The sudden change to remote teaching has left many teachers and students with various challenges. Many of you may be searching to find the proper tools to conduct effective online teaching classes.
I have listed a few tools that you can use to enhance your experience with teaching online, or remote teaching as popularly referred to these days. You can go through the list and select the ideal online teaching tools for your remote teaching goals.
1. Remote communicating platform
From in-person teaching to online teaching has made communicating with students and teachers easier and more affordable than ever. Whether you connect using software, a mobile app or social media, here are few collaboration tools to consider.
Zoom :
This is an easy-to-use desktop platform and app that allows you to schedule, launch, and record virtual meetings with your team. These meetings can be held remotely from a computer or smartphone.
MS Teams :
This allows you to download apps like Excel, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint to your computer or mobile device. Like G Suite, you also can use this general suite of tools to manage, share, store, and edit documents in team folders.
Skype :
Many of you would have already used Skype. Along with allowing you to host free small virtual meetings, Skype also enables you to create group chats. If you want to use the paid version of Skype, you can also have meetings with groups or make international voice calls.
Google Meet :
A budget-friendly platform that allows you to go online with integrated tools like Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slide, and all the resources can be easily stored in Google Drive .
WebEx :
It provides personalized video meeting rooms where users can to host and join meetings. People can use WebEx for team collaboration, webinars, training and customer support.
These are few popular video conferencing platform that lets you virtually meet other people across various hardware platforms like desktops, laptops, and mobile phones.
2. Learning management systems
In short LMS, is a web-based medium used to deliver educational courses, resources, etc. It gives the educator, access to track, monitor, and assign the materials to the students. Some LMS also provides inbuilt contents of various departments that are ready to use, here are few LMS to consider
Google Classroom :
Google Classroom is a cloud-based Learning Management System, useful for K-12 and higher education teachers and students. G suite and classroom are free for educational institutes. Teachers can create assignments, activities, handouts and post it in the classroom. These resources can be viewed by teachers, students, and other co-teachers. .
Canvas :
Canvas is an easy to use and for designing, Canva allows you to create team accounts where you can share design templates and assets with your colleagues remotely. This ensures you’re able to access and edit any design files or brand imagery you might need while working from home.
Blackboard :
Blackboard learn is used as a platform for students to send and receive school work. This program is operated by teachers as a web-based user software device to connect them to their students. It is incredibly important now due to the current world events regarding distancing.
Schoology :
Schoology LMS is created in collaboration with a blended learning environment for K-12 schools and higher educational institutions. It offers features such as creating, managing academic content, online curriculum, lesson planning, classroom management through attendance records and grading, online tests, quizzes, and assessment of student understanding.
Moodle :
Moodle is also one of the best education-based LMS applications. The LMS is fully customizable and extensible to perfectly fit your needs. The thousands of community-developed plugins will also allow you to add new functionalities.
3. Online whiteboard tools
There are few online whiteboard tools which can be used to represent diagrams, charts, slides, mind maps, graphs etc..
Google Jamboard – online virtual whiteboard
Google slides – a presentation tool
Mindmeister – mind mapping tool
Creately – to represent as diagrams and charts
Twiddla – an online virtual whiteboard
4. Interactive, Quiz and Assessment tools
Online tool which allows you to create forms, surveys and quizzes. You can also create, edit and share the forms, quizzes and surveys to other people. Educators can use these tools to assess your students in the class.
Answer Garden – Word cloud generator
JoeZoo – Google add-on for summative and formative assessment
Google Forms – Quiz questions with data exported to a Google Sheet
Kahoot – Quiz-style student-response game
Quizizz – Polls and quizzes
5. Educational online gaming sites
To make the education more interactive and joyful, you can find many games or activities for kids to use and to apply what they have learned in different subject areas like Math, Science, and Social Studies.Some useful gaming sites are –
Funbrain – Education Science, Math, skill development and problem solving
Kids.nationalgeographic – Educational animal facts and pictures
ABC Ya – Educational games for preK-5th grade students
Mangahigh – Educational math games
PhET Simulations – Science simulations
Visit the site through the respective links to explore the tools and find out which are more adaptive and are usable. If you know any other tools that are more user friendly and reliable you can mention it in the comments. You can also give your feedback and suggestions about this blog in the comment section to improvise, if any.
A detailed review for any particular tool will be given, if you want me do so.
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