canva

Available for use on any web browser or the iOS apps, Canva is a very easy-to-use graphics creation software. It has a drag-and-drop feature and ready-to-use layouts and templates for designing not just posters or social media graphics, but also for professional presentations with beautiful typography, graphs, and charts.

Canva offers everything you would need to create beautiful designs-from millions of stock images, hundreds of fonts, and a multitude of photo filters, icons, and shapes.

Canva

Slides

Slides is an online presentation editor that lets you create and store decks on the cloud, making your presentations viewable anywhere—from desktop computers to phones and tablets—with an internet connection.

If you’re hosting a meeting or speaking at a conference, you can easily send a link or export a PDF copy of your presentation with Slides.

Slides

SlideDog

SlideDog, like many other tools on this list, lets you create presentations online. What makes SlideDog unique is that it lets you can combine almost any form of media into one presentation. You can insert various PowerPoints, Prezis, PDFs, YouTube videos, audio files, and many other elements without the need for conversions onto a SlideDog playlist so that you don’t have to switch between programs during presentation delivery.

The tool also features live sharing, chat, remote control (from any web-enabled device), and audience feedback and analytics.

SlideDog

Slidebean

Slidebean is another online presentation tool. Its best feature is its automatic design feature that lets you explore and experiment with hundreds of design combinations with a simple click of a mouse. The tool has a wide range of professional templates, photos, icons, gifs, charts, and graphs.

It also enables you to work with colleagues on a presentation simultaneously and track the activity of viewers on each slide.

Slidebean

Zoho Show

Zoho Show is part of the Zoho Docs suite. Like the majority of the tools on this list, Zoho Show lets you create slideshows on your web browser using themes, text, and other visual elements like charts and graphs. 

One of its best features is “broadcast,” which lets you remotely present slideshow in real time to anyone with a web browser and internet access via a link. Combined with a conference call, this broadcast feature enables you to present to clients and colleagues remotely.

Zoho Show

Swipe

Swipe is another excellent online presentation tool. What makes it great is its simplicity, which lets you create slides by dragging and dropping any media you want to include. Afterward, you can pick solid color backgrounds and add text.

The tool lets you share and present your slideshow online where others can follow along in real time. While these features are already available in other apps, what makes Swipe unique is that it lets you add polls to gather live feedback from your audience.

Swipe

Venngage

Venngage is primarily an app for creating infographics, but it doesn’t make it less of a tool you can use to create visually engaging presentations. Since it specializes in graphics, reports, posters, and other graphics-rich content, Venngage can help you communicate your ideas more visually. With a toolbar to drag and drop elements onto a blank canvas (or a pre-made template), you can create content that you can use to deliver your presentation.

Venngage

Adobe Spark

Adobe Spark lets you create and share engaging videos for business or even personal use. After selecting a visual style or theme, the app can then combine video clips, photos, and icons into one video. Spark also lets users add text overlays and music from a wide variety of free soundtracks available (or your personal collection).

Adobe Spark

Piktochart

Piktochart is a web-based infographic application which allows users without intensive experience as graphic designers to easily create infographics and visuals using themed templates. It has a free and paid version.

Piktochart

Genial.ly

Genial.ly is an easy-to-use and free web tool used to create interactive visual content. This content can be used to enhance websites/blogs or as a communication tool (i.e. to make presentations, infographics, reports, posters, or guides). The tool for creating interactive content. Communicate, educate, and attract by bringing your content to life.

Genial.ly

Infogram

Infogram is an intuitive visualization tool that empowers people and teams to create beautiful content. It allows people to make and share digital charts, infographics and maps. It offers a free and paid version with multiple plans.

Infogram

PosterMyWall

PosterMyWall is a one-stop online solution for graphic design. They have simplified the design process so that anyone can create stunning graphics and videos without requiring any artistic skills.

Whether you’re using PosterMyWall individually or with your team, all your work is always saved securely in the cloud. Stay organized with folders and photo/video collections.
It offers a free and paid version with multiple plans.

PosterMyWall

Mindmup

Brainstorm, create presentations and document outlines with mind maps, and publish your ideas online and to social networks.

Mindmup

Google Documents

You can use Google Documents for more than file sharing and version control. They also make a simple brainstorming tool.

Simply create a new document, share it with the members of your team, and give them permission to edit. Start building a list of ideas as a group. Everyone can either capture their ideas separately and then add them to the document or add them in real time to inspire each other.

Google Documents

Realtime Board

Realtime Board is similarly a collaborative, online whiteboard space utilizing virtual post-it notes. You can start with a blank page or use a template to structure your project. Add files, images, and documents from Google Drive or upload them from your computer to share information. Then you can turn it into a presentation or export it to a PDF.

Realtime Board

Popplet

Popplet allows users to customize the color of each “popple,” aka the bubbles that house ideas. You can also include sketches, images, and links in your popples. It’s easy to edit the size of popples and disconnect and connect them as needed.

Popplet

Google Keep

Google Keep is a note-taking service developed by Google. Keep offers a variety of tools for taking notes, including text, lists, images, and audio.

Google Keep

Padlet

Padlet is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more.

Padlet

Evernote
  • Manage everything from big projects to personal moments.
  • Capture ideas and inspiration in notes, voice, and pictures.
  • Never lose track of your tasks and deadlines.

Evernote

Zoomit

ZoomIt is a screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image. I wrote ZoomIt to fit my specific needs and use it in all my presentations.

ZoomIt works on all versions of Windows and you can use pen input for ZoomIt drawing on tablet PCs.

Zoomit

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is the only browser that lets you take notes, write, doodle, and highlight directly on webpages. Then you can save and share your handiwork in all the usual ways. Simplify reading through the Reading view and reading tools.  Print webpages without ads or unnecessary clutter. Listen to books your way and use enhanced learning tools that break words into syllables and highlight parts of speech.

Ms Edge

Microsoft Marker

Capture your screen, add annotations and convert screenshots into bug reports, feedback tickets or shareable links. When your screen capture is ready, upload it to your clipboard, share it via a link. Download Marker.io on Edge

Microsoft Marker

Milanote

Milanote is a tool for organizing creative projects into beautiful visual boards. 

By design, it feels a lot like working on the wall in a creative studio - visual, tactile and sometimes a bit messy - Milanote is a great fit for designers who work in teams remotely.

Milanote

Educreations

Free application for creating and sharing video lessons. Uses an iPad or browser. Students can view public videos without a registration account.

Educreations

Screencast-O-Matic
  • Screen capture recording with no installation.
  • Free version limited to 15 minutes of recording time.
  • Free hosting, or publish screencasts to popular sites and social networks.
  • Export multiple file formats.
  • Free version contains a watermark when published.
  • Editing tools not available in free account.

Screencast-O-Matic

ShowMe
  • Create screen capture lessons on a virtual whiteboard.
  • Screencasts stored on the ShowMe site for free.
  • Privacy settings allow videos to be set as public or personal.
  • Personal videos viewable by direct link.

ShowMe

Screencastify

It’s as easy to use as Screencast-O-Matic, and has many of the same features, but it runs as a Chrome plugin, and saves your recordings to Google Drive. Having said that, it doesn’t just let you record the browser window; you can record your entire desktop and optionally even your webcam (which, like Screencast-O-Matic will appear as a cameo picture-in-picture at the lower right of the video. Screencastify also allows you to annotate over a Tab recording, and has some basic editing features  which you can use in post (if you want to).

Screencastify

PowerPoint Screen recording tool

The screen recording feature is very simple to use. Simply navigate to the spot in your slideshow where you would like the capture included. Select Insert and then Screen Recording. A small pop-up window will appear with options to select your screen area, record audio, and capture the pointer as you record. When you are ready to start, click the Record button. You can pause the capture if needed and stop it with a tap when you are done.

Windows Game Bar

If you’re using Windows 10, you should hit WINDOWS + G to open the Game Bar, a tool that facilitates the recording of videos on your desktop. Note, however, that you cannot record the actual desktop, just the apps running on it.

Ezvid

Free screen recorder software to capture, edit, and share on-screen action video.

  • Fast & Easy Screen Recorder
  • Instant Facecam & Voice Synthesis
  • Awesome Video Editor
  • Fun To Use
  • Instant slideshow maker
  • Beautiful screen capture for games, desktop, & browser
  • Draw on your screen
  • Free included music
  • For Windows XP3, 7, 8, and 10
  • Easy to use video speed control

Ezvid

RecordIt

Simple, downloadable, screencast recording tool. Record all of the action on your entire desktop or select just a specific area of your screen for recording.

RecordIt

Animoto
  • Use photos, video clips, words, and music to create videos.
  • Share videos to popular social media sites, e-mail, and DVD.
  • Built-in video styles.

Animoto

Flickr
  • Videos limited to 90 seconds in length, and 150 MB in file size.
  • Videos can be mapped to a location.
  • Embed in other Web pages or blogs.
  • Requires a Yahoo!* account to get a Flickr account.

Flickr

YouTube

Educational programming on YouTube takes on many shapes, forms, and can enhance the learning experience. Create channels, and groups and teach learners to subscribe to channels that will benefit their learning.

YouTube

Renderforest

Renderforest Video Maker is a cloud-based video maker platform created to help you create beautiful, powerful and professional-videos quickly and effortlessly. You can create videos for a variety of purposes within minutes, ranging from slideshows, infographics, commercials, and more.

The free version offers: 

  • Unlimited 360p videos
  • Up to 3 minute videos
  • 500 MB storage
  • Limited number of music tracks
  • Watermarks on everything
  • Free logos in PNG

Renderforest

Microsoft Movie Creator

Easily create video story and share with your friends and family. For any help on how to use this app, please go to http://videopixstore.com/

Microsoft Movie Creator

Microsoft Movie Maker 10

Movie Maker 10 is the app to help you make movies from your photos, video clips, and music. It provides basic features such as video trimming, joining, adding background music and text caption, to more advanced like image filter, transition effects.

Microsoft Movie Maker 10

Flexclip

FlexClip is an easy-to-use free online video maker that helps you easily turn photos and video clips into professional videos, no design skills required.  It allows you to combine or merge multiple videos and photos into on single video.

Flexclip

Biteable

Biteable is a do-it-yourself video making platform. Biteable is free for you to create and share your own animated videos. It is also has a premium option.

Biteable

Adobe Spark Video Maker

Using a simple drag-and-drop system, you can upload videos, add music and insert captions wherever you like. There are various tutorials to help you on your way, but its ease-of-use will make it simple to create your own videos. Adobe Spark is a free video creation tool.

Adobe Spark Video Maker

Moovly

Create your explainer videos, promo videos, video tutorials or training videos with Moovly's online video editor and video templates. It has a free version as well as enterprise and educational plans.

Moovly

VEED

Without having to install any software or program, you'll be amazed at Veed's online video editing tool. It supports all video formats, offers a wide range of useful tools and features, which users can enjoy just by signing up for a free plan. The good news doesn't end there - Educators and Non-profit organizations can maximize its Pro features for Free.

VEED

Audacity
  • Free, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
  • Import sound files or use a microphone to record audio.
  • Variety of export file formats.

Audacity

PODCASTS!

PODCASTS! brings you the ability to browse, search, stream, subscribe, download, and listen to thousands of podcasts from around the world right on your Windows Phone!

PODCASTS!

Podbean
Podbean is a podcast publishing and monetization service, providing free and premium hosting packages for individuals and businesses. Podbean offers a user-friendly interface that integrates publishing, management, syndication and analysis tools into an easy-to-use podcasting package

Podbean

Vocaroo

Vocaroo tries to make it as simple as possible for users. Their minimalist design features a button that says, “Click to Record.” If learners have a piece of audio they’d prefer to upload, another smaller button says, “Or upload?” offering that option.

The editing options for Vocaroo are limited, but it serves as a simple, entry-level online recording tool, especially useful for students in younger grades. Once a recording is completed, it can be downloaded directly to the hard drive, or save link to Google Drive.

Vocaroo

Spreaker

It provides a simple, web-based platform for learners to record their own podcasts.

Spreaker requires an account just to get started, and its free plan offers 15-minute daily broadcasts, plus five hours of storage and basic analytics. But the tools go well above-and-beyond here. Their editing tools provide a rich mix of options for students to get creative. Spreaker also supports its community of podcasters, giving students an opportunity to see how others are using the platform.

Spreaker

Skype

Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.  Skype in the Classroom is a free community that offers live transformative educational experiences for students including Virtual Field Trips, talks from Guest Speakers, classroom to classroom connections, and live collaboration projects.

Skype

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features.

Google Hangouts

Twiducate
  • Designed for classrooms.
  • Teacher controls a private network of invited participants.
  • Separate teacher and student log ins.
  • Mobile application available.
  • Can add dates and class bookmarks to the discussion page.
  • Conversations can be archived.
  • Free for educators.

Twiducate

Fakebook
  • Designed to look and function like Facebook.
  • Students create a fictitious profile of a historical person, book character, famous politician, and so forth.
  • Other students can read and comment on posts.
  • Free version has a large advertising column that may be distracting to students.

Fakebook

Twitter
  • An online social networking and microblogging service.
  • Send and receive text-based posts of up to 140 characters.
  • Useful for professional development and networking.
  • Can “protect” messages so only accepted users receive them.
  • Free, but requires registration.

Twitter

Flipgrid

Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create "grids" to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called "topics," and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.

Flipgrid

Empatico

Empatico empowers teachers and students to explore the world through experiences that spark curiosity, kindness, and empathy. We combine live video with activities designed to foster meaningful connections among students ages 7-11.

Connect with other classrooms through video interactions

Empatico

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams brings everything together in a shared workspace where you can chat, meet, share files, and video conference. Host audio, video, and web conferences with anyone. Get features like scheduling assistance, note taking, desktop sharing, uploading files, and chat messaging. Collaborate on files with built-in Office 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and OneNote. Add in your favourite Microsoft apps and third-party services.

Microsoft Teams

OneNote Class Notebook

Get organized with OneNote Class Notebook, featuring personal workspaces, a content library, and a space that encourages students to collaborate.

OneNote Class Notebook

Zoom

Zoom allows for simple, easy setup meetings or regular meetings or classroom sessions in your personal meeting room. Quickly create and share a private meeting link with an individual or class and connect remote members through video.

Top Free Features:

  • Host up to 100 participants 
  • 1 -1 and group meetings
  • Up to 40 minutes free 
  • Unlimited meetings
  • HD video and audio
  • Screen sharing
  • Scheduled meetings
  • Private and group chat
  • Host controls

Zoom

Youtube Live

YouTube Live, like Facebook Live, is a platform for demonstrating a product with live Q&A, hosting an educational session to teach your audience while screen sharing or using a whiteboard, or hosting a live conversation with members of your class.

Top Free Features:

  • Three stream quality options 
  • Added delay
  • Live questions from the audience
  • Private live streams (people can only access with the link)
  • Advanced scheduling
  • Live automatic captions
  • Location tags

Youtube Live

Diigo
  • Combines social bookmarking with Web annotation and group collaboration.
  • Browser add-ons include a bookmark, highlighter, sticky note, and sharing tool.
  • Mobile and desktop applications available.
  • Import bookmarks or export bookmarks to a library.

Diigo

Onetab

OneTab lets you easily export and import your tabs as a list of URLs. You can also create a web page from your list of tabs, so that you can easily share your tabs with other people, other computers, or with your smartphone or tablet.

Onetab

Bibsonomy

BibSonomy helps you to manage your publications and bookmarks, to collaborate with your colleagues and to find new interesting material for your research.

Bibsonomy

Google Keep

Google Keep is a note-taking service developed by Google. Keep offers a variety of tools for taking notes, including text, lists, images, and audio.

Google Keep

Padlet

Padlet is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, and more.

Padlet

Flipboard

Flipboard is a social magazine, available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, that curates content from your own feeds and other places.

Flipboard

Newsela

Newsela is a powerful instructional content platform. Newsela integrates with the various learning management systems including Microsoft and Google Classroom. Newsela solves the problem of reading engagement holistically for learners, teacher sand principals.

Newsela

Instapaper

Save all of the interesting articles, videos, cooking recipes, song lyrics, or whatever else you come across while browsing. With one click, Instapaper lets you save, read, and manage the things you find on the Internet.

Instapaper

Participate (EduClipper)

With a Participate account you can still collect and store resources, just like before...plus, connect with other educators to learn together.

Participate (EduClipper)

Pinterest

With Pinterest, you can discover, search and save great content from across the web. Use it for inspiration or practical ideas as well as curating curriculum content for your learners. You are able to create pinboards for them and have them create boards for specific subject areas.

Pinterest

Amrita Online Labs
  • Interactive online laboratories developed by CDAC Mumbai and Amrita University. http://amrita.olabs.co.in
  • Students explore, construct, and experiment before coming to a solution; feedback allows students to see results.
  • Each lab contains a list of books, videos, and links that support the experiment.
  • Free, but registration required.

Amrita Online Labs

Gizmos
  • Interactive, inquiry-based simulations for grades 3‒12. www.explorelearning.com
  • Topics in science and math.
  • Simulations supported with teacher guides, vocabulary sheets, student exploration sheets, assessment questions, and learning objectives.
  • Free 30-day trial, requires registration and purchase after trial.
  • Without a subscription or trial registration, simulations limited to 5-minute previews.

Gizmos

NASA Online: Activities and Simulations
  • Science, math, and technology activities and simulations sponsored by NASA.
  • Not open-ended or inquiry-based but can provide useful lesson demonstrations and background information.
  • Free; runs on any device that supports Adobe Flash*.

NASA Online: Activities and Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations
  • Interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado. http://phet.colorado.edu
  • Manipulate variables and perform experiments in science and math.
  • Each simulation supported with teaching resources, sample learning goals, and downloadable teaching ideas.
  • Free, registration not required.
  • Runs on any browser, or can be downloaded and shared.

PhET Interactive Simulations

Flight Simulator: Plane Pilot

Game is created to bring realistic flight 3D experience on mobile devices. Simulator comes with 7 different airplanes, true physics, professional plane control system!

Flight Simulator: Plane Pilot

Fatpaint
  • A web-based graphic design software and photo editor.
  • Drawing tools with brush strokes and painting options.
  • Supports text integration and 3-D transformation.
  • Built-in special effects and blend modes.
  • Supports drawing tablets with electronic pen devices.
  • Free; registration optional.
  • Ads; may be inappropriate or distracting.

Fatpaint

Google Drawing

Google Drawings is a free, web-based diagramming software developed by Google. It allows users to collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organisational charts, website wireframes, mind maps, concept maps, and other types of diagrams.

Google Drawing

Sumo Paint
  • Useful tool for creating graphics and illustrations as well as photo editing.
  • Standard photo editing tools, as well as built-in special effects and filters.
  • Shape drawing tools, a variety of brushes and brush styles, and interesting transformation tools for scaling, moving, and rotating objects.
  • Optional registration.
  • Registered accounts include free, online image storage.
  • Registered account holders can see other users’ artwork and photos, some of which may be inappropriate for students.

Sumo Paint

Paint.NET

It's a quick, easy to operate free photo editor that's ideal for small tasks. It has added advanced editing tools like layers, an undo history, a ton of filters, myriad community-created plugins, and a brilliant 3D rotate/zoom function that's handy for recomposing images.

Paint.NET

Anyimage

Create clickable social cards for Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms in seconds linking to any web page of your choice!

Anyimage

Freepik

More than 2 millions free vectors, PSD, photos and free icons. Exclusive freebies and all graphic resources that you need for your projects.

Freepik

Microsoft Photo Editor

Photo Editor is a simple application and easy to manipulate image editing.
Adjust color, add effects, rotate, crop, resize, frame, mirror, and draw on your photos. Options include adjusting color hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness. In addition, Photo Editor offers a large variety of effects to images
Your photos including gamma correction, auto contrast, auto-tone color, blur, sharpen, oil painting, sketch, high-contrast black and white, russet, and more.

Microsoft Photo Editor

Paint 3D

Whether you’re an artist or just want to try out some doodles–Paint 3D makes it easy to unleash your creativity and bring your ideas to life. Classic Paint has been reimagined, with an updated look and feel and a ton of new brushes and tools. And now, create in every dimension. Make 2D masterpieces or 3D models that you can play with from all angles.

Paint 3D

Fotor

Fotor is a other easy-to-use editor. Just click the “Edit a Photo” button on their homepage to get started. Fotor provides a set of simple editing and “beauty” retouching tools that give you a lot of options without making it too tricky.

They also have a Cover Photo tool that makes creating a background cover photo for networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and several others very easy. Many of the background options are reserved for paid users. Still, if you want to create a nice, simple header image using a solid color or one of your images as a background, then this tool will be just fine.

Fotor

StoryboardThat

A storyboard is a graphic organiser in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualising a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

StoryboardThat

Powtoon

Powtoon is another online presentation software that allows users to create animated videos and presentations to capture students' attention and increase engagement. This undoubtedly helps students avoid unnecessary distractions and to focus on the discussion.

Powtoon

Toondoo

Toondoo lets you create comic strips and cartoons easily with just a few clicks, drags and drops. Get started now!

Toondoo

Pixton

Tap into the power of comics to capture your students’ attention and imagination. Over 4,000 backgrounds, 3,000 props, and 700 subject-specific comic templates.

  • Assessment and rubric tools for assessment value.
  • Import photos, graphics, and text, or use the built-in object library.
  • Real-time collaboration tool to create comics with friends.
  • Easy to use, but comics look professional.
  • Private and secure school version.
  • School version includes voice-over recording tools to enhance learning.
  • Free trial for teachers.

Pixton

Voki
  • A free web-based tool that lets users create customized avatars with audio.
  • With Voki Classroom*, use the classroom management system to set up student accounts (e-mail not required) and create lesson pages.
  • Ads in free version; ad-free paid classroom version available.
  • Free version limited to 60-second audio length.

Voki

Microsoft 3D Builder

View, create, and personalize 3D objects using 3D Builder.
Download many kinds of 3D files and edit them using wide range of powerful yet easy-to-use tools. Take a picture with your webcam and make it 3D. Personalize 3D objects by embossing your name on them, or combine models and pieces to make something new. Build from scratch using simple customizable shapes.

Microsoft 3D Builder

Microsoft 3D Creator

3D Creator is a modeling and animation tool that makes it easy to get started in the world of 3D modeling. Plenty of tutorials are included so you won't get lost along the way.
Great for all skill levels, 3D Creator makes creating 3D shapes about as easy as it can get, with tools tailored to your skill level. In novice mode only the most basic tools are shown so you aren't overwhelmed by seldom used tools. When you progress, and feel comfortable with the basics, you can switch to using a more advanced tool set.

Microsoft 3D Creator

BrainPop

BrainPop has an excellent selection of games to teach a variety of subjects. In addition to the regular BrainPop games, there are also Grades R-3 BrainPop games. In addition, there are often lesson ideas and even quizzes that could serve as useful formative assessments.

BrainPop

Manga High

Math is the focus of Manga High. Here you'll find games that teach in a variety of math arenas, from shapes to algebra. In fact, you can search specifically for those games. If you pick algebra, you can search by learning target. This is a great way to ensure that you are picking a game that really focuses on a skill you need students to learn.

Manga High

Kahoot

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "Kahoots", are multiple-choice quizzes that allow user generation and can be accessed via a web browser

Kahoot

Quizizz

Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more. Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.

Quizizz

Quizlet: Learning tools & flashcards

Quizlet is a mobile and web-based study application that allows students to study information via learning tools and games.

Quizlet: Learning tools & flashcards

Poptropica

Poptropica, a virtual world for kids to travel, play games, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely and is targeted for children aged 6 to 15

Poptropica

New Escape

Play the best escape games online! These games might be tricky sometimes, so be prepared. The player must solve some difficult puzzles and use them with objects to find a way out from a different mysterious places. Room escape games are a sub-genre of adventures and puzzles, usually created as a free online game.

New Escape

Jigsaw Planet

Create your own online jigsaw puzzle

Jigsaw Planet

Puzzlemaker

Create your own puzzles. Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Choose from the list of options and make your own puzzle online for classroom or home use

Puzzlemaker

Alien Addition
Microsoft Kodu Game Lab

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

Microsoft Kodu Game Lab

Microsoft Minecraft

Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Buy it here, or explore the site for the latest news and the community's amazing creations! A game-based learning platform with standards-aligned content across K12 subjects and special features designed for classroom use.

Microsoft Minecraft

 

An Hour of Code

The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event or try any of the over 200+ one-hour tutorials, available in over 45 languages.

An Hour of Code

Typeform

You get these features on our free plan:

  • 3 typeforms
  • 10 questions per typeform
  • 100 responses per month
  • Templates
  • Reports and metrics
  • Email notification when someone completes your typeform
  • Embed your typeform in a web page
  • Download your data

Typeform

Quizizz

Free gamified quizzes for every subject to play in class and at home. Pick an existing quiz or create your own for review, formative assessment, and more. Quizizz allows you to conduct student-paced formative assessments in a fun and engaging way for students of all ages.

Quizizz

IXL learning

IXL is an immersive learning experience that provides comprehensive, curriculum-aligned maths and English content for preschool to grade 12.

IXL learning

Adaptedmind

AdaptedMind was created by graduates of Stanford, Berkeley and Harvard to improve the way children learn. ... A learning experience that identifies the learner’s strengths and weaknesses, and delivers a curriculum and exercises that adapts to these needs. That's adaptive learning.

Adaptedmind

 

Whooo's Reading

Whooo's Reading is a higher-level thinking alternative to multiple choice. Get your students writing about what they read. Re-associate reading with joy.

Whooo's Reading

Swift
  • Real-Time SMS and Web Polling
  • SMS Texting & Web Polling Made Easy

Swift

Microsoft Forms

We designed Forms to be super easy so that anyone could confidently create a form and easily see results as they come in. Forms lets anyone with an Office 365 Education account create and/or respond to quizzes. What makes Forms unique and so valuable for educators is the automatic grading and in-quiz feedback functionality. Automatic grading does exactly what the name implies and greatly reduces the time spent grading. In-quiz feedback is a feature that lets quiz authors personalize messages depending how a student answers a question.

Microsoft Forms

Typeform

You get these features on our free plan:

  • 3 typeforms
  • 10 questions per typeform
  • 100 responses per month
  • Templates
  • Reports and metrics
  • Email notification when someone completes your typeform
  • Embed your typeform in a web page
  • Download your data

Typeform

Google Forms

Google Forms is a free online tool from Google* which allows users to create forms, surveys, and quizzes as well as to collaboratively edit and share the forms with other people. Educators can use Google forms to assess their students at the beginning of the class  and gauge pre-existing knowledge. Furthermore, Google forms can be used to give feedback to and receive feedback from students and parents. Similarly, students can use Google forms to assess their own learning and set the learning goals as well as to collect data for their research projects.

Google Forms

Triventy

Triventy is a game-based learning platform which enables you to author, run and host quizzes and surveys in your classroom.

Your students will participate in the quiz using their smartphones - without any prior installation - while you run on a large screen, just like you would run a presentation.

Triventy

Plickers

Plickers is the free card activity your students will love. Allows teachers to collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Perfect for the one-device classroom.

Plickers

Proprofs

Plickers is the free card activity your students will love. Allows teachers to collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices. Perfect for the one-device classroom.

Proprofs

StoryboardThat

A storyboard is a graphic organizer in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

StoryboardThat

Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a powerful community-based social tool for learning. It allows students to post questions and receive answers from their teachers and fellow students. Furthermore, you can post intriguing questions and lesson materials to be reviewed at home.

Google Classroom

Class Dojo

This is a free classroom communication, community building, and behavior management application. Class Dojo enables teachers to not only track behavior and share this with parents, but also assign students tasks which build positive behavioral skills and traits. Students make their own avatars, gain and lose points based on classroom behavior, discuss approaches, and learn other soft skills agreed upon by the teacher and the class.

Class Dojo

Edmodo

Edmodo lets you give a voice to shy or anxious students who would go unheard in traditional classrooms. Students are instantly familiar with Edmodo's interface and can communicate more easily with each other and with you.

Get the productivity features you need like Assignments, Quizzes, and a Gradebook, plus an interface that allows students to communicate with each other–and with you–in a safe, private space.

Edmodo

Blogger

Teachers can use blogs to publish assignments, resources, and keep students and even parents up to date on class events, due dates, and content being covered. ... Students can use blogs to publish their writing and educate others on a particular topic.

Blogger

OneNote Class Notebook

Get organized with OneNote Class Notebook, featuring personal workspaces, a content library, and a space that encourages students to collaborate.

OneNote Class Notebook

Microsoft Sway

Sway is a new app from Microsoft Office that makes it easy to create and share interactive reports, personal stories, presentations, and more. Create newsletters, presentations and communications using Sway. With Sway, there’s no need to spend lots of time on formatting. Its built-in design engine takes care of making your creation look its best. If the initial design doesn’t quite match your taste or mood, you can easily apply another — or fully customize your layout to make it your own.

Ms Sway

ClassKick

Your Whole Classroom in Real-Time: Track your students’ progress as they work at their own pace. You see what they see.

Give Help When Students Need It: Teachers and students help each other with digital hand raising–allowing students to even ask their peers anonymously.

Interact With Students According to Their Needs: Create custom or award preset auto-grading stickers, draw and interact directly on students’ canvases, or leave detailed feedback in the Help Center.

Personalize Your Lessons: Create or customize your own content with an array of tools–or transform an assignment from our library. Lessons that can be open-ended or auto-graded.

Empower Student Development: Students demonstrate understanding in the ways that work best for them–allowing for freedom of expression through text, drawing and audio.

ClassKick

Creative Commons

This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors can express their intentions regarding how their works may be used by others. The add-in downloads the Creative Commons license you designate from the Creative Commons Web site and inserts it directly into your creative work.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Office:
  • PowerPoint
  • Word
  • Excel
Pickit

Pickit is the fastest way to make professional-looking presentation that make an impact. Pickit makes it easy to create stunning slides in seconds using suggested layout and design ideas.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Pixton Comics Inc.

This add-in allows you to add illustrated comic characters to your presentations. By using Pixton PALs (pedagogical Agents for Learning) you can increase engagement and comprehension and make your presentation more and interesting

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Mentimeter

Mentimeter enables you to turn workshops, meetings or classes into interactive experiences that are fun for both you and your participants. Create word clouds based on your audience’s impressions, ask MCQ to let your audience vote or energize with quiz competition

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Geogebra

Geogebra is a free, dynamic mathematics software for all levels that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, calculus in one easy-to-use package. Interactive learning, teaching and evaluation resources with Geogebra can be shared and used by everyone at www.geogebratube.org 

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
Wooclap

Wooclap is a user-friendly alternative to hand-raising, and gives every individual in a class the chance to express themselves.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
FluidMath

Bring your handwritten Math to life.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Phet Sims (Science/Math)

A collection of fun, interactive, research-based simulations for science and math instructions in grade R-12.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
PPTclass Smart Classroom

This smart class add-in enables teachers and learners to interactively communicate anytime anywhere through any devices installed PowerPoint. Teachers can distribute interactive tasks to learners, collect, review and display learners’ works and get statistics in class in real-time.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
CK-12 Science Resources

Choose from a comprehensive library of videos and real-world applications and reading resources.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
WinjiGo

Using WinjiGo Handouts, teachers can now create handout assessments directly from Word or PowerPoint without having to open the system form their browser. Moreover, students can directly solve and send their handout activities to their teachers. You must have a WinijiGo account to be able to use this add-in

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
Wikipedia

Quickly access Wikipedia content from Office and simplifies the process of referencing text and images. Automatically search topics based on your selection in an Office document and displays results in a  task pane.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
Copyleaks Plagiarism Checker

Copyleaks is a cloud-based plagiarism checker designed to track, monitor and trace distribution of your Office content. Copyleaks copyright infringement helps teachers, learners, bloggers, writers and other content-creators assess content using the most sophisticated content detection algorithms.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
Literatu Rubric Marking

Simply open existing student documents and start grading your chosen rubric. Use rubrics you have set up in Literatu, or create one on the fly. Literatu records the marking detail and inserts the grade summary into the Learner’s work document. All marking flows through the learning analytics, right alongside your existing Literatu assessments.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Word and Excel
Corinth Classroom

A digital teaching aid with 3D learning objects easy to add into lesson plans. Libraries contain more than 700 objects

Available Software:

  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Microsoft Word
FMath Editor

Professional mathematics editor used to build equations and insert images into documents. 

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Word
CheckMark

CheckMark allows you to create a bank of frequently-used comments to help when you are reviewing a document.

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Word
RefWorks Citation Manager

RefWorks Citation Manager lets you add-in –text and footnote citations, auto-generating your bibliography as you write

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Word
Rhymes.net

Online rhyming dictionary that contains a huge collections of rhyme entries for almost any given word in English, divided by senses

Available Software:

  • Microsoft Word