Apps & Extensions

Kahoot is an online interactive gaming/quizzing/polling system that is used on any web enabled device. Turn classroom learning into a competitive game by creating your own Kahoot or browsing ready-made lessons to use as your own.

With ED Puzzle, you can upload your own video or find an existing video, crop it, add your voice, and embed quizzes to create an interactive video experience for your students.

Ted Ed allows teachers to build and create lessons around any YouTube video or any Ted Ed original Ted Talks video. Great for flipping the class.

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create your own books in minutes, complete with artwork and illustrations.

Flubaroo is an extension to use with Google forms that will instantly grade your assessments. After student responses have been submitted, go to your spreadsheet and add the Flubaroo extension. Once added, you can run the grade check.

NewsELA publishes daily news articles at 5 reading levels from grades 3–12 to drive gains in literacy. Explore a library of high-quality, engaging nonfiction that you need to meet the new, rigorous demands of the Common Core.

Piktochart is a great tool for making free infographics. An infographic is another great way to present information in a stylish and up-to-date manner that can be shared or embedded.

Canva is an infographic making tool that can create stunning infographics. However, it does not give you the ability to embed, but allows you to download into a PDF and/or email it to share.

Deliver Awesome Presentations, Create Amazing Animated Videos! PowToon is an easy to use web application that allows you to wow your audience by creating timed animated presentations that can be played as a video.

ScreenCastify is a great screen capturing tool that allows tutorials or lessons to be created by capturing your computer. This can then be shared via Google Drive or uploaded to YouTube.

Emaze is an awesome, free presentation tool that is set up much like Prezi, but has additional features and better graphics. You can create 3D presentations and utilize your voice commands to transition through the presentation itself.

Pear Deck is a slideshow interface which can make your PowerPoints or your Google Slides interactive. Add multiple choice questions, short answer/extended responses, and many more engaging features. This is a Freemium site (Meaning you have to pay for some features), but it is a great way to interact with your students.

Tinkercad is a simple, online 3D design and 3D printing site free for everyone. Easily learn how to use Tinkercad through its built in lessons and tutorials. Create your own design and download the file for printing!

Electronics, 3D design, and 3D printing projects you can teach now. Teach hands-on projects integrated with Tinkercad and Circuits, the Web's most popular online apps for makers.

Diigo can serve as your digital library on web. With Diigo, you can collect everything: bookmark and archive webpages, annotate webpages with highlights & sticky notes, save notes or to-dos, capture and annotate screenshot. This is a great tool for organizing your research online.

Owl Eyes is a reading and learning experience for students, teachers, and everyday readers. WIth Owl Eyes you can incorporate expert annotations, quizzes, and insights into your classroom or personal reading experience.

This a great site that could be used with our English Language Learners or even those learning another language. DuoLingo uses multiple lesson and multiple methods of learning to gain understanding to start speaking a new language.

Adobe Spark is a free online and mobile graphic design app. Easily create beautiful images, videos, and web pages that help tell your own story.

The Email Notification add-on for Google Forms will send email messages every time a respondent submits your Google Form. You can email notifications to yourself (the form owner), the form respondent or you can create advanced notification rules and send emails to different people based on the form answers.

Pixlr Editor is a robust browser photo editor, for all your editing needs. Pixlr gives you full control over your images, including layers and effects. Complete many of the tasks you can complete in Photoshop for free!

The eye dropper extension is a great tool to use for design when you're trying to exactly match your colors within your design. The tool allows you to pick any color from any web page. Use the color codes given to match your colors in other programs.

EquatIO is an math expressions generator that allows the user to create complex problems that can be shared to G-Suite apps. In addition, a user can draw an equation and EquatIO will translate that drawing into a mathematical expression in text. This free app can be found in the Chrome Web Store.

Both Pexels and Pixabay offer professional grade photos that can be downloaded and free to use without the worry of any copyright infringements. Pexels also offers short animated GIFs and Pixabay offers up icons and clipart in addition to their photos.

A flipped classroom approach to using video for igniting student discussion and engagement. Available on iOS, Android, Chromebook, and all major browsers.

Create a quick poll with "pre-written" responses to possible polling answers to make it appear as though your responding to their choice in real time and possibly providing further information on why their choice was correct or incorrect. Simply create the poll and share the link via Google Classroom.

Bensound is a great site to find royalty free music to download for your multi-media projects! Search through over hundreds of songs covering multiple genre. All you need to do is give credit by phrasing as follows: "Music: www.bensound.com" or "Royalty Free Music from Bensound"

Teleprompt.me: Simply copy and paste your speech in the upper right-hand textbox, choose your font size and color, and begin speaking. As you speak, the lines of words will begin to scroll just like a real teleprompter. This could be great for student videos or even for students who are practicing for an upcoming speech. You will also note in the upper lefthand corner there is the option to "restart" or "flip the text".