Planning a course is a very important stage in teaching. A previous organization of the content and exercises to be carried out by the students, contribute greatly to the transmission of knowledge.
This process involves hours of priceless work, not to mention the time to correct tasks and projects. Therefore, planning facilitates the diagnosis and resolution of problems that a teacher can find within his course. That is why, with these three digital tools, planning your courses will be easier:
1. Tes Teach (with Blendspace):
This is a simple, intuitive and free tool. A feature of this tool is that you can use it both for a primary or secondary level of education and for a higher level or even for business training.
With Tes Teach you can:
– manage an unlimited number of class
– keep a record of attendance, grades and behavior
– customize a gradebook to record student results
– generate reports on students as well as academic performance at the group level
In addition, with this tool you can build virtual boards that allow you to share a wide variety of content: texts or questionnaires generated within the tool; documents or images to upload to Tes Teach, videos from Vimeo or Youtube. It even allows you to share documents from Dropbox or Google Drive. It has its own search service to use content from these platforms.
So you can also use your own content, which you will have to previously upload to the platform. You plan the course “drag and drop” so organizing the content is extremely easy.
When you’re done planning your lesson, you can easily share it via social media, embed it right into your virtual classroom, or generate a QR code. You have access to a library where you can search and share lessons or presentations with other users.
2.PlanbookEdu:
This is an online planning platform with which teachers can create, share and print their lessons. They can include homework or any other type of material. An advantage of using this platform is to create your course planning from scratch, use templates or reuse already created ones.
With the free version you only have access to develop a single lesson or course plan. With the “Premium” version, the lessons are unlimited. The platform has a calendar, which by selecting the day or week, you can access scheduled events or content.
This tool is useful for all those teachers who have to keep track of the different courses or content that they can teach in a day or week. With PlanbookEdu You can also collaborate with other users of the platform.
3.Insert Learning:
This is a very interesting platform that will undoubtedly boost the planning of the content of your courses. This tool differs from the other two above as it allows you to make changes to a web page or a document uploaded to Google Docs.
In this way, you turn the content into an interactive lesson by adding comments, establishing a conversation, highlighting a section of the content, including videos, questions or a quiz.
Since it has a user registration system, students can see this information at the same time that they can insert their own annotations. Then, you only have to “assign” the content to the list of students and the link to be placed on the platform is automatically created. Google Classroom.
Also, by using Insert Learning with the Google platform, it makes grading projects and assignments much easier. The teacher can directly go to the content to be evaluated, “see” all the comments and qualify directly from this list or, if desired, from the IL page. Each account has a “control panel” to keep track of the tasks and projects to qualify.
Take into account that with Insert Learning you can only create five tasks, then you will have to delete the previous ones to continue creating.
