This document provides an overview of digital tools and techniques that can be used for teaching and learning during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. It describes various MOOC platforms, online classroom tools, ebooks, presentation templates, video recording and editing tools, assessment tools, and more. The document aims to highlight opportunities for online and digital learning during times of crisis and share resources that can help support teaching and learning remotely.

1. Digital Tools & Techniques for
Teaching & Learning: during & beyond COVID-19
Dr. Sarita Anand
Assistant Professor
Department of Education
Vinaya-Bhavana
Visva-Bharati
Santiniketan, WB, India

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COVID-19 Crisis
Challenges
Opportunities

3. Digital Tools & Technologies: MOOCs
SWAYAM: https://swayam.gov.in/ Following 4 Quadrants
9 National Coordinators:
AICTE for self-paced and
international courses.
NPTEL for engineering,
UGC for non technical
post-graduation education,
CEC for under-graduate education,
NCERT & NIOS for school
education,
IGNOU for out of the school students,
IIMB for management
studies and
NITTTR for Teacher Training programme.
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4. Kahn Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/
Udemy.com: https://www.udemy.com/
EDX: https://www.edx.org/
OpenEDX: https://open.edx.org/
eduNEXT: https://www.edunext.co/
Futurelearn: https://www.futurelearn.com/
WHO free online courses: https://openwho.org/courses
Alison: https://alison.com/
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Digital Tools & Technologies: MOOCs

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Google
Google TOOLs:
Google doc, Forms, Sheets, Slides, Translate,
Classroom, Calender, Books, Blogger, Jamboard
& Extensions: Grid,meet attendance, jitsi, jamboard,
screencastify etc.

6. Google
Google apps learning centre
(https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage
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7. Live Classroom Tools
Saynamaste:https://www.saynamaste.in/
Google meet: https://meet.google.com/
Jitsi:https://meet.jit.si/
Cisco Webex:https://www.webex.com/
Teamlink:https://www.teamlink.co/
Zoom:https://zoom.us/
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8. Google classroom:https://edu.google.com/
Moodlecloud:https://moodlecloud.com/
Moodle-Gnomio: https://www.gnomio.com/
Campus: http://campusone.in/
Canvas: https://learn.canvas.net/
Edmodo:https://www.edmodo.com/
Schoology:https://www.schoology.com/
Class Dojo: https://www.classdojo.com/
LMS
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9. EBooks
NDL: ndl.iitkgp.ac.in
UNESCO Digital Lib:https://unesdoc.unesco.org/
Epdf books: https://epdf.pub/
anybooks:https://anybooks-read-free-books-novels-and-
stories.en.uptodown.com/android
Google books:https://books.google.com/books
NCERT books: http://ncert.nic.in/ebooks.html
to break the pdf book insection/ chapters): https://www.ilovepdf.com/
Use: DOAJ, DOAB,
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10. Must Visit
NME_ICT: https://sakshat.ac.in/
National Repository: https://nroer.gov.in/welcome
PMMMNTT: http://nmtt.gov.in/
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11. Presentation Templates
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For Interactive PPts:
Showeet: https://www.showeet.com/
Presentationgo: https://www.presentationgo.com/
Slidesgo: https://slidesgo.com/
Prezi: https://prezi.com/

12. Free Video Recording Tools
OBS studio: https://obsproject.com/,
Screen Cast-o-Matic:https://screencast-o-matic.com/
Screecastify:https://www.screencastify.com/
Ice-cream:https://icecreamapps.com/Screen-Recorder/
Freecam: https://www.freescreenrecording.com/
Camstudio: https://camstudio.org/
Apowersoft free recorder: https://www.apowersoft.com/
PresentationTube, loom.com, hippovideo.com etc. 12

13. Free Video Recording Mobile Apps
A-Z Recorder & live stream:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hecorat.screenrecorder.f
ree&hl=en_IN
REC.Screen recorder:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spectrl.rec&hl=en_IN
DU recorder & Live stream: https://www.du-recorder.com/
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14. Free Video Editors
Openshot: https://www.openshot.org/
VSDC: http://www.videosoftdev.com/
FilmoraGo(Free with no logo):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wondershare.filmorago&hl=
en_IN
Power director:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberlink.powerdirector.DR
A140225_01&hl=en_IN
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15. Mirroring
Mirroring App: Samsung J7 (TV)
Apower mirror: https://www.apowersoft.com/phone-mirror
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16. Discussion forums:Academic Social
Media/Networking Platforms
Google groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/
YouTube
Facebook
TED Ed
Twitter
LinkedIn
Academia
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17. YouTube
Find me Dr. Sarita Anand
at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk1xop6KbXjsBoByiCRbHuA
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18. Assessment Tools
Google forms,
Quillionz: https://www.quillionz.com/
Quizzizz: https://quizizz.com/
Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/
Mentimeter: https://www.mentimeter.com/ for Q, https://www.menti.com/ for Answer
Edpuzzle with video: https://edpuzzle.com/,
Testmos.com:https://testmoz.com/
Hot potatoes: https://hotpot.uvic.ca/
Kahoot: www.kahoot.com for Quiz creation, http://kahoot.in/ for Play/answer the quiz
Socrative:https://socrative.com/
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19. Interactive Graphs and charts
Infograpia: https://infograpia.com/
Live Charts: https://live.amcharts.com/
Draw.io: www.draw.io
Cmap: https://cmap.ihmc.us/
Mindmaster: https://www.mindmaster.io/
Free Plane: https://www.freeplane.org/
Piktochart: https://piktochart.com/
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20. Create Animations
Randerforest:https://www.renderforest.com/
Pawtoon: www.powtoon.com
Platagon: https://www.plotagon.com/
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21. Online survey
Google forms,
Typeforms:https://www.typeform.com/
Wispforms: https://wispform.com/
Surveymonkey:https://www.surveymonkey.com/
Microsoft froms: https://forms.office.com/
surveyheart: https://www.surveyheart.com/
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22. Online Certificate Creation
CANVA for Online certificates/ Brochures: https://www.canva.com/
Google form Add-on Certify’em (Synchronous):
https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/certifyem/295230426839
Google Sheets Add-onAutocrat (Asynchronous):
https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/autocrat/539341275670
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23. Limitations
Lack of awareness
Lack of resources
Lack of training
Lack of Motivation
Lack of support
Lack of Environment
Not
possible
without
Teacher
Money & Time
Matters
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24. “Be Positive Mentally
Be Negative Physically”
Bcoz COVID-19 Negative is New Normal
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Enjoy the YouTube Animation Video made by
me
Keep Learning
You can find me at
sarita.anand@visva-bharati.ac.in
Thank you