If you’re new to teaching or looking to learn more about digital tools for teachers such as Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, or Flip--and all the related apps and resources--here’s where to get started. We have the basics for each one, including how to get started, plus tips and advice to get the most out of your experience.
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Artificial Intelligence
Chatbots
Chatbots in K-12: What You Need to Know (opens in new tab)
Digital AI assistants are being used in K-12 as an equitable intervention to promote student engagement and retention.
ChatGPT
What is ChatGPT and How Can You Teach With It? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
If you don't yet know about ChatGPT, now is the time to discover its awesome potential for transforming writing and creativity. After all, your students may already have accounts!
How to Prevent ChatGPT Cheating
Five ways for educators to subtly shift instruction to defang the ChatGPT monster.
5 Ways To Teach With ChatGPT (opens in new tab)
Erik Ofgang explains how to use ChatGPT in your instruction, while preventing student misuse.
Google Bard
What is Google Bard? The ChatGPT Competitor Explained for Educators (opens in new tab)
Google Bard is a soon-to-come AI tool sure to have implications for education and learning.
GPTZero
What is GPTZero? The ChatGPT Detection Tool Explained By Its Creator (opens in new tab)
On the heels of the unveiling of ChatGPT comes a new tool designed to help educators and others detect the language generated by the AI-powered language robot.
Juji
What is Juji and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Aimed primarily at higher education, the customizable Juji chatbot interacts with students using artificial intelligence, freeing up teacher and administrator time.
Assignments & Assessments
ClassMarker
What is ClassMarker and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Learn how to use the online quiz creation and grading platform ClassMarker with your in-person or online classes.
Edulastic
What is Edulastic and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Edulastic provides an easy online way to monitor student progress through assessments.
Flexudy
What is Flexudy and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Flexudy is an AI-powered quiz and assessment creation tool.
Formative
What is Formative and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
This popular and easy-to-use app and web-based assessment program is integrated with Google Classroom and Clever.
Gradescope
What is Gradescope and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Gradescope is a platform that teachers and students use for submitting and grading assignments.
ProProfs
What is ProProfs and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
ProProfs is an online quiz tool that provides intelligent feedback and analytics for teachers.
Quizlet
What is Quizlet and How Can I Teach with It? (opens in new tab)
Quizlet is a fantastic tool for teachers to create quizzes for in-person and remote learning that makes building and assessing quick and easy.
Quizlet: Best Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best Quizlet tips and tricks for teaching can turn the smart online learning tool into a powerful ally for both in the classroom and remotely.
Socrative
What is Socrative and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Socrative is a digital tool that emphasizes quiz-based questions and immediate feedback for teachers.
Coding
Blackbird
What is Blackbird and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Designed for education, Blackbird is a platform for learning to code with JavaScript.
Code Academy
What Is Code Academy And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Code Academy is a web-based platform for learning to code that offers free and premium accounts.
Codementum
What is Codementum and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Codementum is a gamified platform that teaches students to code.
Everyone Can Code Early Learners
What is Apple Everyone Can Code Early Learners and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Apple's own coding platform aims to teach student how to code and design apps using the company's Swift programming language. It's easy to get started coding with this app for younger learners.
MIT App Inventor
What Is MIT App Inventor And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
A collaboration between MIT and Google, MIT App Inventor is a free tool that teaches programming to kids as young as six years.
Scratch
What is Scratch and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Scratch lets students use coding in a visually engaging way thanks to block based programming.
Scratch Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
Use this Scratch lesson plan to get started with the free coding program in your classroom.
Tynker
What is Tynker and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Tynker helps young learners how to code, from basic blocks-based introduction to more complex HTML code and beyond.
Unity Learn
What Is Unity Learn And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Unity Learn is a code learning platform focused on gaming, AR/VR, and 3D environment modelling.
Communications
Brainly
What is Brainly and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Brainly provides students with peer feedback on tricky homework question.
Calendly
What is Calendly and How Can It Be Used by Teachers? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Calendly helps users save time while scheduling and tracking their meetings and appointments.
Chronicle Cloud
What is Chronicle Cloud and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Developed for teachers, by teachers, Chronicle Cloud is a platform that allows teachers to make digital notes for use by themselves and their students.
ClassDojo
What is ClassDojo? (opens in new tab)
ClassDojo is a digital platform that connects teachers, students, and families in and out of the physical classroom by using a feed of photos and videos as well as messaging.
Best ClassDojo Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Whether you're toying with the idea of introducing ClassDojo in your class, you're a regular user, or you've just reached a point at which you need something new, these tips and tricks will help.
Clubhouse
What is Clubhouse and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Clubhouse is a social media app (only available on iOS devices currently) that is an audio-only platform in which users can publish their talks or have others listen in.
Discord
What is Discord and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Discord is an invitation-only online chat and messaging platform designed to be used by groups such as K-12 classrooms.
Equity Maps
What is Equity Maps and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Look who’s talking? Equity Maps is a real-time participation tracker that can let teachers see just who's doing the talking in class.
Fanschool
What is Fanschool and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Formerly Kidblog, Fanschool provides a safe social-media-style platform through which students can create and share assignments, thoughts and ideas.
Fanschool Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
A sample lesson plan focused on expressive communication and creative writing for high school students.
Floop
What is Floop and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Floop is a free teaching tool intended to help teachers provide the best possible feedback to their students.
Grammarly
What is Grammarly and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Grammarly is an artificially intelligent "assistant" that helps writers by checking spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Hypothes.is
What is Hypothes.is and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Hypothes.is is a free tool allowing students and teachers to share educational resources by annotating the internet.
Kialo
What is Kialo? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Kialo is an online-based discussion platform that allows teachers to create debates for the classroom.
Microsoft One Note
What is Microsoft OneNote and How Can It be Used for Teaching? (opens in new tab)
Microsoft OneNote is a free note-taking tool that also works for organizing digitally jotted down thoughts.
Mote
What is Mote and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Mote is a Chrome extension and website link that allows users to communicate within tools such as Google Docs via voice recordings.
Padlet
What is Padlet and How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Padlet is a digital communications platform that allows teachers to create and share a wide variety of multimedia posts.
Parlay
What is Parlay and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Parlay is a digital-based discussion platform that's inclusive and transcends physical barriers.
Remind
At its most basic, Remind is a communication platform
What is Remind and How Does it Work for Teachers? (opens in new tab)
Remind is a communication tool that connects teachers, students, and parents instantly, no matter where they are.
Best Remind Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Remind tips and tricks to help turn the communications platform into a powerful tool that will enhance the learning experience of students in and out of class.
Slido
What is Slido for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Slido is an online polling platform that allows teachers to take polls in the classroom or remotely.
Slido Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
This Slido math lesson for middle schoolers teaches them to solve word problems.
SurveyMonkey
What is SurveyMonkey for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
SurveyMonkey is a digital platform that specializes in carrying out and delivering the results of surveys. It can be a very useful in getting a clear perspective of a class or large groups.
Talking Points
What Is TalkingPoints And How Does It Work For Education? (opens in new tab)
TalkingPoints is a tool designed to help teachers and families connect across any language barriers, allowing teachers to communicate with families in their own language.
Best TalkingPoints Tips And Tricks For Teachers (opens in new tab)
How to best use the non-profit translation communication platform for the best results.
Vocaroo
What is Vocaroo? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Vocaroo is a free and simple online voice recording tool that allows teachers and students to quickly share short audio clips.
Zoho Notebook
What is Zoho Notebook and How Can The Best Tips and Tricks Help Teachers and Students? (opens in new tab)
Zoho Notebook is a digital note-taking tool that works across devices and operating systems, offering an online suite of tools, including a word processor and an image and audio creator and organizer.
Creative
Adobe Creative Cloud Express
What is Adobe Creative Cloud Express and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Remember Adobe Spark? It's back in a new and improved form, Creative Cloud Express, ideal for online image creation and editing.
Anchor
What is Anchor and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
The podcast creation app Anchor makes podcasting simple and easy, ideal for audio and project-based learning assignments.
Animoto
What is Animoto and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Animoto is free and easy-to-use video maker that allows for the creation and sharing of videos online. Since it is cloud-based and browser-accessible, it works with nearly any device, making it ideal for education settings.
Best Animoto Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Here are the best Animoto tips and tricks for teachers so you can get the most out of using videos inside and outside of your classroom.
AudioBoom
What is AudioBoom? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
AudioBoom allows users to create podcast recordings while also serving as a hub for organizing other podcasts
BandLab for Education
What is BandLab for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
BandLab for Education allows teachers and students to collaborate on music-based learning for free.
Canva
What is Canva and How Does it Work for Education? (opens in new tab)
Canva is a free-to-use online graphical tool that combines design, photo editing, and layout to help teachers and students create beautifully finished projects.
Best Canva Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
These Canva tips and tricks can turn this minimalist graphics tool into a key teaching ally to help engage students and promote more effective learning.
Canva Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
Step-by-step plan for using Canva in your middle school classroom.
ChatterPix Kids
What is ChatterPix Kids and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
ChatterPix Kids is an app that allows teachers and students to animate pictures so that they talk.
ChatterPix Kids: Best Tips And Tricks For Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best ChatterPix Kids tips and tricks for teaching are essential to help get the most out of the creative app.
Google Arts & Culture
What is Google Arts & Culture and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks
Google Arts and Culture is a global collection of art, culture and history in digital form, easily accessible for students and teachers.
Kibo
What is Kibo and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Kibo is a hands-on blocks-based coding and robotics tool for kids aged 4 to 7 that requires no digital devices.
Knight Lab Projects
What is Knight Lab Projects and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Knight Lab Projects is a free set of digital tools for collating and arranging text, images, data and more into compelling stories.
MindMeister for Education
What is MindMeister for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
MindMeister helps students organize their ideas and thoughts visually.
NaNoWriMo
What is NaNoWriMo and How Can It Be Used to Teach Writing? (opens in new tab)
Learn how to involve your class in writing fiction via National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which creates a framework for writing first and judging later.
Piktochart
What is Piktochart and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Piktochart is a powerful yet easy-to-use online tool that allows anyone to create infographics and more, from reports and slides to posters and flyers.
SciencetoyMaker
What is SciencetoyMaker and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Find out all about this low-key yet inspirational guide for building STEM toys.
Shape Collage
What is Shape Collage and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Shape Collage is a free collage creation tool. Users drag and drop images into selected shapes, then fine-tune the placement.
Storybird for Education
What is Storybird for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
The Storybird platform enables students to write and publish professional-style storybooks.
Storybird Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
Step-by-step guide for creating your own Storybird lesson plan for elementary students.
Storyboard That
What is Storyboard That and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Storyboard That is an online-based platform lets teachers, administrators, and students create a storyboard in order to tell a story in a visually engaging way.
ThingLink
What is ThingLink and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
ThingLink is a website and app-based platform that allows teachers to turn any image, video, or 360-degree VR shot into a learning experience.
Best ThingLink Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best ThingLink tips and tricks can help you take an image or video and make it interactive, and filled with learning information.
TikTok
How Can TikTok Be Used in the Classroom? (opens in new tab)
The music video-making social media app is free to use, easily accessible for students, and can be a powerfully creative tool in the teaching toolbox.
A TikTok Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
This sample lesson, aimed at high school students, focuses on physical education and health and is adaptable for both in-person and online learning.
WeVideo
What is WeVideo and How Does it Work for Education? (opens in new tab)
WeVideo is a cloud-based video platform to capture, edit, and view video footage.
WeVideo Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
The best WeVideo tips and tricks can help teachers and students get a more effective learning experience with the use of videos and video editing.
Youth Voices
What is Youth Voices and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Youth Voices is a platform that publishes the work of young writers for other young readers—and beyond.
Curation tools
ClassHook
What is ClassHook and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
ClassHook is an innovative tool that allows teachers to select and integrate relevant snippets of movie and TV shows into their classroom lessons.
Epic! for Education
What is Epic! for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Epic! is a digital library offering more than 40,000 books and videos.
Listenwise
What is Listenwise and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Listenwise lets students listen and read while learning at the same time
OER Commons
What is OER Commons and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
OER Commons offers thousands of free lessons, images, videos and more, all designed for education.
Open Culture
What is Open Culture and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Open culture is a portal into a wealth of free web-based educational resources, including courses, movies, ebooks and more.
PebbleGo
What is PebbleGo and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
PebbleGo provides curriculum-based research materials for young students.
Seesaw for Schools
What is Seesaw for Schools and How Does It Work for Teachers and Students? (opens in new tab)
Seesaw for Schools is a digital, app-based engagement platform that allows students, teachers, and parents or guardians to complete and share classroom work.
Seesaw for Schools Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Seesaw for Schools can enhance the student's learning experience and make a teacher's task more straightforward if you know how to get the most out of it.
Storia School Edition
What is Storia School Edition and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Storia School Edition is Scholastic's Common Core Aligned, grade-appropriate ereader platform.
TeachingBooks
What is TeachingBooks and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
TeachingBooks is an online database of books and authors that lets teachers and students find and explore all types of fiction and non-fiction works.
Wakelet
What is Wakelet and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Wakelet is a digital curation platform that lets teachers and students organize a mix of content for easy access.
Wakelet: Best Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
These Wakelet tips and tricks can help teachers use curation in the classroom to offer media-rich resources for students to refer to and learn from.
A Wakelet Lesson Plan for Middle and High School (opens in new tab)
A sample lesson plan designed to help educators implement Wakelet into their instruction.
Digital Learning
AnswerGarden
What is AnswerGarden and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
AnswerGarden harnesses the power of word clouds to provide quick feedback from an entire class, a group, or individual student.
Bit.ai
What is Bit.ai and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks For Educators (opens in new tab)
Bit.ai allows students and educators to collaborate across shared multimedia documents.
Bitmoji
What is a Bitmoji Classroom and How Can I Build One? (opens in new tab)
The use of Bitmoji, a commonly used app and image-based digital social interaction tool, makes sense for adapting classrooms to feel more natural to students.
Book Creator
What is Book Creator and How Can Educators Use It? (opens in new tab)
Book Creator is a free tool that allows educators and their students to create multimedia ebooks based off of class assignments and topics.
Book Creator: Teacher Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Given Book Creator’s robust functionality, there are more ways to utilize ebook creation in the classroom than educators might initially realize.
Boom Cards
What is Boom Cards and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Boom Cards is a digital card-based online platform that lets students practice basic skills via any accessible device.
Boom Cards Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
This step-by-step Boom Cards lesson plan is a great way for special education teachers to engage their students in social studies.
Classflow
What is ClassFlow and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Find, create and share multi-media digital lessons with your classroom easily with this free (and ad-free!) tool.
Closegap
What is Closegap and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
The free app Closegap is designed to help kids manage their mental health.
Cognii
What is Cognii and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Cognii is an artificially intelligent teaching assistant that provides guidance to students, helping them fulfill assignments more completely.
Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship is the responsible use of technology, including learning tools, personal devices, and social media
How to Teach Digital Citizenship (opens in new tab)
Students need to have a thorough understanding of their digital footprint, how to effectively communicate, the tools they can use, strategies for when they feel unsafe online, and what is considered appropriate and inappropriate behavior.
Supporting Digital Citizenship During Remote Learning (opens in new tab)
Educators from New York City’s Department of Education share their best practices and advice for supporting digital citizenship.
Which Digital Citizenship Skills Do Students Need Most? (opens in new tab)
The data suggests that teachers and schools should consider adopting a more holistic approach to digital citizenship.
Fact-Checking Sites for Students (opens in new tab)
Online resources for students to properly research reports, papers, and more.
EdApp
What is EdApp and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
EdApp is a mobile learning management system (LMS) that delivers microlessons directly to students, allowing them to use various devices to access learning.
Flipped Learning
Top Flipped Classroom Tech Tools (opens in new tab)
Teachers describe how they use the best edtech tools for flipped learning.
GooseChase
GooseChase: What It Is and How Educators Can Use It? (opens in new tab)
GooseChase EDU is a popular digital tool that helps students learn through teacher-designed scavenger hunts.
GooseChase: Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Get the most out of GooseChase with these tips and tricks.
Harmony
What is Harmony and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Harmony helps students devlop social and emotional skills.
Headspace
What is Headspace and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks For Educators (opens in new tab)
Headspace is a web and app-based meditation and mindfulness service that educators can use for free.
IXL
What is IXL and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
The IXL platform is a personalized learning space that covers the K-12 curriculum, including math, English language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish.
IXL: Best Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best IXL tips and tricks for teaching are an ideal way to help students progress through their K-12 curriculum learning, enjoying it as they go.
Kami
What is Kami and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Kami provides a cloud-based, one-stop shop for digital tools and collaborative learning.
Microsoft Immersive Reader
What Is Microsoft Immersive Reader and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks for Educators (opens in new tab)
Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free interactive reading tool that reads texts aloud while highlighting the word being read- a great way to help emerging readers gain literacy.
PhET
What is PhET and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
PhET is a free online database of HTML5 browser-based STEM interactives for grades 3-12 and beyond.
Plagiarism Checker X
What is Plagiarism Checker X and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Are your students submitting original work? Plagiarism Checker X will help you determine the answer.
Project Pals
What is Project Pals and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Project Pals is a web-based tool that allows multiple students to collaborate and contribute to a team project-based learning effort.
ReadWriteThink
What is ReadWriteThink and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
ReadWriteThink is free-to-use platform that promotes literacy learning, offering lessons, activities, and printable materials.
SimpleMind
What is SimpleMind and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
SimpleMind is an easy-to-use mind mapping tool that helps students organize thoughts and ideas.
SMART Learning Suite
What is SMART Learning Suite? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
SMART Learning Suite is a web-based software that allows teachers to share lessons with the class via multiple screens.
SpiderScribe
What is SpiderScribe and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
From brainstorming to project planning, the SpiderScribe mind-mapping tool is easy to use by teachers and students alike—even younger students—with little guidance required.
Ubermix
What is Ubermix? (opens in new tab)
Ubermix is a free open-source operation system built by innovative educator and chief technology officer of Las Virgenes USD Jim Klein.
Virtual Lab Software
Best Virtual Lab Software (opens in new tab)
Find out which virtual lab software provides the best STEM learning experience for your students.
The Week Junior
What is The Week Junior and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
This weekly news magazine aimed at kids from 8 to 14 years old covers current events, politics, science, tech, nature, and culture.
Wizer
What is Wizer and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Wizer is a digital worksheet-building tool that that can include questions, images, videos, and recording directions, plus teachers can set specific tasks.
Wizer: Best Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best Wizer tips and tricks will allow teachers to create and find pre-made worksheets that get the best out of students.
Zearn
What is Zearn and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks
Zearn is a math learning platform for individuals and groups.
Game based learning
Baamboozle
What is Baamboozle and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Baamboozle is an easy-to-use game-based learning platform offering not only pre- made games, but also the ability to make your own.
Blooket
What Is Blooket And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Blooket integrates engaging characters and rewarding gameplay into its quizzes.
Brainzy
What is Brainzy and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Brainzy is a game-based online education platform that uses interactive games to engage kids in mastering math, English, and science topics.
Breakout EDU
What is Breakout EDU and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Breakout EDU uses both physical and digital puzzle games to teach a wide range of subjects and promote collaborative learning.
Classcraft
What is Classcraft and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Classcraft engages kids in social-emotional and behavioral learning via a fun game-based, collaborative interface.
Duolingo
What Is Duolingo And How Does It Work? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Duolingo is a gamified tool for teaching and learning languages.
Does Duolingo Work? (opens in new tab)
Can you really learn a language playing games with Duolingo? Erik Ofgang investigates.
Duolingo Math
What is Duolingo Math and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Duolingo's gamified math lessons include built-in formative assessments, making it easy to track student progress.
Education Galaxy
What is Education Galaxy and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Education Galaxy is an online learning platform that uses a combination of games and exercises to help students learn while having fun.
JeopardyLabs
What is JeopardyLabs and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
JeopardyLabs is a free online gamed-based learning platform that uses the beloved Jeopardy! format to teach math, science and many other topics.
Factile
What is Factile and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Factile is a fun quiz platform that will engage kids in learning via a Jeopardy! style interface.
Gimkit
What is Gimkit and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Gimkit is an easy-to-use gamified quiz platform for K-12 students.
GoNoodle
What is GoNoodle and How Does it Work? Best Tips and Tricks For Educators (opens in new tab) GoNoodle is a free tool that aims to get kids moving with short interactive videos and other activities.
Nova Labs PBS
What is Nova Labs PBS and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Nova Labs PBS is a free interactive online learning tool that gamifies STEM learning.
Quandary
What is Quandary and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
An online and app-based ethics game, Quandry helps young people wrestle with tough ethical choices.
Quizizz
What is Quizizz and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Quizizz makes learning fun via a gameshow-like question-and-answer system.
Roblox
What is Roblox and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Roblox is a block-based digital game with more than 150 million users worlwide.
Creating A Roblox Classroom (opens in new tab)
How to integrate Roblox into your classroom for STEM and coding instruction, student engagement and more.
Prodigy for Education
What is Prodigy for Education? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Prodigy is a role-playing adventure game in which students control an avatar wizard who roams a mystical land answering math-based questions (AKA doing battle).
Oodlu
What is Oodlu and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Oodlu is an online gaming platform and education tool that teachers can use to help students learn as they play
Kahoot!
What is Kahoot! and How Does it Work for Teachers? (opens in new tab)
Game-based learning has never been so easy for teachers and students to enjoy, thanks to Kahoot!
Best Kahoot! Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Kahoot! can help educators engage with students and enhance the teaching experience in class and beyond.
A Kahoot! Lesson Plan for Elementary Grades (opens in new tab)
A sample lesson plan designed to help educators implement Kahoot! into their instruction.
Minecraft
What is Minecraft: Education Edition? (opens in new tab)
Minecraft: Education Edition is a learning-focused version of the popular block-based game, with special options for teachers to offer control while still giving students that open-world freedom for which Minecraft is known.
Minecraft: Education Edition: Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Minecraft: Education Edition can be a powerful teaching tool when used with the right tips and tricks
Why Minecraft? (opens in new tab)
Minecraft is about freedom, a trait sorely lacking in education. Kids can build what they want, how they want, block by block, and are only limited by their imagination.
How To Turn A Minecraft Map Into A Google Map (opens in new tab)
Building a world in Minecraft and then turning it into a Google Map, complete with points of interest, is only limited by your creativity.
How Colleges are Using Minecraft to Create Events and Activities (opens in new tab)
Higher ed institutions have discovered the value of Minecraft to bridge gaps brought on by remote learning.
Using Minecraft to Launch An Esports Program (opens in new tab)
Learn how to use the hugely popular Minecraft game to start your school esports program.
A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids (opens in new tab)
Three non-profit organizations have partnered to create an online community for grieving kids.
Twitch
What is Twitch and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Twitch is an online gaming community that live-streams top gamers while they play. Luke Edwards breaks down the features of Twitch and explains how it can be used in education.
Online Learning
CommonLit
What is CommonLit and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
CommonLit offers online literacy teaching and learning resources, with leveled texts for students grades 3-12.
Coursera
What is Coursera and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
In partnership with top colleges and universities, Coursera offers a wide range of free, high-quality online courses for students and teachers.
DreamyKid
What is DreamyKid and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
DreamyKid is a mediation platform designed for kids.
Edublogs
What is Edublogs and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Edublogs allows teachers to create interactive websites for their classes.
Hiveclass
What is Hiveclass and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Hiveclass teaches kids to improve their athletic skills as well as offering incentives to get moving.
iCivics
What is iCivics and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
iCivics is a free-to-use lesson-planning tool that allows teachers to better educate students on civic knowledge.
iCivics Lesson Plan (opens in new tab)
Learn how to incorporate the free iCivics resources into your instruction.
Khan Academy
What is Khan Academy? (opens in new tab)
Khan Academy is a free online teaching resource that offers courses to students to further deepen their knowledge to enhance learning for all. While it was created to bring learning to those who either couldn't afford or didn't have access to education, it's now grown into a powerful resource used by many schools as a teaching aid.
Written Out Loud
What is Written Out Loud? (opens in new tab)
Written Out Loud's storytelling platform allows students to learn writing and empathy through collaboration with other kids.
Presentation
Apple Keynote
How To Use Keynote For Education (opens in new tab)
Apple Keynote is a presentation slideshow creator that can be used in education to help teachers and students create the most powerful and engaging presentations.
Best Keynote Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Keynote offers a host of cinematic transitions and effects that can help to make any subject engaging and entertaining for students.
Buncee
What is Buncee and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Buncee is a slideshow system designed specifically for educators, students, and administrators that offers end results that are easy to share and is ideal for both in-classroom use and remote learning.
Buncee Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
From videos and images to animations and emojis, there is a lot of media to pick from when building a Buncee, but with a few good ideas from those who have used the platform before, you can make Buncee brilliance.
Explain Everything
What is Explain Everything and How Does It Work? Best Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Love your classroom whiteboard? Try an even more flexible tool, the Explain Everything digital whiteboard - it's like a super-robust PowerPoint designed for educators.
Flippity
What is Flippity and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Flippity is a tool that allows users to take Google Sheets and turn it into activities and helpful resources, such as from flash cards or quizzes.
Best Flippity Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
Make flash cards, build quizzes, create activities, and better engage students with these Flippity tips and tricks.
Genially
What is Genially and How Can It Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Genially's interactive features make this slideshow platform much more than just a presentation tool.
Mentimeter
What is Mentimeter and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Mentimeter is a web-based presentation tool that allows teachers to interact with students in real time, whether in the classroom or remotely.
Microsoft PowerPoint
What is Microsoft PowerPoint for Education? (opens in new tab)
Microsoft PowerPoint is a slides-based presentation tool that teachers and students can use to create digital slideshows.
Best Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
These Microsoft PowerPoint tips and tricks can turn the office-focused tool into a powerful platform for student interaction and learning.
Mural
What is Mural and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Mural operates as an interactive slideshow platform that encourages and supports collaboration among students and teachers.
Nearpod
What is Nearpod and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Nearpod is an online tool that allows teachers to use slide-based teaching both in the classroom and remotely thanks to a hybrid layout.
Nearpod: Best Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
To get the best out of Nearpod check out these best tips and tricks that help you to not only get new ideas but also to make the process easier and faster.
Pear Deck
What is Pear Deck and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Pear Deck is a digital tool that allows teachers more in-depth and graphic control when using Google Slides.
Pear Deck Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
The best Pear Deck tips and tricks for teaching can help teachers better engage students while potentially also saving instruction time.
Powtoon
What is Powtoon and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Powtoon lets teachers and students turn ordinary slide presentations into engaging videos for learning.
Prezi
What is Prezi and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Prezi is a versatile multimedia platform that allows teachers to easily incorporate video and slideshow presentations into their classroom lessons.
VoiceThread
What is VoiceThread for Education? (opens in new tab)
VoiceThread is a presentation tool that allows for storytelling with lots of mixed media sources, and for interaction between teacher and students.
VoiceThread: Best Tips and Tricks For Teaching (opens in new tab)
While VoiceThread does a great job of incorporating rich media both for presenting and for feedback, there are great ways in which teachers are using this platform to boost engagement.
Video Learning
BrainPOP
What is BrainPOP and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
BrainPoP uses hosted animated videos to make complex topics accessible and engaging for students of any age.
Descript
What is Descript and How Can it Be Used to Teach? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
Descripts' unique platform that allows students and teachers to edit video and audio while and AI-powered service automatically provides a transcript.
Discovery Education
What is Discovery Education? Tips & Tricks (opens in new tab)
More than just a video-based platform, Discovery /Education offers multimedia lesson plans, quizzes and standards-aligned learning resources.
Edpuzzle
What is Edpuzzle and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Edpuzzle is an online video editing and formative assessment tool that lets teachers cut, crop, and organize videos.
Edpuzzle Lesson Plan for Middle School (opens in new tab)
This Edpuzzle lesson plan focusses on the solar system, but can be adapted for other topics as well.
Educreations
What is Educreations and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks (opens in new tab)
Educreations is an iPad app that lets teachers create video lessons with voiceover easily and quickly.
Flip (formerly Flipgrid)
At its most basic, Flip is a video communication platform
What is Flip and How Does it Work for Teachers and Students? (opens in new tab)
Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a discussion tool designed to work specifically for teachers and students in a digital classroom by using video to create an open platform of discussion and learning.
Best Flip Tips and Tricks for Teachers and Students (opens in new tab)
The Flip tips and tricks you need to know, from creating the best videos to engaging more with your Grid.
Flip Lesson Plan for Elementary and Middle School (opens in new tab)
This lesson plan is designed to help teachers implement Flip (formerly Flipgrid) into their instuction.
Panopto
What is Panopto and How Can It Be Used for Teaching? Tips and Tricks
Panopto is a digital video platform designed for education that allows users to record and share videos and live feeds. It's great for in-person, remote and flipped classrooms.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a popular communications platform that works with the entire suite of Microsoft education tools
Microsoft Teams: What Is It and How Does It Work for Education? (opens in new tab)
Microsoft Teams is an online collaboration platform that allows for video chat, document sharing, collaborative editing, and more – making it ideal for teachers and students.
How to Setup Microsoft Teams Meetings for Teachers and Students (opens in new tab)
Microsoft Teams allows educators to hold meetings online and create a class environment with students, no matter where everyone is.
Microsoft Teams: Tips and Tricks for Teachers (opens in new tab)
From holding an online class to collaborating on a document as a class, Microsoft Teams integrates layers to make sure the experience is as seamless as possible. These tips and tricks will help educators get the most out of the platform.
Screencastify
What is Screencastify and How Does It Work? (opens in new tab)
Screencastify is an easy screen recording tool that also allows teachers to create, edit, and share instructional videos.
Screencast-O-Matic
What is Screencast-O-Matic and How Does it Work? (opens in new tab)
Screencast-O-Matic is a free screen capture system that allows teachers the opportunity to easily share their device screen with students, both in class and during remote learning.
Screencast-O-Matic: Best Tips And Tricks For Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best Screencast-O-Matic tips and tricks for teaching can help make digital learning more immersive and engaging, both in the classroom and for remote learning.
TED-Ed
What is TED-Ed and How Can it Be Used for Education? (opens in new tab)
TED-Ed is the school education-focused arm of the TED video creation platform, filled with educational videos that can be used by teachers to create engaging lessons.
Best TED-Ed Tips and Tricks for Teaching (opens in new tab)
The best TED-Ed tips and tricks for teaching can help you take the video-based education platform to its maximum potential, both inside the classroom and for remote learning.
Zoom for Education
Zoom for Education: 5 Tips for Getting the Most Out of It (opens in new tab)
Erik Ofgang reveals the best tips for making the most out of Zoom.
Zoom Whiteboard
What is Zoom Whiteboard? (opens in new tab)
Collaborate in real time during your Zoom meeting with Zoom Whiteboard.
As it always is with education technology, evolution and change come quickly. Check back here regularly as we update these resources with the latest tools and best practices. Learning in the classroom can't happen if the teachers themselves stop learning!