Bakpax
Bakpax uses AI to read handwriting and grade assignments in seconds. With Bakpax, you can create and distribute work to your students. When students complete and upload their assignments on their devices, Bakpax will auto-grade them. As an educator, you can easily import or create/customize assignments and assign work, see what students completed correctly/what needs reteaching and easily track student progress with detailed reports. Students can easily see what work needs to be completed by what date, easily complete and submit assignments, and get instant feedback. Students can complete assignments online, by completing on paper and taking a picture of their completed assignment, or download and edit a PDF. Free Services Offered: Free access to Bakpax indefinitely.
Buncee
Buncee is an online platform to assist with remote student learning and communication. With Buncee you can create virtual lessons and assignments, have students virtually respond and reflect, share class lessons/learning resources, keep the discussion going, and share updates with your families. Buncee is COPPA certified. Free Services Offered: Free Buncee Classroom Plus accounts during the period of your closure.
Cisco Webex
CISCO Webex is a platform that assists you in teaching virtually. You can plan and teach your classes while keeping students engaged. Your free Webex Meetings plan gives you meetings with up to 100 participants, HD video, screen sharing, and a personal room. Free Services Offered: Free Webex Meetings plan.
ClassDojo
ClassDojo is an online communications tool that has everything you need to stay connected with students and families. As an educator you can send direct messages to families, share lessons/announcements, and assign classwork to students. You can share activities that students can respond to from home via video, photo, journal entry, or drawing. Free Services Offered: Always free for teachers.
Classwize
Classwize is a cloud classroom management tool that offers screen visibility and content control for all devices. Classwize also offers messaging capabilities and tab focus control on school-issued or personal devices. With Classwize, teachers can still maintain a level of control even through their students are offsite. Free Resources Offered: Free Access
Edmodo
Edmodo is a free distance learning toolkit. Send messages, share class materials, and make learning accessible anywhere. Families can receive class updates, support the learning that is taking place at home, see classroom activity, and monitor their child’s grades all from within the platform. Free Services Offered: Always Free.
Floop
Floop was designed to support the way you work and teach. Students can submit photos of their work, in addition to PDF and Google docs, sheets, and slides and you can facilitate feedback on a variety of assignments. As a teacher, once a student had submitted work, you can add comments, questions, and next steps anywhere on the page. You can set office hours and have students be online at the same time to have conversations through the app. Floop also supports peer review through an anonymous system (no names are involved) and provides coaching for students with scaffolded questions and sentence starters. Students can take all the feedback they have received and review their work to resubmit it. Free Services Offered: Free access through the end of the school year.
Gynzy
Gynzy is an all-in-one educational software that combines standards-aligned lessons, bite-sized games & activities, and class management tools to unlock the potential of your Interactive Whiteboard. A web-conferencing app allows teachers to present lessons to students in a way that is interactive. Certain apps even allow teachers to give control of the presentation to students. Teachers can also create and share their own lesson plans (or access pre-made lessons) so students can access the materials flexibly. Free Services Offered: Free school-wide access to Gynzy until the end of the 2020 school year.
G Suite
G Suite for Education allows educators to facilitate learning, keep track of tasks, and create opportunities for critical thinking. Google is giving all current customers free access to advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities. This allows for larger meetings (up to 250 participants), live streaming for up to 100,000 viewers, and the ability to record meetings and save them in Drive. Free Services Offered: Advanced Hangouts Meets video-conferencing for existing customers.
Follow the instructions that were sent to G Suite Admins or visit the learning center page.
Hāpara:
Hāpara is a digital instructional suite that helps teachers with virtual classroom management. When using Hāpara to provide instruction, your students see what you see. The platform gives you the ability to monitor the webpages that your students have open during the session, share files and assignments directly to student Drive folders, and co-teach all in one workspace. Free Services Offered: Free access until the end of June 2020.
Kami
Kami is a remote learning platform that integrates with Google Classroom, Schoology, and Canvas. The platform gives you interactive tools (such as the ability to provide text, voice, or video feedback to your students), real-time interventions, in-app assignment submission, and a built-in grading feature. Kami can even be used offline! Once a file has been opened you can work on it knowing that Kami will save your pending changes and upload them once you are back online. Free Services Offered: School-wide license activated until April 30th (with the option to extend as long as your school is closed).
Neo
Neo is a learning management system (LMS) that makes it easy to create and manage all learning activities such as building online classes, assessing students, enhancing collaboration, or tracking achievement. The platform supports competency-based learning that allows you to track student progress. You can create interactive assignments and utilize the gradebook that is built in for fast grading. Features within the platform can be enabled or disabled to fit the needs of your students. Free Services Offered: Neo is free for schools with up to 400 students, premium support for 14 days while you set up the site, and unlimited teacher/admin accounts
Visit the website and click the “Free plan” button in the top right of the screen.
Start.me
Start.me enables teachers to create an easy start hub for their classroom. This start hub makes it easy for students to stay organized and access all their educational resources and tools from home. You can share your pages securely with students, parents, and teachers. You build your start pages with links to lesson plans, education apps, games and other online resources. There is the option to embed news feeds, sticky notes or other inspirational videos. Free Resources Offered: Teachers PRO accounts are free for the rest of 2020.
Zoom
Zoom is a video conferencing platform that allows for both video and audio conferencing. For students who don’t have access to computers at home, but do have a phone, they can call in to join the meeting! Zoom’s free license allows you to have an unlimited number of video meetings that up to 100 students can join. There is also a chat feature that would allow your students to ask you questions while you are presenting. *Be sure to check to see if Zoom meets security & confidentiality requirements for your school/district* Free Services Offered: Free License.
Nearpod
Nearpod is an online platform that allows you to create interactive lessons in minutes. You can choose to import existing lessons, add in virtual field trips, create quizzes and polls, and even use matching pairs activities. Nearpod can also add these features to your presentations in Google Slides. As the teacher, you can synchronize and control the lessons across all student devices, evaluate student responses (individually or as a class), generate post-session reports, and even create game-based learning opportunities for your students! Free Services Offered: Free Access to Nearpod.
Fill out this form by clicking the ‘Request Support’ button in the middle of the page.
BoomWriter
BoomWriter is a free writing app that helps teachers inspire and engage students in writing. BoomWriter offers a variety of tools, features, and resources that lets teachers conduct fiction, nonfiction, and vocabulary-focused writing assignments. BoomWriter inspires students to write on any subject and integrates easily with existing curriculum. Try it for ELA, Social Studies/History, Science, and even Math. Plus, parents and families can purchase published copies of the books and writing journals created on the site and student work can be stored in their digital portfolio. Free Resources Offered: Always Free
Epic!
Epic! is the leading digital library for kids 12 and under, and it is free for educators. With Epic! you instantly get access to 35,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes, & more. The books have a feature that will read aloud the story to your students. Free Services Offered: Always Free for Teachers.
Global Digital Library
The Global Digital Library collects existing high quality open educational reading resources, and makes them available on the web, mobile, and for print. Resources are currently offered in 43 languages with a goal to provide 100 languages by the end of 2020. The platform will also translate the resources to over 300 languages. Free Services Offered: Always Free!
K12 – Big Universe
High-interest literature is critical to sparking a student’s love for reading, especially in the formative years. With Big Universe, you can access 17,000+ leveled eBooks and balanced literacy tools available 24/7 on any device. This interactive program has engaging reading practice opportunities, such as read alouds, guided reading, interactive writing, writing workshops, and reading workshops. Free Services Offered: Free Access to Big Universe
Learning A-Z
The Learning A-Z platform has two programs that are being offered to teachers for free. Raz-Kids is a digital library of leveled books and quizzes for interactive reading practice. Headsprout is an online reading program that adapts to the needs of each student as they progress through the program. Free Resources Offered: Free trial subscription provides 90 days of unlimited access to one or both.
LightSail
LightSail is an adaptive reading experience. The LightSail library is free to schools and contains texts for students from grades K-12 written across a wide range of Lexile measures. These texts are embedded with assessments, which allows progress monitoring and tracking of achievements. LightSail starts with an initial adaptive assessment and then creates personalized libraries for each student that adapt and grow. Free Services Offered: Complimentary Literacy Platform Access
Complete the form and you will hear back from the LightSail Team.
Conjugemos
Teach the verbs, vocabulary, and grammar of Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Korean, and Latin through fun activities and games. This platform has engaging activities for practice and quizzes built right in. The free account will store up to 25 grades in their powerful and easy-to-use gradebook. Free Services Offered: Free accounts for teachers (unlimited access to public activities, up to 5 teacher-created activities, 25 stored grades) and students.
Mango
Mango is a digital foreign language curriculum that can be accessed via desktop and mobile apps, even if you are offline! Seamless integration features in the platform help you organize your class and as a teacher you have immediate, reliable time-on-task monitoring. Mango integrates with multiple online platforms, including Clever. You will find content created for over 70 world languages – including Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, German, Arabic, and English. Free Services Offered: Full access through the end of the 2019-2020 school year.
Didax
Didax has a whole host of virtual manipulatives available online to enhance at-home learning. If you want to use any of the tools within your online learning platform, the tools can be embedded using the iframe command. You can download the iframe texts for each of the tools by following the link on their website. Free Services Offered: Always Free!
Free Math
Free Math is an online platform that allows students to show their work step-by-step for your to review. Students create their assignments directly from problems in your assigned materials. As a teacher, you can simultaneously review all assignments and analytics show where students struggled. Free Math integrates with Google Classroom, Canvas, Blackboard, and more. Free Services Offered: Always Free!
Prodigy
Prodigy is an engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform for students and teachers from 1st – 8th grade. The platform encourages self-paced math practice for both in and out of school that is leveled based on your students progress. Prodigy meets ESSA Tier 3 in partnership with John Hopkins University. Your students can work through topics based on their levels or you can assign specific skills for them to complete; all while they think they are playing a game! State test prep is also available to assign. Free Services Offered: Always Free.
StudyForge
StudyForge is an online learning tool with 4000+ meticulously crafted videos and tools that make you more proactive. It is a complete math curriculum that includes instruction, practice and assessment. StudyForge integrates with multiple LMS including canvas, blackboard, schoolology, and more. Free Services Offered: Instructional and practice content for the duration of the school year.
Certell
Certell is a collection of forever free social studies content that is created by teachers, for teachers. It is trusted, standards-based, media rich, digitally delivered content at your fingertips across any device. They over everything you need to teach a subject, digitally accessible in one place for economics, government, and American history. Free Services Offered: Free Social Studies Content
Read to Know
Read to Know is a weekly current events-based program. It presents engaging and important stories from around the world in a newsmagazine format. Each story is presented with background information that enhances learning across the curriculum. Students learn geography, history, civics, arts and culture, and science in the context of news stories. Read to Know can be used by individual students, family study sessions, and in online group settings. The program provides new and culturally relevant content every week. Regular use of this resource builds background knowledge (a critical element of literacy), vocabulary, reading fluency, and critical thinking. Free Services Offered: Free access for the rest of the school year.
Alchemie
The Mechanisms App is the first and only tool available for organic chemistry that allows students to learn and practice reaction mechanisms by moving and manipulating individual bonds and electrons. The Epiphany dashboard solution gives you cloud-sharing and real-time feedback to support your students. Free Services Offered: Free full access to the Mechanisms app for schools affected by COVID19
Full Steam Ahead
MIT has created Full STEAM Ahead, a website to help educators teach online. They have created K-12 Learning Packages are a set of resources designed around a theme to inform, inspire, and activate the minds of learners from elementary through high school. Each package has activities broken down into K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. The packages are available on the site, but contain a combination of materials that can be used offline and online. Free Services Offered: Weekly STEAM packages released every Monday Starting March 23.
STEM from the START
STEM from the START is a curriculum resource for teaching STEM content to PreK-2 students. Blending animated adventures with guided activities, these free lessons are engaging, effective, easy to prepare and aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. Discovery Breaks are questions posed directly to students where the video is designed to be paused to engage and explore with activities found in the Discovery Guide. Free Services Offered: Always Free!
Age of Learning – ABCmouse, Adventure Academy, ReadingIQ
ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy is a comprehensive, research-validated curriculum for preschool through second grade, available on all major digital platforms and used by tens of millions of children to date. Adventure Academy is a first-of-its-kind educational massive multiplayer online game, serving elementary and middle-school aged children with thousands of learning activities in a fun and safe virtual world. ReadingIQ is a digital library and literacy platform for children 12 and under designed by reading experts to improve literacy skills, with many thousands of expert-curated books from leading publishers. Free Services Offered: Free Full Access.