Applications and Tools

Below you will find drop down boxes for resources that can help you plan and teach lessons. Click on the drop down boxes to reveal applications/support for each area. The applications are approved by RHAM and meet the criteria for the Connecticut Student Data Privacy law.

Use this document to help you as a quick link guide to our application support pages! Check back often as more resources are added!

Document, Graphics, and Presentation Creation Applications

Google Workspace - Use Google tools such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings to create assignments, guides, and more.

Adobe Creative Cloud Express - Create beautiful web pages, short videos, social graphics, flyers, and more!

Bing Maps - A great mapping tool that allows you to take screenshots of streets, cities, landscapes and more without signing in.

Book Creator - Make interactive stories, digital portfolios, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, and much more!

Edpuzzle - Make any video your lesson!

Emaze - Create and share amazing presentations automatically.

Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.

Padlet - Make beautiful boards, documents, and webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.

Storyboard That - A powerful tool for creating graphic novels, comics, posters, and more!

Magazine and Audible eBook Access

Scholastic Magazine Access - Instructions explaining how Teachers and Students can access digital copies of our Scholastic magazine subscriptions.

Audible eBook Library Instructions - Access our digital library of eBooks from any device!

Flipster Digital Magazines - Providing readers with access to best-selling digital magazines from top publishers including National Geographic, Condé Nast, Meredith, Bloomberg L.P., and more.

Polling and Formative Assessment

Edpuzzle - Students watch interactive videos and answer questions and can rewatch videos as many times as they need in order to help them understand the content.

Pear Deck - An easy to use formative assessment tool that works over Google Slides.

Plickers - A modern version of clickers. Formative assessment has never been faster. Ask for a card set for your class!

Socrative - A fun on-the-fly formative assessment tool.

PuzzleMaker - Create word searches, crossword puzzles, and other fun practice and assessment tools. From Discovery Education.

Video and Screen Recording Applications

Adobe Creative Cloud Express - Create beautiful web pages, short videos, social graphics, flyers, and more!

Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.

Flipgrid - Create videos and edit them with titles and more!

iMovie - If you have access to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer, you can edit video and add elements such as titles and transitions.

Screencastify - Make screencasts, recorded webinars, and more using this tool. Post the videos you create to Google Classroom to act as a flipped classroom environment. Model, show examples, record lectures, and more all digitally.

WeVideo - Create and edit videos and share to Google Classroom.

Audio Applications and Resources

BBC Sound Effect Database - Sound effects with copyright for personal, educational, and research use.

GarageBand - If you have access to an iPhone, iPad, or Mac computer, you can create beats, music, or podcasts.

Soundtrap - Create beats, music, and podcasts!

Personalized Learning

Personalized learning helps to increase student engagement, individualize instruction, and gather critical formative assessment data. Use these applications and tools to personalize your instruction for students.

UDL - Use the Universal Design for Learning checkpoints and guidelines to help optimize your teaching and to reach the interests and the strengths of all students while maintaining rigor in your classes.

Edpuzzle - Students watch interactive videos and answer questions and can rewatch videos as many times as they need in order to help them understand the content.

Explain Everything - Draw, animate, collaborate, and present with this digital whiteboard.

Khan Academy - Students can learn at their own pace in order to fill in learning gaps and then accelerate their learning.

Nearpod - Make your exisitng lessons interactive effortlessly.

Universal Design for Learning

Use the Universal Design for Learning checkpoints and guidelines to help optimize your teaching and to reach the interests and the strengths of all students while maintaining rigor in your classes. Check out our page with more information on universal design for learning.