Piktochart: An “easy-to-use infographic creator,” piktochart offers over 100 ready-to-use themes. Once a theme is selected, you can edit the text, insert multimedia elements, and replace images. Free accounts have no usage limits; pro accounts have more templates and export functionalities. FREE/PRO
Asana: web-based project management platform that helps you organize projects by tasks, members, calendar-view, and more. Integrates with hundreds of common applications. Free/Paid.
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 …
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, …
Prezi Video Prezi video is a great tool for creating pre-recorded or live videos with your Powerpoint or Prezi presentation to show alongside while you speak. Free/Paid
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 …
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 …
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.
Vimeo Record: A Google Chrome extension that allows users to easily record their screen. The video is automatically uploaded to Vimeo where users can change the title, privacy, and other features before sharing it with students. Free accounts can upload up to 5GB of content a week. FREE/PAID
Animaker: Online introductory level platform that allows people to create animation and live-action content. Allows for beginner-friendly storytelling and narration through video. FREE/PREMIUM.
Slido: An easy way to engage with a live audience, Slido is a discussion tool allowing your audience to ask questions, answer surveys, and vote in polls by using Q&A and a polling tool. FREE/Paid.
Sketchfab: a free and premium community platform to help publish and find 3D, VR, and AR content online. FREE/PREMIUM
EndNote: citation manager and personal reference library with capacity for PDF import and attachment. Offers CWYW (Cite while You Write) extensions for Microsoft Word and Pages. Licensed to NYU-ITS; FREE for the NYU community.
Zapier: a web-based platform that allows you to automate workflows by integrating your many applications. Set up triggers to send information from one app to another and automate action. Fee/Paid.
PowerNotes: an easy-to-use, minimally intrusive Chrome extension for web annotation and citation management. Ideal for taking quick or extensive annotations on texts you read online while the platform automatically stores your highlights, notes, and links to the sources, allowing you to organize them into different topics and different projects. You can export an outline of …
Grammarly: a textual analysis tool that offers suggestions to improve your writing. It reviews punctuation, spelling, grammar, formatting, and speech conventions. Available as a desktop app or browser extension. Free/Paid.
Hemingway: a text editor designed to help improve your writing by analyzing its readability and making grammatical suggestions. Available as a desktop software (paid) or as an online platform (free).
WriterDuet: screenwriting software with cloud-based collaborative features, outline/corkboard viewing mode, and support for several file types. Free trial for your first three screenplays; subscription plans and one-time-purchase available. Free/Paid.
Airtable: a cloud-based, flexible project-management platform enriched with a variety of mobile and desktop apps that enable you and your collaborators to share information, deadlines, timelines, files, and more with one another. According to developers, Airtable is “part spreadsheet, part database.” Free/Paid,
OmniSci: as an open-source SQL engine, OmniSci is an analytics platform that creates visual representations of data to enhance analysis and interaction, including functionalities for multi-layered geospatial mapping. Explore their interactive demos, of which we highlight this live tweet map. Free/Paid.
