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Canva
Easy-to-use online design tool that lets you create graphics, presentations, posters, and more using customizable templates.
 
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Teacher: Go to Canva.com. Select "Sign Up" and then "Continue another way". Then select "Continue with Clever".
Student: Join via a join link sent by a teacher OR sign up with Clever.
Pro accounts are available for free to students and educators!
Educator Resources
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- Create engaging visuals for lessons, presentations, and classroom displays
- Helps students design projects like posters, infographics, and reports
- Offers templates for newsletters, certificates, worksheets, and more
- Supports collaboration with shared projects and group editing
- Encourages creativity and design thinking across content areas
- Provides access to free educational resources and tutorials
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Discovery Education
Discovery Education is a digital learning platform that offers educational videos, interactive activities, and lesson resources for K-12 students and teachers across all content areas.
  
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Teacher and Student: Sign up and log in using Clever
Educator Supports
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- Enhance lessons with videos and multimedia
- Assign interactive activities and quizzes
- Access ready-to-use lesson plans
- Leveled resources for all learners
- Virtual field trips and career explorations
- Create digital projects and collaborate
- Built-in analytics of student progress and engagement
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Goosechase
An online platform to create and run digital scavenger hunts experiences supporting team building, student engagement, and active learning.
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Teacher: Create a Goosechase EDU account with your Morton email address. After creating your account, contact Kevin Burke to request to be added to the Morton District 201 plan.
Student: Download the “Goosechase” app and type in the game code provided by the teacher.
Create your Goosechase EDU account
Educator Resources
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- Ice Breakers
- Get-to-Know-You exercises
- Photo Project
- Community awareness campaign
- Community lab review activities
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Kialo Edu
Kialo is a completely free online tool for organizing debates and discussions. It helps users clearly see different sides of an issue using pros and cons.
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Teachers: Go to kialo-edu.com and sign up for free using Microsoft.
Students: Join via shared link from your teacher for individual discussions.
Educator Resources
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- Facilitates structured debates
- Helps students organize arguments with clear pros and cons
- Encourages critical thinking and evidence-based reasoning
- Promotes consideration of multiple perspectives
- Supports collaborative learning with group debate projects
- Tracks student contributions for participation and assessment
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Microsoft PowerPoint
Create presentations from scratch or a template using text, images, art, and videos, plus professional design options, transitions, animations, narration, and cinematic motion.
View presentations on or offline; save, share, and export to a variety of file formats.
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Teacher: Access via the Office 365 suite when logged in using Morton Microsoft credentials.
Student: Access via the Office 365 suite when logged in using Morton Microsoft credentials.
* PowerPoint can be used as a desktop app or through the online version.
Microsoft Teacher Training Packs
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Teacher:
- Present lessons and content
- Promote real-time student
- Create screen recordings with video/audio narration.
- Flip lessons for demonstration purposes or to share with or viewed by students later.
Student:
- Presentations
- Collaborate with other students to build presentations together.
- Record themselves presenting their work for eLearning project submissions.
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Microsoft Word
Word processing tool for document creation and editing accessed via desktop app or online in web browser for collaboration and sharing. Immersive reader, translator, and digital pen tools.
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Teacher: Accessed via the Office 365 suite when logged in using Morton Microsoft credentials.
Student: Accessed via the Office 365 suite when logged in using Morton Microsoft credentials.
*Word can be used as a desktop app or through the online version.
Microsoft Teacher Training Packs
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Teacher:
- Documents for lessons, assignments, quizzes, etc
- Graphic organizers
- Student feedback on documents using the Review toolbar
Student:
- Written papers, essays, letters, assignments, class notes
- Brochures, flyers, resumes, newsletters
- Collaboration and sharing
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Padlet
An interactive online bulletin board useful for posting notes, ideas, and questions. Content can contain links, videos, images and document files.
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Teacher: Go to Morton Padlet. Sign in with Microsoft credentials.
Student: Sign in with Microsoft credentials
Educator Resources
Padlet FAQs and Directions
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- Jigsaw an idea
- Group digital posters
- Student portfolio
- Peer reviews
- Online collaboration
- Create a live question bank
- Entrance/exit tickets
- Thinking maps
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Scrible
Scrible is a research tool that lets users highlight, annotate, and save online articles and PDFs. It organizes sources, creates citations and bibliographies, and makes it easy to collaborate and share research in one place.
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Teacher: Log in using Microsoft.
Student: Log in using Microsoft and join class via teacher classroom code.
Educator Resources
*Please note that licenses are limited to AP Seminar and select AP courses at this time.
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- Highlight and annotate articles and PDFs
- Save and organize research sources
- Generate and manage citations and bibliographies
- Support writing projects with integrated research and note-taking tools
- Collaborate on group research/writing projects
- Share annotated resources with students or between peers
- Track student progress and research activity
- Scaffold research skills
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Quizlet
Create study tools such as interactive flashcards, tests, and study games. With Quizlet, students can choose their own “Study Mode.” This allows activity content to be migrated from flashcards to matching games to other types of study games easily and responsively.
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Teacher: Create a login using your preferred e-mail credentials: School e-mail or login with Google.
Student: Create a login using your preferred e-mail credentials: School e-mail or login with Google.
Quizlet website
Educator Resources
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- Vocabulary practice – independent or gamified
- Machine graded assessments
- Vocabulary assessment
- Concept review & assessment
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