Live classes are virtual classrooms designed specifically for education delivery. They reduce the workload of the teachers, making the teaching impactful, enabling personalized attention, and enhancing learning outcomes. With this post, I would be sharing 6 tools that can help you host a live class and manage your students.
Google Classroom
Classroom by Google is a free live class service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google account. Google Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect inside and outside of schools. Google Classroom also saves time and paper and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.
The integration of Google Drive and all the Google applications makes it accessible and quick to edit and share documents. Multiple live classes can be made, making it easier to find every notice, documents, coursework tasks properly arranged in one place. Each classroom has a classwork tab that enables quick access to all the documents and pending tasks for the particular classroom. It has an easy to use user interface with a satisfying experience.
Microsoft Teams for EDU
Microsoft Teams for EDU is a tool that allows your school or institution to create collaborative classrooms, connect in professional learning communities, communicate with school staff, coordinate research across institutions, or more easily facilitate student life efforts like clubs or extracurricular activities all from a single experience. Because it’s built on Office 365, schools benefit from integration with their familiar Office apps and services.
It delivers enterprise-grade security and compliance that is extensible and customizable to fit the needs of every school. This allows you to focus on your role as an educator. Teams can be used by any student and teacher to accomplish many of the tasks that normally require multiple accounts with multiple logins.
Tutr Instruct
Tutr Instruct is a live class platform where tutors can create paid classes. With Tutr, you just need to set your schedule and price and share a link with your students to host live classes. You can also just share your profile link with your students, and they’ll be able to book & pay for a class that works for your schedule. It is in the beta phase, so it limits access to the service to only teachers that already have students they are teaching online.
Skype
Skype is a video-conferencing application that can be used for hosting live classes. With Skype, you can connect with other classrooms around the world to work on joint projects or community curated tasks. You can also invite guest speakers like celebrated authors, technologists, humanitarian, and more who are eager to share their knowledge with your students. It can be used over the Phone, Web, and Windows App. you can add many people to calls and files of any format can be shared during the call session.
If you are an Outlook user or have a Microsoft account, you can use the service immediately. The interface is user friendly and will not present a challenge to access the service. With screen sharing, it makes collaboration easier, and it yields productive results.
Zoom
Zoom is a video communication tool for today’s collaborative classrooms, it offers HD Video and Audio exceptional clarity and quality for virtual and hybrid classes. You can record classes and lessons to allow students to learn at their own pace. Zoom supports integrations with Moodle, Canvas, Desire2Learn, Sakai, and Blackboard. With Zoom, you can create and repurpose video content into easily digested hosted videos that allow students to learn at their own pace. Zoom has enhanced collaboration features such as one-click content sharing, real-time co-annotation, and digital whiteboarding. Zoom also has robust security settings for teachers and admins to ensure disruption-free virtual classes. Zoom also ensures that everyone can take part easily with closed captioning and keyboard shortcuts.
Peergrade
Peergrade is an online platform that allows students to grade each other and provide feedback. Peer feedback helps students engage in self-reflection, critical thinking, and gives them a deeper understanding of the subject. In Peergrade, students submit work, give feedback using a teacher-created rubric, and then they receive personalized, effective feedback from their peers. Teachers create the assignments, rubrics, and get an overview of the entire process! Built-in features such as anonymity, feedback on feedback, and flagging ensure that students feel comfortable and confident in giving peer feedback.
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