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Actively Learn
What It Is: Actively Learn works seamlessly with Google Classroom and provides thousands of engaging texts, videos, and simulations across ELA, Social Studies, and the Sciences paired with thoughtful instruction that challenge students and foster deep learning and critical thinking.

What They're Offering: Actively Learn is always free for teachers and is making all paid school/district features free through the end of the school year.

What It Is: Banzai is a financial education program that helps students learn the value of a dollar. There are real-life scenarios available in three interactive courses (3rd grade- 12th grade). The program includes tests, games, activities, an entire interactive library, embedded calculators, and more.

What They're Offering: Banzai meets all state curriculum standards and is completely free to use.

What It Is: Century was designed as an intervention tool to identify and remedy gaps in a student's education. It uses artificial intelligence to tailor the learning experience to the learner, much like an actual teacher in the classroom would.

What They're Offering: Schools closed due to the outbreak can get free access to Century's online learning resources. Click here to learn more.

What It Is: This collection of online learning resources covers pretty much every topic. Lessons include reading, activities, videos, and more to engage students. They also have free online textbooks.

What They're Offering: CK-12 is always free for all users. Teachers can check it out here.
Classcraft
What It Is: Classcraft helps teachers maintain student interest and keep on track to reach their goals with tools that motivate them in a digital environment.

What They're Offering: Classcraft is supporting educators in response to the coronavirus outbreak by offering free schoolwide licenses until the end of the school year, giving all teachers free access to Premium Quests (their popular tool for turning curriculum into a personalized learning adventure), free PD to help educators keep students motivated, and free How-to guide on remote learning. Learn more.

What It Is: ClassHook offers quality media clips on every conceivable topic. Pre-curated playlists make it easier to find what you need for the subject at hand.

What They're Offering: Basic access is always free. Schools closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus can also get free access to ClassHook Premium. Learn how here.

What It Is: This site offers literary and non-fiction reading passages for grades 3-12. Teachers can assign reading and follow-up questions, and track student progress.

What They're Offering: CommonLit always offers free accounts for teachers to use with their students. Sign up here.

What It Is: Curriki provides teacher-vetted, open-resource lesson plans and materials on a wide array of subjects. It's a good place to find online learning resources for students to use at home.

What They're Offering: Curriki is always free to use. Sign up here.
Discovery Education
What It Is: Discovery Education provides online textbooks, multimedia content, and professional development support for virtual classrooms and teachers.

What They're Offering: U.S. schools can receive free access to Discovery Education Experience through the end of the school year. Learn more here.
Education Perfect
What It Is: EP Classroom provides a wide range of customizable online learning experiences. Their site notes that teachers in China and other affected areas have already been using their resources with great success for the last few weeks.

What They're Offering: This platform is free for all users. Sign up here.

What It Is: EVERFI offers courses for K-12 on real-world topics like mental health, financial planning, career readiness, and more.

What They're Offering: These courses are always free for educators and students. Learn more here.
Free Math App
What It Is: This no-frills site requires students to show their work on math problems, step-by-step. When it's time to grade, you can take a look at their work to see exactly where things went wrong and correct problems quickly.

What They're Offering: As the title says, this site is always free for teachers and students. Check it out here.

What It Is: Turn learning into a game when you create online quizzes and learning experiences. Use their extensive question bank, plus upload your own as needed.

What They're Offering: Gamilab is always free for everyone. Sign up here.
InferCabulary
What It Is: InferCabulary is a web-based, research-backed, device-agnostic, K-12, fun, game-based, visual approach for teaching nuanced vocabulary that simultaneously improves students' critical thinking skills. InferCabulary is the opposite of rote memorization of definitions-they mimic the act of avid readership so students deeply learn words and improve comprehension.

What They're Offering: They are offering 2 months free access and are building a section to offer lessons that can be assigned to students grades 3-9.

What It Is: Watch a video on a subject, then use the teacher guide for discussion, take a quiz, or use the other online learning resources provided.

What They're Offering: Izzit's online courses are free. Teachers and students can sign up for a free account here.

What It Is: Do you Kahoot? Teachers have loved this fun online quiz game platform for years. Here's why we're into it.

What They're Offering: Kahoot! Basic is free for educators and students, but they're also currently offering their Premium distance learning tools for free. Learn more here.

What It Is: Kami is a PDF and document annotation app for schools. Think of it like digital pen and paper for interacting with your students.

What They're Offering: Kami is offering free access to schools closed due to the outbreak. Contact them here.
Khan Academy
What It Is: Khan Academy is well-known for providing an incredibly wide range of lessons for students at every level. Chances are you'll find at least some of what you need for your virtual classroom here.

What They're Offering: Khan Academy is always free for all users. Sign up here.

What It Is: Kognity has turned traditional textbooks into interactive online experiences with videos, animations, and automatically-corrected assessments.

What They're Offering: Kognity is offering free access for all schools closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus. Contact them here.
Listenwise
What It Is: Listenwise teaches students to be better listeners, using podcasts and comprehension questions and quizzes.

What They're Offering: Any school closed due to the outbreak can get access to Listenwise Premium for free. Learn more here.
MusicFirst
What It Is: This is the only online learning management system for teaching music at all age levels. Band practice might be off the table for now, but students can still work on theory, notation, sight-reading and more.

What They're Offering: If your school is closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus, you can receive free access to the entire MusicFirst system for the duration. Find out more.

What It Is: Choose from a wide range of prepared interactive lessons for all grade levels, or create your own if you can't find what you need. Assess students on the spot and get real-time feedback from them too.

What They're Offering: Schools closed due to the outbreak can request free access to Nearpod. Here's how.

What It Is: NoRedInk builds stronger writers through interest-based curriculum, adaptive exercises, and actionable data.

What They're Offering: Their site is always free.
Open Culture
Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it.
PBS Learning Media
What It Is: This site uses curated PBS videos along with lesson plans, interactive materials, and more to cover lots of subjects in an engaging fashion.

What They're Offering: PBS Learning Media is always free for teachers. Sign up here.
PenPal Schools
What It Is: Schools that have already closed for weeks note that students quickly become lonely outside the classroom. PenPal Schools not only lets you engage your own students, but those from around the world, on a wide variety of subjects.

What They're Offering: PenPal Schools is free. Learn how to sign up here.
ReadTheory
What It Is: ReadTheory's offers a vast library of reading comprehension content that fosters improvement by automatically meeting learners at their own, individual ability levels. Find passages and prompts for students to answer.

What They're Offering: ReadTheory is always free.

What It Is: Access thousands of high-quality, free K-12 articles, and create online assignments with them.

What They're Offering: Free content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade

What It Is: Rozzy Learning has engaging lesson plans and other resources for science, social studies, math, and STEM for K-8th grade.

What They're Offering: Free lessons for teachers during school closures. A specific list of lessons have been designated for virtual learning. Learn more.

What It Is: Seterra offers online geography quizzes. You can also create your own custom quizzes.

What They're Offering: Seterra is free to use. Schools affected by COVID-19/coronavirus can get 6 months of Seterra bonus features for free. Find out how.
Slido for Education
What It Is: This brand-new virtual classroom platform integrates PowerPoint, Zoom video webinars, and Slido quizzes into one streamlined package.

What They're Offering: Slide is offering free access to its Advanced Education package for students and teachers until July 1, 2020. Contact them to find out more.
SMART Learning Suite
What It Is: SMART Learning Suite is a virtual classroom platform that easily integrates everything you already have on Google Drive or in Microsoft documents. You can add videos and other online resources as needed.

What They're Offering: Teachers and students can access SMART Learning Suite for free for the rest of the school year. Learn how.

What It Is: ST Math uses the Spatial-Temporal patented approach, manipulating objects in space and time. The program starts by teaching the foundational concepts visually, then connects the ideas to the symbols, language, and robust discourse.

What They're Offering: ST Math is currently free for parents, schools, and districts during the school closures. Learn more here.

What It Is: Studycat enables safe and convenient home learning of foreign languages, literacy, and critical thinking via an online app.

What They're Offering: In support of families affected by coronavirus-related school disruption, they are giving away free use of the Fun Series language learning apps for 30 days.

What It Is: A K-12 publishing company that creates science and social studies curriculum to enable educators to improve their ability to engage students in a diverse classroom.

What They're Offering: TCI's online platform is now available to all teachers and students to use whether or not they are a current customer. Teachers can email their support team to get free access to their platform via info@teachtci.com.
Twig Education
What It Is: Twig offers a variety of tools including twig Science tools for elementary school students, twig Secondary for grades 6-12, and free grade-level packets for distance learning.

What They're Offering: Free resources. Click here for specific details.
Voces Digital
What It Is: These online learning resources are specifically for those who teach French, Spanish, and ESL. Students get audio and video, interactive writing and speaking exercises, and more.

What They're Offering: Schools closed due to the outbreak can get free access to Voces Digital for their teachers and students until June 30, 2020. Contact them here.

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LibGuides: Mount St Benedict College Library: Remote Learning Platforms

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How to Use Google Jamboard for Remote Teaching

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How To Use Google Jamboard Tutorial For Teachers & Students - 2021 Guide

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NSWCDE Guidelines for Remote and Flexible Professional Experience.pdf

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The Australian Government is continuing to work with states and territories and non-government education authorities to support teachers, school leaders and school communities to continue to provide high quality education during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes supporting teachers and parents to work together to ensure children continue their education throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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CORONVIRUS - Information for Schools

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Coronavirus (COVID‑19) information for schools and students

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All governments recognise the importance of education and are committed to supporting the continuity of students’ learning throughout the response to COVID‑19.

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Spotlight - What works online

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What works in online distance teaching and learning