Learning Management System (LMS) used to access and manage online course learning materials and communicate.
Includes a variety of customizable course creation and management tools, course and user analytics and statistics, and internal communication tools.
Can create and share course content using Assignments, Discussions, Modules, Quizzes, and Pages. Foster a collaborative learning experience using Collaborations, Conferences, and Groups.
Compatibility: Runs on Windows, Mac, Linus, iOS, Android or any other device with modern web browser
Can be used on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or Safari
Can be accessed on a mobile device from the Canvas Teacher, Canvas Student, and Canvas Parent apps
Cost: Can be used with a free account, cost based on number of users
Website that allows educators to set up a classroom, manage assignments and communicate with learners. You can use to manage multiple students participating in a rotation
Can provide grades and feedback directly from the classroom
Add materials to your assignments, such as YouTube videos, a Google Forms survey, PDFs, and other items from Google Drive
Educators or learners can draw on, write notes, and highlight documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app
Compatibility: Available through any internet browser
Works with other google products (e.g. Docs, Forms, Calendar, Gmail, Drive)
Android and Apple® iOS® mobile device
App is available
Can sync with other partner teaching tools
Cost: Free for schools, additional cost for secure options
NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that uses documents you input to summarize PDFs, websites and videos. It creates summaries and teaching tools from multiple sources that you choose. You can create a short summary, create audio (podcast style) and video overviews, slide decks, infographics, quizzes, flashcards and learning guides
Compatibility: Can be used with any device with an internet connection
Compatible with PowerPoint
No account/login necessary for players
Cost: Basic account is free; an upgrade for a fee (especially for larger groups who may want to expand features)
Game-based learning platform where
learners engage from their own devices
Multiple choice questions can be created with results provided in real-time
Minimal time for educators to create
Can play in team mode
Can be used asynchronously for assignments
Ideas: Use a Kahoot with multiple-choice questions to check for understanding during a lecture
Compatibility: Can be used with any device with an internet connection
Compatible with PowerPoint
No account/login necessary for players
Cost: Basic account is free; an upgrade for a fee (especially for larger groups who may want to expand features)
Website and app-based tool that lets educators create slide-based learning resources that are interactive for students to engage with and learn from
Allows for learners to respond to various types of questions
Allows 3D experiences/Virtual Reality experiences
Educator can customize from pre-established lessons
Ideas: Build slides with multiple types of interactive content all from the same platform: polls, quizzes, draw an answer, Flipgrid and more all in one place
Compatibility: Can be used with any device with an internet connection
Built to work well with lots of pre-existing tools, such as Google Slides, Microsoft PowerPoint, and YouTube
Code provided to learners on their own devices
Cost: Live teaching on free version; student-paced (asynchronous) for subscription fee; downloadable lessons available for free or for individual lessons costs
Virtual “bulletin board”
Learners and educators collaborate, interact, share resources
Options for a wall, stream, grid, shelf, map, canvas or timeline
Ideas: have learners post questions for discussion, compile resources
Compatibility: iOS App, Android App, Online
Cost: Basic provides three padlets for free, Pro provides unlimited
padlets for monthly or yearly fee
Slido is an easy to use Q&A and polling platform for live, remote or hybrid meetings, events, classes, and webinars.
Slido events can be set up in less than a minute
Ideas: Maximize the Q&A time by letting learners vote to crowdsource top questions
Compatibility: Can be used with smartphone, tablet, or laptop connected to the internet
No download or registration needed
Participants use an event code or link
Cost: Basic plan is free and allows core Slido features; prices vary from $12-$200 a month based on features and number of users
Reference management system
Reference, cite and generate bibliographies
Create and easily access a library; add papers directly from your browser, import from desktop or send from apps (ex. Inoreader)
Start or join a public or private group; groups allow you to follow others’ curated bibliographies and get involved in discussions
Zotero can annotate directly on the PDF file/article
Ideas: Share favorite articles with learners pertinent to clinic cases, clinical questions or discussions; email articles from your phone
Compatibility: Apps (PaperShip, syncs with both; iOS; Zoo for Zotero syncs withZotero, Android); Word plugins; Online
Cost: Zotero has 300 mb free capacity; Mendeley has 2 GB
free space; Premium and institutional plans available for a fee
Graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents and other visual content
(Free with upgrade for fee)
Contains millions of public domain and openly licensed images from institutions like the Smithsonian and the National Archives,etc
Provides users with "icons and photos for everything". Copyright restrictions depending on level of account.
Created by the Autism Self Advocacy Network, this toolkit explains how to make resources easy to read and understand for individuals with autism, intellectual disabilities, and language-based disorders. Easy Read is a specific accessible format characterized by the use of pictures and icons paired with easy-to-understand language
Resource Type: Toolkit
Topics: Autism
Time/Length: 65 pages
Appropriate Educator Audience: All educators
3 year curriculum aimed at teaching faculty to develop, evaluate and disseminate educational interventions. Includes development of an educational research project. Must apply. There is a fee.
Resource Type: Program
Topics: Growth mindset
Time/Length: 3 year national faculty development program for academic pediatric educators
Appropriate Educator Audience: Pediatric faculty
Describes what motivates us - autonomy, mastery, purpose.Useful for educators to understand techniques to motivate learners.
Resource Type: Book
Topics: Motivation
Time/Length: 272 pages
Appropriate Educator Audience: All Educators
Compares growth and fixed mindsets. Describes how to create a mindset based on the belief that abilities can be cultivated. Helpful for educators looking to encourage students/trainees to feel comfortable sharing what they don't know instead of trying to hide it.
Resource Type: Book
Topics: Growth mindset
Time/Length: 320 pages
Appropriate Educator Audience:
6 step technique to teaching in clinical setting.
Resource Type: Video and PDF handout
Topics: Precepting
Time/Length: Video: 6 minutes; PDF 8 pages
Appropriate Educator Audience: Medical trainees and faculty
"Thanks for the Feedback is a potentially life-changing look at one of the toughest but most important parts of life: receiving feedback. It's a road map to less defensiveness, more self-awareness, greater learning, and richer relationships. Doug Stone and Sheila Heen have delivered another tour de force."
~Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take
Resource Type: Book
Topics: Feedback
Time/Length: 368 pages
Appropriate Educator Audience: All educators