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  1. It links to your School.
2. It is personalized for school leaders, teachers, students
1. There's no option to upload worksheets
or documents.
1. This application is good for managing
student's behavior specifically with the
  and parents. 2. Most suitable for grades K-6th "points" reward system.
  3. You can create multiple classes and add students to it.
4. You can set up your classes into different groups for
2. The rewards system holds students
accountable to do the work and stay on
  student collaboration and color code each group. task.
5. You can give them group points when they do something 3. Parents can stay involved
  correctly. You’re able to edit the name of the skill which
Class Dojo  they’ve mastered. 4/5
6. You can give each student in a group a different task.
7. Points accumulate throughout the year, but as the
teacher you can deduct points for bad behavior.
8. You can take attendance with it.
9. You can create activities and assignments for them to
work on and upload to their portfolios for their parents to
see.
10. After creating an assignment, you are able to see the
students who have approved it, who are pending
approval, and who have submitted it.

  1. You can share files, create assignments, grade


assignments, and communicate with students in a
1. Your school or district has to sign up for
a "G Suite" education account to be
1. You can share files, create
assignments, grade assignments, and
  paperless way. able to use it with your students. communicate with students in a
  2. You can create multiple classes for each of the subjects
you teach.
2. Suitable for grades 7th-12th. paperless way.
2. Most suitable for grades 7th-12th grade.
  3. You can check the "stream tab' to monitor the activity 3. Great for digitizing assignments and
that has taken place within your classroom, such as any using less paper.
  announcements to assignments you haven't posted as a 4. It's very user friendly!
  teacher, and any comments or posts from students.
4. Use the "share with your class" box to type up any
  messages or share documents, links, or videos. 5/5
Google Classroom  5. When creating new posts, you can schedule them to go
out on a specific date and time using the calendar
feature.
6. When sharing posts, you can choose to share with all
students in the class or you can select specific students
to share it with by clicking the drop down arrow next to
the all students section.
7. You can add a point value to the assignments you post
and give deadlines.
8. There's a quiz assignment option that you can use to
create quizzes.
9. The material option is a great way to share attachments
with students without having to post an assignment or
post a message.
10. The "grades" tab collects all the students grades and
works as a grade book that you can easily edit if you
need to change anything.

Kahoot!  1. You can search for thousands of public kahoots that are
created by other teachers and use those.
1. No challenges
2. Although you get an overall
This website is perfect for wrapping up a unit
or a lesson. It can serve as an exit ticket for
2. You can create your own quizzes and if you need to add representation of how students are students and it’s fun!
an image you can do so. doing with the quiz, you have to go back
3. When creating questions you get to pick what kind of to see how each individual student is 5/5
answers it'll provide---multiple choice, true or false, and doing.
open-ended. (You select the correct answer) You can
also adjust the time limit per question.
4. You can also embed YouTube Videos.
5. Once you finish creating the quiz you will be given a cod
which you will show your students to enter the game.
6. You will be shown a screen

Quizlet  1. Simple tool that allows you to study anything for free.
2. There are many public quizzes on the site that you can
1. It is not very user/ kid friendly.
2. You cannot add a class if you do not
This site is perfect for science, history, and
ELAR teachers because it has the flashcard
look for and work with. This saves you a lot of time. provide a school. feature that students can use to learn and
3. It has quizzes for languages, standardized tests, math 3. memorize different vocabulary. Because there
and science, history and geography, arts and literature, are tons of public quizzes, you save a lot of
professional and career, and more. time.
4. Under “Invite More People” you can create classes and
invite students using their email address. You can also 5/5
share a link with students so they can request to join the
class.
5. It connects to your school.
6. You can create sets of flash to help students study.

TeacherKit  1. You manage your students.


2. You may add as many classes as you want, and you can
1. This website is not meant to be used
with your students.
I think this is a great website to keep your data
such as grades, seating charts, etc together in
customize each of your classes to distinguish them. one place. but it’s not completely necessary.
3. You can “extract” reports for your class(es) and students
(s) performance. 3/5

Edmodo  1. You can create classes.


2. Stay in touch with parents and students.
1. It’s functional, but it’s very bland.
2. It’s effective but not appealing.
Although this tool is functional and effective it’s
not too appealing. This is perfect for people
3. There’s a “What’s Due” tab where you can remind who like simple and straight to the point sites.
students of due dates for assignments.
4. You can schedule assignments to be sent at certain 2/5
times.

Nearpod  1. You can create interactive lessons using google slides or


use a lesson on nearpod.
1. Not completely free. You have to pay to
access other features.
This website is perfect for online school
because it has the option for creating
2. There are many interactive lessons that are available to interactive lessons.
use.
3. You can use “collaborate” to start a class discussion. 5/5
4. You can create quizzes.

Educreations  1. You can create videos with your ipad or tablet device to
show students in addition to your lessons.
1. This app is not for use with students. It’s
designed to be used by the teacher only
This app is great if you want to create videos
tailored to your specific students. It’s easy to
2. Tons of video lessons ready to share with students. use and very useful.

4/5

Khan Academy  1. Totally free


2. You create classes, us student’s emails to add them
1. I think that this site is very useful but it
might be too advanced for some
This website is perfect if you need to
supplement your lessons in class with videos.
3. Has a huge select of video tutorials to use as a students.
supplement for your lessons. 5/5
4. You can try the student experience out.
5. There’s “missions” where students can get individualized
practice.

Schoology  1. Allows teachers to manage all aspects of their classes


online including students, attendance, grades,
1. NONE This website is very similar to Google
Classroom. It is very well thought out and it
assignments, quizzes, tests, achievements, provides you, the teacher, the resources you
announcements. need to stay on top of the progress of each of
2. There’s a “news feed” that shows you the latest activity your students.
that is happening in your classes and groups you join.
3. Under classes you get an overview of all the classes 5/5
you’re teaching. Under groups you see all the groups
you’ve joined as a teacher. And under resources you are
provided with countless amounts of teacher resources.
4. You can add different files to and materials to each of the
assignments that you give students.
5. You get statistics on how students are doing based on
the tests and quizzes that you give them.

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