- Communicate with students
- Other
- Presentations
- Videos
Streaming platform, mainly used by gamers but can be used for streaming courses. Very good performance, but adverts interrupt steams unless the viewer pays for subscription (in addition to static adverts). Registered viewers can chat with presenter.
Commercial provider, free to use, registration required to post (not to watch). Founded 2011.
- sufficiently free
- Collaborative boards
- Live chat
- Presentations
- Quiz/ survey
- Video conferencing
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.
- Presentations
- Quiz/ survey
Private provider. Requires teacher registration (use the “Open Classes” category to allow registration-free student participation). Since 2014.
- no registration
- sufficiently free
- Create activities
- Presentations
- Quiz/ survey
Commercial provider, very limited base version, teacher registration required (students can answer anonymously, or with SSO). Since 2015.
- no registration
- Collaborative boards
- Create activities
- Presentations
- Quiz/ survey
Interaction tool with live voting, word clouds, group creation and more. Cannot export in cheapest paid package (requires premium).
Private provider, free basic account, no registration necessary. Since 2019.
- no registration
- sufficiently free
- Collaborative boards
- Communicate with students
- Other
- Presentations
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.
- GDPR
- sufficiently free
- Create learning material
- Presentations
Educational consortium from Switzerland, open source, free of charge, registration-free. Since 2003 as Uniboard, 2008 as Open-Sankoré, forked 2013 as OpenBoard.
- GDPR
- no registration
- open source
- sufficiently free
- Images
- Presentations
Infographics design service in many formats, from icons to packaging. Used to have free tier.
Commercial provider, registration required. Since 2012.
- Create learning material
- Presentations
Windows-only eLearning authoring tool for HTML5/SCORM. PowerPoint-lookalike course builder with lecture recorder; can convert .pptx into learning modules.
Commercial provider, free 14 days trial.
- Presentations
Open source plugin for MS PowerPoint, no registration. Released 2012, last update 2020.
- GDPR
- no registration
- open source
- sufficiently free
- Maths
- Presentations
Powerpoint extension to typeset LaTeX mathematics, on Mac or Windows. (Note for Mac users: In Keynote/Pages, you can natively insert maths; otherwise use the LaTeXit service anywhere.)
Free open source plugin for MS PowerPoint. Released 2007; actively updated.
- GDPR
- no registration
- open source
- sufficiently free
- Presentations
- Video conferencing
Commercial provider, EU-GDPR conform, requires payment and registration. Released 2009.
- GDPR
- sufficiently free
- Presentations
- Quiz/ survey
Create presentations and learning units, and integrate into your LMS (e.g., Moodle). Quizzes, surveys, mindmaps, gamification. [Real-time ranking (quizzes), and following specific students requires Expert (€120/year) package.]
Private provider, GDPR conform, requires registration. Released 2015.
- GDPR
- sufficiently free
- Images
- Presentations
Create presentations and infographics. Intuitive image, video and PDF editing and compositing with animation effects.
Private provider, free browser-based software, registration required. Released 2016 as Spark, renamed Express in 2021.
- sufficiently free