Kahoot!'s online game quizzes gained popularity with students and teachers during the pandem-ic. Students can access countless games from Kahoot!'s library or they can even make their own game. Teachers can also distribute Kahoot! challenges to students for learning outside of the classroom. Kahoot! challenges integrate with Google Classroom and make it easy to track missed questions and scores to help determine where students may need more help.
Slack
Slack puts organization and communication together into one platform. It's easy for teachers to file course content related to individual topics, connect with students one-on-one or in groups, and send out relevant class material. Slack helps students get involved and remain engaged dur-ing online learning.
Quizizz
Quizizz is a free online learning game site that is incredibly easy to use, has zillions of already-made games on just about every topic that are fun activities for reinforcement and formative as-sessment, and has recently added a simplified Nearpod-like feature (for those of you familiar with that popular tool) called student-paced “Lessons.” Unlike other game sites, students can see the question and the possible answers on the same screen and don’t have to split them into two.
Baamboozle
Baamboozle is another free online game site. Its main advantage is that it’s set up so that students can play online in teams, but they don’t have to go into different breakout rooms. In other words, students can select a question to answer and talk among themselves in front of others to deter-mine the correct answer (other students are waiting for their turn to choose another question). If that explanation is a bit confusing, it will be very clear once you go to the site itself.
Padlet
Padlet allows users to collaborate, create, and learn from each other. Padlet also allows the teach-er to upload content and give feedback to the students, all on one platform. It can be used for vocabulary practice, reading, and listening. One of the features that the students like on Padlet is the image search option. It is a great tool to create a visual dictionary. During live sessions on Zoom, students can work on Padlet during breakout-room sessions.
Socrative
Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, Socrative is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can see the results of the activities and, depending on these, modify the subsequent lessons in order to make them more personalized.
Thinglink
Thingalink allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photo-graphs. These can be shared on other websites or on social networks, such as Twitter and Face-book. Thinglink offers the possibility for teachers to create learning methodologies that awaken the curiosity of students through interactive content that can expand their knowledge.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed is an educational platform that allows creating educational lessons with the collabora-tion of teachers, students, animators—generally people who want to expand knowledge and good ideas. This website allows democratizing access to information, both for teachers and stu-dents. Here, people can have an active participation in the learning process of others.
Visme
Visme is an online design tool that anyone can use to create presentations, infographics, concept maps, schedules, reports and more.It's packed with tons of features, like free photos and graphics, customization options and an easy drag-and-drop editor that both non-designers and designers love to use. Many tools are directed either at the educator or the student. Visme offers teachers various options, such as: Interactive content as presentations and infographics, Visual posters and infographics, Webinar materials, Interactive schedules,Syllabus and lesson plans, Printable lists and worksheets,Embed third-party content like quizzes and forms, Share news about a class on social media or email, Personalized report cards,Personalized certificates.
