Tools for Classrooms with In-Person and Remote Students

Kid-friendly communication platform jazzes up virtual instruction

Bottom Line: Share high-quality interactive lessons in a virtual classroom environment.

Feature-filled lesson delivery platform packed with premade content

Bottom Line: This platform's vast lesson library gives teachers a valuable head start and offers tools for student engagement.

Engage and assess students with media, videos, and interactive slides

Bottom Line: The teacher- or student-paced learning can improve 1-to-1 environments and the learning activities are top notch.

Versatile digital portfolio appeals to teachers, students, and parents

Bottom Line: A powerful multimedia learning and communication tool that demonstrates student progress over time.

Impressive cross-curricular platform establishes global connections

Bottom Line: Versatile video-based curriculum inspires reflection and action.

Minimize classroom distractions with virtual hand-raising tool

Bottom Line: An easy way to gauge understanding, adjust instruction, and provide student support in real time.

Flexible interactive presentation tool engages kids at school and home

Bottom Line: It's great for creating customized and differentiated lessons, but it might not be accessible for every student.

Interactive slideshows offer a variety of ways to engage and assess

Bottom Line: It’s an appealing platform that can improve formative assessment, particularly for teachers using Google Classroom.

Robust lesson creation and delivery tool aids assessment

Bottom Line: With some creativity, this interactive platform can support instruction and assessment.

Create and collaborate via interactive, multimedia bulletin boards

Bottom Line: Flexible interface gives kids opportunities to share content and knowledge in ways most comfortable for them.

Tell stories, organize or remix content via digital curation platform

Bottom Line: This tool offers an intuitive and useful way to curate media and make sense of topics, but it lacks some features for feedback and content moderation.

Collaboration tool makes digital sharing easy

Bottom Line: This handy tool encourages collaboration and creativity, and it makes sharing assignments and giving feedback a snap.

Call on everybody at once with flexible, interactive presentation tool

Bottom Line: This tool's dynamic presentations strike a nice balance between information and interaction.

Multifaceted interactive whiteboard promotes collaboration

Bottom Line: Mural facilitates lesson presentation and group project collaboration from anywhere by making idea sharing a simple, visual process.

Create, present, and assess with effortless interactive screencasts

Bottom Line: This intuitive tool is excellent for recording and responding to screencasts of any length.

Rich collaboration and close-reading tool invites deep, easy-to-assess discussions

Bottom Line: Versatile, free discussion platform for teaching, peer review, assessment, and fostering active reading.

Real-time, moderated online discussions can engage and encourage

Bottom Line: This tools offers a fun, simple, and safe way to hold real-time online discussions that might just increase engagement, interest, and even learning.

Asynchronous videos allow users to quickly share and comment on ideas

Bottom Line: This is a simple platform with a useful premise, and with some further development, it has a promising future.

Backchannel tool offers interactive polls, drawing, messages, and more

Bottom Line: Quick setup and multimodal features make this a great fit for a variety of carefully monitored classroom discussions.

Cool, customizable tool turns notebooks into workspaces

Bottom Line: With some scaffolding, this could be a great way to capture, organize, and share info without juggling a class site, notebook, to-do list, and more.

Assign, assist, and assess with real-time, interactive classroom

Bottom Line: It's a great option for teachers who want to go paperless, provide specific feedback, and encourage collaboration among students in virtual or 1-to-1 classrooms.

Collaborative feedback platform helps teachers target, students respond and revise

Bottom Line: Time-saving tool allows teachers to gain valuable insights into student learning while providing more personalized feedback and scaffolded supports.

Superb real-time assessment tool a fit for 1-to-1, BYOD classrooms

Bottom Line: This smart tool helps teachers gather a variety of student response types and then offer targeted feedback.

Unique project-based learning tool focuses on collaboration

Bottom Line: Once teachers get their bearings, they'll find this to be a uniquely useful workflow and project management tool that can guide students through collaborative work.

Comprehensive discussion platform develops critical-thinking skills

Bottom Line: A great tool in any subject or topic for teachers looking to make discussion a central part of their classroom.

Flexible desktop, mobile assignment tool works best with pro features

Bottom Line: A flexible way to collect student assignments and offer written and verbal feedback, especially with the premium features.

Interactive ebooks and web content make reading a social experience

Bottom Line: Build collective reading experiences to make challenging texts more approachable and get kids excited about books.

A terrific, troll-free zone for structuring student discussion and debate

Bottom Line: A valuable platform for students to learn about social and political issues while practicing digital citizenship and argumentation.