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Slide with Friends

Slides With Friends — Interactive events, meetings, and presentations

Slide with Friends: Slides With Friends is an interactive slide deck player and builder. It has ready-to-play game decks to share with the team live, such as quizzes, classroom games, icebreakers, team building, check-ins, polling, and more. It is also a deck builder to create custom interactive presentations for the group to join in and play along. Free plan for hosting up to 10 people. Free/Paid

Wooclap

Wooclap is a real-time polling software that allows instructors to engage with their students and gauge their understanding of the material. Students respond to your questions and polls via a web link on their mobile devices, making this an ideal tool for remote and in-person instruction. Some of the activities offered include multiple-choice, find-a-number, polls, word cloud, and open questions. You can access many features for free but a subscription unlocks more features such as exporting results to a PDF. Free/Paid. 

Venngage

Venngage interface

Venngage: This is a great tool for creating several different types of visual materials, such as infographics, presentations, reports, diagrams, and lesson plans. The tool has a variety of templates for you to choose from, and you’ll find the templates’ ease-of-use convenient when you want to build visuals in a short amount of time. Venngage is also cloud-based, so you can continue working on templates from any device. Create up to five free projects. FREE/PAID

Loom

Loom: This is a screen recording platform offering both a desktop client and Google Chrome extension. Users can select how they want to record to suit their needs with the desktop client having a few additional annotation tools. When the recording is done, it automatically uploads to the user’s Loom account where they can change the privacy and invite selected viewers to use the video. FREE/PAID

Screencast-O-Matic

Screencast-O-Matic: A video creation tool that allows a user to record their screen and create simple recordings via a downloaded tool. Users can take high-resolution videos of screen recordings up to 15 minutes in length and add caption files. Videos are stored in an online hub and links can be shared with students and colleagues.