Last updated on 6 November 2016
TesTeach is an online platform that allows easily create and share interactive lessons, presentations or digital resources. It can be used by both a teacher and students. Only small regret, the interface is in English.
TesTeach delivers on ease of handling and use. You can actually create your first lesson in five minutes show in hand.
The platform offers you a kind of canvas for each of your lessons in the form of boxes in which you will be able to slide digital resources of any kind. TesTeach can aggregate videos, texts, images, links to websites or any type of file in the form of an attachment.
After a quick registration to the service, TesTeach offers you to discover the thousands of lessons or presentations created by the users of the platform. You can quickly go your way and tackle the realization of your first lesson. To do this, click on "New lesson" and give a title to your capsule. You then have under the title a grid with boxes in which you will be able to drag the resources you want to offer to your learners.
On the right of the grid, a search engine allows you to find resources online by launching a query. Without having to leave the platform, you will be able to search on Google, YouTube, Flickr. You can also connect the online services where you keep your files and documents: Dropbox, Google drive, etc. You can also upload a file on your computer.
To insert a resource into your course, simply drag it into one of the boxes on the screen. Don’t worry about the order, you can then rearrange the items by simply dragging and dropping.
TesTeach also offers built-in word processing and a quiz generator. You will be able to drag comprehension questionnaires in the middle of your digital resources. Practical.
Once all your resources are well organised in the boxes, all you have to do is share your lesson. It can be shared by email thanks to a unique URL. Each lesson can be public or private. It can also be printed as slides.
To follow a lesson created with TesTeach, simply press the ‘play’ button at the top of the capsule page. The resources you have replenished will scroll one after the other. On the right of the screen, a chat space will allow you to dialogue and comment on the different elements contained in the course.
Little regret, to be able to comment or ask a question in this space, the student must register on the platform with an email address, which is not practical. In the same way, the teacher can create classes to bring students together by level or subject and offer specific lessons, but again it is necessary to go through individual enrolments of students.
These small reserves aside, TesTeach remains a good tool for curation and creation of lessons or online presentations to put in all hands. The tool is free of charge and ad-free. It recently offers a dedicated application for iPad tablets.
Link: TesTeach
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