Productivity  Tools

(F) - Free           (FPU) - Free & Paid Upgrades          (LFT) - Limited Free Trial           (P) - Paid
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Calendars
  • Any.do - (FPU) Create task lists that integrate with a calendar. Share tasks, set up notifications, sync with multiple devices and much more.
  • Calendly - (FPU) Schedule individual conferences with students with one message.
  • Cozi - (F) A calendar app and website that helps you stay organized. Keep everything in one place: your calendar, shopping lists, to-do lists, and more.
  • Doodle - (FPU) A scheduling app that works with your calendar to avoid conflicting bookings. 
  • Google Calendar - (F) Manage your schedule with multiple views on multiple devices that includes the use of maps and images. Add events from email automatically to your calendar. 
  • Microsoft Outlook - (F) Create an account to not only send and receive email but to use the calendar feature included with outlook.
  • SignUpGenius - (F) Coordinate and organize any classroom event with ease using this simple communication tool.
  • Team Up - (FPU) A free shared calendar for groups and projects. Schedule your activities, plan projects, track availability and share information.
  • To-do Calendar - (F) You can see the calendar in daily, weekly, monthly, or agenda views; set personal goals; add tasks; set repeating tasks and events; add files; and set multiple reminders.
  • Toggl - (LFT) Plan, track, and deliver team projects without the last-minute rush. Visualize and balance your team's workloads so that no one is over or underworked
  • Which Date Works - (F) Select a date for an event by polling attendees for the best date. After you collect polling results you select the date that works best for everyone.
  • Zoho Calendar - (LFT) (P) You can share your calendar with an entire team or embed your calendar on your website. Send invitations to meetings, create reminders, and much more.
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File Storage & Conversion
  • ​Audio Converter - (F) Online app that converts audio files for all formats quickly.
  • Box - (FPU) Box offers free cloud storage and file sharing services that enables you to securely share and access files.
  • DocHub - (FPU) DocHub streamlines document signing, distribution and form completion.
  • Dropbox - (LFT) Store photos, docs, and videos; sync to desktop; share them easily.
  • Flickr - (FPU) On Flickr, everyone gets 1000GB of free storage, enough space for more than 500,000 photos.
  • Free YouTube Download - (F) Get all the videos you like for offline watching! Download all the videos you want with the simple and smart downloader! Get it for your PC or Mac or Android.
  • ​FreeFileConverterPro - (F) Convert any format to any format (PDF, Doc, PNG, JPG, PSD, HTML, XLS, TEXT, EPS, GIF, PPT, CSV, BMP and more) with this webpage.
  • Google Drive - (FPU) Create and share your work online. Access your documents from anywhere. Most organizations have unlimited storage for education accounts.
  • iCloud - (FPU) Store contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, apps and more in the cloud and access them on all your iOS devices.
  • Online Convert - (FPU) Convert a variety of media files from one format to another.
  • OnlineVideoConverter - (F) Convert a video to be downloaded or stored using a cloud storage platform. Work great with YouTube and other video formats.
  • Video Converter - (F) Convert videos online from one format to another (mp4, avi, mpeg, mkv, mov, flv, 3gp, webm, wmv, gif, etc.) with this Chrome app.
  • Zamzar - (LFT) Convert video, audio, image files and more online.
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Lesson Design
  • Collabrify - (F) Use this system to help you move from a textbook-based curriculum to a 1-1 device-based curriculum. This offers free, device-independent, open, & tiny-footprint tools.
  • Common Curriculum - (FPU) A lesson planning tool that provides you the option of collaborating in real-time. Create standards-aligned templates for each class and each day of the week.
  • Easy Planner - (FPU) Create lesson plans connected to resources from Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive. Provide homework for each class with attached due dates. Review your classes in either day, week or month view. Invite colleagues to your classes and plan together.
  • Educreations - (F) An interactive whiteboard and screen recording tool that is simple and easy to use. Create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students.​
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  • ​​Nearpod - (FPU) Create interactive classroom lessons. 
  • Planboard - (FPU) Planboard, a digital plan book and gradebook, is free for individual teachers. Plan your lessons, attach standards, and manage files all according to your school’s rotation!
  • Showbie - (FPU) Assign, collect and review student work, then provide feedback by adding annotations, text notes and voice notes on their documents. Students can submit to Showbie from thousands of compatible iPad apps.
  • Teachers.io - (F) Teachers.io is the faculty companion app to myHomework, the most popular cross platform student planner app. Advanced tools, reporting and integrations make it easier than ever to monitor and teach organization skills in a digital world.
  • Trackstar 4Teachers - (F) ​TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track.
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QR Codes
  • ​QR Code Generator - (F) Free Online QR Code Generator to make your own QR Codes. Supports dynamic codes, tracking, analytics, free text, vCards and more.
  • QR Code Maker - (F) QR Code Maker is an App Store application that is used to create QR codes.
  • QR Code Reader & Code Scanner - (F) Some QR readers take a while to find and scan the image; not this one. You're at the content almost before you know you're pointing the camera at the right place.
  • QR Droid - (F) Change your smartphone into a powerful QR Code, bar code and Data Matrix scanning utility with this Google Play app. Import, create, use, and share data in a matter of taps.
  • QR Stuff - (FPU) Create QR Codes for well over 20 data types and smartphone actions.
  • Quick Scan - (F) Quick Scan is an App Store app that helps you scan and decode all the QR codes around you, including contact, detail, plain text, website URL, telephone number, SMS message, email address, email message, calendar event, locations and more.
  • ScanQR - (F) Chrome App for using web cam to read QR Codes.
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Sticky Notes
  • abcNotes - (F) Quickly create digital sticky notes.
  • Floating Stickies - (F) Sticky notes that float over any open application.
  • ​MyStickies - (F) MyStickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web.
  • Post It All - (F) Add sticky notes to your favorite web pages. Notes will be loaded automatically each time you visit the page again.​​
  • ​​​Sticky Notes - (F) Sticky notes that are visible over other apps.
  • Sticky Notes 3.3 - (F) Add quick notes on virtual sticky notes.
  • tatter - (F) Beautiful notebook collections of sticky notes.
  • ​Web Page Sticky Notes - (F) Quick and easy note-taking tool that adds sticky notes to any web page.
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Timers
  • Best Sand Timer - (F) Sand timer is displayed with digital timer for increased efficiency. The timer can be customized up to 60 minute increments and provides a variety of sounds for timer notifications.
  • Classtools.net Timer - (F) Digital count down time. Add multiple timers at once and customize the tone using YouTube or individually owned music. Create and save a weblink for future use.
  • countDown - (F) Timer extension with count down and stopwatch abilities. A drop-down menu is used to organize and run multiple timers simultaneously.
  • Daily Timer - (F) Countdown timer has large buttons for ease of use. The app allows the user to customize the color scheme and sounds.
  • E.ggTimer - (F) Countdown timer with simple graphics and gentle sound indicating time is up. It has a full page display feature for increased visibility.
  • Giant Timer - (F) Timer utilizes large fonts for clear visual display and can be used as a timer or stopwatch. A customized message can be displayed when time is complete.
  • Google Search Stopwatch/Timer - (F) Just open up a new Google Search and type in "Timer." This search yields an automatic 5-minute timer, but you can easily change the length of time, make the timer full-screen, and toggle between the timer and stopwatch.
  • Online-Stopwatch - (F) This website provides a variety of custom flash timers great for any classroom project. The fun designs are a great way to support transitioning using images and sounds to signal when time is up. A variety of timers can be downloaded for everyday use.
  • Parrot Timer - (F) Countdown timer with a kid-friendly display of a parrot. The display offers some basic colors for customization and adds animation to indicate when time is complete.​
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  • ​PiTimer - (F) Pi countdown timer is displayed with digital timer for increased efficiency. Background and timer colors are customizable for a pleasant view of time remaining.
  • Sand Timer - (F) Timer responds and interacts like an actual sand timer. The app offers multiple customized colors for increased efficiency when using more than two timers simultaneously.
  • Stopwatch and Timer - (F) Easy-to-read, large digits and a full-screen mode. Notification of time elapsed or remaining in the notification bar so you can see without opening the app.
  • Task Timer - (F) Timer application that can be used to assign timed goals to tasks in hour increments. Time spent on activities is available in charts and can be exported to a spreadsheet.
  • TimeMe - (F) Stopwatch timer that counts up or down. Settings and sounds are customizable. A link to the timer is easily created to add it to any classroom resource.
  • Timer - (F) ​Countdown timer with a visual display. The app offers multiple customized colors for increased efficiency when using more than two timers simultaneously.
  • Timer - Online Timer - (F) Digital timer with drop-down menu with for minute increments. The background colors and size of the clock are customizable.
  • Timer Pop - (F) Countdown timer with very simple graphics The time can be adjusted in 15 second, minute and hour increments. It utilizes a scoreboard sound to notify when time is up and has a full page display feature for increased visibility.
  • Timer+ - (F) Timer and stopwatch that can be set in second, minute and hour increments. Several timers can be set and managed simultaneously. This app can run in the back ground and provide notifications when using multiple applications for increased productivity.
  • Two Click Timer - (F) A simple and nice-looking timer.

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