Looking to ditch your paper planners and go digital? With these apps and websites, you can bring lesson planning -- and design -- into the 21st century. Not only can you digitize your lessons -- which will save you time in years to come -- but you can also easily share and edit in ways that paper prevents. Short on time (like most educators)? Dive into one of the sites that have tons of ready-made lesson content. And though schools and districts often dictate which learning management system teachers use, you can check out the assortment on this list to see what's out there. Ultimately, you can create custom calendars for each class, track standards across the curriculum, develop differentiated lesson templates, share schedules with parents, and find the best online resources with these top-notch tools.
Engage and assess students with media, videos, and interactive slides
Bottom Line: This is a great tool with a vast content library, and the teacher- or student-paced learning can unlock the potential of 1-to-1 environments.
Digital worksheet builder lets students show learning in multiple ways
Bottom Line: Students will appreciate this 21st-century take on worksheets, and teachers will love all the different options for creation and assessment.
Create multimedia lessons with engaging but not-so-interactive style
Bottom Line: Allows you to incorporate lots of multimedia resources, but be discerning with content and assessments to avoid lazy teaching or learning.
Robust lesson creation and delivery tool helps with assessment
Bottom Line: In the hands of a determined teacher, this platform's useful suite of tools can support learning experiences that move from instruction to assessment and back.
Set tailored targets with pricey but worth-it kit of tools, strategies
Bottom Line: You pay for quality with Goalbook Toolkit, including access to clear, well-crafted learning goals and strategies that allow for far easier differentiation.
Flexible, feature-filled LMS facilitates focus on whole child
Bottom Line: Being able to access lots of customizable data, group students beyond classes, and communicate easily with families gives teachers a clear picture of each student that they can share.
LMS offers tangible options to differentiate learning
Bottom Line: An excellent option for monitoring individual progress toward goals, but teachers will need to be deliberate when selecting and assigning content.
Free LMS feels rich in offering data-driven differentiated instruction
Bottom Line: This teacher-created site solves more problems than it causes, but it will take some up-front professional development to take full advantage.
Bottom Line: With planning for content and design, and some restraint, teachers can create and manage relevant pages ideal for extending and transferring learning.
