Teaching is not a profession, there is a lot to describe about the work done behind 1 hr of class. If you ask me, is there any toughest job? Teaching could be one of the answer for that. Because, for delivering a single class, teacher has to work a lot behind it right from searching for the context to organizing it and to deliver it in the class. It becomes even tougher when it goes to making students engage to be focused in the class and assigning the assessments and managing them.

Online teaching becoming more powerful than Offline teaching. Through online classes, students will have their own comfortable zone to attend to the classes from anywhere and can listen to the classes whenever they want and even can revise. But, managing students is not as simple as it is. The teacher has to keep some more effort what he is giving at present. As the technology is advancing faster there are plenty of applications that could make the process a bit simpler to the teacher. Either a mobile device in your hand or a tablet is more than enough to make it easier to present the class. But, you need to choose a right set of software or applications for your tasks. But, before choosing you need to make a list of task you are going to handle.

Here, we have collected the 5 most useful Android applications for your online classes/teaching.

1.     Google Classroom:

 

Google classroom is a free software that was developed by Google which is generally used by schools to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments. It was designed to present your lecture through online by creating a class room and managing the student’s class wise. You can easily share files between teacher and students. One of the best in google classroom is, a teacher can create assignment and can share it virtually to the students and can grade them on the basis on his performance from online itself. Even a teacher can give due dates to the assignments through calendar.

2)    Google Jamboard:

                                          

Google Jamboard is an interactive whiteboard which was developed by Google. It offers a collaborative experience for teams through online. With jamboard, you can easily

·         Write and draw with stylus

·         Insert images or webpages and can search google

·         Drag and resize text and images with your fingers

·         Share you jams with collaborators. Upto 50 people can work on a jam at once

Even you can share the google drive Docs, Sheets and Slides to jam. You can collaborate with any device like from your phone, tablet or even computer. Every one can work on the jam board at a time. All the changes will reflect to everyone immediately.

3)    Schoology:

                                                         

Schoology, is a social networking service and virtual learning environment for school and institutions that allows users to create, manage and share academic content. Basically, it is a cloud based platform that provides tools needed to manage online classroom. It help teachers to contact students with homework and interact with the students. Even, they can post daily updates and can message students. They can create test ans quizzes online and can create a online gradebook.

 

4)      Slack:

                                  

Slack is a communication platform basically designed to collaborate with the teams. The main agenda of slack is to allow a group of members to communicate with each other and can share their work either individually or group. Slack allows communities, groups or teams to join a workspace via specific URL sent by team admin. In slack, you can even create public and private channels and allows the team members to communicate without the use of emails. Public channels allow everyone in the workspace.

Private channels allow for private conversation between smaller groups. Slack can be integrated with any 3^rd party services like google drive, dropbox, github and much more.

 

5)      Dropbox:

                                                                

Dropbox  is an application that allows the teachers to upload the presentations, photos, videos and assignments to the students and they can have an easy access to those materials from anywhere. It is a cloud bases platform for uploading and saving files so that they can be stored or sent over internet. Basically, it offers 2GB of space that you can use to store and access your files from multiple devices.