This article was updated August 2, 2024
If you’re new to teaching or looking to learn more about digital tools for teachers such as AI, Google Classroom, ChatGPT, Blooket, Canva, 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.
Tech & Learning's guide to Google Education Tools and Apps features everything you need to know about tools such as Google Sheets, Slides, Earth, Jamboard, and more, while our AI Starter Kit for Teachers makes sense of the proliferation of artificial intelligence options aimed at education.
And for the latest reviews on essential hardware for teachers, from laptop computers to webcams to gaming systems, be sure to check out Best Hardware for Teachers.
Assignments & Assessments
AllHere Ed
AllHere Ed is an AI-powered app that offers a personalized learning journey to students by serving as a central repository for their educational achievements and records.
ClassMarker
Learn how to use the online quiz creation and grading platform ClassMarker with your in-person or online classes.
Edulastic
Edulastic provides an easy online way to monitor student progress through assessments.
Flexudy
Flexudy is an AI-powered quiz and assessment creation tool.
Formative
This popular and easy-to-use app and web-based assessment program is integrated with Google Classroom and Clever.
Gradescope
Gradescope is a platform that teachers and students use for submitting and grading assignments.
ProProfs
ProProfs is an online quiz tool that provides intelligent feedback and analytics for teachers.
Quizlet
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
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
Socrative is a digital tool that emphasizes quiz-based questions and immediate feedback for teachers.
Coding
Blackbird
Designed for education, Blackbird is a platform for learning to code with JavaScript.
Code Academy
Code Academy is a web-based platform for learning to code that offers free and premium accounts.
CodeHS
Explore the best features of CodeHS, a collection of teaching tools designed to integrate into existing computer science curricula.
Codementum
Codementum is a gamified platform that teaches students to code.
Everyone Can Code Early Learners
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.
Kodable
Kodable teaches kids the basics of coding while building confidence through giving them the chance to win at games.
MIT App Inventor
MIT App Inventor is an app creation and programming tool suitable for both beginners and advanced students.
Ozaria
zaria is both a fantasy game and a tool to teach coding.
Pencil Code
A collaborative website, Pencil Code uses the Coffeescript language to allow students to code with visual feedback.
Sam Labs
This STEAM platform allow students of varying ages and abilities to design and create processes using its blocks and coding software combination.
Scratch
Scratch lets students use coding in a visually engaging way thanks to block based programming.
Scratch Lesson Plan
Use this Scratch lesson plan to get started with the free coding program in your classroom.
Tinkercad
The free Tinkercad platform allows teachers and students to design and manipulate 3D images, virtual circuits and coding blocks.
Tynker
Tynker helps young learners how to code, from basic blocks-based introduction to more complex HTML code and beyond.
Unity Learn
Unity Learn is a code learning platform focused on gaming, AR/VR, and 3D environment modelling.
Communications
Brainly
Brainly provides students with peer feedback on tricky homework question.
Calendly
Calendly helps users save time while scheduling and tracking their meetings and appointments.
Chronicle Cloud
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
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.
Clubhouse
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
Discord is an invitation-only online chat and messaging platform designed to be used by groups such as K-12 classrooms.
Empatico
Empatico creates an online space where teachers and students can meet virtually with people from across the globe.
Equity Maps
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
Formerly Kidblog, Fanschool provides a safe social-media-style platform through which students can create and share assignments, thoughts and ideas.
Fanschool Lesson Plan
A sample lesson plan focused on expressive communication and creative writing for high school students.
Floop
Floop is a free teaching tool intended to help teachers provide the best possible feedback to their students.
Grammarly
Grammarly is an artificially intelligent "assistant" that helps writers by checking spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is is a free tool allowing students and teachers to share educational resources by annotating the internet.
Kialo
Kialo is an online-based discussion platform that allows teachers to create debates for the classroom.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is a free note-taking tool that also works for organizing digitally jotted down thoughts.
Mote
Mote is a Chrome extension and website link that allows users to communicate within tools such as Google Docs via voice recordings.
NoRedInk
NoRedInk is a web-based platform designed to help teach students how to write well.
Padlet
Padlet is a digital communications platform that allows teachers to create and share a wide variety of multimedia posts.
ParentSquare
ParentSquare is a multi-channel communications platform the integrates with a school's SIS.
Parlay
Parlay is a digital-based discussion platform that's inclusive and transcends physical barriers.
Remind
Remind is a communication tool that connects teachers, students, and parents instantly, no matter where they are.
Slido
Slido is an online polling platform that allows teachers to take polls in the classroom or remotely.
Slido Lesson Plan
This Slido math lesson for middle schoolers teaches them to solve word problems.
ScreenRec
ScreenRec allows teachers to record and distribute impactful video messages for students.
SurveyMonkey
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.
TalkingPoints
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.
TalkingPoints: How to Use It to Connect With Families
The tool is focused on family engagement with an AI-assisted translation service that helps make that possible across language barriers.
Best TalkingPoints Tips And Tricks For Teachers
How to best use the non-profit translation communication platform for the best results.
Vocaroo
Vocaroo is a free and simple online voice recording tool that allows teachers and students to quickly share short audio clips.
YouGlish
YouGlish helps students learn how to pronounce English words. It's especially useful for non-native English language learners.
Zoho Notebook
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
Remember Adobe Spark? It's back in a new and improved form, Creative Cloud Express, ideal for online image creation and editing.
Anchor
The podcast creation app Anchor makes podcasting simple and easy, ideal for audio and project-based learning assignments.
Animoto
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
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.
Assemblr EDU
Assemblr EDU offers 3D models on a screen that students can manipulate using a mouse or touch controls.
AudioBoom
AudioBoom allows users to create podcast recordings while also serving as a hub for organizing other podcasts
BandLab
BandLab for Education allows teachers and students to collaborate on music-based learning for free.
Canva
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.
Canva Lesson Plan
Step-by-step plan for using Canva in your middle school classroom.
ChatterPix Kids
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
The best ChatterPix Kids tips and tricks for teaching are essential to help get the most out of the creative app.
Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts and Culture is a global collection of art, culture and history in digital form, easily accessible for students and teachers.
Google Arts & Culture Lesson Plan
This step-by-step lesson plan will help teachers incorporate a valuable free resource into their curriculum.
GoSoapBox
This website-based tool enables students to participate in class discussions and express their views in a collaborative and organized manner.
Knight Lab Projects
Knight Lab Projects is a free set of digital tools for collating and arranging text, images, data and more into compelling stories.
MakeBeliefsComix
Find out from the founder and creative force behind MakeBeliefsComix how to use this remarkable free website for digital comic creation.
MindMeister for Education
MindMeister helps students organize their ideas and thoughts visually.
Piktochart
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.
Shape Collage
Shape Collage is a free collage creation tool. Users drag and drop images into selected shapes, then fine-tune the placement.
Soundtrap
Soundtrap allows students to build and create their own music from scratch, both digitally and with real-world instruments.
Storyboard That
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.
StoryJumper
StoryJumper is a digital story creation tool that allows students to write, illustrate, and arrange stories into books which can be shared digitally or published.
ThingLink
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
The best ThingLink tips and tricks can help you take an image or video and make it interactive, and filled with learning information.
TikTok
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
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
WeVideo is a cloud-based video platform to capture, edit, and view video footage.
WeVideo Tips and Tricks for Teachers
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
Youth Voices is a platform that publishes the work of young writers for other young readers—and beyond.
Curation tools
ClassHook
ClassHook is an innovative tool that allows teachers to select and integrate relevant snippets of movie and TV shows into their classroom lessons.
Epic!
Epic! is a digital library offering more than 40,000 books and videos.
Listenwise
Listenwise lets students listen and read while learning at the same time
OER Commons
OER Commons offers thousands of free lessons, images, videos and more, all designed for education.
Open Culture
Open culture is a portal into a wealth of free web-based educational resources, including courses, movies, ebooks and more.
PebbleGo
PebbleGo provides curriculum-based research materials for young students.
PowerNotes
PowerNotes lets teachers and student curate notes and research from across the internet, via a Chrome browser extension.
Scrible
Scrible is an online tool and Chrome browser extension that allows users to easily create and store collections of research from various sources.
Seesaw for Schools
Seesaw for Schools is a digital, app-based engagement platform that allows students, teachers, and parents or guardians to complete and share classroom work.
Storia School Edition
Storia School Edition is Scholastic's Common Core Aligned, grade-appropriate ereader platform.
TeachingBooks
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
Wakelet is a digital curation platform that lets teachers and students organize a mix of content for easy access.
A Wakelet Lesson Plan for Middle and High School
A sample lesson plan designed to help educators implement Wakelet into their instruction.
Digital Learning
AnswerGarden
AnswerGarden harnesses the power of word clouds to provide quick feedback from an entire class, a group, or individual student.
Bit.ai
Bit.ai allows students and educators to collaborate across shared multimedia documents.
Bitmoji
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.
Boom Cards
Boom Cards is a digital card-based online platform that lets students practice basic skills via any accessible device.
Boom Cards Lesson Plan
This step-by-step Boom Cards lesson plan is a great way for special education teachers to engage their students in social studies.
ClassTools
ClassTools is a free website offering a selection of templates to build quizzes, activities, games, and diagrams.
ClassFlow
Find, create and share multi-media digital lessons with your classroom easily with this free (and ad-free!) tool.
Closegap
The free app Closegap is designed to help kids manage their mental health.
Cognii
Cognii is an artificially intelligent teaching assistant that provides guidance to students, helping them fulfill assignments more completely.
CTRL-F
CTRL-F is designed to help students fact check media resources as well as promote civic literacy.
Deck.Toys
Deck.Toys is a lesson planning site that integrates multiple apps, including Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint.
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP
How to Teach Digital Citizenship
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
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?
The data suggest that teachers and schools should consider adopting a more holistic approach to digital citizenship.
Fact-Checking Sites for Students
Online resources for students to properly research reports, papers, and more.
Do2learn
Need a go-to resource for social-emotional learning? Try do2learn, with a focus on special needs kids, but nonetheless useful for any student.
EdApp
EdApp is a mobile learning management system (LMS) that delivers microlessons directly to students, allowing them to use various devices to access learning.
GooseChase
GooseChase EDU is a popular digital tool that helps students learn through teacher-designed scavenger hunts.
Headspace
Headspace is a web and app-based meditation and mindfulness service that educators can use for free.
IXL
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 Lesson Plan
This IXL lesson is ideal for high school algebra classes.
Kami
Kami provides a cloud-based, one-stop shop for digital tools and collaborative learning.
Kikori
Kikori is a standards-aligned app and online-based platform that provides resources for teaching social-emotional learning (SEL).
nXu
nXu provides a comprehensive social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum for kids and adults.
Photomath
Photomath is an app-based math tool that works on smartphones and tablets by using cameras to interact with the physical world.
Plagiarism Checker X
Are your students submitting original work? Plagiarism Checker X will help you determine the answer.
Project Pals
Project Pals is a web-based tool that allows multiple students to collaborate and contribute to a team project-based learning effort.
SimpleMind
SimpleMind is an easy-to-use mind mapping tool that helps students organize thoughts and ideas.
SMART Learning Suite
SMART Learning Suite is a web-based software that allows teachers to share lessons with the class via multiple screens.
SpiderScribe
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.
Starfall Education
Aimed at the youngest learners, Starfall Education provides literacy, math and language lessons for preK-3 kids and their parents and teachers.
Ubermix
Ubermix is a free open-source operation system built by innovative educator and chief technology officer of Las Virgenes USD Jim Klein.
The Week Junior
This weekly news magazine aimed at kids from 8 to 14 years old covers current events, politics, science, tech, nature, and culture.
Wizer
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
The best Wizer tips and tricks will allow teachers to create and find pre-made worksheets that get the best out of students.
Wonderopolis
Wonderopolis is an interactive website that enables users to submit questions, which can be answered in-depth by the editorial team and published as articles.
Zearn
Zearn is a math learning platform for individuals and groups.
Game based learning
Arcademics
With its engaging online gamified learning platform, Arcademics offers a wide selection of games covering 15 subject areas.
Baamboozle
Baamboozle is an easy-to-use game-based learning platform offering not only pre- made games, but also the ability to make your own.
Bamboozle Lesson Plan
Tech & Learning's lesson plan for Baamboozle is suitable for any subject or grade, and includes step by step guidance.
Blooket
Blooket integrates engaging characters and rewarding gameplay into its quizzes.
Blooket Lesson Plan
This step-by-step math lesson plan will help teachers integrate the game-based tool into their instruction.
Brainzy
Brainzy is a game-based online education platform that uses interactive games to engage kids in mastering math, English, and science topics.
Breakout EDU
Breakout EDU uses both physical and digital puzzle games to teach a wide range of subjects and promote collaborative learning.
Classcraft
Classcraft engages kids in social-emotional and behavioral learning via a fun game-based, collaborative interface.
Duolingo
Duolingo is a gamified tool for teaching and learning languages.
Does Duolingo Work?
Can you really learn a language playing games with Duolingo? Erik Ofgang investigates.
Duolingo Lesson Plan
Includes everything teachers need to make the most of the engaging Duolingo platform.
Duolingo Max
By leveraging the AI capabilities of GPT-4, Duolingo Max enables users to engage with a virtual language instructor through Roleplay and receive comprehensive feedback on their answers.
Education Galaxy
Education Galaxy is an online learning platform that uses a combination of games and exercises to help students learn while having fun.
Factile
Factile is a fun quiz platform that will engage kids in learning via a Jeopardy! style interface.
Frax
Frax is a game-based learning tool that focuses on teaching and mastering fractions.
GameMaker
A free-for-education video game development tool.
GeoGuessr
Students learn geography through online map-based gameplay. Fun and educational!
Gimkit
Gimkit is an easy-to-use gamified quiz platform for K-12 students.
Gimkit Lesson Plan
Try this social studies Gimkit lesson plan, which includes question development, competition, teamwork and more.
GoNoodle
GoNoodle is a free tool that aims to get kids moving with short interactive videos and other activities.
Infini-D Learning
Brooks Heder, co-founder of Infini-D Learning, discusses how the platform's combination of drama and standards-based games promotes STEM learning.
JeopardyLabs
JeopardyLabs is a free online gamed-based learning platform that uses the beloved Jeopardy! format to teach math, science and many other topics.
Jeopardy Labs Lesson Plan
A complete, step-by-step lesson plan for integrating this fun learning platform into your social studies classroom.
Kahoot!
Game-based learning has never been so easy for teachers and students to enjoy, thanks to Kahoot!
A Kahoot! Lesson Plan for Elementary Grades
A sample lesson plan designed to help educators implement Kahoot! into their instruction.
Kahoot! vs Blooket: Which is Best for Teaching?
Which of these popular game-based learning tools is best for your classroom? T&L reviewed features, functions, compatibility and price.
MINECRAFT
Minecraft: Education Edition
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
Minecraft: Education Edition can be a powerful teaching tool when used with the right tips and tricks
A Minecraft Server for Grieving Kids
Three non-profit organizations have partnered to create an online community for grieving kids.
Why Minecraft?
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
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
Higher ed institutions have discovered the value of Minecraft to bridge gaps brought on by remote learning.
Using Minecraft to Launch An Esports Program
Learn how to use the hugely popular Minecraft game to start your school esports program.
Quandary
An online and app-based ethics game, Quandry helps young people wrestle with tough ethical choices.
Quizizz
Quizizz makes learning fun via a gameshow-like question-and-answer system.
Quizizz Lesson Plan
This free Quizzizz lesson plan for middle and high school students will help to boost students’ critical thinking skills.
Roblox
Roblox is a block-based digital game with more than 150 million users worlwide.
Creating A Roblox Classroom
How to integrate Roblox into your classroom for STEM and coding instruction, student engagement and more.
Roblox Lesson Plan
This social studies oriented lesson plan will guide teachers in using Roblox with elementary students.
Oodlu
Oodlu is an online gaming platform and education tool that teachers can use to help students learn as they play.
SplashLearn
SplashLearn's gamified platform engages kids in learning math, reading and problem solving.
TinyTap
TinyTap provides personalized educational games for young learners.
Twitch
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.
Literacy
Book Creator
Book Creator is a free tool that allows educators and their students to create multimedia ebooks based on class assignments and topics.
BoomWriter
BoomWriter is an online platform that allows students to collaborate on writing a book whcih can then be published.
CommonLit
CommonLit offers online literacy teaching and learning resources, with leveled texts for students grades 3-12.
Lalilo
Lalilo is a digital tool designed to help students with their reading comprehension and phonics learning.
LightSail
LightSail is a digital library and literacy enhancement platform that's designed for schools and districts.
Microsoft Immersive Reader
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.
Quill
Quill is a free online platform that kids can use to improve literacy.
Perusall
Perusall is a digital annotation tool that uses social media-style features to boost class reading and discussion.
ReadWorks
ReadWorks offers a comprehensive platform that incorporates an extensive array of reading resources, assessment features, and convenient sharing options.
ReadWriteThink
ReadWriteThink is free-to-use platform that promotes literacy learning, offering lessons, activities, and printable materials.
Storybird for Education
The Storybird platform enables students to write and publish professional-style storybooks.
Storybird Lesson Plan
Step-by-step guide for creating your own Storybird lesson plan for elementary students.
ThinkCERCA
ThinkCERCA is a curriculum-aligned system that helps to teach and practice literacy skills.
Written Out Loud
Written Out Loud's storytelling platform allows students to learn writing and empathy through collaboration with other kids.
NaNoWriMo
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.
Online Learning
Coursera
In partnership with top colleges and universities, Coursera offers a wide range of free, high-quality online courses for students and teachers.
DreamyKid
DreamyKid is a mediation platform designed for kids.
Edublogs
Edublogs allows teachers to create interactive websites for their classes.
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves is a free resource for teaching history from a modern perspective that allows a full examination .of past events, especially those with difficult ethical dimensions.
Hiveclass
Hiveclass teaches kids to improve their athletic skills as well as offering incentives to get moving.
iCivics
iCivics is a free-to-use lesson-planning tool that allows teachers to better educate students on civic knowledge.
iCivics Lesson Plan
Learn how to incorporate the free iCivics resources into your instruction.
Khan Academy
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.
Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy Kids is an educational app from the famous digital teaching specialist, designed with simpler interface for younger users.
The Learning Network
From the New York Times, the Learning Network is a free teaching and learning resource that features current events, topical lessons and multimedia tools.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids combines nature, geography, history and more in a free online learning platform for kids.
Next Gen Personal Finance
Next Gen Personal Finance offers free tools and resources to learn about personal economics topics such as loans, savings and more.
Outschool
Outschool is a platform that offers online classes for homeschoolers, microschoolers, and kids enrolled in traditional schools seeking additional support or learning opportunities.
Peekapak
An award-winning website, Peekapak offers curriculum-aligned SEL resources for preK-12 students.
Roadtrip Nation
Check out the Roadtrip Nation documentary series website, which offers resources for students to explore and learn about career options.
Yo Teach!
Yo Teach! is a collaborative, free-to-use online workspace designed for education.
Presentation
Keynote For Education
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
Keynote offers a host of cinematic transitions and effects that can help to make any subject engaging and entertaining for students.
Buncee
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.
Curipod
An AI-powered interactive tool, Curipod integrates polls, drawings, questions and answers to create slideshows and assessments.
Curipod Lesson Plan
This Curipod high school lesson plan focusses on United States history.
Explain Everything
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.
Figma
Figma is a whiteboard design tool, created to be used collaboratively by teachers and students.
Flippity
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.
Genially
Genially's interactive features make this slideshow platform much more than just a presentation tool.
Mentimeter
Mentimeter is a web-based presentation tool that allows teachers to interact with students in real time, whether in the classroom or remotely.
Mentimeter Lesson Plan
This sample high school lesson plan uses the Mentimeter platform and focuses on geometric word problems.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a slides-based presentation tool that teachers and students can use to create digital slideshows.
Microsoft PowerPoint Tips and Tricks for Teachers
These Microsoft PowerPoint tips and tricks can turn the office-focused tool into a powerful platform for student interaction and learning.
Miro
Miro is an online tool that lets users present, create images, build graphs, video conference, show flowcharts, and more.
Mural
Mural operates as an interactive slideshow platform that encourages and supports collaboration among students and teachers.
MyViewBoard
This cloud-based digital whiteboard software functions across multiple brands and devices.
Nearpod
Nearpod is an online tool that allows teachers to use slide-based teaching both in the classroom and remotely thanks to a hybrid layout.
Pear Deck
Pear Deck is a digital tool that allows teachers more in-depth and graphic control when using Google Slides.
Powtoon
Powtoon lets teachers and students turn ordinary slide presentations into engaging videos for learning.
Powtoon Lesson Plan
Learn how to use Powtoon, the versatile online multimedia platform that centers around animation.
Prezi
Prezi is a versatile multimedia platform that allows teachers to easily incorporate video and slideshow presentations into their classroom lessons.
Sutori
Sutori is an online tool that allows users to create, collaborate on, and share presentations and storylines.
VoiceThread for Education
VoiceThread is a presentation tool that allows for storytelling with lots of mixed media sources, and for interaction between teacher and students.
Wooclap
Wooclap is an interactive presentation tool that also serves as a real-time assessment and feedback platform.
STEM
BetterExplained
BetterExplained is a website that aims to teach math concepts through a variety of explanatory tools, from videos to slides to quizzes, that delve into the underlying principles.
CS First
Free online platform from Google for teaching and learning computer science.
Desmos
Desmos is a free graph creation tool for math and other STEM subjects.
Duolingo Math
Duolingo's gamified math lessons include built-in formative assessments, making it easy to track student progress
Kibo
Kibo is a hands-on blocks-based coding and robotics tool for kids aged 4 to 7 that requires no digital devices.
Labster
Labster's virtual lab platform allows teachers to teach hands-on science lessons without a lab or special equipment.
Mosa Mack Science
Mosa Mack Science awakens excitement in young scientists by challenging them with real-world science and engineering problems.
Nova Education
Nova Education provides a vast collection of science and STEM videos that are easily accessible online and are designed to make learning fun and engaging.
Nova Labs PBS
Nova Labs PBS is a free interactive online learning tool that gamifies STEM learning.
PhET
PhET is a free online database of HTML5 browser-based STEM interactives for grades 3-12 and beyond.
Polypad
An award-winning digital math playground, Polypad's virtual interactive whiteboard incorporates shapes, colors, graphs, music, and other tools to teach geometry, algebra, probability, and statistics to middle and high school students.
Prodigy
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).
SciencetoyMaker
Find out all about this low-key yet inspirational guide for building STEM toys.
Tinybop Schools
Tinybop Schools teaches science using interactive digital models.
Best Virtual Lab Software
Find out which virtual lab software provides the best STEM learning experience for your students.
Zearn
Zearn is a math learning platform for individuals and groups.
Video Learning
BrainPOP
BrainPoP uses hosted animated videos to make complex topics accessible and engaging for students of any age.
BrainPOP Lesson Plan
This middle school lesson plan on proportional relationships will teach students to use Brainpop resources to understand, describe and visualize proportional relationships.
Descript
Descripts' unique platform that allows students and teachers to edit video and audio while and AI-powered service automatically provides a transcript.
Discovery Education
More than just a video-based platform, Discovery /Education offers multimedia lesson plans, quizzes and standards-aligned learning resources.
Edpuzzle
Edpuzzle is an online video editing and formative assessment tool that lets teachers cut, crop, and organize videos.
Edpuzzle Lesson Plan for Middle School
This Edpuzzle lesson plan focusses on the solar system, but can be adapted for other topics as well.
Educreations
Educreations is an iPad app that lets teachers create video lessons with voiceover easily and quickly.
Flip
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.
Flip Lesson Plan for Elementary and Middle School
This lesson plan is designed to help teachers implement Flip (formerly Flipgrid) into their instuction.
Panopto
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 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 Student
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
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.
Nawmal
Nawmal is a software tool that allows teachers and students to create animated characters to populate educational videos of every stripe.
PlayPosit
An interactive video-editing tool, Playposit encourages students to engage in class discussions and allows teachers to view student responses in real time.
Screencastify
Screencastify is an easy screen recording tool that also allows teachers to create, edit, and share instructional videos.
ScreenPal
Formerly Screencast-O-Matic, ScreenPal 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.
Slooh
Our Educator Edtech Review spotlights Slooh, which provides students and teachers access to live feeds from the best telescopes on the planet, including locations in the Canary Islands and Chile as well as a new telescope in Australia slated to come online in early 2024.
TED-Ed
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.
Walkabouts
Walkabouts is an online learning platform that uses short interactive videos that incorporate physical movement to reinforce ELA/literacy and math skills.
Zoom for Education
Erik Ofgang reveals the best tips for making the most out of Zoom.
Zoom Whiteboard
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!
