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Spend more time on your students, less on administrative tasks and cobbling together resources, with Eduaide.Ai’s lesson planning platform.

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Over 100 resource types and learning objects to choose from..

Wield the power of Large Language Models to assist in lesson planning and instructional design.

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The act of using a Large Language Model to write the basis for a generative educational resource. Generating content is only the first step.

Look at generated content as a sculptor might a block of marble. Shape the raw material to suit your unique context. Use our suite of personalization tools to more deeply differentiate instruction.

Cultivate expertise and collaborate with other users. Share your educational resources with a community of practice to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute to find what works best for students.

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We offer a free plan with limited access, and a Pro plan for those who want the full suite of Eduaide.Ai tools and resources.

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Pear Deck Learning helps teachers every day

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Create Editable PDFs And Convert Existing Teaching Materials To Digital Activities

Turn any document into an online fillable, editable PDF and interactive activity with TeacherMade’s assignment creator. We make it simple to take any document and make it compatible with Google Classroom, Schoology, Canvas, or any online learning situation. 

Take the curriculum libraries you already have and allow teachers to customize learning materials to fit their needs.

How to write and edit on a PDF in Google Classroom

Step 1: Upload your file. The file you upload becomes the background of your new online worksheet. (We support these file types.)

Step 2: Add fields for student responses.

Step 3: Add answers to questions for self-scoring.

Step 4: Send an assignment link to students or sync with your school’s LMS platform.

Step 5: Get instant feedback and results.

Students Can Type On A PDF For Interactive Assignmants And Activities

Customize learning materials and resources.

There are lots of resources that teachers could use, but they aren’t just right for the individual needs of their students. With TeacherMade, you can tap into the learning materials and resources that districts already have and customize them to fit your needs. 

Adapt PDFs Into Online Assignments Perfect For Online Learning Using Our Fillable PDF Creator

Are you struggling to adapt materials for online learning? TeacherMade can help. Our software makes it easy to turn any PDF into an interactive activity that students can type answers on for assessment. 

When you use a fillable pdf creator, your interactive activities are easy to use and more engaging for your students.

Create online assignments in minutes with AutoMagic

TeacherMade’s platform makes it easy to create online assignments. You no longer have to tediously draw answer boxes on your interactive assignments and PDFs. TeacherMade AutoMagic feature auto detects where answer boxes should go on the PDFs you upload. Your online digital activities are ready to go as soon as you upload them into our platform, or you can take the extra step and add an answer key for even faster assignments and grading!

Get Back Valuable Time Using PDFs Efficiently In The Classroom

Get back to lesson planning, and stop reengineering formative assessment for your students. Use what you already have with TeacherMade. Put your new interactive activity into Google Classroom , and simplify your workflow.

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Increase student engagement by pulling from your wealth of knowledge and resources. Don’t worry about being limited by technology. You can use any PDF in your repertoire as a digital worksheet.

FAQ: Editable PDF For The Classroom

Can i make a pdf fillable for students.

Yes! Upload your PDF to TeacherMade. Your PDF will show up as your background. You can then add questions anywhere to the document using our drag-and-drop tools. Our app offers the flexibility to add a variety of question types for your students. 

How Do You Create An Editable PDF?

The key is making your editable PDF for users to fill out. Use TeacherMade’s app to add editable fields to your PDF. Our tool is geared toward teachers and students and includes self-scoring features. 

What Program Or App Makes A PDF Fillable For Teachers?

TeacherMade is an app that makes PDFs fillable for teachers. With TeacherMade, you upload PDFs into our system and create fillable online assignments for students. Our features are geared toward the classroom and include auto-scoring, multiple question types, voice recording, drawing, and more. 

How Do You Make An Editable PDF?

Use TeacherMade to make editable PDFs. Upload your worksheets to TeacherMade, and add fields so students can make edits. TeacherMade gives you the flexibility to add fields to any part of your assignment file. You can even add an answer key for auto-grading! 

What Is The Best Program For Making Assignments And Formative Assessments?

TeacherMade is one of the best programs for making online lessons in the classroom. Teachers can repurpose paper worksheets and PDFs into interactive activities for online use. It takes a few minutes to use our online assessment creator. 

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AI Powered Generators (Tools) for Teachers

Our generators will help you create teaching and learning activities and assessments, improve learning outcomes and reduce teacher workload.

How can these AI generators help you​?

TeacherMatic’s AI generators act like personal assistants for teachers. They make creating classroom materials easy by automatically making things like worksheets, quizzes, and lesson plans. Just tell the app what topic you need, and it does the rest. This way, teachers can save time and spend more of it teaching and connecting with their students.

Lesson Plans

Craft comprehensive lesson plans effortlessly. Our AI integrates learning needs with Bloom’s Taxonomy, ensuring a holistic educational approach tailored to each student.

Ease your workload with the AI Rubric Generator. This tool quickens the creation of rubrics, which are essential but often underused due to the time it takes to make them. By providing clear, structured feedback, rubrics improve student understanding and engagement, making them a valuable asset in education

Generate diverse Multiple-Choice Questions (MCQ) in a snap. Whether it’s based on specific keywords, URLs, or file uploads, our AI ensures quality and relevance every time.  Our MCQ generator can export to numerous formats including PDF,s Word, GIFT, Kahoot, Quizizz, Blackboard and Canvas (QTI)

Course / Module Title

Produces a catchy and engaging course title, tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners.

Course / Module description

Produces  a number of helpful alternative course descriptions from an y given course or module title.

Generates a l ist of topics tailored to the individual needs and abilities of your students. It is important that learners are interested in the sessions that you will teach.  

Topic notes

Scheme of work.

The FAQ generator is designed to create a comprehensive list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) for any topic or subject.  

The FAQs can also be easily integrated into any website or VLE.  

The glossary generator is designed to quickly create a comprehensive glossary for any topic or subject.  It will help create clear and concise definitions for key terms, concepts and jargon related to the topic. The glossary can also be easily integrated into websites or VLEs.  

Flash cards

The flashcard generator is designed to create a comprehensive set of flashcards for any topic or subject.  The flashcards can also be easily printed or exported to a digital format, making it a handy resource for teachers to use in the classroom.  

Bullet points

Creates a comprehensive list of key points for any topic or subject that can be used in many different ways by teachers – adding them to PowerPoint presentations , course notes or even feedback on course work .  

For any given topic, the generator will produce a set of questions for learners to answer in class that can be used in the format of a quiz.

Classroom questions

Create a wide range of unique and thought-provoking questions to help teachers engage and challenge their students in new and exciting ways.

Discussion topics

Inputting a subject area or theme, generates a variety of discussion topics that can be used to stimulate and challenge learners . This will help improve learners critical thinking, communication, and collaboration skills.

Plenary activities

Generates a number of activities to help teachers assess and evaluate how much student learning has taken place at the end of a lesson or unit.  

Classroom Debate

Smart targets, lesson objectives, step by step, true or false, student profile.

Our Student Profile generator lets teachers input distinct learner characteristics, producing a detailed and insightful snapshot of each student

Analogy Maker

Announcement.

Creates an event invitation with event name, location, time and date and personal sign-off

Create a short summary of a file or pasted text

SPAG+ Feedback

Upload student work and receive feedback on writing style and SPAG

A generator to create emails based on topics and desired outcomes.

Coaching Prompts

Generates prompts using the GROW model for a coach to use in a session on a named topi

Mentoring Prompts

Generates prompts using Egan’s Skilled Helper model to be used in a mentoring session on a named topic.

Lesson Observation Prompts

Provides key areas to observe in a session in a named specialist area on a given session topic

Lesson Observation Feedback

Provides lesson observation feedback key points to be given to a teacher

Appraisal Questions

Generates key questions to be used in an appraisal interview

CPD Action Planner

Generates key area in a SMART action plan for a teacher with named strengths and areas for improvement in a named department and subject

Newsletter Item

reates an entry for a newsletter / email shot on a named topic with named details and a given date.

Course Publicity

Description coming soon

Urgent Press Release

Message for raising awareness of urgent topics e.g. a few course places remaining, 1 day left to enrol

Social Media Posts

Generates the LinkedIn, Twitter/X, and Facebook post text for a named event with details, a date and time

Event Invitation

Creates an invitation to an event with subject, date, time and location and contact details for key person involved

Create assignments for students which focuses on 21st century skills such as problem solving, creativity, and critical thinking.

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TeacherMatic allows you and your institute to spend less time on administration and more time on teaching and learning.

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Streamline your planning and prep with AI generated templates for lesson plans, writing prompts, educational handouts, student reports, project outlines and lots more.

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At the core of Education Copilot is our AI lesson planner. Perfect for generating quality, structured lesson plans for any subject, lesson, or concept.

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Quickly generate handouts that cover everything you and a student will need to know about a specific topic, concept, or subject area.

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Assignment Creator: A framework for deeper student comprehension

Challenge and engage your students using tried and true templates and lesson plans that you can quickly use or tweak to fit your specific requirements.

Assignment Creator

Create and deliver templates, assignments, and lesson plans effortlessly with the power of Lucid for Education's Assignment Creator.

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The Lucid for Education team works closely with educators to create assignments, relying on their expertise to create collaborative, engaging, and active lessons. While there are many templates available in Lucidchart or Lucidpress's template galleries, Assignment Creator is specifically for the classroom and learning environment.

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Automatically create graded and non-graded assignments based on a question bank with over 200,000 exercises. find questions from a variety of subjects, such as: mathematics, english, history, geography, science, and much more.

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Assignments is an application for your learning management system (LMS). It helps educators save time grading and guides students to turn in their best work with originality reports — all through the collaborative power of Google Workspace for Education.

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Make Google Docs and Google Drive compatible with your LMS

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Built with the latest Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standards for robust security and easy installation in your LMS

Save time distributing and grading classwork

Distribute personalized copies of Google Drive templates and worksheets to students

Grade consistently and transparently with rubrics integrated into student work

Add rich feedback faster using the customizable comment bank

Examine student work to ensure authenticity

Compare student work against hundreds of billions of web pages and over 40 million books with originality reports

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When you create an assignment, you can post it immediately, save a draft, or schedule it to post at a later date. After students complete and turn in their work, you can grade and return it to the students.

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Create & post assignments

When you create an assignment, you can:

• Select one or more classes

Select individual students

Add a grade category, add a grading period, change the point value, add a due date or time, add a topic, add attachments, add a rubric.

• Turn on originality reports

Go to classroom.google.com  and click Sign In.

Sign in with your Google Account. For example,  [email protected] or [email protected] .  Learn more .

• Enter the title and any instructions.

You can continue to edit and customize your assignment. Otherwise, if you’re ready, see below to post, schedule, or save your assignment .

Select additional classes

Assignments to multiple classes go to all students in those classes.

• Create an assignment (details above).

Unless you’re selecting multiple classes, you can select individual students. You can’t select more than 100 students at a time.

• Click a student's name to select them.

Use grade categories to organize assignments. With grade categories, you and your students can see the category an assignment belongs to, such as Homework or Essays . Teachers also see the categories on the Grades page.

For more information on grade categories, go to Add a grade category to posts or Set up grading .

To organize assignments and grades into your school or district’s grading structure, create grading periods, such as quarters or semesters.

• From the menu, select a grading period.

Tip: Before adding a grading period to an assignment, create a grading period for the class first. Learn how to create or edit grading periods .

You can change the point value of an assignment or make the assignment ungraded. By default, assignments are set at 100 points.

• Under Points , click the value.
• Enter a new point value or select Ungraded .

By default, an assignment has no due date. To set a due date:

• Click a date on the calendar.
• To create a topic, click Create topic and enter a topic name.
• Click a topic in the list to select it.

Note : You can only add one topic to an assignment.

Learn more about how to add topics to the Classwork page .

• Create an assignment.

• Important: Google Drive files can be edited by co-teachers and are view-only to students. To change these share options, you can stop, limit, or change sharing .

• To add YouTube videos, an admin must turn on this option. Learn about access settings for your Google Workspace for Education account .
• You can add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments. Learn how to add interactive questions to YouTube video attachments .

• Tip: When you attach a practice set to an assignment, you can't edit it.

• If you see a message that you don’t have permission to attach a file, click Copy . Classroom makes a copy of the file to attach to the assignment and saves it to the class Drive folder.
• Students can view file —All students can read the file, but not edit it.
• Students can edit file —All students share the same file and can make changes to it.

Note : This option is only available before you post an assignment.

Use an add-on

For instructions, go to Use add-ons in Classroom

For instructions, go to Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment .

For instructions, go to Turn on originality reports .

You can post an assignment immediately, or schedule it to post later. If you don’t want to post it yet, you can save it as a draft. To see scheduled and drafted assignments, click Classwork .

Post an assignment

• Follow the steps above to create an assignment.
• Click Assign to immediately post the assignment.

Schedule the assignment to post later

Scheduled assignments might be delayed up to 5 minutes after the post time.

• To schedule the same assignment across multiple classes, make sure to select all classes you want to include.
• When you enter a time, Classroom defaults to PM unless you specify AM.
• (Optional) Select a due date and topic for each class.
• (Optional) To replicate your selected time and date for the first class into all subsequent classes, click Copy settings to all .
• Click Schedule . The assignment will automatically post at the scheduled date and time.

After scheduling multiple assignments at once, you can still edit assignments later by clicking into each class and changing them individually.

Save an assignment as a draft

• Follow the steps above to create an assignment

You can open and edit draft assignments on the Classwork page.

Manage assignments

Edits affect individual classes. For multi-class assignments, make edits in each class.

Note : If you change an assignment's name, the assignment's Drive folder name isn't updated. Go to Drive and rename the folder.

Edit a posted assignment

• Enter your changes and click Save .

Edit a scheduled assignment

• Enter your changes and click Schedule .

Edit a draft assignment

Changes are automatically saved.

• Assign it immediately (details above).
• Schedule it to post at a specific date and time (details above).
• Click a class.

You can only delete an assignment on the Classwork page.

If you delete an assignment, all grades and comments related to the assignment are deleted. However, any attachments or files created by you or the students are still available in Drive.

Related articles

• Create or reuse a rubric for an assignment
• Create a quiz assignment
• Create a question
• Use add-ons in Classroom
• Create, edit, delete, or share a practice set
• Learn about interactive questions for YouTube videos in Google Classroom

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Rubric Generator

The Rubric Generator is a versatile MagicSchool AI powered tool designed to simplify the process of creating well-structured and clear rubrics for your classroom assignments. With this AI-powered resource, educators can effortlessly generate rubrics in a convenient table format, ensuring that assessment criteria are explicitly defined and readily accessible for both students and instructors.

Key Features

Ease of Use: The Rubric Generator streamlines the creation of rubrics, saving educators time and effort. It provides an efficient and user-friendly way to design assessment tools that align with the learning objectives of your assignments.

Table Format: This tool presents rubrics in a table format, making it easy to organize and present assessment criteria and performance levels in a clear and visually appealing manner. The tabular structure enhances the accessibility and comprehensibility of the rubric.

• Assignment Clarity : Use the Rubric Generator to create rubrics that provide students with a clear and detailed understanding of your expectations for their assignments. A well-structured rubric can enhance assignment clarity and facilitate better student performance.
• Objective Assessment: The generated rubrics assist educators in objectively assessing and grading assignments. By explicitly defining assessment criteria, the rubric ensures fairness and consistency in evaluation. ‍
• Feedback and Improvement: Rubrics generated by this tool can also be used to provide feedback to students, guiding them on areas of strength and areas for growth in their work. This feedback helps students understand their performance and how to improve.

In summary, the Rubric Generator is a valuable resource for educators seeking to create well-organized, table-format rubrics that clarify assignment expectations and facilitate objective assessment. By enhancing assignment clarity, assessment objectivity, and feedback for improvement, this tool promotes effective teaching and learning practices. It is an indispensable companion for educators dedicated to providing transparent and fair assessment tools for their students.

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ThinkWave Educator has an intuitive, easy-to-use, interface that can be learned quickly. Multiple classes can be maintained in a single gradebook. There is no need to login multiple times to access different classes.

Easy to Use From All Devices

ThinkWave Educator is completely cloud based which means there is no software to install and teachers can access data from school or home. ThinkWave can be used with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari and Chrome on PC, MAC, Linux, iOS and Android devices.

Get the Gradebook That's Right for You

ThinkWave Educator is great for solo teachers who want a basic, free gradebook. ThinkWave Educator Premium is for teachers who want a full-featured gradebook with 100 GB online storage.

Upload Assignments and Handouts Online

Save on paper and toner cartridges. ThinkWave Educator provides the functionality of a learning management system with the ability to upload homework and handouts online. Uploaded files can be up to 25MB each and the Premium gradebook includes 100 GB online storage. Many file formats are supported including .pdf, .doc, picture files, movie files and others. Homework is available for students and parents to download online. The upload function can also be used to organize handouts in one place. No need to email files between home and school -everything is available online from any computer.

Online Portal for Students and Parents

ThinkWave improves communication by providing individual, password-protected accounts for students and parents to access classroom information. Detailed, day-to-day summary of student progress includes overall results, graded assignments and upcoming assignments. Grades Online enables student achievement by improving organization and allowing for early intervention.

Assign and Collect Homework Online

ThinkWave Educator offers the powerful ability to collect homework from students online. Students upload their homework files with an easy-to-use upload function. Files are immediately available to the teacher in the gradebook. Uploaded files are organized for the teacher by assignment and date.

Messaging and Group Emailing

ThinkWave includes ability to post messages and announcements. Messages can be directed to all students and parents, particular groups of students or specific classes. Files can be uploaded with blog posts. Messages can be sent by email to the entire group with one click.

Flexible Grading Options

Use an all-points grading system or a flexible grading system that combines points, letter grades, check, check plus, and custom grades. Create your own assignment types and use assignment type weighting, for example, making Tests 30%, Homework 40%, Projects 15% and Participation 15%.

Powerful Reports

ThinkWave Educator includes powerful report capabilities that generate professionally-formatted, ready-to-print, .pdf documents. Reports can be customized with a logo and header and multiple other customization options.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can all the teachers in my school use the gradebook.

There are several options to provide online gradebooks for teachers in your school. For schools that want to provide pre-populated gradebooks with students and classes already enrolled, the ThinkWave Administrator school management system is the best option. It combines data from all teachers into progress reports, report cards, transcripts, student summaries, and other reports. There is even a tool to upgrade a solo gradebook to a schoolwide version. If there is no need to combine teacher information, options include site licenses for the premium gradebook. Finally, any teacher can always use the gradebook free of charge.

How do I start a new year in the gradebook?

The online gradebook provides a powerful rollover feature, which copies students, classes, custom field data, and more from year to year. This makes it easy to have a fresh start each year, while information from previous years remains readily available. There is even a feature to copy assignments from previous years, simplifying the setup process. For teachers who will be teaching a new set of students during the upcoming year, there is an option to not copy previous-year’s students.

Can I copy assignments from previous years?

Yes, a copy assignments function makes it easy to copy assignments from a teachers gradebook to a different class, term, or year. In the Setup menu, select Copy Assignments, then select the class and specific assignments you want to import.

Can I have different grading options for different classes?

Yes. You first establish default grading options, then customize them for individual classes and even terms. Grades can be calculated using pure points or flexible grading options, which handle letter grades, pass/fail grades, custom grades, assignment-type weighing, and more. Grades can also be calculated by weighting subterms, so for example, the semester grade can be calculated from the quarter grades and final exam.

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iSpring Free is one of our favorite online teaching tools. It is a lightweight eLearning authoring software for teachers that allows you to turn a boring PowerPoint presentation into a mobile-compatible online course with quizzes. The main advantage of this interactive learning tool is its simplicity. Its intuitive interface enables any novice course developer to create an unlimited number of courses quickly and easily.

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Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that is great for creating content such as fun activities and learning games for students. You can make quizzes on any topic and in any language, and customize those quizzes with videos, diagrams, and images. Students participate in “kahoots” (games) by logging the game codes on their device or application.

3. Edpuzzle

With Edpuzzle , you can create interactive lessons with embedded audionotes, assessments, and quizzes. Its analytics tool enables you to track how students are watching your videos and if they understand the content, great for an online class.

4. Starfall

Starfall is an online service that was initially designed to teach kids to read. Its phonics-based learning model supports online games and print series, which can be downloaded for use at home and in the classroom for little students. Now, it also features animated songs, movies, and mathematics activities for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and Grades 1 to 3.

5. CommonLit

CommonLit is a database of literary educational materials that you can access to develop lessons or just find ideas. You can choose a lesson from the digital library, share it with your students, assign them text-based questions, and analyze their performance.

Quill is a platform that has a set of creative tools for teaching writing, vocabulary, and grammar and includes over 400 exercises. These classroom activities help by inviting students to learn by reconstructing sentences, proofreading passages, creating new passages, and more.

7. Plickers

Plickers is a card activity that lets you poll your class, without the need for a student device. You just need to give students cards (“paper clickers”) and use your Android smartphone or tablet to scan them to do instant checks for understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls.

8. Powertalk

Powertalk is a presentation enhancement tool that automatically speaks your PowerPoint slides. When compared to other common ‘text-to-speech’ programs, Powertalk can speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

9. JeopardyLabs

JeopardyLabs is an online service that enables you to build Jeopardy games for students without PowerPoint, by using a simple editor. You can also choose from ready-made games created by the platform users on such subjects as foods, cities, countries, books, and hygiene.

10. Edgames

Edgames is an edutainment tool that provides educational activities, including board games, scrambled word games, sports-based games, and cards. You can help your students learn and understand personal hygiene, nutrition, current affairs, and many other things through playing games.

Teaching Tools for Classroom Management

A teacher’s tasks include planning lessons, marking attendance, assigning homework, and grading. This is where you can benefit from classroom tools for teachers. Here you’ll find online platforms and add-ons that can help you streamline all these processes and improve communication and the learning process.

11. ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a classroom management tool that enables schools to bring parents, teachers, school administrators, and students into classroom communities so they can track and enhance classroom behavior in real-time.

12. Google Classroom

Google Classroom is a free educational software for teachers that allows them to conduct online classes, invite your students, and assign homework. You can also discuss assignments online and track student progress. Google Classroom seamlessly integrates with other Google apps such as Google Slides, Docs, Sheets, and Drive allowing you to seamlessly work on different documents.

13. Class123

Class123 is one of the online platforms for classroom management that contains a chalkboard, seating chart, timer, random name picker, and many other interactive educational tools necessary for efficient class management. You can also keep track of students’ attendance and behavior, share stories and photos on boards, and let students interact in private messages.

14. Flubaroo

Flubaroo is a Google Spreadsheets Add-on designed for you to simply create multiple-choice and fill-in assignments, grade and analyze online student performance, share scores with students, and assign stickers and badges on completed tasks.

15. Show My Homework

Show My Homework is free technology software that allows teachers to administer, and control homework much easier. A teacher can quickly assign homework and record student submissions and grades on the go with its mobile app.

Lesson Planning Tools

Planning classes is one of the core parts of a teacher’s work. And it’s not easy. However, there are some solutions and resources that can make lesson planning a bit more convenient and effective. Check out the best tools for teachers that let you organize classes for free.

16. Planboard

Planboard is one of the teaching tools for lesson planning. It is designed for creating lesson plans on iPhone, iPad, or Android, and allows teachers to add files, photos, and videos, and view them during an offline or online class. Plans can be edited, archived, and shared with colleagues.

17. PlanbookEdu

PlanbookEdu is one of the best free platforms for teaching online and planning lessons. It functions like a printed book but can be filled in with texts online. With this software, creating, sharing, and printing lesson plans become easy for teachers. The free version doesn’t let you attach images and files to your plans.

18. Evernote

Evernote wasn’t designed specifically for teachers, yet its free version is one of the best tech tools that many teachers use for learning and daily lesson planning. You can collect ideas, articles, images, to-do lists, and more in a single place and access them anytime. A teacher can also use this software for personal development and organizing their life.

19. IL Classroom

IL Classroom doesn’t let teachers create their own lesson plans, it’s a website that offers teachers a free library of interactive math and language arts classes, as well as some other educational resources, like videos and assignments for students. There is learning content for different grade levels. All lessons are Common Core aligned.

20. ReadWriteThink

ReadWriteThink also isn’t technological software but a collection of free lessons and resources developed by the International Reading Association and The National Council of Teachers of English. A great advantage of this website is that all lesson plans are engaging, research based, and align with standards. You can browse lessons by grade level (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) and by areas of literacy practice: learning through language, learning language, and learning about language.

Tests and Exams Makers

Assessing students’ knowledge in distance learning seems to be more difficult than during in-person sessions of traditional education. But with the right online tools, you’ll see that it is actually even easier and even much more engaging for students and teachers.

21. Free Quiz Maker

Free Quiz Maker is an educational tool that lets a teacher build interactive assessments and exams for students from 3 question types: multiple-choice, multiple response, and short answer questions and conveniently gather studentresponses. You can also set scoring parameters, the number of attempts allowed, and time limits. The ready-made quizzes can be uploaded to any LMS, including Moodle and Blackboard. The tool also lets you create surveys.

22. SpellQuiz

SpellQuiz is another service for distance learning that is mainly focused on helping kids and adults to understand phonics. The platform contains English spelling lessons for individuals from Grade 1 to Adult, as well as fun quizzes and word games.

23. Quizizz

Quizizz is one of the free tech tools for teachers that allows them to present quizzes on science, social sciences, computer science, technical education, and art to students as a timed test or homework with a specified deadline.

24. FreeOnlineSurveys

FreeOnlineSurveys is a teaching assessment tool for building online tests, surveys, and forms. You can create quizzes using the drag-and-drop builder and 22 question types and fields, share them with your students and staff members, and analyze student progress with its data reporting tool right from your mobile device.

Plagiarism Checkers

If you need to check your students’ essays and theses for plagiarism, you can do this online with the free resources that are listed below.

25. Check Plagiarism

Check Plagiarism is an easy-to-use plagiarism checking website utilized by teachers and students. You just need to paste text or upload text files to check them for plagiarism. With a free account, you can get detailed reports that include exact matches and sources. However, there’s a limit of 200 free plagiarism queries – if you’re going to use the tool for a long time, you might need a paid subscription.

26. Dupli Checker

Dupli Checker is one of the educational tools that let you check texts for plagiarism. Without a free account, you can check only one text a day. And if you create one, you still have a limit of 1,000 words per search. To check larger texts, a free tool isn’t enough — you’ll need a paid account. The website supports many formats, including Microsoft Word and PDF documents.

27. PapersOwl

PapersOwl is primarily a website that offers services, such as essay and thesis writing, that some students use to cheat. However, this recourse also has a free tech tool for checking texts for plagiarism that teachers can use for free. You can either paste texts in or upload files.

28. Plagiarism Detector

Plagiarism Detector is a great tool for educators who need to check texts written not only in English, but also in French, Italian, German, and other languages. A free account lets you paste texts of up to 1,000 words and there’s no need to create a free account for that.

29. QueText

QueText has one of the most intuitive and clean interfaces, which makes it much more pleasant and convenient to use when checking texts for plagiarism. The tool generates pretty insightful reports, thus making sure you know exactly what parts of texts students copied and from where. However, a free account allows only up to 2,500 words a month, so to use the tool often, you’ll need a paid plan.

Content Sources for Teachers

With the enormous amount of educational digital content on the web, teachers can make their lessons even more useful and enjoyable. However, it is crucial to find trustworthy websites that provide valuable content. Here are a few sources of digital content and remote teaching tools you might find helpful in the attempts to make students engaged.

Ted-Ed is a platform that enables you to create lessons. You can build a lesson around video content and create assignments to assess how well your student understands the material. You can also use ready-made video recordings from the specially curated “TED-Ed Originals” section that features classes made by educators around the world.

31. YouTube Teachers

YouTube Teachers is a YouTube channel that allows you to leverage educational videos to inspire and engage your students. It contains over 400 video playlists created by leading organizations and industry experts such as the Khan Academy, Ted-Ed, and PBS.

32. YouTube Edu

YouTube Edu is another educational YouTube channel that provides extensive playlists on various subjects, from physics and chemistry to filmmaking and public speaking.

33. Ted Talks

Ted Talks are videos from industry experts and innovators on science, tech, business, and education subtitled in over 100 languages. You can integrate Ted Talks into your lessons to spark creativity and innovation in the minds of your students

34. TeacherTube

TeacherTube is a free resource for teachers where they can share video lectures and other materials. You can upload your video tutorials and attach learning activities, assessments, and lesson notes to your videos. You can also browse other teachers’ content and connect with educators with similar interests.

Also read →  The Ultimate Guide to Lecture Capture: How to Get It Right

35. SchoolTube

SchoolTube is a K-12 free video hosting platform that helps you integrate video content relating to subjects or concepts into your lessons without YouTube. The Free plan provides you with unlimited video hosting, video and audio creation apps, unlimited shareable playlists, automatic closed captioning, and a video quiz app.

36. Google Books

Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that provides access to unlimited books, documents, and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text, and stored in its digital database. You can save, bookmark, or download books relating to the concepts you want to teach in class.

37. Readworks

Readworks helps students from elementary school to high school build their background knowledge and enhance their literacy skills. As a teacher, you can create reading groups based on their abilities and interests, monitor reading comprehension, and assign extra-credit tasks for students as they complete reading assignments.

38. Bibsonomy

Bibsonomy is an easy-to-use tool that helps you manage your publications and bookmarks, collaborate with your colleagues, and find new interesting teaching materials for your research. You can tag publication entries and bookmarks to facilitate information searches.

39. Project Gutenberg

Gutenberg is a digital library with over 60,000 free ebooks that you can download or read online. Here you’ll find the world’s quality literature, with a focus on older works in the public domain.

40. Gapminder

Gapminder is a fact tank of animated statistics. The tech platform provides posters, interactive presentations, graphs, and handouts on global facts that can supplement your teaching materials.

Also read  → Best Interactive Tools for Presentations

Audio-Visual Design Tools

Audio-visual content is an effective asset for achieving your teaching-learning objectives. If you want to save time creating graphics, animation, or videos, or don’t have the requisite skills to work on advanced photo and video editing platforms like CorelDRAW and Photoshop, leverage easy-to-use online teaching tools from the list. The exciting thing is you can access them all for free.

Pixlr is a free graphic design software that provides you with full control over your pictures. You can add filters, borders, and perform basic image editing by using over 3000 overlays, 5,000 decorative texts, and 7,000 icons.

42. Animoto

Animoto is a free online video editor that enables you to convert photos and videos into slideshows. You can create your own presentation or just drag and drop your pictures and video clips into a pre-built presentation template to create stunning slideshows that can be used as visual aids for virtual classroom learning.

43. Pic-Lits

Pic-Lits is an eLearning literacy website that uses writing and photography to inspire and spark creative writing ideas. You can create so-called “pic-lits” that are combinations of words placed on a photograph to render some story or the meaning of the picture and share them on your interactive whiteboard during a grammar lesson.

Gickr is one of the free online tools that lets you instantly create animated GIFs. You just need to upload your pictures or grab images from Flickr to make flashy slideshows, cartoons, or banners.

45. Smilebox

Smilebox is one of the web tools for teachers that enables them to create slideshows, collages, greetings, invitations, photo albums, and scrapbooks. For example, as a teacher, you can make newsletters for your student, parent letters, certificates, and school photo albums and share them online.

Pixton is a cartoon creation platform that can help you guide your students on creating comic strips to represent their understanding of concepts. It has numerous characters, different sets of comic strip layouts, and background options your student can use to design comics and storyboards.

47. Chartsbin

Chartsbin  is one of the online teaching tools designed for data visualization and used by teachers to introduce various topics with infographics and diagrams. You can also leverage the software to guide your students on creating infographics from the learning material they have learned to show their mastery of the subject.

48. Tableau Public

Tableau Public is a great free tool for data visualization  that enables teachers to create interactive graphs, stunning maps, and live dashboards in minutes. You can use it to manage in-class exercises and homework assignments and connect with a vibrant community of data enthusiasts.

49. Roxio Photoshow Maker

Roxio Photoshow Maker  is a free online tool that allows you to combine images, video clips, and soundtracks to create presentations (slide stories). You can make them look even more professional and engaging by adding captions, effects, and transitions.

50. Ezvid Wikimaker

Ezvid  is a free video creator powered by quality voice synthesis. It was initially designed to allow researchers and journalists to turn text into video wikis. But you can create video tutorials with images and video clips. You don’t even need to record a voiceover – when you add text, it will be automatically transformed into narration.

51. Free Cam

Free Cam provides a full set of features that allows you to create presentations and professional video lessons. You can easily record screencasts , edit recorded videos, and upload to YouTube or email them to your students.

52. MakeBeliefsComix

MakeBeliefsComix is an in-browser comic creator that provides you with multiple ways to use it in a virtual classroom environment. For example, you can have your student create comic strips to practice new vocabulary, develop conversation skills, or inspire creative writing.

53. Vocaroo

Vocaroo is a free online tool that helps teachers record, send, and download voice notes. You can use it for podcasting, broadcasting, digital storytelling, or giving feedback. Recordings are available for a few months (usually three months).

Communication and Collaboration Tools

Communication and collaboration are important aspects of both teaching and learning. We’ve compiled a list of online teaching platforms that will help you make this process even easier and more efficient. Here you’ll find teaching communities, tools for sharing educational resources and tips, video conferencing software, and apps for conducting online discussions and working on group projects that many students love.

Flip is an online collaboration platform that provides a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for Pre-K to PhD educators, kids, students and parents. As a teacher, you can create digital whiteboards or discussion topics and share them with your students. In response, they can record and share their videos with you and other students.

55. Teacheroo

Teacheroo is the only global social network designed specifically for teachers. You can post your resources and educational tips, comment, like, repost other teachers’ learning material, and build professional connections.

Ziplet enables you to gather feedback from your students in real-time. You can type in your questions or pick ones from a library of best practice questions. Students will receive notifications and can reply instantly.

57. Teach Learn Lead

Teach Learn Lead is a community dedicated to supporting, encouraging, and connecting new teachers as they navigate their early careers in the classrooms. It includes the global education library that is a curated epicenter of K-20 research and professional development resources.

58. Google Docs

Google Docs is a free word processor included as part of a Google Docs suite within the Google Drive service. It enables you to create and edit your own documents, check your students’ writings, and add comments to provide them with feedback.

Bloomz is an interactive app that enables a teacher or a school to share classroom updates, events, and photos with parents securely. You can send an alert notification of the next parent-teacher meeting to emails and smartphones with a single click.

1. How many types of teaching tools are there?

While there are many different teaching tools, all with their own unique advantages and applications for teachers and students, we can categorize them in order to better help teachers choose the one that’s right for their needs. We organized our list into 7 categories, which are:

• Tools for building interactive lessons
• Teaching tools for classroom management
• Lesson planning tools
• Test and exam makers
• Plagiarism checkers
• Content sources for teachers
• Communication and collaboration tools

2. Why are teaching tools needed in education?

Teaching, just like any profession or task, can benefit enormously from the use of the right set of tech tools. A teacher can share their knowledge with the students, but software can allow a teacher to create memorable experiences, dynamic lessons, engaging classroom activities, and effective assessments — all things that we know can massively benefit students’ learning potential. 

Just as in every industry, new solutions are developed to improve and, in some cases, revolutionize the way we approach tasks. There is an abundance of innovative teacher tools available nowadays, so don’t let your teaching approach become outdated, and don’t let your students miss out on the newest enhancements.

3. What is the most commonly used teaching aid?

Well, it depends. In simple terms, the answer is probably pen/pencil and paper, or perhaps the whiteboard (or blackboard). All of these are simple teacher aids that help a teacher share ideas. However, if we focus on more modern, online, or digital aids, computers come to mind. In the arena of informatics, the internet is probably the most commonly used teacher aid there is.

Another way to approach this question is to answer with visual aids in mind. Visual aids are some of the most commonly used aids for teachers wanting to engage their students, but don’t get caught up in what everyone else is using. The key to finding the right tools for your needs is exactly that — the right tools for you.

This depends on your needs and those of your students. Whether you require a video conferencing software to run your online sessions, a handy tool for planning lessons, support for finding ideas, or ways to design classroom materials, we trust that you will have found the right tool from this list.

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Former science teacher reunites with students for solar eclipse after 46 years

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHAM) - A former science teacher played host to more than 100 people during Monday’s solar eclipse 46 years after he promised his students they would reunite for the event.

Patrick Moriarty was a 22-year-old teacher in 1978 when he first promised his students they would reunite for the 2024 total solar eclipse. For the next 16 years, he invited every earth science class he taught in New York’s Webster Central School District.

“I said to the kids, ‘Hey, why don’t you just go ahead and circle that eclipse? And we’ll get together,’” Moriarty said.

More than 100 people showed up to Moriarty’s eclipse gathering Monday. The former teacher, now 68, says he created a Facebook page to spread the word, but a lot of students remembered his promise from class.

“It’s not about the eclipse. It’s about you guys being here to share this time with my family, me and each other,” Moriarty said.

Kevin Thompson and Chuck O’Brien were in Moriarty’s class together back in 1982. They say they are grateful their former teacher kept his promise to reunite.

“Definitely the longest homework assignment in the history of any teacher,” Thompson said.

“He wasn’t just a great teacher. He was an inspirational teacher,” O’Brien said.

Another 1982 student, Nick Stathis, drove five hours to attend the gathering. He says Moriarty inspired him to become an earth science teacher.

“It’s a tribute to both the eclipse but also the power of teaching. Both Mr. and Mrs. Moriarty affected a lot of people,” Stathis said.

While clouds covered the view of the eclipse in Rochester, the group took joy in being together again for the once-in-a-lifetime event.

“Everybody got so quiet and just let the environment around them take over, and it just seemed very magical,” Moriarty said. “It’s not about the eclipse anymore to me. It’s all about the reunions.”

Now, Moriarty is joking that maybe he’ll plan another reunion for the 2044 eclipse in Wisconsin. He will be 88 years old by the time it rolls around.

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