Todaysmeet.com

Want your students to chat in a room you know will only last as long as you want without making students sign up for an account? Embed this link into a hyperdoc and students can chat as they access the Hyperdoc, view a slidebook, or give them a specific question during an article.

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Answer Garden

No account necessary for students, answer garden takes your students answers to your question and makes them into a sort of Wordle making the answers that students enter the most larger. Set a character limit and time limit for your questions to ensure only your students are answering or check out other users thoughts. This is great for asking student’s one word thoughts after viewing a video or a set of primary source documents or pictures.

Lino

Use Lino as a blank space that you can pre-make and allow all your students to easily post text, videos, and links without creating accounts. For example, maybe you are asking students to choose a side for or against and post their evidence. As a teacher you can pre make a background that divides the page with For and Against and students can do the posting!

Padlet

Padlet is pretty much exactly the same as Lino except it is literally just a blank page. No accounts necessary, not even a teacher one if you don’t want to save your links and access them later. Fast, easy to post text and videos, and easy to distribute the link out later.

Storyboard That

As a wonderful check for understanding at the end of a one day Hyperdoc OR a CFU in the middle of a Hyperdoc for a multi-day lesson, have students use Storyboard That and take a screenshot of what the story they created and post it back on the Hyperdoc. Storyboard That is fun, creative, and doesn’t take too long because it’s so simple to use graphic wise.

Tube Chop

Youtube Videos are too long to put in Hyperdocs (at least for junior high)! Chop it to the good part using Tube Chop, plus it takes all the yucky advertisements and comments out and puts it on a nice clean page.

Screencastify

Add pre-made tutorial videos by you when asking students to use a new app or do something new on the computer. For example, when making a two week Hyperdoc on a research topic where students will eventually write a paper with a work cited page, a teacher could create a screencast on how to make a Work Cited Page using the Citation machine extension in Google. This makes your life easier and your students can watch from home!

Edpuzzle

Create a login and start using Youtube videos as a check for understanding in your Hyperdoc lesson. Take the link to an already made videos and at the point in the video you want to stop it you can add multiple choice or short answer questions students must answer before they can move on. Responses will be recorded right in your teacher account with the ability to see how far students are into the assignment real time.

Google Everything (forms, slides, draw)

Embed premade Google Drawings right into your Hyperdoc! Link a Google Form for a quick check for understanding or to group students together based on preference for a topic. Create a Google Slides and link it for students to view primary source documents, or analyze photos or paintings. Or use Google Slides as a way for a whole class to view what each student has made or thinks about a topic.

Meme Generator

Without creating an account, use a meme generator to add some fun into your Hyperdocs or have students create memes on what they are learning about! You could of course do this in Google Slides, but this is SO fast and easy, plus the preloaded classic Meme pics are too good.