Interactive Learning Tools

There are many resources available to add to the digital learning space you have created for your students.

There are options for interactive lessons, through which students are able to watch videos and respond to questions to check for understanding. They provide immediate data and feedback to students and often have different question types and content that can be included to promote student learning. 

1. Edpuzzle is an interactive video lesson website.

• The teacher creates a free account. They assign their students to their Edpuzzle classroom with a code, link or through Google Classroom. 
• Read the instructions for Edpuzzle at their Help Center. These are a must before you begin using the website with your students. 
• The teacher selects a video from the available collection or uploads their own to the site.
• The teacher adds multiple choice or open-ended quiz questions throughout the video.
• The teacher can also add comments about content, give instructions or add an interesting fact. 
• There are instructions for whitelisting Edpuzzle so that students are able to get to YouTube content only through EdPuzzle. 

2. Playposit is also an interactive video lesson website, but is slightly different than Edpuzzle. The premise of Edpuzzle is to use video and add comments and quiz questions and is very basic. Playposit goes the next step and allows the teacher to take videos from a number of sources and edit them in Playposit. 

• The teacher creates a free or premium account. 
• Instructions for Playposit can be found in their support section. 
• The teacher has to make a choice to have the students use an email/password, a Single Sign-on Service, or directly within the school Learning Management System (e.g, Schoology, Blackboard, PowerSchool, D2L, etc. )
• The teacher uploads a video and edits it if needed or streams a video in Playposit. 
• Interactivity is added to the video and it is called a BULB.
• Teachers can add Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Check All Apply, and a Discussion Forum. 
• Teachers can add a Polling Survey, Reflective Pause, and Website embed. 
• The BULBS can be monitored for student responses. 

Below are study tools that should be in every student's technology toolbox. If students are under the age of 13, parental permission has to be given before students can create accounts. Check your district Acceptable Use Policy to see if parents need to give permission for each site or if these websites are already covered. 

Engaging in self-assessment helps students develop self-reflective abilities. There are FREE assessment tools for teachers to use with students that provide instant feedback that also can be constructive in nature. These technology-enhanced assessments also show the teacher who is on track and who needs help so action can be taken to further growth. 

Edulastic	Go Formative
Students register with a code generated after the teacher creates an account.	Students register with a code generated after the teacher creates an account. Students over 13 years old can create their own Go Formative accounts and add themselves to the teacher's class with the code.
Google Classroom Integration	Google Classroom and Clever Integration
There are over 80,000 already aligned standards-based questions in an item bank in Edulastic or teachers can add their own questions.	There is a public library within Go Formative with 1000s of pre-made assessments or teachers can create their own. The pre-made ones can be edited to fit the teacher's needs.
Video, audio, images, web links, non-English characters, or advanced math symbols can be embedded into any question type.	Teachers can upload any pdf/document/google doc, click to add places for students to respond and edit any question details.
There is a built-in authoring tool to create drag-and-drop, multipart, passages, graphing and more.	Teachers can give feedback and easily score or auto-grade student work.
The FREE version will auto-grade the assessments and give the student and teacher instant data and reports.	There are reports to track student growth.
Help Center	Help Center
Premium version available	Premium version available

Students really enjoy game-based learning. Students grades K-12 are engaged when they interact together in class using game-based platforms that quiz the students. There are multiple FREE formative assessment tools that can be used to run checks for understanding or exit tickets. Students receive immediate feedback and it can also be constructive in nature if the teacher sets up the questions and answers with constructive feedback. 

1. Kahoot - Kahoot makes it easy to create, share and play fun learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Teachers create a FREE account and can select from Kahoots already created or create their own set of Kahoot multiple choice questions. Players answer the questions on their own devices, while games are displayed on a shared screen to unite the lesson. It is fun and engaging for the students as they compete with each other to be the first one to answer the question. It allows students who never raise their hand to answer questions via the computer. Here are instructions for using Kahoot in the classroom. 

2. Quizalize - Quizalize is very similar to Kahoot. Teachers create a FREE account and can choose from over 12,000 pre-made quizzes or create their own. The difference is students can do the quizzes on their own time. Here are the instructions. 

3. Quizizz - Quizizz is another choice, but it has a unique feature. There are MEMES that the teacher can choose from as fun and engaging feedback throughout the quiz. Here are the instructions. 

4. Socrative - Socrative is the least glamorous of the four, but it is still an excellent assessment tool. There is a large database of quizzes to choose from, but they are on a shared google sheet. For help using Socrative use these instructions. 

Here is an article that compares the four resources. It is from 2017 so a resource may change slightly as they are updated frequently.