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iPad apps - support tools
Learner management systems: Planning/Assessment/Records
Student behaviour
Teacher/Student response tools
Mindmapping
IT support
Teacher organisational tools
Student tools
Student behaviour
Teacher/Student response tools
Mindmapping
IT support
Teacher organisational tools
Student tools
Learner management systems (LMS) |
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Edmodo enables students to get quick answers to questions and stay up to date on class assignments and events via the student planner and discussion threads. The planner also helps them to manage deadlines. Teachers can upload assignment tasks, monitor student progress and personalize the learning or simply use the app to post a warm-up question, and take a poll to quickly assess student understanding. Edmodo supports a paperless classroom by enabling the digital collection, grading, and return of student assignments. One point of difference with other LMS apps is the ability to communicate with parents via a dedicated parent app. |
Free |
All |
5 |
Easy (Facebooklike style that students are familiar with) |
The Schoology app allows teachers and students to stay connected 24/7 to their learning management system. Assignments can be assigned, submitted, graded, and returned on the go. Also teachers can create messages, task lists, and keep everyone informed. Students can view assignments, collaborate with their peers, and get assistance on a variety of mobile devices. |
Free |
All |
5 |
Easy |
Nearpod enables teachers to create multimedia presentations with interactive features using the cloud based content tools. They share this content with students in the classroom and control the activity with the Nearpod app. Students receive content and submit responses straight away on their mobile devices. Teachers monitor classroom activity and measure student results.They can see all student activity in real-time, check attendance and identify students who log out from Nearpod. The upgrades give access to more features such increased number of students per session, more storage and ability to share slideshows with others. |
Free + premium subscription- $119.99 per year |
All |
5 |
Easy |
Using Showbie, students can share pictures, video, podcasts, presentations and other work. Teachers can review student work and provide feedback with document mark ups and voice recordings. Teachers can also use it with other educators to moderate student work. |
Free - Additional features with an annual fee - $229.99 |
All |
5 |
Easy |
Imvoto Learn is an online tool that enables teachers to create assessment masters (ie collections of questions) mapped to their curriculum. Teachers can create questions from scratch or discover and re-use other teachers' questions. Assessments can be assigned to nominated groups or to individual students (so you can personalize the learning!). When your students log in to the Imvoto Learn app they will see the title of the assessment they need to work on. As students work their way through the assessment, teachers can use the questions screen to get an overview of how they are getting on. They are also able to look in detail at the responses of individual students to each of the questions. |
Free |
All |
4 |
Easy |
MasteryConnect has both teacher and student app versions. It enables teachers to easily create and upload an assessment/assignment in any format (Word, PDF, etc), assess and track student mastery of assessments, and connect in an online professional learning community. The app is referenced to American core standards. |
Free for basics, annual fee to access all features |
Teachers and secondary students |
4 |
Easy |
Student Behaviour |
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ClassDojo helps teachers to improve student behaviour in their classrooms quickly and easily. It captures and generates data on behaviour that can be shared. Teachers can use this app to give students real-time feedback on their behaviour while in class – if they display the ClassDojo website on an interactive whiteboard the app syncs with it straight away. Teachers can set up their classes either through the app or online at the ClassDojo website and then use the app on their mobile phone or iPad to record behaviours as they are moving around the classroom. One great feature of this tool is that teachers can customize the positive and negative behaviours they are focusing on. They can also send a parent code to parents so that they can see their child’s progress. Check out this series of YouTube videos that demonstrate some of the features of ClassDojo. |
Free |
Primary & junior secondary students |
5 |
Easy |
TeacherKit is a personal organizer for teachers. It enables them to organize classes; they can create a seating chart, record attendance, log behavior, and track grades all with few taps. The app can be used to email both students and their parents. TeacherKit lifts the headache of routine administration, allowing them to focus on what really matters – teaching. |
Free - $39.99 annual fee for additional features |
Teachers |
5 |
Easy |
Teacher/student response tools |
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With Socrative here are separate teacher and student versions of this app. The teacher asks questions (true/false, yes/no, quizzes etc), students respond with any handheld device. The teacher sees the results on their screen. Click here for a teacher review of this app. Click here for for an Edudemic post on suggested uses of tools such as Socrative in the classroom. |
Free |
All |
5 |
Easy |
Mindmapping |
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With Popplet you can capture your ideas, sort them visually in realtime & email them to friends. With the paid version you can create an unlimited number of online popplets, which can be shared with and edited by other Popplet users, both on the web at popplet.com and on their iPads. Free for Popplet Lite version but limited to one Popplet. $4.99 for the standard app |
Free for Lite version $7.99 standard |
All |
5 |
Easy |
SimpleMind+ is a fully featured mind mapping tool that turns your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a brainstorming, idea collection and thought structuring device. |
Free (full features for $10.99) |
Teachers & secondary students |
5 |
Easy |
App locator |
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Free |
All |
5 |
Easy |
Teacher organisational tools |
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You can install Dropbox on your home and work computer, iPhone, iPad etc and any file you save to Dropbox will be automatically saved to all your devices. Use it to: keep a backup of your work; access your files from anywhere; update files on the run and share certain files with colleagues. |
Free |
Teacher and Secondary students |
4 |
Medium |
Box is a great alternative to Dropbox for file storage and sharing. You can create public and private shared folders to which you can send files that you want others to access. One difference to Dropbox is that you get get an email notification when someone has accessed the files. Box on the iPad offers the same features as Box on the web. The iOS app will sync with your online Box account so that you can access your files whenever and wherever you connect to the web. Creating a Box folder that you share with your students could be a great way to distribute content from your iPad to theirs. Whenever you update the folder you students can receive the newest files by just opening the Box app on their iPads. Check out this YouTube video which shows you how Box works. Free Teacher and Secondary students 4 Medium |
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Use FlickStackr Explore to browse and discover photos in the Flickr universe. Full screen photo browser that lets you swipe through photos and zoom by pinching. (Landscape and Portrait). Free (number of photos you can view at full screen mode is limited). $1.99 for additional functionality. Teachers and all levels |
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PhotoSync enables an easy transfer of photos and videos to or from computers and ios devices. When transferring photos to computers you will also require the free download file. $1.99 Teachers and all levels 4 Easy |
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CamScanner+ turns an iPhone/iPad into a personal scanner and fax. The app automatically corrects the perspective and you can enhance the image with a range of inbuilt tools. Export the final image as a PDF or JPEG and open in a range of readers or email, send to Evernote & Dropbox etc. Use it to: file information relating to each of your students. Create a tag with each of their names and under each tag save the documents that you have scanned. $4.49 (extra costs if used as a fax machine) Teachers 5 Easy |
Student tools |
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inClass enables students to take and keep track of the notes they record in all of their courses. They can organize notebooks for each of their courses within which they can include typed notes, audio notes, video notes, and pictures. The ability to store those four types of notes is what makes inClass particularly versatile. |
Free |
Secondary |
5 |
Easy |
IN CLASS/SNAPGUIDE/MY HOMEWORK/TEACHER GUIDE/GO CLASS/SIGN UP/SANDBOX/iTEACHER BOOK/TT ONE/GRADER/CAMPUS/STICK PICK/
