ClassFlow is a free resource. Here's an introductory video that gives you a sneak peak of it's features! It's an online version of ActivInspire, designed to be used completely online. It works on all devices with internet access without requiring any downloads. Teachers are able to present live lessons and have students interact with the lesson either in-person, virtually, or on their own time.
Different Ways of Interacting
The level of interaction that students has depends on how the teacher wants to setup the lesson.
- A teacher can present information on the screen and students just view.
- A teacher can add in games/activities/YouTube videos etc that students can click and play.
- A teacher can use the different polling options for students to respond back and the class sees each other's reponses on the teacher's board.
- A teacher can create sorts or writing activities and send the slides to the students using the 'creative' poll feature to complete and return.
- A teacher can share the link to a lesson and all students are able to work in the lesson at the same time (great for any activity where you want multiple students work on one activity at the same time).
- ****A teacher can differentiate by creating different slides within the same lesson for different students. During the lesson, they can select which student gets which slide.****
- Google Classroom Type Setup - students log in with their Google information and add the class code. The format is just like Google Classroom. (There are many options with this setup). Teachers can post activities, assignments, games, resources, etc, for students to see in their feeds. Students can also use the feed to go back to review past lessons! To join a live session, they click on the 'Join Class' button. They can also boomark the 'live session' link to their Booksmark bar during their first live session.
- Pick Your Name Setup - great for young students. Students go to a 'class link' and click their name. Students can only see what you send to their screens. This method only allows students to interact during live sessions though. Once a teacher ends a live session, students won't see anything on their screens.
Built In Lesson Building Options / Tools
Instant Whiteboard - can use with Quick Poll or by itself. Can add resources from your Classflow Resources library.
Create Lesson - can use Quick Poll, Quiz/Assessment, or Activities features in a lesson, create your own lesson, embed content from other files (including Google Drive), or embed websites into the lesson.
Polling Options During Live Lessons: Creative (Drawing/Sorting), Word Seed (students submit multiple words), Text (students submit one word), Number, Multiple Choice (up to 5 choices), Scale (Agreement, Confidence, Generic), True/Flase, Yes/No/Don't Know.
Activity Options: Categorize, Crossword, Flashcards, Labeling a Diagram, Matching, Memory Game, Sequencing, Timeline, Venn Diagram, Word Search. You can embed these into your lesson or assign them seperately to students through their class feed.
Create Quiz or Assessments: You can create questions to create a quiz or assessment or embed them into a lesson.
Other Options
- Creating assignments for students.
- Creating rubrics and attaching them to assignments for students to reference.
- Built in resources teachers can use to build lessons - spinners, graphic organizers, templates, etc.
- Marketplace - lessons / materials that other teachers have shared (Classflow's version of Promethean Planet).
- Ability to send students 'badges.'
- Ability to save website addresses into Classflow Resources to reuse in different lessons.
- Ability to embed YouTube videos into a lesson.
Learn Promethean's YouTube Playlist on Classflow - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTTWdUcy0p-4jTg7Lba_qpQEyj3VjHG4m
Classflow Channel (this is an older playlist and hasn't been updated in a while - https://www.youtube.com/user/MyClassFlow
Check Out Classflow - to register - select 'I'm a teacher' and click 'SIGN IN WITH GOOGLE.'
