If your school board gave guidelines about the tools you can use with your students, you should follow them.
The tools presented here are the most common in the field.
These tools are free, easy to use and have plenty of tutorials to help.
Here is a form to send to students to check-in with them. Adapt it to your needs.
Description: "Google Classroom makes teaching more productive and meaningful by streamlining assignments, boosting collaboration, and fostering communication. Educators can create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place. Classroom also seamlessly integrates with other Google tools like Google Docs and Drive."
Online course on Campus RÉCIT: Les Chromebooks en classe
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Description: "Microsoft Teams is a unified communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration on files), and application integration. The service integrates with the company's Office 365 subscription office productivity suite and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products."
Online course on Campus RÉCIT: Utilisation de Microsoft TEAMS en classe
Tutorials
Platform: computer, tablet
Level: Elementary and Secondary
Description: "Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best, and saves teachers time! Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students."
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Platform: computer, tablet
Level: Secondary
Description: Schoology is a virtual learning environment that allows users to create, manage, and share academic content.
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Description: "Padlet is an application to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. Easily create an account and build a new board. You can add images, links, videos, columns for sorting or refining organization, and more." Source: Teacher first
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How to use Padlet in a classroom (Campus RÉCIT)
How to use Padlet tutorials (Campus RÉCIT)
Description: "Google Sites is a structured web page-creation tool offered by Google. The declared goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create simple web sites that support collaboration between different editors."Source: Wikipedia
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Description: Symbaloo is a website used to organize and share content.
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Description: Create a free professional website easily to share different types of content to your students.
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