Interactive slideshow design and creation website

• Slides produced independently, through Sway, with PDFs, with slide shows, or with images

• Interactive Features (real time, auto-graded, collaborative, competitive learning games, and/or instant feedback)

  • Add real-time quiz questions to videos and presentation slides, polls, open-ended questions, and cooperative discussion boards

  • Students view and interact with slides from their device via a website--no app required

Subscription required for full access

• Unable to be freely experimented with

Interactive slides and content

Realtime, convenient quantitative assessments

Backchannel application with collaborative features

No account required for students (though required for students)

• Some features are buggy and do not work

Opportunity to review and share notes, new vocab definitions, and tricky grammatical constructions

• white board features allows for creative expression and non-verbal expression

Record and edit screen recordings with option of

Subscription required for full features and practical use in classroom

In-video whiteboard features, notes

General clips editing features

In-video custom and AI-generated quiz questions

Automated quiz grading and reporting

Can be integrated into other LMSs

A voice recording app that allows voice recordings to be imbedded into various formats, such as websites, LMSs, Google tools, and emails. The voice recordings can then be played by students by clicking on them.

Transcriptions and transcription translations also offered

Requires subscription

create virtual "classrooms" and assign videos to students

create interactive videos or access a library of community-made interactive videos

Allows teachers to assign projects to students where the students must respond by creating, cutting, and editing the video they choose to make it interactive

20 free videos before subscription required

A platform designed to facilitate effective communication between parents and the school to improve family engagement

Multiple forms of communication media available

Translation feature that automatically translate all communications into the reader's preferred language

Paid subscription

a free Google extension that provides a toolbar for any website that contains a picture dictionary, translator, text-to-speech tool, annotation features, and a text simplification tool.

a free speech-to-text tool that removes "filler" words in its transcription

able to shorten and summarize transcription through AI

able to translate transcription to other languages

free tool that allows for the creation of posters, flyers, presentations, infographics and even videos

collaborative features: create a workspace where up to four other people can work on multiple files

an audio recording tool that can create QR codes, imbedded links, and links to the recorded audio

free; does not require an account

a gamified review tool that allows teachers to create their own set of flash cards with images

Review "hosted" by teacher in class and students join, similar to Kahoot

Different game formats for reviewing flash cards

free tool

easy to use and familiar to students who already use Canva

free video editing software

a bit tricky to get used to

not the simplest for younger students

applications for both students and teacher

text production, simplification, question creator

rubric creator, lexile level editor, subject tutor, writing feedback

Online book creator

Free tool

Collaborative features

Option of printing created book

Add personal media and audio recordings

A "safe" search engine designed for kids

Essentially an online encyclopedia with images

Create word clouds, polls, quizzes, and surveys

Free tool

Collaborative creation

Nearpod

PearDeck

ScreenPal

EdPuzzle

Blooket

Mentimeter

Wooclap

Socrative

Online timeline maker

Collaborative Features

Free

A bit tricky to manipulate (would need to spend time learning the tool)

Interactive slideshow hosted on teacher's computer and presented in front of class

Students answer questions on their own devices

Limited to 2 questions in the free versions

Polls, surveys, multiple choice questions, true-false questions, map questions, etc.

A student screen monitoring software

Free version - create tests and administer them to students

Automatic grading

Subscription required to create rooms of assigned students

AI powered review of provided material

Create AI generated presentations and images

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Seesaw - Google classroom for kids

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name randomizer

resources for a variety of math worksheets