Useful Applications for Educators

Coursera

Coursera is the global online learning platform that offers anyone, anywhere access to online courses and degrees from world-class universities and companies.

Key Features:

• PERSONALIZED BROWSING – Built on machine learning models, this feature ensures learners receive tailored suggestions for the most relevant learning content based on their learning journey so far.
   
• PERSONALIZED HOMEPAGE – When logged in, learners can resume a course in one click, see personalized recommendations on courses to pursue next, and view the certificates they’ve earned so far.
   
• GOAL SETTING   – Once a learner starts a new course, a prompt will appear to create learning goals from the get-go. These goals can be seamlessly synced with Google Calendar and other calendar apps, integrating learning into a daily routine.
   
• SMART REVIEW MATERIAL　– This machine learning tool helps unblock learners when they fail a quiz. It serves targeted review material recommendations based on the specific questions they missed, providing learners with a structured path to succeed on the next quiz attempt.
   
• LEARNER SKILL TRACKING　– This data-driven tool tracks learner skill development, sharing updated competency scores as a learner takes more assessments on Coursera. Through a centralized dashboard, learners can monitor their progress toward career-specific skills and see how their competency scores compare to other professionals on the Coursera platform.

Account Types:

• Free (Limited access to content)
• Paid
  • Coursera Plus
  • Coursera for Business

              Evernote

Evernote is the top online notepad app to take notes, share, organise and store straight on your device.

Key Features:

• Sync and organise - Keep your notes handy
• Web clipper - a save button for the web
• Tasks - bring notes and to-dos together 
• Calendar - connect  schedules and notes
• Templates - create better notes, faster
• Document scanning - go paperless with Evernote
• Search - Fing exactly what you need

Account Type:

• Paid
  • Personal
  • Professional
  • Teams

Flip
(formerly known as FlipGrid)

Flip is a video discussion app, free from Microsoft, where curious minds connect in safe, small groups to share videos, build community and learn together.

Key Features:

• Flip Discovery: Gain access to 25,000+ community generated topcs and find inspiration from fellow educators
• Flip Camera: The heart of Flip, the camera features help you creatively share your voice, ideas, and more
• GridPals: Connect with educators and classs around the world
• Mixtapes: Allows compilation of videos from across topics and groups to easily share with others

Account Types:

• Free
  

Google Classrooms

You can use Classroom in your school to streamline assignments, boost collaboration and foster communication. Classroom is available on th web or by mobile app. You can use Classroom with many tools that you already use such as  Gmail, Google Docs and Google Calendar.

Key Features

• Start video meeting
• Create and manage classes, assignments and grades online without paper
• Add materials to your assignments such as YouTube videos, a Google Forms survey and other items from Google Drive
• Give direct, real-time fedback
• Use the class stream to post announcements and engage students in question-driven discussions

Account Type:

• Free for individual
• Paid
  • G Suite Enterprise for Education

Kahoot!

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.

Key features

• Create a quiz in minutes
• Host kahoots live in class or via video conferencing
• Display questions and answes on students' devices in live kahoots
• See vidual reports with actionable insights into class progress
• Share games directly with other Kahoot! users

Account Type:

• Free (limited features)
• Paid
  • Kahoot! Starter
  • Kahoot! 360 Standard
  • Kahoot! 360 Pro
  • Kahoot! 360 Pro Max

Memrise

Memrise is a language learning app that is the opposite of textbook learning; it's enjoyable and effective. Founded in 2010, Memrise has quickly grown and now close to 60 millon people in 189 countries learn languages with us to better themselves, connect with others and with the world around them.

Key Features

• Classic review
• Difficult words
• Learn new words
• Learn with locals
• Listening skills
• Pronounciation mode
• Speed review

Account Types:

• Free (limited acces to content)
• Paid
  • Monthly
  • Annual
  • Lifetime

Mentimeter

Mentimeter is an Audience Engagement Platform that transforms any presentation into an interactive and engaging experience.

Key Features

• Engage with students using live polls, word clouds, quizzes, multiple-choice questions and more
• Track learning and understanding by asking questions and downloading results
• Communicate and interact with your students
• Stay up-to-date with the teaching syllabus so that no one misses a thing
• Enable Q&A so that queres and questions can be discussed, explained and clarified

Account Types:

• Free (basic)
• Paid
  • Basic
  • Pro
  • Enterprise

Miro

The onine collaboratve whiteboard platform to bring teams together, anytime anywhere.

Key Features:

• Brainstorming: Unleash creative ideas and build on them with the help of sticky notes, images, mind maps, videos, drawing capabilities, etc. 
• Meetings & Workshops: Give everyone in the room - even if they're miles away - a chance to connect and interact with sticky notes, voting, live reactions and icebreakers.
• Scrum events: Whether agile teams meet on a video call or sit in the same room, they can meet in Miro. Put ideas into action, visualise projects and dependencies all in one place.

Account Types:

• Free
• Paid
  • Team
  • Business
  • Enterprise

Padlet

Padlet is an online collaborative tool which allows learners to post texts, images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings.

Key features

• Add posts with one click, copy-paste, or drag and drop
• Works the way your mind works-with sight sound and touch
• Changes are autosaved
• Simple link sharing allows for quick collaboration
• Invite other to contribute - signup not required
• Work with unlimited contributors
• Give read-only, writing, moderator or admin access; revoke any time

Account Types:

• Free (Basic)
• Paid
  • Padlet Pro
  • Padlet Backpack

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is an online service that allows teachers to ask their students a question using their mobile phone, Twitter or web browsers. Both the question and the students' responses are displayed live in Kynote, Powerpoint and/or on the web.

Key Features:

• Create or answer multiple choice, true/false, open-ended, ranking poll, and clickable image questions
• Fast, seamless operation: when one poll ends, the next is shown automatically
• Moderate and approve responss to open-ended questions
• Watch results update live
• Use easy participant registration to give and receive credit for attendance and participation
• View participants reponse history and correctness
• Advance slides in a Windows Powerpoint presentation with the included Presenter Remote feature

Account Types:

• Free (Intro)
• Paid
  • Present
  • Engage
  • Teams

SurveyMonkey

SurveyMonkey is a cloud-based survey took that helps users create, send and analyse surveys. Users can mail surveys to respondents and post them on their websites and social media profiles to increase response rate.

Key features

• Easily create surveys, quizzes and polls for any audience
• Gather feedback via weblink, email, mobile chat, social media and more
• Automatically analyse your results and get powerful analysis features
• Export your results or integrate your data with your favourite apps
• Use your insights to make better data-driven decisions.

Account Types

• Free
• Paid
  • Team Advantage
  • Team Premier
  • Enterprise

Udacity

Udacity is a global, online, lifeling learning platform connecting education to jobs. Udacity works with industry leaders to create project-based online learning programmes. These unique collaborations ensure that students learn the technology skills that employers value most.

Key features:

• Course recommendation engine
• Learning paths
• Skills assessment
• Skills gap analysis

Account Type:

• Individual
• Business
• Enterprise
• Prices vary according to courses