Edge•U Badges

Screenshot Specialist

Taking a screenshot is simply taking a picture of what is on the screen of your device, either selecting a portion of it or the entire screen. Capturing screenshots is the perfect way to create unique images, save important information or student work, and develop engaging learning materials.

Incognito Anonymous

Incognito mode allows users to browse within Chrome without any of their browsing history, cookies and site data, or information entered in forms being saved. When using incognito mode, files that are downloaded and bookmarks that are created will be kept. Note: Some districts may have disabled incognito mode, but it would be available if logged into Chrome on a personal Google account.

Google Drive Sharing Superstar

The sharing permissions inside Google Drive provide a few different ways to share your files with collaborators, students, or even the wider public.

My First Badges

Edge・U is an online badging system that recognizes educators for demonstrated skills and competencies, making achievements visible and encouraging life-long learning.

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Edge・U is an online badging system that recognizes educators for demonstrated skills and competencies, making achievements visible and encouraging life-long learning.

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Edge・U is an online badging system that recognizes educators for demonstrated skills and competencies, making achievements visible and encouraging life-long learning.

Gmail Genius

Gmail is a core G Suite application that makes email easy, saves you time, and keeps your messages safe. Sending emails with Gmail is intuitive, efficient, and practical. Every Gmail account includes robust security features, organized inboxes, and personalized settings. Gmail can be accessed with a wide variety of internet-ready devices and it's widely viewed as one of the most popular email applications on the planet.

Google Calendar Clever

Google calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service that helps people organize their responsibilities. This free application makes it easy to track all of life's events (work, personal, family, etc) in one place and sync your calendars to multiple devices. Users can easily share calendars, create events and reminders, and send invitations to others.

Chrome Champion

Google Chrome is the most widely used internet browser. Did you know that you can sign into Chrome’s browser separately from individual programs, such as Gmail? Signing into Chrome will allow you to sync your bookmarks, extensions and more across devices, making it a seamless browsing experience.

Google Chromebook Training

Chromebooks are easy-to-use, fast, and secure computers. This makes them a favorite for teachers as it removes the technology hassles, letting you focus on teaching and learning. With Google Chromebook Training, learn how to best take advantage of these devices in your classroom, from basic use and customization to integrating Google tools and services.

Bookmark Brilliance

Bookmarks allow you to save and organize frequently visited websites in Chrome. With Chrome’s bookmark bar, you can organize bookmarks into folders and more to stay organized.

Extension Excellence

Chrome extensions extend the functionality of the web browser. From reading text on a page aloud to saving you money when you’re buying school supplies, Chrome extensions are versatile browser enhancements that are easy to install and use.

Google Drive Guru

Google Drive is a cloud storage and synchronization service. It is also the home for all things Google, including Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Drawings, Sites, Maps and more.

Incognito Anonymous

Google Docs: Level 1

Google Docs is a free online word processor that allows users to create, edit, and share documents with or without an internet connection. This online platform saves documents to connected Google Drive accounts and brings documents to life with easy formatting and styling tools. Plus, you can collaborate in real-time with others on your Google Documents!

Google Forms: Basic

Google Forms is a free online tool that collects and organizes information into spreadsheets and allows users to easily create surveys and quizzes. Users can share their forms with others, add media, and update their form on-the-go. Google Forms combine multiple question-types, real-time results, and auto-grading functionality enabling easy data collection. Google Forms are simple to create and have a variety of applications both in and outside of education.

Google Slides Star

Google Slides is an online presentation tool that allows users to create, edit, collaborate, and present slideshows wherever/whenever. Google Slides allows for real-time collaboration, provides professionally made templates and themes to choose from, and saves your work to the cloud for access anywhere.

Google Classroom Champ

Google Classroom is a learning management system that allows teachers to create, distribute, and grade assignments in a paperless fashion. Google Classroom is free and helps students and teachers communicate, collaborate, organize and manage assignments, go paperless, and much more!

Google Sheets Starter

View, create, edit and collaborate in real time on Spreadsheets using Google Sheets. Spreadsheets are a great way to organize information, track progress on projects, analyze data, calculate information, and so much more.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Student Centered Learning

Badges found in this collection will help you better design a student-centered classroom. In addition to including tools for student-centered learning, there are also tools that are great for students to create and showcase their learning. For additional tools beyond what you see in this curated collection, try searching ISTE Standard for Educator 5: Designer, ISTE Standard for Educator 6: Facilitator, ISTE Standard for Student 3: Knowledge Constructor or ISTE Standard for Student 6: Creative Communicator on the Explore Badges page.

HyperDocs Handy

HyperDocs are interactive digital lesson plans that combine links, resources, and activities into one central "document." These aren't just "digital worksheets;" HyperDocs transform the way content is delivered to students, which in turn, facilitates higher order thinking skills and new levels of collaboration. Even though HyperDocs can be created using a variety of tools, the resources and activities inside every HyperDoc should give students opportunities to critically think, connect, and create.

Flip Fanatic

Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a simple, free, and accessible video discussion experience for PreK to PhD educators, learners and families. Empower every voice with Flip. Create a Topic and engage your community...Flip combines an interactive social learning experience to encourage teachers and students to share their thoughts with others and stimulate discussion both in and outside of the classroom.

PearDeck Prodigy

PearDeck is a tool to make your Google Slides more engaging for students, encourage classroom discussions, collect formative assessment data, and get kids actively participating in your lesson.

EdPuzzle Expert

EdPuzzle is a free assessment-centered tool that allows teachers and students to create interactive online videos by embedding either open-ended or multiple-choice questions, voice over comments, or notes on a video. Edpuzzle videos can be made with videos from a number of websites, including YouTube, TED, Vimeo, and National Geographic.

EduBlogs Excellence

EduBlogs is a free blogging platform, designed for educators to provide a managed blogging platform for students. EduBlogs is completely cloud-based, so it requires no software to be installed. EduBlogs is built on the popular and powerful WordPress blogging platform.

Google Lit Trips

Google Lit Trips incorporates Google Earth technology to engage students in literature. According to their website, Google Lit Trips is "the use of Google Earth to create immersive 3D literary field trips where students virtually become traveling companions with characters in stories commonly taught in grades kindergarten through high school."

Book Creator Brilliant

Book Creator allows teachers to create powerful eBooks that include text, pictures, drawings, video, and audio - for free. Book Creator online allows teachers to maintain a 40-book library, which students can submit their own books to. The free iPad app permits a teacher to maintain one book for editing. The paid iPad app allows storing unlimited books for editing.

Nearpod Prodigy

Nearpod is a platform used to engage learners in the classroom. Teachers can create interactive lessons that can be used in the 1:1 classroom.

Incredibox Creator

Incredibox is an easy to use website that makes user creators of their own music! With the help of seven beat boxers, users can build their own tunes with a variety of sounds options to explore rhythm and melody. After they create the perfect mix, their sound can be recorded and shared with others.

Take The Google Out of Your Assessment

This badge will discuss practical ways you can alter assessments to confidently assess student learning...not the results of a Google search.

Grading Strategies That Make Sense

This badge was developed based on our “Move the Needle: Grading Strategies That Make Sense” webinar. We'll review the benefits of grading strategies like standards-based grading, peer-feedback, mastery, badging options, and more and discuss how you can implement similar strategies with your students!

PearDeck Prodigy

PearDeck is a tool to make your Google Slides more engaging for students, encourage classroom discussions, collect formative assessment data, and get kids actively participating in your lesson.

Google Forms: Quizzes

Google Forms is a free online tool that collects and organizes information into spreadsheets and allows users to easily create surveys and quizzes. The quizzes feature in Google Forms can grade form submissions, send emails with scores and feedback, and automatically generate charts to reflect the data. Google Forms combine multiple question-types, real-time results, and auto-grading functionality enabling easy data collection for a seamless assessment experience.

Mote Magic

Mote is a Chrome extension that allows teachers to leave audio comments on the majority of Google applications. Students are able to then listen to the audio comment the same as reading a written one by teachers.

Mote Certified Educator

Mote Certified Educator is an achievement to recognize educators who use Mote to advance student learning. Mote is a tool that allows educators to create voice comments through a Google Chrome extension. Mote integrates seamlessly with Google tools such as; Forms, Slides, Docs, and GMail. Mote can greatly improve the reach of teacher-to-student feedback, student-to-student feedback, and accessibility to instructions and digital learning tasks. Prior to this quest, make sure you have completed the Mote Magic badge to fully grasp this tool's capabilities! Earning the Mote Certified Educator certification will not only get you one step closer to the highest level of Mote certification, Mote Ambassador, it will also give you access to Mote's exclusive webinars, competitions, and community activities!

Kahoot Expert

Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, share and play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. Unleash the fun in classrooms, offices and living rooms! It can be played by the whole class in real-time or by individual students on their time as students answer multiple-choice questions that are projected on the screen to individuals or teams of students. Students answer the questions with their smartphone, tablet, or computer.

Quizizz Quest

Quizizz is a tech tool used for student-paced participation in quizzes and interactive lessons. Both quizzes and lessons can be completed in “live” or in “homework” mode. Students can use their smartphone, tablet or computer to participate and receive immediate feedback.

Socrative Superstar

Socrative is an online assessment platform which allows teachers to create, share and launch quizzes that their students can complete using their web platform or iOS app.

Quizlet: Basic

Quizlet is a digital learning tool that creates sets of study materials, converting the information into useful flashcards, quizzes, and games. The study materials can be shared with students, classmates, parents, and other teachers. Best of all, the tool is free for anyone to use, and the site contains over 100 million pre-made sets of study materials, many of which are suitable for classroom use.

EdPuzzle Expert

Nearpod Prodigy

Nearpod is a platform used to engage learners in the classroom. Teachers can create interactive lessons that can be used in the 1:1 classroom.

Chrome Extensions for Student Feedback

Chrome extensions extend the functionality of the web browser. Specific extensions, like Talk & Comment, allow teachers to give personalized feedback to their students efficiently and effectively. From using voice notes to custom canned comments, these extensions enhance the quality and quantity of feedback in the classroom. **NOTE: Currently Checkmark has been disabled in the Chrome web store, but Talk and Comment still works great as a feedback tool. We will update this badge once Checkmark has been restored.**

Screencast Superstar

A screencast is a digital recording of a computer or mobile device screen. Screencastify is a free Google Chrome Extension that allows you to quickly and easily record your desktop, laptop, or Chromebook screen. You can also use Screencastify to take a video using your webcam.

Bitmoji Buff

Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Create an expressive cartoon avatar and choose from a growing library of moods and stickers - featuring YOU! You can spice up presentations, use them as customized stickers and feedback for students, or in place of profile pictures. Note, you must have a smartphone to create a Bitmoji.

Autocrat Ace

Autocrat is a Google Sheets add-on merge tool that allows you to create Google Docs, Google Slides, or PDFs with Google Sheets data. It will also automatically share and email people with a copy of the merged document.

ClassDojo Clever

“ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages.” -ClassDojo.com This tool is available on a iOS device, Android device, Kindle Fire, or computer.

Read&Write Whiz

The free features of the Read&Write toolbar enable text-to-speech and a single-word language translator in Google Docs, and text-to-speech on websites with selectable text.

Diverse Learner Defender

This badge will provide educators with strategies, extensions, and add-ons that can be used to accommodate the diverse needs of all the students in their classes.

Chrome Extensions for Visual Impairments

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of supports for students with visual impairments right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent in all their academic endeavors with these tools.

Google Captions

Captions in Google applications are an important tool to provide assistance to students with trouble hearing. Captions provide audio to text abilities that allow students to read what is being said in a video or live session. Google Meet, Google Slides, and YouTube all have the ability to provide captions to enhance student learning.

Chrome Extensions for Easily Distracted Students

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of support for students who are easily distracted. These tools are quickly and easily found in their browsers and provide ways to keep them on task. Help your students become more focused with one or more of these extensions!

Chrome Extensions for Struggling Readers & Writers

There are many free Chrome extensions that offer a wide variety of literacy support for students right in their Chrome browser. Help your students become more independent readers and writers with these tools.

Read&Write Certification - Level 1

The Texthelp company has established a Level 1 and Level 2 certification for Read&Write users to show their expertise with the Read&Write tool (Windows, Mac, or Chrome) and how to implement it in the classroom to support students. To complete the Level 1 certification you must pass an online assessment that takes approximately 90 minutes.

Mote Magic

Mote Certified Educator

SAMR Samurai

SAMR, developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, is a framework to help teachers think about meaningful technology integration. It stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition.

The Four C Framework

The Four C standards, developed by the National Education Association, is a framework to help teachers to teach the 21st-century skills. It stands for Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.

Totally TIM

The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM), developed by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, is another framework for integrating technology effectively into the classroom. It’s sort of like SAMR on steroids and provides leveled technology integration (entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) for five different learning environments (active, collaborative, constructive, authentic, and goal-directed).

TPACK Terrific

TPACK is another framework for understanding technology integration. It stands for Technological, Pedagogical, And Content Knowledge.

Triple E Framework

The Triple E Framework, developed by Professor Liz Kolb, provides guidelines to effectively use technology in the classroom. The framework puts the focus on pedagogy rather than the tool. The three E’s for effective technology use are Enhance, Engage and Extend.

Vocab Veteran

Pear Deck Vocab Builder is an interactive vocabulary game where students work together to create digital vocab flashcards. The teacher inputs a vocabulary word and definition list and students are responsible for developing visual representations of each word and using the word correctly in a sentence. Students work in teams to compete against each other to create the best vocabulary cards. The teacher can then export those cards to Gimkit for students to access as a study tool.

Padlet Pro

Padlet is a free tool to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information on any topic. You can add images, links, video, and more. Walls can be private, open to the public, or moderated by you- meaning that you approve all contributions before they show.

Flip Fanatic

Google Jamboard

Google Jamboard is an interactive, collaborative whiteboard tool. Jamboard allows for real-time collaboration and integrates a variety of content like videos, photos or even other GSuite files. Note: This Badge does not require a physical Jamboard. We will be working with the web-based tool that can also be downloaded to mobile devices.

Google Sheets Starter

Google Docs: Level 1

Google Slides Star

Google Slides in Grades 2-5

Google Slides is an online presentation tool that allows users to create, edit, collaborate, and present slideshows wherever/whenever. Google Slides is immersed in features that allow even our youngest students to engage in opportunities to exercise creativity as they utilize the tool for a variety of classroom applications.

Google Sites Sage

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. With Google Sites, users can create their own website, update and personalize the site, share and collaborate with others, and preview and publish their site to the internet.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Inventiveness

This curated collection contains tools that will get your students thinking more creatively about designing solutions to real-world problems. To see more badges like this, try searching ISTE Standard for Student 3: Knowledge Constructor, ISTE Standard for Student 4: Innovative Designer, or ISTE Standard for Student 5: Computational Thinker on the Explore Badges page.

Green Screen - OBS

OBS (Open Broadcasting Software) brings powerful audio/video production capability to your Mac or PC. OBS is free, open-source software you can use to produce chroma key (“green screen”) effects. Using any connected camera and microphone along with any green background, you and your students can be creating professional-looking “on-location” videos from your classroom!

HyperDocs Handy

Scratch Smart

Scratch is a program where students can create interactive stories, and games to share with an online community. This program is geared towards students 8-16 years of age.

TinkerCAD Trained

Autodesk's TinkerCAD is a free 3D object design tool that works in your browser. Users can create 3D object models that can be shared in global galleries, or sent to your own 3D printer or a commercial production service.

Canva is a simple-to-use online design tool that enables users to create professional-grade digital graphics. Canva can be used to create a variety of images, including event flyers, resumes, cards, certificates, and infographics. This tool includes a variety of editing tools and allows teachers and students to teach/learn things visually.

Google Digital Citizenship and Safety Course

The Google for Education center offers a variety of free training courses for teachers and administrators. One course, Digital Citizenship and Safety, helps teachers and students learn how to stay safe online and equip students with the knowledge to manage their online behavior and become responsible digital citizens. This interactive course features lessons, videos, and quizzes and helps teachers earn a unique recognition badge for their efforts.

Common Sense Digital Guide

Common Sense Media is an online platform that aims to help students and teachers be successful in the digital classroom era. The Common Sense Media platform provides teachers, students and families with free materials to better prepare the future of digital learners through training, lifelong habits and skills, as well as helpful tips and tools that can be used not only at school but throughout a person's interaction with technology.

Cybersecurity: Social Engineering

Social Engineering is the subtle art of manipulation, influence, or deception in order to gain control over a process, system, or person. Social Engineering is often used by bad actors and scammers by phone, email, or even direct contact to gain illegal or unauthorized access to account information.

Cybersecurity: Password Management

Password management is a set of principles and best practices for storing and maintaining passwords in order to prevent hackers from gaining unauthorized access to our information.

ToDoist Tremendous

ToDoist is an all-in-one productivity website, application, and Chrome extension that allows users to create to-do lists, track projects, and schedule events. Best of all, you can use ToDoist to get the tasks you have in your head onto a digital to-do list that follows you anywhere you go! ToDoist is easy to use, and it's hard to imagine how you lived without it!

Gmail Genius

Gmail: Filter Fanatic

Filters are an available feature in gmail that allow you to automatically sort your incoming messages. You can create rules that tell Gmail how to manage your email for you, saving time and increasing efficiency for mail coming in while also organizing messages that are already in your inbox.

Google Calendar Clever

Chrome Champion

Bookmark Brilliance

Bookmarks allow you to save and organize frequently visited websites in Chrome. With Chrome’s bookmark bar, you can organize bookmarks into folders and more to stay organized.

Extension Excellence

Google Sheets Starter

Google Forms: Basic

Autocrat Ace

OneTab Terrific

One Tab is a chrome extension that allows you to save all your tabs as a list with one button click. It also saves most of the computer memory so your computer won’t get slowed down.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Remind Resource

Remind is a private mobile messaging tool that allows teachers, parents, students, and administrators to communicate with everyone at once. Even if you use your phone number to set up your account all of this information is kept private!

Form Ranger Forever

FormRanger allows you to auto-populate the choices in list, multiple choice, checkbox or grid question options from columns of data in any Google Sheets. Great for ensuring form choices match values in an existing database of records, such as students, inventory items, expected attendees, workshop or session titles, etc.

Screenshot Specialist

Gmail Genius

Chrome Champion

Extension Excellence

Bookmark Brilliance

Bookmarks allow you to save and organize frequently visited websites in Chrome. With Chrome’s bookmark bar, you can organize bookmarks into folders and more to stay organized.

Google Drive Guru

Google Drive is a cloud storage and synchronization service. It is also the home for all things Google, including Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Drawings, Sites, Maps and more.

Google Keep Kudos

Google Keep is a cloud-synced note-taking platform that allows users to quickly capture what's on their mind, set reminders, organize notes, and add voice memos for quick information collection.

Google Docs: Level 1

Google Meet

Google Meet is a video conferencing service that helps people easily set up and join meetings with their team. This application makes it easy to connect with anyone, anywhere with the click of a link. Users can use audio, video and even share their screen.

Google Calendar Clever

Distance Learning Skills Roadmap

Our Distance Learning Skills Roadmap provides a scaffolded set of skills for successful remote teaching and learning. Teachers can reflect upon their own teaching style and skills to determine where they fall on the roadmap (toe-in-the-water, waist high, all in). Administration can use the roadmap paired with teacher feedback in order to determine what sort of professional development and training they need to provide their staff in order to prepare them for remote learning.

Virtual Icebreakers for the Classroom

Virtual Icebreakers allow students a chance to get to know each other and the teacher in a fun and engaging way. Hook your students in with a fun game or a drawing activity to see their strengths anytime during the school year.

Virtual Class Culture

Starting the school year online or in a hybrid setting will present unique challenges to get to know your students and create a sustainable classroom culture. This webinar will cover beginning of the year ice-breaker activities, ways to foster invaluable "hallway" conversations, and strategies to establish norms and expectations online.

Digital Organization

Learn different strategies and conventions for how to declutter and organize your Google Drive, ways to stay organized within your LMS, and tips and tricks to help your students stay organized as well.

Offline Opportunist

Learn about different ways to create offline opportunities for students to engage with and learn while they are home.

Take The Google Out of Your Assessment

This badge will discuss practical ways you can alter assessments to confidently assess student learning...not the results of a Google search.

Google Meet

Zoom Conferencing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms.

Loom Leader

Loom is a Google Chrome Extension that enables you to record your computer screen, or create a “screen cast”. Loom is easy to access, easy to use, and can be used in a multitude of ways.

Screenshot Specialist

Screencast Superstar

Choice Board Creator

Choice Boards are an excellent strategy to promote student centered learning and student voice and choice! By creating a choice board for your class, you give them the power to make decisions about their learning. This strategy can empower students to determine how they want to learn, the pace in which they work and even how they demonstrate their learning.

Google Calendar Appointment Slot Saver

Google Calendar is a time-management and scheduling calendar service that helps people organize their responsibilities. Two of the many awesome options with Google Calendar are Appointment Slots and Appointment Schedules. With both options, you can block off any amount of time on your calendar and allow others to sign up for time with you quickly and easily by sharing a link.

Flip Fanatic

Google Slides Q&A Moderator

Google Slides Q&A is a feature that can be used during your presentation to allow students or participants to ask questions about concepts in your lesson or discussion.

PearDeck Prodigy

PearDeck is a tool to make your Google Slides more engaging for students, encourage classroom discussions, collect formative assessment data, and get kids actively participating in your lesson.

Nearpod Prodigy

Nearpod is a platform used to engage learners in the classroom. Teachers can create interactive lessons that can be used in the 1:1 classroom.

Padlet Pro

Google Captions

Google Classroom Champ

Virtual Classroom

An interactive virtual classroom is a creative delivery method that teachers can use to have students interact with various resources. Teachers can add themselves as a bitmoji in the classroom - or another setting - and add links to outside resources and activities through their image. This can be created through Google Slides.

Tweetdeck Tweeter

Tweetdeck is a web-based tool that helps you manage your Twitter feed and sort through great content quickly.

Twitter Terrific

Twitter is a social networking platform that can help you build your professional learning network (PLN) and share the great things going on in your classroom/building/district.

HyperDocs Handy

Google Jamboard

YouTube Teacher

YouTube is a video-sharing platform that makes it easy to search, share, and watch online videos. YouTube is one of the most popular sites on the web, and it's in-depth set of video creation tools helps users develop a profile, create a channel, upload videos, and share content with others. The site was founded on four principles that champion voice and community including freedom of expression, freedom of information, freedom of opportunity, and freedom to belong.

Book Creator Brilliant

Seesaw Smart

Seesaw is a digital portfolio management system, allowing students to submit artifacts of learning to a class feed that is managed by the teacher. Seesaw is great for progress monitoring, supporting differentiated instruction, and enhancing student voice. A teacher sets up a classroom, and decides whether students will sign in with their existing e-mail address or via a specially generated QR code. The QR code option is an easy way to get young children started using Seesaw, and permits students to use a wide variety of devices such as laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or smartphones.

EdPuzzle Expert

Whiteboard.fi

Whiteboard.fi is a digital whiteboard for teachers and classes. Students only need a class code to join (no account set up required)! This is essentially the same thing as using whiteboards in the classroom - but now you can do it virtually!

Quizizz Quest

Educreations Whiteboard

Educreations is a digital white-boarding tool (available on a web platform and as a mobile app) that allows teachers to record their lessons and share recordings with students in a variety of ways. This demo will show Educreations on an iPad and using Chrome on a laptop.

Khan Academy

“Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.” -khanacademy.org Khan Academy offers courses for learners in kindergarten all the way through graduate school. Subjects covered on Khan Academy include math, grammar, history, music, computer science, ELA, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, and more! Khan Academy is available on the web and is also available for iOS and Android devices.

Quill Interactive Writer

Quill is a lightweight learning management system integrated with a suite of online apps that teach writing, grammar, and vocabulary skills to students. Students using Quill learn English grammar and vocabulary by fixing sentences, proofreading passages, and collaboratively writing passages. - Quill.org

Schoology Skills: Profiles and Settings

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Although each LMS is different, Schoology boasts a robust social experience that helps users connect, communicate, and share. Each user is equipped with a personal profile and access to settings/options that accentuate the social aspect of the platform.

Schoology Skills: Updates

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology “updates” are course or school-wide announcements that allow for quick communication between users in the platform.

Schoology for Elementary

Schoology Skills: Discussions

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology “discussions” are online discussion boards that allow students to share ideas, feedback, and thoughts with others. Students can respond and reply to their classmates and engage in real-time or asynchronous discussions in an online environment.

Schoology Skills: Assessment Basics

“Schoology brings together the best K-12 learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration, and personalize learning." - Schoology.com The Assessment tool is currently only available in the Enterprise and Enterprise Plus versions of Schoology.

Schoology Skills: Assessment Advanced

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology assessments allow educators to evaluate student progress and learning. Teachers can use assessments to obtain valuable feedback in order to guide future instruction.

Schoology: Embedding Tools

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Embedding tools in Schoology allows users to upload content directly on their page, so students can have access to various materials without leaving the site.

Schoology Skills: Conferencing

Schoology Conferences by BigBlueButton provides a platform for teachers to meet with students and colleagues virtually. Users can share audio, video, and are able to utilize collaborative features like shared notes and multi-user whiteboard. Conferences can be recorded and stored in Schoology for students to refer back to later.

Schoology Skills: Groups

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools. Schoology groups allow users to create, manage, and share content and resources, making connection and collaboration possible within the school and beyond.

Schoology Skills: Grading Groups

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. The Grading Groups feature allows educators to sort students into groups within a single course section, allowing for differentiation or group work.

Schoology Skills: Assignments

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology Assignments allows for teachers to post digital assignments that students can complete and submit in an online environment. Teachers can use Schoology Assignments to engage students in their learning through multiple different forms, create individually assigned assignments for small groups, and the ability to incorporate videos and images to the learning as well.

Schoology Skills: Student Completion Rules

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology student completion rules are requirements that are placed on materials within a course folder, or the material itself, to establish a self-paced learning environment for the students. Teachers have the ability to apply different completion rules to materials to allow for a structured workflow for students.

Schoology Skills: Mastery

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Student Mastery Reporting allows teachers to view student achievement on any standard or learning objective that has been aligned to Assignments, Test/Quiz questions, Assessment questions, or graded Discussions within a course.

Schoology Skills: Rubrics

Schoology is a comprehensive learning management system (LMS) for K-12 schools that allows users to create, manage, and share content and resources. Schoology rubrics allow educators to easily grade student work using custom or standards-based criteria connected to a particular assignment or question in a course. Rubrics can be attached to assignments, discussions, and short answer/essay questions to allow for constructive feedback in a variety of applications.

Canvas Skills: Profile & Settings

The Canvas Learning Management Platform allows schools to build digital learning environments that meet their unique needs. Canvas simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies. By customizing your profile and settings, you can make sure you see the things you need and not the things you don't!

Canvas Skills: Course Settings

The Canvas Learning Management System is a paid platform that allows schools to build digital learning environments that meet their unique needs. By personalizing the settings for a Canvas course, teachers can keep what they need and get rid of what they don't! Taking time to make changes to the course settings can save time and simplify Canvas for all users.

Canvas Skills: Canvas Commons

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The Canvas Commons is a resource repository for teachers to share and find a variety of Canvas content that can be transferred to their courses with just a few clicks.

Canvas Skills: Announcements

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The Announcement feature allows teachers to post important information, reminders or content to the top of their Canvas course.

Canvas Skills: Modules

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. Using the modules within Canvas, teachers can upload and organize their course content in meaningful ways for students.

Canvas Skills: Pages

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. Pages, within Canvas, allow teachers to make a more engaging course. This tool can be used to build lessons, bring in resources, create newsletters or just improve the overall appearance and navigation of your course.

Canvas Skills: Assignments

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The Assignment feature allows educators to post assignments and collect student work all in one place. With so many options for set up, teachers can create assignments for everyone or tailor assignments to small groups or even individuals.

Canvas Skills: Google Integration

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The ability to integrate Google Workspace right into Canvas allows teachers to easily share and assign Google tools. Explore the 3 ways that you can bring Google into your Canvas course and promote collaboration.

Canvas Skills: Discussion

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The Discussions feature allows teachers to create a space for collaboration and idea sharing right within their course. With this tool, teachers can share resources to support and guide students in both whole group and small group discussions.

Canvas Skills: Quizzes

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The Quizzes feature allows teachers to create, assess, grade and provide feedback for students right within their course. With this tool, teachers can build surveys, pre or post assessments and more!

Canvas Skills: Student Annotation

Canvas is a paid Learning Management System that allows schools to build learning environments for their unique needs. The new assignment submission type, Student Annotation, allows students to annotate a PDF file right in Canvas.

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