Do you wish your virtual classroom had more interactive features and better tools? Do you navigate outside of your platform during a class to access more robust programs—like more creative whiteboards, enhanced polling, countdown timers, or interactive games? This workaround might give you the needed functionality, but it creates a clunky interface experience for your learners. There’s a better way to use add-on tools in virtual classes: Apps!

Modern virtual classrooms have a little-known but amazing feature that brings external apps directly into the virtual room. This means you won’t lose your audience while switching to another program, and you can minimize tech challenges while maximizing the learner experience. 

In this interactive session, you will explore a blueprint for using apps to create engaging learning that sticks. You’ll discover how to use apps to boost learning and create deeper engagement. Whether you're using Teams, Zoom, WebEx, or Adobe Connect, this session will equip you with ready-to-use strategies that work seamlessly across formats. Together, we will explore and experience powerful apps like Timer, Badges, GroupPhoto, Kunjani, Mindomo, and more. From quick virtual icebreakers to interactive quizzes, video tools, robust polling, collaborative whiteboards, each app adds variety and boosts learner involvement, with seamless tech throughout. You’ll leave with seven practical ways to creatively use apps in your sessions, plus a curated app list you can implement immediately. 

In this session, you will:

• Discover 7+ compelling apps you can use to increase interaction in your virtual classrooms
• Learn to foster creativity and structure intentional learner engagement with immediately usable apps
• Use techniques to smoothly transition into (and out of) apps during a virtual class, ensuring minimal tech challenges with maximum interaction

Most learning professionals are comfortable in virtual classroom platforms like Zoom, Teams, and Adobe Connect—but familiarity with the platform doesn't mean familiarity with all its features. This session is not an introduction to virtual classrooms but an introduction to a specific, powerful feature within them. Attendees with any level of virtual facilitation or design experience will benefit, as long as they come curious about unlocking tools already built into the platform they use every day.