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Go Formative |
No app needed. Use this tool with iPad, Android or PC. Create online assessments, classwork, and homework. Watch your students take them in real time. Download results.
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Summarizing - Teachers summarize a large amount of information and present it in a visually pleasing way. Teachers can put in text, photos, graphs and other learning tools and share the image with students before a big test or discussion.
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Plickers |
Plickers is a powerfully simple tool that lets teachers collect real-time formative assessment data without the need for student devices.
FREE printable set of cards. Want to purchase a set from Amazon? |
Pulse of the class - Ask your students various questions yes/no or T/F re: the topic to see where they are at with understanding. They can hold up their cards to indicate their answer. You can do this with a saved class or a demo class in the app.
Review game - Create a series of questions in your saved Plickers class. To conduct the review have students hold up their cards to respond to each question. Every student gets to respond at the same time and you get to see how each student responded. This is an advantage over many review games in which only the first student to respond has his or her voice heard. Check out other great ideas here! Watch the Tutorial on setting up a Plickers account and class below. |
Edmodo |
Edmodo is an educational technology company offering communication, collaboration, and coaching tools to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents.
Use Edmodo for: • Secure classroom discussions • Posting assignments • Gradebook tracking • File sharing and uploading Key Features: • Classroom activity feed • Student progress tracker • Educational resource library • Professional learning networks |
Assessments
Utilize the Edmodo quiz builder or poll feature to assess students’ learning during or after a unit of study. Peer Reviews & Critiques Place students in small groups and have them post their work to their group for peer review and feedback. Build Digital Citizenship Skills Enforce online etiquette guidelines for students when using Edmodo to help them build digital citizenship skills. Book Clubs Organize a book group in Edmodo to encourage students to read and discuss novels with each other. Differentiated Instruction Deliver differentiated content in your classroom through the use of small groups and shared folders. For more Edmodo ideas, Click Here Click Here for 20 Ways to Use Edmodo. |
PADLET |
Padlet is a virtual wall that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can add content. You can add text, record you voice, add a hyperlink, photo or document.
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Book Reviews -Once the class or a small group has finished reading a book, Padlet is a great place for students to share their opinions/thoughts. Students can share favorite quotes, ask questions, discuss characters, etc. Teachers can then take the page and present it in class to spark continued face-to-face discussion.
Summarizing - Teachers summarize a large amount of information and present it in a visually pleasing way. Teachers can put in text, photos, graphs and other learning tools and share the image with students before a big test or discussion. Questions - Students can access a questions board 24/7 and anonymously post questions. The teacher can then read off and answer the questions each day. Opinions - Educators can post a particular topic or issue, and students can post their opinions on the subject. This is a great building block for teaching students how to write opinion pieces or persuasive essays. |
Socrative
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Students share their understanding by answering formative assessment questions in a variety of formats: quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races. Once students launch the Socrative Student App, they'll be prompted to join the teacher's room via the teacher's unique code. No student accounts necessary!
Features: • Visualize student and whole class understanding • Multiple choice and True/False questions • Open-ended questions and vote on the results • End of class Exit Tickets • Play games with our Space Race! • Class, Question and Student level reports |
Students join the teacher's "room" and complete the formative assessment.
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Socrative
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Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Educators can initiate formative assessments through quizzes, quick question polls, exit tickets and space races all with their Socrative Student app. Socrative will instantly grade, aggregate and provide visuals of results to help you identify opportunities for further instruction. Save time and visualize student understanding when it matters, now! To get started using Socrative, simply register for a Socrative Teacher account. Your Socrative account will work with other Socrative Apps and via all browsers at Socrative.com. Students can connect to your unique room by opening their apps or joining your room at socrative.com on any device.
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Exit Ticket is a quick check exercise that takes place in the last five minutes of your class. Socrative has an Exit Ticket template that can be used or you can design your own. You’ll get a report that you can use to tailor that night’s homework assignment or clear up a misconception.
Get a pulse check of the overall level of your students’ current content understanding. Teachers can create 10 multiple choice questions and make yourself a quiz before class. The questions should be a mix of review and preview. The class can be divided into small groups or teams. Teachers can review the data report to better understand your class’s proficiency overall. |
NearPOd |
Nearpod allows teachers to build presentations using the Nearpod website and deliver instruction to students by pushing content out to multiple devices at once. The teacher controls the presentation while students follow along on devices.
Nearpod is also an interactive tool. Students can complete polls and results are immediate and lend themselves to classroom discussion. Teachers can also embed multiple choice questions, videos, quizzes, open-ended questions, and web-links into their presentations. Students can move through content at their own pace which allows for differentiation. Teachers can also provide students with different presentations to further individualize instruction. A Nearpod lesson can also be assigned as homework. Students can access the lesson or assignment outside of school on their own device using the session PIN from the teacher. Students can respond to questions and then the teacher can prepare follow-up lessons based on areas of need. |
Nearpod has a drawing feature students can use to annotate images. For example, a Social Studies teacher could include a map and have students annotate the route of Lewis and Clark. This same feature can also be used to create graphic organizers or solve math problems. All student responses within Nearpod are submitted to the teacher device and may be pushed out or shared with the class during instruction. This feature is great for class discussions or collaboration.
An example science lesson is a presentation/lesson on animal adaptations with many images and a video embedded. Throughout the presentation, the teacher embedded some multiple choice and short answer questions for formative assessment based on the content. At the end, students are asked to complete a task and create their own animal, give it a name and an external feature. Students will have to draw the animal and explain how that external feature that allows that creature to survive better than organisms that do not have that feature. Click Here to read more about how it works. |
TeacherVUE |
With TeacherVUE™ Mobile, now you can access and manage your classroom from anywhere using your iOS device. Mobile, real-time access to your school’s Synergy student information system allows you to take attendance, view student demographics, schedules, emergency contacts and more from your iOS device. Especially great for teachers that require mobility (ex: field trips, physical education classes) and for administrative staff, coaches and hall monitors that need to verify student identity by photo anywhere on or off campus.
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For teacher use only
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Parentvue |
The ParentVUE Mobile application helps parents stay informed and connected by providing day-to-day insight into their child’s academic experience. ParentVUE Mobile for the iPhone/iPod Touch works with the Synergy™ student information system in much the same way as the ParentVUE web portal, allowing parents to access near real-time information on assignments and scores, attendance, and demographic information. ParentVUE offers parents a single sign-on to view all of their children’s information regardless of school.
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For Parent home access
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StudentVue |
The StudentVUE Mobile application helps students stay informed and connected by providing day-to-day insight into their own academic experience. StudentVUE Mobile works with the Synergy™ student information system in much the same way as the StudentVUE web portal, allowing students to stay on top of upcoming school events, classroom happenings, assignments, tests, and academic performance. Students can view their classroom assignments and scores, attendance and more.
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For student home access
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Spiral |
Do you want to engage your students while actively learning using devices? Spiral is easy to learn and simple to use. Spiral makes lessons engaging, collaborative and fun!
Use Spiral Quickfire and enhance your questions and answer activities, to get the responses of the class in real time! Use Spiral Discuss to cultivate creativity, exploration and deeper learning. Discuss encourages students to share ideas with each other. You can upload a PowerPoint that you already have or you can create new content within Spiral. Looking for a way to allow your students to collaborate using a device? Use Spiral Team Up. The teacher facilitates group work. As students share ideas the begin to build presentations. The teacher creates the group and chooses which student share/submit the group’s final presentation. The presentation is displayed on all devices that are in the session. Spiral works beautifully with CCSD desktops, laptops, iPads and all other devices. You can even connect on the CCSD BYOD Network! |
Tip: You can use the app to join a class instead of going to the website.
Watch the video below for an overview of Spiral. |
ed puzzle |
EdPuzzle is the perfect tool for allowing students to watch and engage with videos while the teacher gathers data throughout the lesson.
As teachers dabble into the flipped classroom philosophy, EdPuzzle is the perfect enhancement tool for videos to be watched at home instead of eating up valuable class time. EdPuzzle allows you to take a video from Youtube, Kahn Academy, Learn Zillion, Crash Course or you can upload your own video and manipulate the portion that you need. Once you have uploaded the video you can crop the video to remove or shorten the video to be an appropriate length for the lesson you are teaching. The teacher then has the capability to record their voice on top of the video, allowing the teacher to maintain a voice in the lesson. The quiz feature allows you to embed questions as students are watching the video. On the teacher account you can see the progress that the student has made on the questions and the amount of time the student has taken to complete the lesson. Teachers can also place restrictions on the video, so students can not fast forward through the video. Videos can be easily embedded onto learning management systems such as Edmodo, Schoology, Moodle, etc. From the start to finish EdPuzzle is extremely user-friendly. |
Reading - Primary Teachers
EDpuzzle could be used as part of a reading center. YouTube has lots of great read-along videos or you can also create your own. Use these videos along with EDpuzzle to check for comprehension. As the video plays, embed questions to check for understanding. Students can independently go through the guided reading (or Close reading) activity, while you work one-on-one with other reading groups. Substitutes - EDpuzzle would be ideal for sub days. Do you always dread being away from the classroom because it was essentially a lost day? You may feel you've missed the opportunity to see students work and think. EDpuzzle would give you the ability to “teach” remotely and embed the same questions and promptings you would give if you were live in the classroom. While you won’t get to hear all of the discussion, you will have some feedback to better understand how your students were thinking. |
quizlet |
Quizlet allows both teachers and students to create study flashcard sets. Once created, the flashcard information can be used to play games and do other learning activities. Quizlet is available on both the web and iPad so lessons can be created or used in either place.
Features: *Create your own custom flashcards and/or search the Quizlet library of flashcards created by others. *Teachers can create a classroom; allowing students to quickly gain access to the flashcards you make available to them. *PDF printing options allow you to provide offline access to students without at-home connectivity. 6 study modes to help reach all learners: Flashcards: Flip through and familiarize yourself with the material. Visuals can be added and there is an audio tool with 18 languages. Learn: Track your progress and review the things you got wrong. Scatter: Match words to their definitions and try to finish faster than your friends. Test: Prepare for the actual test with an automatically graded quiz. Space Race: Earn points by typing in words before their definitions vanish off screen. Speller: Type what you hear. Works in 18 different languages! |
Teachers can use Quizlet to introduce new vocabulary or assess on vocabulary students have already learned. This is great for students learning new languages!
Quizlet provides adaptive training to help students focus on the items most difficult for them. In the learn mode, it tests students one item at a time. Items a student performs more poorly on are brought back for students to review so their efforts are focused on items which they have not yet learned or which are more difficult to remember. Click Here for a Teacher Quick-Start Guide Click here for more info and ideas |
Poll Everwhere |
The free Poll Everywhere mobile app is perfect for responding to polls, presenting polls, and clicking through PowerPoint presentations. Use it to...
1.) Respond to polls: Audience members can use the app to respond to the presenter’s questions live. 2.) Poll an audience: Presenters can ask the audience questions and display poll responses live. 3.) Navigate in Powerpoint: Presenters can control the flow of Powerpoint presentations using a smartphone as a wireless remote. Key Features: • Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions. • Participants are automatically shown the presenter's current question, for quick and easy participation. • Watch results update live. Participants Audience members or students can easily respond to polls or vote using the app on a smartphone or tablet. Aside from the app, they can respond via web browser, text message, or Twitter. Presenters Professors, teachers and presenters can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple choice polls. Questions can be presented directly from the web or embedded in a PowerPoint or Keynote presentation. Audience responses are displayed in real-time. Great for classroom participation, or gathering opinions from the audience. PowerPoint Remote Presenters using PowerPoint can use the Poll Everywhere mobile app as a presentation clicker, to navigate through your PowerPoint presentation with ease. It has a slick, streamlined design and a set of polling controls built-in. |
Teachers can poll students prior to a lesson. Once students have done some close reading and have shared out, the teacher can poll students again to see if their answer/opinion has changed.
Teachers can use it for quick formative assessments on any topic. A good use would be a ticket out the door after a lesson. Teachers can use open-ended poll questions during reading. The teacher could ask students to describe a main character from a book that group is currently reading and then select word cloud as the output method so their results. The more times a word was entered, the larger it will show. The teacher can pause the activity, and the group can discuss and finish reading the book. Then students can use words to describe the character and see how the cloud has changed as the plot and character have evolved (or not). Click here for more info on how Poll Everywhere works. |