Top 5 Free Online Tutoring Tools
As online learning grows in importance and popularity worldwide, new tools are emerging to support it. Here are 5 free tools that enable tutors, teachers – or even just well-intentioned friends and relatives – to interact with learners over the Internet, no pens or paper required.
Everybody already knows about Skype, the VoIP service now owned by Microsoft. IDroo is a collaborative teaching, learning and brainstorming whiteboard that works with Skype (which enables participants to talk to one another). Free for non-commercial use, tutors and teachers around the world are using IDroo for one-on-one and small-group learning and collaboration. You can draw and write ideas, add images, insert mathematical equations and more.
Scribblar is another free online, collaborative whiteboard. It supports multiple users, live audio, text chat and images. Like IDroo, Scribblar is great for online training and tutoring, brainstorming, and interviews and tests. Scribblar PRO (which is not free) is a “white label” version that tutoring companies can use to create their own, branded online classroom environment.
Wallwisher is an online notice board that anybody can use, with no registration required. It’s ideal for use by tutors and teachers to make announcements about assignments or activities, and for students who want to keep track of project status. It features virtual post-it notes, and lets you post video and images.
4Teachers is a website dedicated to helping teachers integrate technology into the classroom by offering a bunch of worthwhile online tools and resources. Its specialty seems to be free, shared online lessons, quizzes and rubrics. It also offers classroom calendars, professional development resources and more.
Wikispaces Education lets you create and manage a multimedia online learning environment. You can use your wiki to share work, ideas, images, videos, links, etc. You can edit your wiki from anywhere, organize collaborative teams, determine who can see what content, and much more. There’s no limit to how many pages you can create.
What free online tools do you love for your teaching and tutoring?
Some great blogs that inspired me write this post include:
- Edudemic’s “”
- Smash!ng Apps “”
- CNET News “Five tools for the world’s best teacher”
- 4Kids.org
Featured image courtesy of karola riegler photography.
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I have used “Walwisher” And it is something I could recommend to anyone. It’s so easy to use. And because of the graphic it build a good mind within the child.
I agreed with you I too recommend “Walwisher”
I have been using IDroo whiteboard for Skype for a long time now at
campus and now for my daily work and I just love it. I do recommend this
if you are working in teams and need to collaborate with each other at
the same time.
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Thanks for the article. I am recommending my students and
tutors to use IDroo with Skype.