Last updated on 12 May 2026
For the majority of us, the bell rang. Back to school. It is time to prepare for the recovery. In this pre-entry period, I suggest you discover or rediscover four tools and services that deserve a place in your digital toolkit.
Four personal favorites I wanted to share with you.
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Sondo. A platform to facilitate the integration of dys students in middle school
It's been a while since I've been this Sondo Project carried by the company Mobidys. After a test phase with more than 100 colleges, Sondo is officially launched for the start of 2019.
Sondo offers an online library of school books and literature on the college curriculum. These books are accessible on tablet, smartphone or computer to Dys children, but beyond that to all children with reading difficulties. That's a great idea.
Kids can access audio versions of their textbooks to be used in addition to their paper books. They also have access to literature books in a format developed for the occasion by Mobidys with researchers and speech therapists. A format dedicated to Dys children that offers several options to promote deciphering, maintain attention, facilitate understanding. That's great.
Link: Sondo by Mobidys
Canva. A powerful graphic studio for teachers and students
Canva is naturally part of this small list of essential tools for the back-to-school season. This graphic studio to do everything will change your daily life. It is a do-it-yourself graphic studio. It will meet all your needs with hundreds of templates, thousands of images, hundreds of iconographies ready to use. Graphics, maps, leaflets, presentations … You will be able to make high quality graphic creations with a disconcerting ease. You will get a taste of it and so will your students.
Canva has also just introduced a great ‘presenter’ mode for slideshows in its new editor. You will be able to add notes to your slides created in Canva to help you in your presentations. These will only be visible to you. A serious challenger for PowerPoint in perspective.
Link: Canva Graphic Studio
Teetsh. A great online journal for school teachers
Teetsh manages to make keeping the sacrosanct journal of the class a real pleasure. Fresh and modern graphics and particularly well-studied ergonomics make Teetsh a formidable assistant to save you as much time as possible.
Teetsh's takeover is immediate. The tool entirely in French will allow you to generate n a few clicks the journal of the class and the schedules. Ideal for preparing your class. The platform also allows you to save all your work. Sequences and schedules thus remain at hand and can be reused or finely adapted in two clicks three movements. Take the test, you will tell me about it.
Link: Teetsh, journal and schedule for the class.
CleverPDF. A Swiss Knife for Juggling PDF Files
PDF is arguably the most widely used format in the world when it comes to transmitting, disseminating or storing documents of any kind. Its universality is paid for by a real difficulty in extracting texts from a PDF or modifying its content. Clever PDF is an amazing toolkit for creating, editing or convert PDF files.
No less than 25 tools are offered by Clever PDF. You will have a hard time finding the missing function. Whether extracting text from a PDF, converting it to Word format or creating an Excel spreadsheet, Clever PDF answers everything. It is used free of charge on the web. The tool also offers an even more powerful desktop version for Mac and PC. Among the advantages of the latter, the possibility of working without connection or juggling a lot of files.
Link: Clever PDF
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