These have been adapted from http://mashable.com/2008/08/15/tools-for-teachers-tutors-and-students
Grading Tools
- Engrade.com - Allows teachers of any subject, for any grade, anywhere to keep a free grade book, attendance chart and more that can be accessed by students, parents and administrators.
- GradeNetwork.com - Another online grade book that really emphasizes the ability for parents and teachers to stay in touch with each other by allowing parents to see grades at a glance and message teachers.
- MyGradeBook.com - Features grade books, attendance records, ability for parents and students to log in to check progress and more. Offers a free 30-day trial and then changes over to a cost per-license that gets discounted with the more licenses you purchase.
- OnlineSchoolReports.com - OnlineSchoolReports allows parents to log in each day and see how their child/children are doing in school. They can use the internal messaging system to talk about any concerns they may have with the teacher. Currently the service is free of charge.
- SnapGrades.net - Offers free and premium versions of a grade book that can include things like parent and student access, generating reports, Spanish translation and more. Also features scalability from a single teacher up to an entire school district.
Miscellaneous Tools
- 4Teachers.org - Offers multiple free tools for the use of teachers and students alike, such as online quiz generators, grading guidelines, educational video games and much more.
- Blackboard.com - Pretty much a complete educational system that allows you to stay in touch with students, run tests, leave voicemails for students and much, much more.
- TheClassConnection.com - Allows high school and college students to set up communities based around their classes to create flash cards, share information, message one another and more.
- Digication.com - Teachers, students and administrators can set up e-portfolios to display work, assignments, resumes and more.
- Haikuls.com - An online learning management system that allows you to create lessons for your class or eclass. Also allows embedding of major services such as YouTube and Zoho.
- KEEP Toolkit - Teachers and students can set up visual representations of their work to share with others, entice new students, put them up for peer review, and more.
- Moodle.org - An open source solution for a course management system that can be scaled from a single instructor to an entire institution.
- Studeous.com - Allows you to set up extended learning with notes, messages, podcasts and more that lets the learning continue well beyond the classroom.
- TeacherTube.com - An educationally focused alternative to YouTube for teachers and students to post videos and share them worldwide with other classes and instructors.
- WiZiQ.com - A white board system that allows you to teach long distance with video and voice support that can be recorded for later playback.
Social Networks
- Classroom20.com - A social network for teachers interested in using collaborative tools in their profession.
- Classroomn.com - Use it to connect with other teachers, create a network for your class or even their parents.
- HotChalk.com - A mixture of a learning management system and a social network where teachers can share lesson plans with one another and interact with parents and students. Be sure to check out HotChalk on an episode of Mashable Conversations.
- TeachAde.com - Besides giving teachers a social network, you can also set up a blog and site about yourself to share with others.
- TeacherEvents.com - A social network for teachers that also focuses on allowing teachers to discover who is going to be at upcoming teacher conferences so that they can connect while there.
- Teachers.Yahoo.com - Not yet completed, Teachers.Yahoo.com will allow teachers from all over the world to save lesson plans and share them with other teachers, saving all those involved a lot of preliminary legwork.
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