Not only are apps to organize the classes and make them different, but they are programs to improve your day-to-day as a teacher in general.
Apps for classes more interactive
One of the demands most common of pupils and parents are some of the classes more interactive, to get out of the monotoneidad in which is sealed a large part of the faculty, also caused by the lack of tools. For that we are us, you to offer the alternatives that exist in the mobile platform and that many are unaware of.
Kahoot!
An app with which we can create fun questionnaires, with questions timed and a number of responses that we have already created above. For use in class, only you will need a password to connect to the same room, and from the projector, it will show the questions and the answers. Students use their smartphone, by choosing the color corresponding to the question that created correct. In addition, establishes a ranking with the user with most answers have been right, and less time needed.
Nearpod
The alternative if we’ve already used Kahoot. In place of quizzes, this app offers to create interactive presentationswith pictures, videos, and questions to ask. Subsequently, such presentation can share the teacher with the students, so that they participate in the development of the class and to be able to edit live such a presentation, as well as respond to questions raised.
Quiver Education
The app’s most interactive of all. Yes, it’s not going to come out for free to acquire it, as it costs around 5 euros. It is a program to play with the augmented realitythrough the camera of the terminal. We chose a template for coloring, and when it is ready, the app will do the rest to recreate that drawing in a 3D animation.
Apps for better communication of teachers
A field in which much remains to be improved is the communication between teachers and students, or with parents in their absence. Not only to transmit the task completion or change the date of an exam, but to achieve a greater closeness between the two parties, in a more secure environment that offers WhatsApp or Telegram.
Edmodo
A tool that is used to send tasks, practices, or guidelines to the students in a simple and fast way, as well as answer questions that students have, or are plan your time. If it is necessary to contact with the parents, it is also possible to do so. In addition, it serves as a resource for teachers in search for new ideas and initiatives for their classes.
The Remind
Is an app of messaging in every rule. It is possible to send message both individually and as a group, as well as check who has seen the message of the teacher or who is not. It can be a very useful resource to send reminders or assessments about the different subjects and by group. Safety is the biggest advantage of this program, because phone numbers are kept confidential.
Google Classroom
The Mountain View also want to explore the field of teaching with this app. In addition, it does so with all the advantages of the services G Suite, with all that that implies. It is a complete virtual class, offering all the tasks that you can perform in the classroom, but without leaving home. In this way, the porfesores can upload content on the subject, and sort so that all pupils can access easily, as well as tasks to perform or assessments. On the other hand, students can send their results to the same platform.
Apps to collaborate on tasks
A resource that is experiencing a resource ascending is the platform for that student and professor working in the same space. The student uploads their homework or research work, and the teacher makes the necessary corrections, corrections that you can see the student live.
Google documents
We’re back with a product from the big G. This platform has the objective of share content between multiple users, which will be able to edit those files, and that the rest will see immediately. In this way, it is a great resource used frequently by the teacher, to make modifications in work or projects that presented the students.
Box
This alternative to Google offers free storage of up to 10 GB and great security in the sending of files, with security controls and encryption. The operation is similar, it is possible to categorize the jobs of the subjects in folders for better accessibility, and an editor to make corrections in the same, both online and offline. Then, with the internet connection, the synchronization of the app will do the rest.
Apps to check plagiarism
You have to be very unpleasant encounter with this type of situations, especially with students with the teachers to establish a relationship pretty close, at least for a few months. Unfortunately, that should not be enough, and with the use of new technologies, further work is required to avoid the copies and plagiarism in assignments.
Checker Plagiarism
Please find attached a text file to the app, which through its database you can analyze whether the text has been copied as is from the internet. That way, shown by percentages the parts have been plagiarized, with details such as the source from which it is inspired. In addition, it provides a report with all detailed in order to have a justification more formal as a test.
Skandy
With an operation similar to the app above, you can discover the plagiarism in the assignments. Provides an analysis in percentage, to differentiate the content that has been plagiarized and is original to the student, as well as a detailed summary that can be shared to see the student or the parents of the same. Unfortunately, their algorithm only reaches for the plagiarism on the internet, does not detect plagiarism among students.
