ClassFlow is free from the
Promethean company and works
on any device with a web browser.
When the teacher starts a lesson in
ClassFlow, a class code is
displayed. Students enter that class
code at classflow.com/student.
While you can use ClassFlow
without first inputting classes and
students names, you’ll probably
want to take the time to do this so
that students’ responses are
recorded in ClassFlow’s reports.
Additionally, ClassFlow has the
option to award students badges
for accomplishments.
Classkick is available at classkick.com. To create an assignment, a teacher uploads a PDF or starts with a
blank multi-page canvas. Then, the teacher can add text, drawings, photos, hyperlinks, and audio recordings to each page before assigning to one or more Class Rosters. Students can join an assignment using a Class Code (there are no
passwords to fuss with). Students work at their own pace, and can privately raise their hands. The teacher can jump into their screen and give instant help. The teacher can view everything each student has added to an assignment in real-time and add feedback at any
time. Note that Classkick does not have the ability to grade student submissions against an answer key—the teacher manually grades student work.
Flipgrid.com and the app facilitate
the collection and sharing of video
responses. Flipgrid One, which is
the free version, enables teachers
to set up one Grid with an
unlimited number of Topics and an
unlimited number of student
responses. Here’s how it works: The
teacher adds a new Topic within a
Grid. Students access the Topic
through the Topic’s web link or
through its unique Response Code.
Videos in Flipgrid One are limited
to 90 seconds. With it’s ease of use,
Flipgrid is being used in education
to collect and share things like
reflections, reading responses,
advice, exit tickets, and reports.
Teachers can create digital
assignments for free
at GoFormative.com. You can add
any combination of multiple choice,
short answer, true/false, and show
your work questions. There’s an
option to upload an existing PDF and
transform it into an electronic answer
sheet. After the assignment is made,
students can join by entering a Quick
Code or by following a unique URL
for the assignment. As students
answer questions, their teacher can
see the responses in real time, grade
them, and provide
feedback. GoFormative.com has
great tutorials and videos to help you
get started.
Create a form
at forms.google.com. The form
has a variety of question types and
can contain hyperlinks, images,
and videos. The form can be a
survey or a graded quiz. Preview
the form and copy the link. Get the
link to students through a QR code,
a shortened URL, or a website
posting.
Kahoot is a popular (and free)
class quiz game – kids and
teachers love it! The teacher starts
a quiz with multiple choice or
sequencing questions. Students
join the game using a game code.
The teacher’s computer connects
to a projector so it can display
each question. Students respond
using the buttons that are on their
devices’ screens. The faster they
answer, the more points they get.
Teachers can sign up and find or
create quizzes at getkahoot.com.
Mentimeter is a response system in
which the teacher sets up a
“presentation” where each slide can
have a multiple choice, image choice,
quiz, word cloud, scales, or open-
ended question. Students join a
presentation by going
to menti.com and entering a six digit
code, which is displayed on each
Mentimeter slide. Mentimeter is
completely web-based. It’s great for
getting the pulse of a class,
icebreakers, capturing audience
questions, voting, exit tickets, etc.
Mentimeter has no audience size limit; however, the free version limits each
presentation to two questions each.
You can have multiple presentations,
but each time you switch, your
audience will have to enter a new
code.
Nearpod works in the web browser
of any device. The teacher creates
or uploads a slideshow and then
adds questions, which can be
used to collect multiple, short
answers, drawings, and more.
When the slideshow begins, the
teacher provides a code for
students to join. There’s the option
for teacher-paced where the
whole class follows along (and the
teacher monitors in real-time), or
the option for student-paced
slideshows where students
advance their own slides.
Padlet is a free website for collecting
and sharing text, images, videos, and
files. The teacher signs into
Padlet.com to create online bulletin
boards (each one is called a padlet).
By default, each padlet is set so that
students do not have to log in to
view and post. You can create as
many padlets as you like, and each
one has its own web address. I highly
recommend enabling moderation so
that you have control over what
appears publicly on a padlet. Do this
by clicking Share and scrolling down
to Moderation. With moderation
turned on, each post must be
approved before it is published.
Poll Everywhere can conduct live
multiple choice and open-ended
polls. Results are instantly displayed
on the computer, which is
connected to a big screen for
everyone to see. A favorite Poll
Everywhere feature is live word
clouds. The audience types in
responses on their devices, and Poll
Everywhere displays a word cloud—
the sizes of the words on my screen
indicate how frequently they were
submitted. The word cloud grows
and adjusts as responses are
received. The audience does not
need an app. They simply go to the
Poll Everywhere page and answer
the question with no login required.
Quizalize is a new website for
playing class quiz games. The
teacher can input her own
questions or find a pre-made quiz.
Students join the game by logging
in or with a game code and are
assigned to one of two teams. The
teacher’s computer can either
display team progress on a
projector screen or be for the
teacher to view who is doing well
and who might need some help
with the content.
You can create and play class quiz
games at quizizz.com. Quizizz displays the question and answer options on each students’ screen. Students play on their own devices by joining the teachers game with a code. The faster a student answers a question, the more points he or she earns. Quizizz has
memes, which are funny pictures, that it shows after each question. You can turn these off, but you won’t want to. Quizizz lets you turn off the leaderboard and timer, if you have students who get too stressed out when the quiz is a competition. Quizizz can be played as a
class or quizzes can be left open for 2 weeks, so a quiz can be used as homework or at a center.
There’s a class game you can play
through Quizlet. It’s called Quizlet Live, and it’s
free. You need at least 6 students to play.
Students go to quizlet.live in any device’s web
browser and enter the access code for the
game the teacher initiated. After all students
have joined, Quizlet Live randomly divides
students into teams of 3 or 4 players. Each
team gets a randomly selected animal
mascot. Once the game is started, teams race
to match 12 terms and definitions. The thing is,
each team member has 3-4 of the terms on
their screens. Students must work together to
make the matches. A wrong answer will reset
a team’s progress to zero. The teacher’s
screen displays the progress for each team.
That screen can be mirrored onto a big screen
so teams can see each other’s progress. The
first team to correctly match all 12 terms is the
winner. At a game’s conclusion, the teacher’s
screen can display the terms that the class
needs to work on (based on wrong answers
during game play).
Teachers prompt students to respond, and
students explain their thinking on video with
Recap. It’s a free at letsrecap.com. The
teacher creates an assignment for the
class or individual students. The assignment
can have a single question or multiple
questions. Each student joins the class
through a Class Pin or by logging in on the
website or in Recap’s app. After recording,
students’ videos are sent to the teacher’s
Recap dashboard. The teacher can view
videos individually and view a daily review
reel. The teacher can type comments for
each video submission.
The teacher can turn on the self-
assessment option for an assignment. After
recording the video, students rate their
response as Got It, Partially Got It, or Didn’t
Get It. The self-assessment data appears in
the teacher’s Recap dashboard. This,
along with viewing the responses, can help
the teacher determine needs.
Seesaw is a very easy way for
students to add their work to an
online learning journal. First, the
teacher creates a class list inside of
Seesaw. Seesaw provides a code
that students can use to access
the class list. A student adds work
simply by selecting his or her name
and uploading. He or she can also
add a caption, labels, or audio
narration. The teacher can provide
feedback, and is in control of what
is published to the class feed.
SketchParty TV is a high-tech drawing
game that plays like Pictionary. It's great for
reinforcing vocabulary in just about any
subject. You can enter your own words (at
least 16) and then play in groups to draw
and guess the words. It’s awesome to see
the thinking process when students try
figure out how to represent abstract
concepts in a quick sketches. The app
manages the game play after you input
the team members. It chooses the order of
players, randomly selects words, and keeps
score. The app even plays fun gameshow
music while you play! Sketch Party TV is a
paid app for iOS and requires your
device to be mirrored to a TV or
projector. On the device’s screen
SketchParty TV displays the word/phrase to
draw and Pass and Got It buttons, which
the other players cannot see on the
mirrored screen. It’s big fun at parties and
gatherings!
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Socrative.com is a free web-based
service that’s great for collecting
student responses. The teacher
creates a quiz with multiple choice
and/or short answer questions. This
is handy: short answer questions
can be marked as correct or
incorrect. So the teacher can ask
for answers that are numbers,
words, or phrases. Spelling counts
with short answers, so it’s nice that
Socrative allows for multiple
correct responses to short answer
questions.
Triventy is a website for group
surveys and quiz games. The
teacher can input her own
questions or find pre-made
questions. Students join the game
by logging in with a game code
The teacher’s computer displays
questions on a projector screen,
and student devices also show the
question and response
buttons. Teachers can sign up for
free at triventy.com.
AnswerGarden– A tool for online brainstorming or polling, educators can use this real time
tool to see student feedback on questions. Animoto – Gives students the ability to make a short, 30-second share video of what they learned in a given lesson. AudioNote– A combination of a voice recorder and notepad that captures both audio and notes for student collaboration. Backchannel Chat – Similar to TodaysMeet, this site offers a teacher-moderated version of Twitter. An extension of the in-the-moment conversation might be to capture the chat,
create a tag cloud and see what surfaces as a focus of the conversation. Chatzy (NEW) – Use Chatzy like you would TodaysMeet, to support backchannel conversations in a private setting. These live chats make great companions to classroom discussion, provide exit tickets, or keep a discussion going after the class is over. Coggle– A mind mapping tool designed to understand student thinking. Conceptboard– This software facilitates team collaboration in a visual format – similar to mind mapping, but using visual and textual inputs. Compatible on tablets and PCs,
Conceptboard can work from multiple devices. Educreations Interactive Whiteboard – A whiteboard app that provides students the tool to share understanding and comprehension.
ExitTicket (NEW) – This app offers teachers the opportunity to poll, test, or survey what students know in quizzes called tickets. This tool is best for gathering simple feedback about what students know and don’t know, and is useful for pre-assessment as well as an exit ticket. Five Card Flickr– Designed to foster visual thinking, this tool uses the tag feature from photos in Flickr.
ForAllRubrics– This software is free for all teachers and allows you to import, create and score rubrics on your iPad, tablet or smartphone. You can collect data offline with no internet access, compute scores automatically and print or save the rubrics as a PDF or spreadsheet. Formative Feedback for Learning– An iPad app that is designed to foster and encourage communication between students and teachers. Through a conference setting it uses icons to prompt discussions.
GoSoapBox – Free for less than 30 students, this all student response system works with the BYOD model, so no charge for a clicker. One of the most intriguing features for me is the Confusion Meter. iBrainstorm– An iPad app that allows students to collaborate on projects using a stylus or their finger on screen. Jot – Use like individual whiteboards to express ideas and understanding. Lino – A virtual corkboard of sticky-notes so students can provide questions or comments
on their learning. These can be used like exit tickets or during the course of a lesson. Naiku (NEW) – Teachers can easily and quickly create quizzes that students can answer using their mobile device. Great for checking for understanding before and after a lesson. Obsurvey – Create surveys, polls and questionnaires quickly and easily.
Pear Deck – Plan and build interactive presentations that students can participate via their smart device. Limited free usage and it offers unique question types. Pick Me!– An easy to use app for the iPod, iPad and iPhone that facilitates random student selection. Can be organized by class for convenience. PingPong (NEW) – Another backchannel tool that helps maintain student interest by providing a place where students can pose questions, take notes, make comments about instructional content, and share resources during and outside of class.
PollDaddy– Quick and easy way to create online polls, quizzes and questions. Students can use smartphones, tablets, and computers to provide their answers and information can be culled for reports. ProProfs (NEW) – Build and test knowledge with quick quizzes, polls and surveys. RabbleBrowser– An iPad app that allows a leader to facilitate a collaborative browsing experience. Quia (NEW) – Teachers can create games, quizzes, surveys and more, and access a
database of existing quizzes from other educators. QuickVoice Recorder– Another free voice recording app for the iPhone or iPad that allows you to record classes, discussions or other project audio files. You can sync your recordings to your computer easily for use in presentations. Random Name/Word Picker– This tool allows the teacher to input a class list and facilitates random name picking. You can also add a list of keywords and use the tool to have the class prompt a student to guess the word by providing definitions.
Scattervox – Unique polling tool that makes each question 2-dimensional by having respondents use quadrants for their response, thus creating a scatter plot. ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard – Another whiteboard tool students and teachers can use to check understanding.
Tagul (NEW) – This word cloud generator has an added feature that allows the user to make each word an active link to connect to a website you determine. Tagxedo – A tag cloud generator that allows you to examine student consensus and facilitate dialogue. ThinkBinder– A collaboration tool that allows students to ask questions and discuss topics in a group, share, create and work together on almost any project. TitanPad – This unique tool for collaborative work offers 8 colors to choose from so that each
contributor may use a different color. You can easily imagine group work, be it peer review or peer editing for starters, can be made interactive. TodaysMeet– This online collaboration tool allows educators to create a “room” in which students can share ideas, answers and thoughts to lectures and lessons. Educators can view student responses in real time for evidence of learning. Verso – Described as a feedback tool, this app allows teachers to set up learning using a URL. Space is provided for directions. Students download the app and input their responses
to the assignment. They can then post their comments and respond to the comments of others. The teacher can group responses and check engagement levels. VoiceThread– Allows you to create and share conversations on documents, diagrams, videos, pictures or almost anything. This facilitates collaborative student discussion and work. Vocaroo– A free service that allows users to create audio recordings without the need for software. You can easily embed the recording into slide shows, presentations, or websites.
Great for collaborative group work and presentations. Wordables (NEW) – The Word Cloud Guessing Game. This app allows you to elicit evidence of learning or determine background knowledge about a topic. These word clouds are pictures composed of a cloud of smaller words that form a clue to the topic.