6 top apps for teachers

Teacherkit

Special-made for teachers and used by more than 1 million people around the world. It can log student attendance, keep notes on individual students, record grades and generate reports for students and parents, among other tasks. K-12, college, and beyond.

Free ClassDojo

Helps teachers enhance classroom experience by taking a multimedia approach to setting up student groups, maintaining real-time classroom data, generating creative classroom project ideas and activities, playing music or videos in the classroom and sharing data with parents or colleagues.

Free Remind

Eases teacher communication by sending out reminders and messages to targeted groups. You can be sure the people who need to get messages are receiving them and schedule reminders that go out as automated messages. Great for use with students, parents, colleagues and administration.

Free Edmodo

Good way to build your classroom community; engaging parents and families; and keeping students involved in their progress.

Free Too Noisy

Is “indoor voice, please” part of your daily repertoire? Too Noisy is a bit counterintuitive — it uses chaos to combat noise. As the classroom gets louder, the app has custom tracking that displays changing graphics and alarms that tell students things are getting too loud. Students learn what “normal” sounds like and the teacher can set trigger levels he or she wants. $3.99

Animoto

If your classroom presentations could use a little jazzing up (and really, whose couldn’t?) Animoto gives teachers fun templates for slide shows, as well as access to a large database of music and videos that can be exported for presentations, emails or other digital documents. Free

If your goals for the remainder of the year include a more organized classroom or more fun ways to engage your students and the school community, any of these options will help you hit those with digital style.