Websites, Apps, and Tools for Higher Education

Overview

This website is designed to help you find websites and tools that meet your goals for F2F, hyflex, hybrid, and online courses. It is updated regularly.

You may also find this workshop slideshow helpful in contextualizing how to select a tool and some things to keep in mind as you examine the options below.

Organization of the List

Selecting a tool that will work for your pedagogical or instructional goals can seem daunting. To help match types of interaction or tasks with free, cross-platform tools that may work for you and your students, this website is organized into four categories:

• Communication and Collaboration

  • • including tools for discussions, virtual meetings, curation, whiteboard, project management

• Visual and Audio Presentations

  • • including tools for creation and editing of video, audio, screencasts, and images

• Assignments and Practice

  • • including tools for assignments and practice to promote spaced retrieval, metacognitive reflection, etc.

• Student Portfolios and Work Submission

  • • including tools for process and showcase portfolios as well as general collection of assignments

Information for Each Tool

Each category's page lists a variety of websites, apps, and tools. For each tool, you will find a description that includes:

• a sample image of the workspace

• where to access or download the tool

• some primary and secondary uses for the tool

• and an overview of free features (or a notation where a tool is not free)

• tips or common pitfalls where applicable

You can use the links below, or the site navigation menu in the upper-right hand corner of this page, to navigate through the categories.

Browse the Categories

Click on the links below the images to navigate to that page.

This website is compiled and maintained by Dr. Jessica Cannon; you can learn more about her training and instructional design work here.