Mentimeter: This is an easy to use presentation tool. It comes pre-loaded with education templates for the classroom such as listening skills assessments, icebreakers, formative assessments, post-lecture surveys, and polls. You can create quizzes and tests, manage student expectations, and engage students. It’s free to use and lets you create and host live quizzes either from its templates or from scratch. Pro versions for schools and universities add unlimited question slides per presentation, exports, unlimited quizzes, and support for a few dollars a month.
Pros: It is a fun and entertaining way to brainstorm ideas, instantaneously receive updates from votes people submit through their phones, and displays the information in an innovative and creative way.
Cons: Customer service is bad and they will try to rope you into a yearly subscription
Poll Everywhere: This is another presentation tool. It gives a snapshot of where students are struggling by creating questions as word clouds, open student responses, or multiple-choice options. The students can answer these questions with their phones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can get real-time feedback on their question slides without calling on specific individuals to roll out assessment as an integrated part of a larger lecture. This is a great way to give students a voice in steering the direction of live lesson plans.
Pros: It allows the teacher to receive immediate feedback without interruption in the lesson. It gives all students a chance to answer questions and not have to worry about getting called on or speaking out.
Cons: It's a little buggy
Kahoot: This is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, play and share learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. This tool makes the learning experience more enjoyable for the students. Students can even create their own “kahoots” to share with classmates, creating an interactive experience. Students can plan the assessment games by themselves or as a team, and teachers can add multiple choice or true/false questions to the games. The games are timed and scored, with point scales set up by the teacher.
Pros: Overall this is a great tool to use in education. Children love it, teachers love how easy it is to use, and it keeps the attention of everyone in the room.
Cons: Some of the pre-made quizzes contain errors and wrong answers. Teachers need to check these first, which is time consuming.
Pros: It is a fun and entertaining way to brainstorm ideas, instantaneously receive updates from votes people submit through their phones, and displays the information in an innovative and creative way.
Cons: Customer service is bad and they will try to rope you into a yearly subscription
Poll Everywhere: This is another presentation tool. It gives a snapshot of where students are struggling by creating questions as word clouds, open student responses, or multiple-choice options. The students can answer these questions with their phones, laptops, or tablets. Teachers can get real-time feedback on their question slides without calling on specific individuals to roll out assessment as an integrated part of a larger lecture. This is a great way to give students a voice in steering the direction of live lesson plans.
Pros: It allows the teacher to receive immediate feedback without interruption in the lesson. It gives all students a chance to answer questions and not have to worry about getting called on or speaking out.
Cons: It's a little buggy
Kahoot: This is a game-based learning platform that makes it easy to create, play and share learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes. This tool makes the learning experience more enjoyable for the students. Students can even create their own “kahoots” to share with classmates, creating an interactive experience. Students can plan the assessment games by themselves or as a team, and teachers can add multiple choice or true/false questions to the games. The games are timed and scored, with point scales set up by the teacher.
Pros: Overall this is a great tool to use in education. Children love it, teachers love how easy it is to use, and it keeps the attention of everyone in the room.
Cons: Some of the pre-made quizzes contain errors and wrong answers. Teachers need to check these first, which is time consuming.










