Mobile Apps in Use Cases

Backchannel Tools

Instructors use backchannel tools both in and out of class to enable Q&A, text chats about content, homework help, group work, and file sharing. Our participants were using Slack, Discord and Nectir.

Quiz and Polling Apps

Instructors use quiz and polling apps to check students' understanding and increase engagement with games, digital Q&A, and study tools. Our participants were using Kahoot, Socrative and iClicker.

Collaboration Apps

Instructors use collaboration apps to check students' understanding and increase engagement through group work, sharing ideas, and collaborating on documents. Our participants were using Nearpod, Padlet, and Google Docs.

Collaborative games, bulletin boards, and other activities collected into lesson plans that are shared live with students on their devices.

A collaborative bulletin board to share and organize ideas, questions, and plans.

A platform on which to distribute surveys and quizzes, or share and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, slides, websites, and more.

Simulations

PhET Interactive Simulations

PhET (from the University of Colorado at Boulder) provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations.

MobLab

Economics games and experiments to engage students in active learning.

More Communication Apps

Remind

A communication app specifically made for educators.

GroupMe

A group texting and sharing app.

Snapchat

An image and texting app for groups.

Zoom

A video conferencing app.

Other

Pokémon Go

A mobile game app that uses augmented reality to locate Pokémon in the "real world".

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