
KCS Toolkit
Name: | Icon | Brief Description | Type: | Essentials | Grade: |
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NC Digital Learning Competencies | ![]() | These competencies demonstrate skills that teachers and leaders should integrate into their practice in order to create digital learning environments. | Professional Resource | NCDPI Resource | Professional |
Learning Plan Template | ![]() | A series of important questions to ask when designing a learning plan. | Planning Tool | KCS Instructional Framework | Professional |
KCS Instructional StrategyToolbox Site | ![]() | This site holds a variety of instructional strategies and routines for engaging students in any grade and any content area. | Website, Instructional Strategy | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Working with Categories in PowerTeacher Pro | ![]() | How to set up grading categories in PowerTeacherPro | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Top 10 Strategies for Differentiation with Discovery Ed | ![]() | Differentiation of content, delivery, and / or demonstration of learning | Instructional Strategy | Discovery Education | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Padlet | ![]() | Padlet is an app and website used to create an online bulletin board that you can use to display information for any topic. | iPad App | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Rewordify | ![]() | Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. | Website | Other | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Flippity | ![]() | Easily turn a Google Spreadsheet into a Set of Online Flashcards and Other Cool Stuff | Instructional Strategy | Google Productivity | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
NCEd Cloud-Logging In | NCEd Cloud is a storehouse, single sign-in program where you will access many state and local apps and programs. | Tutorial | Canvas, Discovery Education, iReady, School Net, NCWiseOwl, Edgenuity (6-12), PowerTeacher Pro | Professional | |
Answer Garden | ![]() | Answer Garden is a real-time feedback tool that allows for student response, brainstorming, and participation. | Instructional Strategy | Google Classroom | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Weather by Tinybop | ![]() | Explore the weather and the science behind the weather that we experience on a daily basis. | iPad App | 5-Mar | |
Clips App | Students can use the Clips App in order to record short snippets of video in order to put together a longer film as a "how to" or a story. | iPad App | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | ||
The Human Body | ![]() | An app that allows students to explore the different systems in the human body and their functions. | iPad App | 5-Mar | |
Plickers | ![]() | An assessment tool for teachers, that will easily check for understanding. | App on phone | Professional, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
QR Code Generator and Qrafter App | ![]() | Teachers can create various links using QR codes and students can then access the links using the Qrafter App. | Website | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Poll Everywhere | This website allows you to present a question for an audience or your students to respond to in real time. | Website | Professional, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | ||
Resource Lists for Destiny | Teachers can create specific lists of websites and book resources from their school media center that can be curated to a specific list for future use. | Website | Professional | ||
Using DPI Math Resources | ![]() | A video on how to use the DPI's math resources | Tutorial | Professional | |
NCEd Cloud User Data & Password change | Access your students' NCEd Cloud user information and change passwords. | Tutorial | Professional | ||
Screencastify | ![]() | Screencastify is a free screen recording extension for Chrome | Google App/Extension | Google Productivity | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Remind | ![]() | A private message platform to enable communication between teachers, students, and parents. | Communication Tool | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Khan Academy | ![]() | Online tool to help educate students in just about any subject. | Website | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Shadow Puppet | Shadow Puppet allows students and teachers to create videos to show their learning or assist in developing a blended learning environment. Using Shadow Puppet Edu, students can create video slideshows, adding their own narration and text. Videos can be up to 30 minutes long and can include up to 100 images, free for classroom use. | iPad App | 3-5, 6-8 | ||
Chatterpix | Chatterpix is a fun app for students to create a video of an inanimate object which is able to come alive and speak in order to show what students know. | iPad App | K-2, 3-5 | ||
Quizlet | ![]() | A learning tool to let your student study anything. | Instructional Strategy | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Google Forms for Student Assessment | ![]() | Google Forms is a question-based tool used to gather data. | Google App/Extension | Google Productivity | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Felt Board App | Felt Board is an easy app for younger students to show what they know in a fun and engaging way. | iPad App | K-2 | ||
Printing Instructions for Standards-Based Report Cards | ![]() | Instructions on how to print K-5 standards-based report cards from PowerSchool | Tutorial | PowerTeacher Pro | Professional |
Quizizz | ![]() | A quiz in game format for every subject. | Game/Simulation | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Kahoot | Kahoot is a website that allows teachers and students to create fun learning games with multiple choice questions. | Game/Simulation | 3-5, 6-8 | ||
Green Screen by Do Ink | Green Screen is a wonderfully easy app that enables students to create visually engaging videos to share what they have learned about specific content. | iPad App | K-2, 3-5 | ||
Adobe Scan | ![]() | Turn pictures into PDF's | iPad App | Canvas, Google Classroom, SeeSaw, Showbie | Professional, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |
Gimkit | ![]() | This site provides an alternative to Kahoot and Quizlet style learning games. | Website | 6-8, 9-12 | |
Move Their Bodies, Grow Their Brains | Movement activities and ideas that can be implemented right away to engage students with what they are learning, review content, assess student learning, and most importantly get students moving! | Instructional Strategy | Other | K-2, 3-5 | |
Big Huge Labs | ![]() | This website has resources for students to use in creating final products that are both engaging and interactive. | Website | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
EdPuzzle | ![]() | This website allows you to turn any video into a lesson. | Website | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Setting up Grading Preferences in PowerTeacher Pro | ![]() | How to set up grading preferences in PowerTeacherPro. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Belkin Stage: Interactive Whiteboard | ![]() | The Belkin Stage App combines the convenience of a document camera with the power of an interactive whiteboard. | iPad App | 5-Mar | |
How To Import Assignment Groups from PowerSchool into Canvas | ![]() | Kannapolis City Schools has adopted both Canvas LMS and PowerSchool SIS as enterprise student academic management applications. This resource will help you understand how they communicate with each other. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Using PowerTeacher Pro in Canvas | ![]() | Kannapolis City Schools has adopted both Canvas LMS and PowerSchool SIS as enterprise student academic management applications. This resource will help you understand how they communicate with each other. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Using Canvas on a Teacher Mobile Device | ![]() | Classroom teachers work on school activities outside of their classrooms. This resource will help you work inside Canvas LMS from your Mobile Device | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Creating a Google Drive Assignment in Canvas | ![]() | Classroom teachers in a one-to-one computing environment will benefit greatly by using Google Drive as linked content to share resources and assignments digitally with their students. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Using Discussions in Canvas | ![]() | Classroom teachers in a one-to-one computing environment will benefit greatly by using Canvas LMS to discuss content digitally with their students. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Syncing Grades Between Canvas and PowerTeacher Pro - Short Version | ![]() | If you get stuck passing grades between PowerTeacher Pro and Canvas LMS refer to this guide for answers. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
How do I Sync Grades Between Canvas and PowerTeacher Pro - Long Version | ![]() | If you get stuck passing grades between PowerTeacher Pro and Canvas LMS refer to this guide for answers. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Getting Help with Canvas (Instructor) | ![]() | If you get stuck using Canvas LMS refer to this guide for links to answers. | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Comprehensive Instructor Guide for Canvas | ![]() | This 24 page guide is packed full of tutorials designed to help you maximize your efforts using Canvas LMS | Tutorial | Canvas | 6-8, 9-12 |
Slides Carnival | This site provides free templates to help "jazz up" your Google Slides presentations. | Website | Google Productivity | Professional | |
FlipGrid | ![]() | Flipgrid is a video making platform that allows students the opportunity to teach and explain their learning, thinking, and opinions. | Website | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
HyperDocs | ![]() | HyperDocs allow a teacher to guide students through a self-paced lesson with embedded instruction, assessment with opportunities for enrichment, remediation, and meeting with the teacher. | Instructional Strategy | Google Productivity | 6-8, 9-12 |
Career and College Ready Planning | ![]() | These lessons make use of existing online resources to help students plan their route to post-secondary life. | Website | 6-8, 9-12 | |
Desmos | ![]() | Free collection of engaging digital math activities for grades 6-12 that focus on investigation and conceptual understanding. | Website | 6-8, 9-12 | |
Actively Learn | ![]() | An online literacy platform that helps students overcome the barriers to reading for depth. | Digital Resource | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Video Assessments | Using videos to assess to reach those student who are not the greatest with regular assessments. | Instructional Strategy | Other | K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 | |
Peer Consultancy | This is a structured protocol that can be used when students or peers give each other feedback or discuss a dilemma. | Instructional Strategy | Professional, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 |