Tools to Implement Online Learning

Moving from face-to-face to online teaching you will need to have additional resources in your toolkit. Below is listing of items that can be employed to achieve best results. Many of these are free -especially at this time or for a short trial period. Please make sure you check the terms of agreement.

Learning Management Systems or Material/Lesson Repository

Your district may already have a selected/subscribed Learning Management Systems. If so, please observe their guidelines.

Those listed below will allow you to share your lessons/readings/assignments with your students.

Google Classroom:

• How TOs
  • Google's Teach from Home Online Toolkit or downloaded pdf. file
  • Getting Started with Google Classroom Video
  • Common Sense Media Teacher Essential Guide to Google Classroom
  • Ditch the Textbook Google Classroom Quick Start Guide
  • More How To's from Google Classroom
  • How to use Google Meet

Microsoft Teams:

Microsoft Teams can be used as an online classroom

• Introduction to Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Teams for Education Quick Start Guide

Presentations Tools:

There are several tools for presentations. Consider if the presentation needs to deliver it synchronously (live) or asynchronously (recorded).

• Zoom- Allows you to hold live virtual meeting. These may also be recorded.
  • Zoom tutorials and How To Get Started, and Educating with Zoom
• Google Slides
  • First day with Google Slides,
• Screencastify Allows 5 minute recordings for free.

Forms, Discussions, Collaborations, Quizzes

The following tools can be used to provide formative and summative assessments, discussions or opportunities for online teamwork

• Google Docs
• Google Forms
• Quiziz
• FlipGrid FlipGrid -How To
• SeeSaw