Educational Applications

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Educational Applications 



In this article I will list 10 application schools are using nowadays. The article will include a brief summery about each application. I hope you will benefit from this and use some of them in your career as a teacher.




Ø Remind: School Communication “Remind101”




Remind is a communication platform that helps every student, parents and teachers to send real-time messages to any phone, Message a class, a person, or just a small group, translate messages into more than 85 languages, and share photos, handouts, and other files.


Ø Wordle


Wordle is an app used in many schools for different purposes. It can be used by students or teachers to create a slide presentation. The notes are written in the Notes section of the slide. Once the presentation is ready, all notes are copied and pasted into Wordle. Students can analyze where their words are repetitive (such as like, love, or also) and adjust their presentation notes. They use Wordle with students to write “All About Me”; they put these writing pieces in Wordle and made posters and
displayed them on their lockers.


Students (or teachers) create a slide presentation. The notes are written in the Notes section of the slide. Once the presentation is ready, all notes are copied and pasted into Wordle. Students can analyze where their words are repetitive (such as like, love, or also) and adjust their presentation notes. It is used in Al-Dar Academy.







Ø ClassDojo


ClassDojo is a free, beautiful, safe, and simple communication app for teachers, parents, and students. Teachers can encourage students for any skill, like “Working hard” and “Teamwork”. They can communicate with the parents and bring parents into the classroom experience by sharing photos, videos, and announcements. Students can add their classwork easily to their own digital portfolios for their parents to see. Parents see their child’s updates at home, as well as a stream of photos and videos from school. It is used in may schools in UAE such as: Al-Dar Academy School, Liwa International School and Al-Shaheen School.






Ø Quizlet


It is an app that makes you able to adjust your grading settings for each set that you’re learning, and we’ll know to require one answer or require all answers across Learn, Test, Spell and Grav
ity. You can create sets and study whenever you need to — and now you can create and manage Quizlet classes too. You can easily add sets and invite new members directly from iOS or Android app, making collaboration and sharing easy on the go. It is used in Liwa international School.  



Ø TeacherKit




TeacherKit makes classroom management a joy, not a chore. Routine tasks – taking attendance, recording a gradebook – become so straightforward they’re a pleasure. It also adds value and impact. It helps you analyse and share information like never before, dramatically boosting data. It also frees up your time, making classroom management less onerous and time-consuming – enabling you to focus on what you love most: teaching. It keeps your data safe by making available to you for backups for your data and install these backups anytime using Dropbox. TeacherKit takes automatic backups on Dropbox for you to keep your data safe; you can restore the backup anytime. Finally, TeacherKit can be used from K12 to higher education to corporate training, and it’s so intuitive, there’s no need for specialist skills or training. It is used in Al Tafawq School.





Ø  Google Apps for Education

This free suite of productivity tools (including Gmail, Calendar, and Drive) helps keep parents in the loop on their children's progress in class and any challenging areas that need to be addressed. Rather than waiting for graded papers to make it home in a student's backpack, for example, parents can log into Google Drive and see what their kids have been up to in English class, view their current grades, and communicate with teachers about progress and challenges. It is used in Al Andulu Private Academy.



Ø WithMyLittleOne

Wimlo was designed to meet the needs of real school administrators, and it’s constantly evolving with their close collaboration and feedback. Its purpose is to help you establish two-way digital communication with all parents, whether they’re tech-savvy or technologically challenged. This state-of-the-art mobile app and website has been customized for parents, teachers, and administrators. It is useful in helping you manage all your communication needs quickly, simply, and on the go. There are multiple ways to get the messages across.



Ø Classloom

Classloom is a social communication and collaboration platform for teachers, parents and students which aims at making this communication faster, easier and streamlined. It’s basically a cloud solution and free. A teacher can open a class based group in Classloom and invite parents and/or students and also all class teachers easily by email. In a group a teachers can share all school events, homework assignments, exam schedule, announcements, photos and documents with group members. All groups are close groups and no one can reach any content other than group members. Each group also has a group wall which is designed such as a typical social media timeline. Teachers and parents can post text messages, photos, url’s and also Youtube video links to the group wall. They can make comments to the posts and like posts and comments. So that all class parents and teachers can communicate and discuss school or class issues easily. The system also sends instant and weekly notification emails to the group members whenever there is an update in their group or groups. This way all parents are updated about any activity in their child’s school life and become part of it. There is also an online instant private messaging function in the system which allows the members communicate and chat one to one. It is used in Future international School.

Ø eALPHA

eAlpha connects teachers and students enabling them to work together using a mix of devices. The platform provides helpful tools to manage classes, create interactive assignments and get detailed reports as well as use responsive content in any BYOD environment. eALPHA is the complete Learning Management Platform for both students and teachers alike. Get access to Alpha premium interactive lessons and resources, and create virtual classrooms and interactive lessons for your students - making learning a personalized, exciting and enriching experience. Your LMS school and student accounts can be registered on the platform in less than 2 minutes, connecting students and teachers with a huge variety of tools and resources and walking them through the complete learning process like never before. It is used in Mohammed Bin Khalid School.

Ø Goclass


It is an app that allows teacher to create, edit and manage their lesson plans. The Show-Explain-Ask framework makes it easy to add images, videos, teacher notes and assessments to your lesson plan. The teacher can upload a video or picture to the students and then create questions regarding the video. The students will answer these questions using their ipads and the teacher can see who answered right and who answered wrong. It is used in public schools in UAE.

Ø Storybird 
It is an app that allows students to read stories via ipads, write stories or create images and turn it into stories. Storybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories. It's a simple idea that has attracted millions of writers, readers, and artists to platform. It is used in Al-Dar Academy and in Al-Madar Academy.

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