Pear Deck
Grades 1-12
Pear Deck is a Google Slides add-on and web application to help you interact with ALL students simultaneously and in real time to provide feedback on their learning. This can be used in a virtual or physical classroom and encourages all students to be participating in each class. Student responses from Pear Deck are stored in the Pear Deck website and you are able to go back and look at student responses from any Pear Deck session you present. Watch the video below for step-by-step instructions!
Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. EdPuzzle unlocks the power of videos through simple editing tools and dazzling student data. The process is simple - find a video, add questions and assign it to your class. Watch as they progress and hold them accountable on their learning journey.
Also explore EdPuzzle Originals located in the upper left corner of your EdPuzzle home page! EdPuzzle originals are pre-created videos and content that are aligned to national standards. You still have full editing abilities, but now with the additional value of knowing the content is curated and created by actual teachers paid by EdPuzzle!
Quizlet makes simple learning tools that let you study anything. Start learning today with flashcards, games and learning tools — all for free. You can share a flashcard set with students or vice versa. You can add images to flashcards as well. Once a set is created, students can study the set in a variety of ways. Teachers can host Quizlet live games for sets of created flashcards that gamifies the learning process for vocabulary. It's highly competitive and encourages conversations about the meaning of words between students in small groups. See a Quizlet Live game in action, below!
New! Quizlet has integrated Artificial Intelligence to copy and paste your notes into a box and Quizlet will automatically generate flashcards for the notes. OR try selecting a study set and then choosing "Q-Chat" to have a chatbot quiz you, deepen understanding on a topic, or tell you a fun fact related to the content. Such a fun exploration for you and your students!
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. These can be set to complete in live mode or homework mode. You get full score reports to help with analyzing student learning or could using the score report as a grade if you assign as homework. It is extremely simple to navigate and integrates easily with Google Classroom. Very easy for virtual students to log in and play live with their classmates! Watch a quick tutorial below! Quizizz recently updated to a new version for their "Free Version". Here is what it includes:
Limited Activities and Library Access - Last I could find, you were limited to storing 20 quizzes in your library.
Interactive Lessons - Not all features are available in the free version, but are clearly marked to let you know what you can use and what you can't
Asynchronous Assignments
Engaging Assessments
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms! This is also a great tool for "fun" games to encourage building positive relationships with your students on their best Disney movie knowledge or music of the 2000's. Very easy for virtual students to log in and play live with their classmates!
Edulastic is a free formative assessment tool that has pre-made questions that are already aligned to standards. It offers a variety of question formats to help you prepare students for standardized tests as well as provide you a more comprehensive understanding of where you student is in terms of understanding the the learning objective.
Create interactive worksheets for students that can be directly integrated into your google classroom. The worksheets can contain embedded videos, a variety of question types, and can be linked to standards. You can search through a library of premade worksheets and questions or create your own to share with students. Grading and assessing students is relatively simple and easy-to-use. Watch the brief video below for more information. Below is an example of a worksheet from Wizer. It will ask you to sign up to access the content. Simple link it to your Google account but select "Teacher" so that later you can create your own worksheets!
Our Free Version Includes:
Unlimited question types
Up to 5 different custom rules
Audio teaching instructions
Audio student answers
Grades - All
Curipod uses artificial intelligence to build interactive slideshow presentations you can share with your students in a matter of seconds. It even includes built in brainbreaks that are good for students of all ages! The free version includes:
All core features
Unlimited participants
5 Curipod lessons that can be saved to your account
Email and chat support
10 monthly translator credits
Grades: All
Twee is an AI powered tool designed to make lesson planning easier for teachers by helping create questions, dialogues, stories, letters, articles, multiple choice questions, and true/flase statements from material you provide. See an example of how it works below!
TeacherMade
TeacherMade is web-based platform that works to convert any assignment to a digital assignment, autograde, or create multi-modal instructional opportunities. It can be used for something as basic as an assessment or as high-level as a hyperdoc. Teachermade allows for links and audio to be added by the student or teacher. Students can respond in a wide variety of ways and TeacherMade will grade most of the work for you (outside of a written out response). It works nicely with Google Classroom and the feedback about student activity makes it well worth your time. The video below is a quick tutorial to get started. The button to the left will bring up other useful videos when learning how to use Teachermade.
Go to Tech Challenge Google Classroom to find a series of mini lessons that are designed to help you get the most out of TeacherMade!