Category: Create learning material

Scribe / ScribeHow
  • Create learning material
Browser plugin to write manuals, or convert webinars to courses.
AI-based Chrome/Edge browser plugin to write illustrated step-by-step manuals, from screen capture of you going through the material. Alternatively, turn a webinar similarly into a course. Animated GIFs for procedures. Paid version also does desktop and mobile applications, and allows editing/redacting screenshots (sensitive data!). Track views, completion, and feedback (Enterprise version).

Commercial application, sufficiently free, registration necessary. Edu discount with form (unspecified amount). Released 2021(?).

  • "Tested; Not yet rated."
  • recommended
  • sufficiently free
Spatial.chat
  • Collaborative boards
  • Live chat
  • Presentations
  • Quiz/ survey
  • Video conferencing
Videoconferencing system focusing on online event/group work.

Videoconferencing system focusing on online event/group work. Virtual space “Proximity chat”, where participants move their avatars close to allow chatting; environment is a collaborative board so you can put any type of material or decoration.

Private provider, cost scaling by participants ($300 for up to 25, $500 for up to 100, etc) registration required. Released 2020.

  • "Tested; Not yet rated."
    Edpuzzle
    • Presentations
    • Quiz/ survey
    A digital tool to add activities (quizzes, breakout groups, … ) to videos.
    A digital tool to add quizzes and breakout groups to video-based teaching; can be self-paced or together (with timed surveys). Can be integrated with most LMSs, or used standalone. K12-oriented (especially in the for-sale pre-made USA-only lessons).

    Private provider. Requires teacher registration (use the “Open Classes” category to allow registration-free student participation). Since 2014.

    • 4S
    • no registration
    • sufficiently free
    Taskcards
    • Collaborative boards
    • Communicate with students
    • Other
    • Presentations
    Pinboard, either collaborative or for instructor to put information and tasks on.

    Pinboard, mainly intended for a teacher to present information (images, videos, text, links, …) and tasks. The students then have only reading permission, except where the teacher has inserted a commentary field or a rating field (with stars, or thumbs up/down). But alternatively, a board can be cooperative if you invite others and give them write permissions. Boards can be chosen to be public or private.

    Commercial provider, free basic version, registration required. Since 2021.

    • "Tested; Not yet rated."
    • GDPR
    • sufficiently free
    Wakelet
    • Collaborative boards
    • Create learning material
    Pinboard, either collaborative or for teacher to put tasks and resources on.

    Pinboard, mainly intended for a teacher to present information (images, videos, text, links, …) and tasks. The students then have only reading permission, except where the teacher has inserted a commentary or ‘like’ button. Integrations with many other services.

    Commercial provider, free basic version, registration required. Since 2010.

    • "Tested; Not yet rated."
    • open source
    • sufficiently free
    MyScripting
    • Create learning material
    • Other
    Planning tool to design a course, alone or collaboratively.
    Planning tool to design a course, alone or collaboratively. Can export to Moodle, edX and iLias MLSs, or Excel/Word. Schedule all teaching and study phases, plan in test, etc. Keeps track of workloads of all phases, and teaching form (alone, 1-on-1, small group, lecture). Analysis can recommend changes. Contains setups for different teaching modes (e.g., Flipped classroom).

    Provider: Zurich University of Applied Sciences, free of charge, registration required. Since 2019.

    • 5S
    • sufficiently free
    Collections of free-to-use images
    • Create learning material
    • Images
    Flickr, Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, Videvo, Wikimedia Commons, …

    • Wikimedia Commons: Often less aesthetic, more techical images. Various licenses, many images requiring attribution.
    • Flickr: Various licenses, some needing attribution.
    • Unsplash: Large amount of free-to-use images (€72/year for unlimited downloads, pro content, and illustrations/clipart). Since 2013 (then as a Tumblr blog).
    • Pexels: Stock photos, supported by links to Pixabay plus Canva as editor. Since 2015.
    • Open Clip Art: Vector (.SVG) images. Since 2004.
    • Pixabay: Wide range of images; supported by links to commercial stock photos (iStock). Since 2010.
    • Public Domain Pictures: Freemium model, charges you for higher-resolution public domain images(!) as well as linking to Adobe and other commercial stock photos in results. Since 2007.
    • Freepik: (€60/year for AI credits, €120/year for extra AI plus premium stock photos; free is 10 images/day.) Extensive set of stock photos, but focused on AI tools for generating and editing. Since 2010.
    • Videvo: Stock video footage site (now owned by Freepik), AE and Pp templates (intros, mostly), music and sound effects. Since 2012.
    • Various
    • no registration
    • recommended
    • sufficiently free
    Prezi
    • Presentations
    • Video conferencing
    Present by zooming in on parts of a large surface, instead of separate slides; and more.
    Presention tool that does not work with separate slides, but with a single unbounded surface; the presenter zooms in on a chosen part. Has also an infographics creation tool, and a Zoom/Teams plugin to add (info)graphics to your camera image.

    Commercial provider, EU-GDPR conform, requires payment and registration. Released 2009.

    • "Tested; Not yet rated."
    • GDPR
    • sufficiently free