Educational Technology Tools
UDL TECH Tools
Type:
Customized Video Lessons
Price:
Free
Privacy:
GDPR compliant
Accessibility:
Closed captions/Multiple language
Type:
Create Codes
Price:
Free with pad options
Privacy:
Limited data retention for free version
Accessibility:
Limited to no information, screen reader compatible
Type:
Customized Lessons
Price:
Free with paid options
Privacy:
COPPA, FERPA, GDRP
Accessibility:
Voice-over recordings
Type:
Storytelling tool
Price:
Free (Post, Page, Video)
Privacy:
Up to the student and teacher
Accessibility:
No closed-caption option provided with the Video tool
Type:
Virtual tours
Price:
Free
Privacy:
Same as google tools
Accessibility:
Still in beta testing, but as of yet still no voice-over features
Type:
Podcast Creation Tool
Price:
Free
Privacy:
Students must be 13 years old
Accessibility:
Screen reader compatible
Type:
Create & Read books
Price:
Free with paid options
Privacy:
COPRA, FERPA, GDPR compliant
Accessibility:
Screen Reader compatible, and alt text for images
Type:
Design & Publish software
Price:
Free with premium options
Privacy:
Integrated with Google Drive
Accessibility:
Not very accessible
Communication and Collaboration Tools
Type:
Real-time Text Messaging Tool
Function:
Stronger Communication in your classroom or school district
Type:
Collection Tools like Pinterests
Function:
Make beautiful boards, documents and web-pages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.
You may create a public Padlet to create a forum in your classroom. Alternatively you may have each student create their own Padlet to summarize the biography of a historic figure.
Type:
Collaboration Tools
Function:
Tools to collaboratively keep notes, save files, make simple documents, spreadsheets, slideshows, websites and video chat.
Google Apps makes communication and collaboration easy, quick and do-able.
Price:
Free
Type:
Video Discussion Platform
Function:
Gives students an authentic voice in classrooms starting from first day introductions to book reports, presentations, public speaking and more.
Type:
Web-page Marker and Note Tools
Function:
A nonprofit tool that allows people to hold discussions, read socially, organize your research, and take personal notes.
Essentially, it is a free tool for compiling online research and keep personal notes.
Price:
Free
Type:
Collaborative Student-centered Class Discussion Tool
Function:
Piazza is designed to connect students, TAs, and professors. So every student can get the help they need when they need it.
Students and instructors respond to questions fast because it works in real time.
Also Students and instructors’ responses can be categorized automatically.
Price:
Free
Type:
Collaboration Tools
Function:
Keep everyone on the same page with different ways to communicate, and keep track of deadlines, checklist, files and more.
Price:
Free
Chrome Extensions for Education
Type:
Screencast recorder
Connections:
Save video to Google Drive
Function:
Flip your classroom, present from anywhere, share feedback
Price:
Free account= 10 mins/video and 50 videos/month
Platform:
Desktops, laptops and Chromebooks
Type:
Remote Tool
Connections:
Google Slides
Function:
Remotely control Google Slides and Ludus from any mobile device
Price:
Free
Accessibility:
No download or sign-in required
Type:
Grading Tool
Connections:
Google Docs
Function:
Made for grading papers, easy to use and set-up, significantly reduces the time writing feedback for essays. Because you can use existed vocabularies to add the feedback or build your own feedback vocabularies.
Type:
Audience Response Tool (can replace iClicker)
Connections:
Google Docs
Function:
Free up to 40 students per class.
Requirements:
Students need to use cell phones or laptops.
Type:
Screenshot Tool
Function:
Easily take screenshots on your browser. Also you can annotate, draw, blur and resize your screenshots.
Price:
Free
Type:
URL/Link Shorten Tool
Connections:
Google Docs
Function:
Allows you to shorten and customize the URLs/Links.
Increase response rate with shorter and smarter links.
Price:
Free
Requirements:
Sign-in required, but not for the audience.
Type:
Questions Creation Tool
Connections:
Google Docs
Function:
Add math equations and chemical formulas to Google Docs
Price:
Free for teachers, many features free for students
Platforms:
Windows/Mac
Accessibility:
Allows speech and handwriting input
Type:
Highlight Marker Tool
Connections:
Automatically saved on your device
Function:
Highlight and annotate sentences on the web/PDF
Price:
Free
Requirements:
Sign-in Required
Type:
Citations Tool
Connections:
Save video to Google Drive
Function:
Faster and easier way to find academic papers.
Create citations from in multiple APA, MLA, etc.
Allows you to easily find academic papers that have been cited under the references.
Ed Tech Tools for Accessibility
Type:
Readability Support Tool
Function:
Remove distractions from websites for focused reading
Price:
Free
Platforms:
Chrome extension
Type:
​Readability Support Tool
Function:
Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home!
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Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or documents read.
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Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words.
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Dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading and studying.
Price:
Free
Connections:
Google Drive
Type:
Map Tool
Function:
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Web-based mapping service.
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Users can preview remote site prior to visit to help manage anxiety or over stimulation.
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Multiple types of map & traffic data.
Type:
Readability Support Tool
Function:
Assist user by summarizing text.
Price:
Free
Type:
Readability Support Tool
Function:
Simplifies text to reduce frustration and increase comprehension.
Price:
Free
Type:
Readability Support Tool
Function:
Free font increases readability for audience with dyslexia.
Price:
Free
Platforms:
Chrome extension overrides fonts on webpage.
Type:
Readability Support Tool
Function:
Convert image text to editable text.
Type:
Closed Caption Creation Tool
Function:
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Auto-generated subtitles and closed captions.
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Broadens audience to deaf, hard of hearing, or those who speak other languages.
Type:
Closed Caption Creation Tool
Function:
Automated closed captioning support for spoken English when using Google Chrome for slide show narration.
Type:
Accessibility Tool
Platforms:
Windows Only
Function:
Allows a user to operate their mouse with the movement of their head via a webcam
Type:
Communication Board Creation Tool
Platforms:
Chrome
Connection:
Google Drive
Function:
Allows you to create, edit, play and share communication boards straight on the Google Drive.
Resources:
Handouts from 2018 UMass Amherst College of Education Ed Tech Tools Showcase.
Notes & Summarized by Jia Zhuang.
Click here to download the pdf version of this page.