10 Great Learning Apps

1. Instructional
Apps 12
Tiffany Hastings & Cody Rozell

2. KAHOOT
● KAHOOT!
● Kahoot! Is a tool used to quiz students in the
classroom.
● It does provide student feedback by showing the
students if they got the answer right or wrong
after the class answers.
● The app requires you to be able to recall
information.
● It is very easy for you to use as a student or
teacher, because the entire app is from a web
reaching device.
● It offers privacy in the form of not making you use
your own name in the quiz. It allows students to
use a different name.
● The skills are connected to my standards because
they are adaptive to whatever I need them to be at
any given time.
● Overall, The app is very easy to use as it walks the
student and teachers through the service so they
can use the app to the best of their ability. This is a
great app to use in the classroom.

3. Noteability
● Noteability
● This app provide students with a superior tool to
use while taking notes.
● It doesn't provide student feedback because its
notes based. Its up to the students to interact and
use the information they put in.
● This app reinforces comprehension and
information retention through note taking.
● The notes part of the app is very easy to use, and it
only gets easier after you use it for awhile and
familiarize yourself with all the tools. There are
some complaints about the File downloading not
being that good.
● It provides a private file for all the students to keep
their notes for the class.
● The skills can reinforce the curriculum, because
students will take notes over the material and use
them to prepare for class.
● Yes the app is very easy to follow. It allows you to
make notes from scratch, or download PDF,
Powerpoints, documents, and other files so that
you can add your own notes to it.

4. Skype
● Skype
● This app creates a virtual classroom for
students to interact with in the case we are
ever aways from school.
● It does not provide student feedback, because
the app is just a vessel for communication
between teacher and student.
● The app provides a way for interaction and
communication.
● Very easy to use. Teachers can start a class
call and students can join easily.
● It offers a lot of privacy by giving the students
the option to use their camera or not and also
their microphone or not.
● The app does have easy to use instructions.
Everything is laid out simplistically on the
homepage for all the students to join or start
their calls.

5. Remind101
● Remind101
● This is a tool that allows teachers to relay
information to their students outside of the
classroom. The teacher can remind students of
assignments, test, and activities while the student
is away from class.
● It provides the student with the opportunity to
memorize or recall activities or assignments that
the student needs to accomplish.
● Incredibly easy to use. The teacher just gathers
the students phone numbers and puts them into a
class in the app and she will be able to send
reminders to the students anytime it is needed.
● I love the privacy feature for this app. It allows the
teacher to send messages without the students
having the ability to respond.
● This app is very easy to follow and interact with.
Once you set it, its ready for use for the entire
year. Students will simply get a text anytime the
teacher needs to remind them of something.

6. Animoto
● Animoto
● This is an advanced presentation tool that allows
the user to create more interactive slides for a
presentation.
● This allows students to use their knowledge to
create projects to relay information to the class
and the educator.
● I found this app to be a little difficult to use at first,
but there are instructions students can listen to
and follow that will better help them use this app
to the fullest degree.
● All the information in this app is saved to your
own personal file that only you have access to.
Only the user decides who they are shared with.
● The skills in this app do reinforce the curriculum.
Depending on the assignment, Students will be
able to create great presentation to demonstrate
their knowledge to the class, and teacher can use
it to pass knowledge to their class.

7. Dreambox
● Dreambox
● https://www.dreambox.com/
● Students build math skills in language
that works best for them.
● At-a-glance dashboard tracks tracks
progress and identifies gaps.
● Students can progress daily and learn in
Spanish or English. Offers intervention for
needed support also.
● Very easy to navigate and learn.
● Teachers can massage students and
students may reply or message teachers.
High Common Sense Media rating so
students are safe.
● Lessons are designed by teachers with all
state standards in mind K-8.
● The app is easy to use and setup so that
students can easily follow the directions.

8. Epic
● Epic
● https://www.getepic.com/
● A reading app for students.
● Epic does provide feedback to students
● Students progress reading levels.
● A very easy to use site.
● Add free learning on a secure site.
● Teachers can set reading levels for students
based on curriculum and Lexile levels.
● This app is very easy for students to use.
They log in and the books are ready for them
to read.

9. Lexia
● Lexia
● https://www.lexialearning.com/core5
● Helps students read, write and speak
confidently.
● This program will assess student learning and
recommend intervention or move the
student up.
● It moves students up in level as they grow
and increase comprehension.
● Very easy for students to follow the
instructions.
● A private site that does not share
information of have external links.
● All learning is aligned with state standards
and
● The app provides easy to follow learning
paths providing awards on the way.

10. Learning.com
● Learning.com
● https://www.learning.com/
● Used to teach technology, coding, and digital
citizenship.
● It provides rewards when students complete
assignments correctly. Students can’t move
forward on the learning path if they are not
accomplishing the percentage set by the
teacher.
● Students continuously progress to higher levels
as teacher assign more challenging assignments.
● Very easy for students to login to and follow the
learning path their teacher has assigned.
● Add-free private learning environment with no
personal information collected.
● Skills are grade level and state standard based.
● Students follow a learning path and there is
audio and text instructions and what they need
to do.

11. Khan Academy
● Khan Academy
● Khan Academy | Free Online Courses,
Lessons & Practice
● Used to help students fill in gaps and then
accelerate their learning in multiple
subjects.
● It provides graded feedback.
● Help create confidence in students as
they write and learn correct structure.
● Teachers easily keep track of progress.
● It is private site with no outside links or
private information stored.
● This site uses the state standards and
teacher created curriculum.
● Students login and follow the instructions
for the assignment with ease.