Best Education software

ClassDojo is a classroom communication platform used in most US schools to connect teachers with families in real time. Teachers can message parents, share photos and videos through a private class feed called Stories, and track student behavior using points tied to skills the class defines together. Students get their own avatar and can build a digital portfolio through Student Stories, supporting social emotional learning alongside academic updates.

The core ClassDojo experience, including messaging, points, and Class Story, is free for teachers and schools forever. ClassDojo Plus is an optional family subscription that adds an AI homework helper, a library of interactive children's books, detailed progress reports, and photo and video memory albums, billed monthly or annually with a 7-day free trial.

Seesaw is an elementary learning experience platform used by K-6 teachers to assign interactive activities, build student digital portfolios, and communicate with families. Students can save completed work, take pictures of physical artifacts, and add voice or video recordings to demonstrate learning, while teachers can differentiate assignments and run formative assessments. A built-in translation tool lets families read captions and messages in their own language.

Seesaw offers a free Starter tier for individual teachers with core portfolio and activity features. School and district-wide plans, including Seesaw LMS, Seesaw Instruction and Insights, and Seesaw AI, add gradebooks, dashboards, a curriculum library, and AI tools, but are sold only to schools and districts through a custom quote rather than to individual teachers.

Nearpod, now part of Renaissance Learning, lets teachers turn slides, videos, and PowerPoints into interactive lessons with quizzes, polls, collaborate boards, 3D objects, and VR field trips. Lessons can be delivered live or self-paced, with real-time insights letting teachers see how students respond and adjust instruction on the spot. The Nearpod Library offers over 22,000 standards-aligned lessons and activities, and an AI Create tool can generate interactive lessons and formative assessments automatically.

Nearpod's free Silver plan includes 300MB of storage and supports 40 students per lesson. Paid Gold ($159/year) and Platinum ($397/year) plans raise storage and student limits and unlock features like the AI Create question generator and student notes. Schools and districts can get a custom Enterprise license with unlimited storage and admin reporting.

Khan Academy is a nonprofit online learning platform offering instructional videos, practice exercises, and lessons across math, science, history, literature, economics, computer science, and test prep for exams like the SAT and MCAT. Content is completely free for independent learners, teachers, and parents, with no ads or contracts. Its AI-powered Khanmigo tool provides personalized tutoring and homework support, and usage has grown sharply, reaching about 2 million users.

Khan Academy is free for individuals, and Khanmigo is free for teachers. Learners and parents can subscribe to Khanmigo for $4/month or $44/year. Districts can license Khan Academy Districts starting at $10 per student per year for Enterprise Starter (up to 1,000 licenses), with custom Enterprise pricing for larger districts that adds automated rostering and live professional development.

Pear Deck is a classroom engagement tool that turns Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint presentations into interactive lessons. Teachers add draggable, drawing, free response, and multiple choice questions directly into their existing slides, then run the deck live so every student responds in real time from their own device. Student Paced Mode lets learners move through content on their own for homework, absences, or differentiated instruction.

Beyond live presentations, Pear Deck includes AI tools that generate standards aligned lessons, practice sets, and quizzes in minutes, plus a teacher dashboard for named responses, individual feedback, and session reports. It integrates with Google Classroom and Microsoft accounts and includes accessibility features like immersive reader and enhanced dictation, making it a widely used option in K-12 classrooms.

Edpuzzle lets teachers turn existing videos, from sources like YouTube, Vimeo, TED, and National Geographic, into interactive lessons by embedding multiple choice or open ended questions, audio notes, and comments at any point in the timeline. A Prevent Skipping setting stops students from skipping past unanswered questions, and Live Mode lets a teacher project a synced video to the whole class with student responses appearing in real time.

Teachers get analytics on who watched, how much of the video they watched, and how they answered each question, which helps target follow up instruction. Edpuzzle integrates with Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and other major platforms, and newer AI features can auto generate questions from a video transcript. A free Basic plan covers a limited number of saved activities, with paid Pro plans removing that limit.

Quizizz officially rebranded to Wayground in mid-2025, moving its website from quizizz.com to wayground.com, though existing quizizz.com links and integrations like joinmyquiz.com still redirect and work. The product itself is unchanged in substance: teachers create gamified quizzes, interactive lessons, and flashcards with question types like drag-and-drop and hotspot, deliver them live or as self-paced assignments, and use built-in AI to generate content from documents, text prompts, or websites, drawing on a library of 20 million-plus teacher-made activities.

The Basic plan is free with storage for up to 20 activities. A paid Individual (Super) plan adds unlimited storage and unlimited AI credits, though its official pricing page displayed region-based pricing rather than a fixed US dollar figure during research. School and District plans add premium content, LMS integrations, and dedicated success managers through a custom quote.

Quizlet is a study platform built around digital flashcards that students and teachers can create for any subject. Its Learn mode adapts question difficulty and format based on performance, and AI tools can generate flashcards, study guides, and full practice tests directly from uploaded class notes. Quizlet Live and Match turn review sessions into competitive or collaborative classroom games, and Study Groups let students track shared progress with classmates.

The free tier covers core flashcard creation and study modes, while Quizlet Plus and Plus Unlimited add unlimited AI generated practice tests, textbook and homework Q&A, offline access, and an ad free experience, billed monthly or at a lower annual rate. A Family plan shares Plus Unlimited across multiple people, and group pricing is available for schools. Quizlet is based in San Francisco.

Flip, formerly known as Flipgrid, was a free video discussion app that Microsoft acquired in 2018 and made available at no cost to all educators. Teachers posted discussion topics as text or video prompts, and students responded asynchronously with short videos, audio, or text that classmates could comment on and build upon, with automatic closed captioning and simple video editing tools like stickers and effects.

As of October 1, 2024, Microsoft fully retired the standalone Flip website and mobile apps and deleted all stored user data. Its camera and basic video assignment features now live inside Microsoft Teams for Education rather than as an independent product, so Flip is no longer available or purchasable on its own. This listing reflects its historical functionality; anyone looking for these features today should look at Teams for Education instead.

Schoology Learning, now part of PowerSchool, is a learning management system used by K-12 districts to manage courses, assignments, grading, and communication in one hub. Teachers can organize materials into folders, set completion rules to release content gradually, run discussion boards, and return graded work with written feedback directly on submissions. The platform includes standards based grading, a family portal for real-time progress visibility, and PowerBuddy AI, which helps teachers generate grade-leveled content and gives students a conversational AI tutor.

Schoology integrates with Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 and offers gamification and mobile apps. It is used by roughly 4,000 organizations and 7 million students. A free plan exists for schools with fewer than 100 students, while larger schools and districts must contact PowerSchool for a custom Enterprise quote.