Free Resources to Help with Remote Learning in 2022

  • 08/30/22

FeedbackFruits is offering free access to tools that make online courses more engaging. Functionality includes letting instructors add practice questions or discussion topics to their videos, documents, presentations and audio recordings; enable peer evaluation; provide inline feedback; and deliver automatic grading on any student interaction or assignment. The tools can be integrated into the learning management system. Once the instructor signs up, the company will get in touch to set up access. https://feedbackfruits.com/get-started

Flipsnack is offering its classroom plan for free to educators. The program enables student groups to collaborate on the creation of digital magazines. Besides text, those can include videos, audio, links and other interactive elements. Registration required. https://www.flipsnack.com/classroom-plan-apply/

General Assembly, which develops technical and business courses, has produced a free short course on how to teach online. Registration required. https://generalassemb.ly/blog/how-to-teach-online/


Good Calculators is providing a variety of free online calculators, to do math and statistics, engineering and conversions. The website also offers specialized calculators for financial, date and time, logistics, sales, sports and health. https://goodcalculators.com/

GoodNotes, a note-taking app for Apple devices, is now free to download. Users can create up to three digital notebooks at no cost; a full unlock, priced at $7.99, offers unlimited notebooks, handwriting recognition and the ability to search handwritten text. https://www.goodnotes.com/

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals provides access to Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Classroom, Assignments, Sites, Groups, Drive, Admin and Tasks. Registration required.
https://edu.google.com/products/workspace-for-education/education-plus/

GreyCampus offers free access to OpenCampus, its resource library on professional certifications with practice questions and flashcards; and codelabs, which allows the student to run code in a browser. https://www.greycampus.com/opencampus/downloads

Hallo is offering free Android and iOS apps to help students practice English. Hallo is a live-streaming community for English learners and teachers. Students can learn from native speakers through live videos 24/7 and practice speaking in seconds with people all around the world. Registration required. https://hallo.tv/athomelearning/

HelioCampus has released the LMS Explorer Kit, a free tool that allows institutions to extract and organize data from their learning management system to better inform resource planning and decision-making. Currently, Canvas and Blackboard Learn are supported. Registration required. https://www.heliocampus.com/lms_explorerkit

IBM is producing IBM SkillsBuild (formerly P-TECH), to help students and educators pick up computing and workplace basics in multiple subjects, including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, design thinking and cloud computing, as well as soft skills. https://skillsbuild.org/


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