Updated: Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak. H - K

Hallo is offering a free app to help students practice English. Hallo is a live-streaming community for English learners and teachers. Students can learn from native speakers through live videos 24/7 and practice speaking in seconds with people all around the world. https://hallo.tv/athomelearning/

Hand2mind has launched a home learning resource for K-5 students. The "Learning at Home" program includes videos on math and literacy content taught by teachers and activities to reinforce the lessons and downloadable worksheets. The company has committed to posting new content daily. https://www.hand2mindathome.com/

The Henry Ford Museum is currently making its "Innovate" curriculum free to educators and families; usually that's priced at $499 for the classroom. Geared primarily to middle school and high school students, the resources consist of a four-course, self-paced program of studies that connects STEAM and humanities through digital content and activities. The curriculum uses primary sources from the museum's Archive of American Innovation, a collection of 26 million artifacts that sheds light on the way people have innovated through history. There's also a free "Model I Primer" to help instructors understand how to use the lessons. https://www.thehenryford.org/education/innovate

Hargray, a telecommunications company that serves the southeastern United States, will offer free Internet service for 60 days to households in its service area with K-12 or college students who do not already have an internet subscription. https://www.hargray.com/freeinternet. The company will also offer discounted internet speed upgrades to existing customers to ensure they have the necessary bandwidth to accommodate higher Internet usage in their homes during this time. To take advantage of that, call the company at (877) 427-4729.

HERA Science is a beta version of an adaptive learning system for helping develop critical thinking skills through a combination of gamified digital activities, scientific phenomena, interactive simulations, real-time feedback and scaffolding tools. To learn more and gain access, contact mailto:yigal.Rosen@act.org or mailto:actnext@act.org. https://actnext.org/research-and-projects/hera-science-adaptive-science-learning/

Heron Books, a K-12 curriculum company, has made 12 of its best-selling courses available free. The courses are designed for independent study and allow students to progress at their own pace. Subjects include English, math, science and more; offerings vary by age. https://www.heronbooks.com/freecourses

HiveIO is providing unlimited licenses for all education organizations for the rest of the school year to its enterprise virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) software. The software can run in a private or hybrid cloud environment. The company is also working with Aurora Cloud Technologies, which provides cloud infrastructure, to enable IT teams to deploy VDI with integrated remote access "to thousands of desktop users within hours." https://www.hiveio.com/free-vdi-license-application-form-for-education/

HOMER is offering educators at schools, tutoring centers and daycare programs three months of free access to its reading programs so children can continue their education. HOMER Reading, for kids ages two to eight, includes thousands of lessons on phonics, sight words and ABCs. HOMER Stories provides early learners with interactive stories from favorite books. Access is provided to the teacher or school to share, not the individual family. https://www.learnwithhomer.com/educator-offer/

Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched a hub with a collection of learning resources. Those include free district licensing for Waggle (adaptive math and literacy instruction and practice for grades 3-8); Writable (writing skills practice for grades 3-12); and Amira Learning (early literacy assessment and practice for grades K-3). The company is also releasing daily activities and learning tasks, searchable by subject and grade and adaptable for at-home learning. The company has loosened its licensing so that teachers and librarians can host virtual reading sessions and use its curriculum through the summer. https://www.hmhco.com/learningsupport/at-home-learning-resources

IBM has launched Open P-TECH, to help young people and educators pick up the basics in topics including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, as well as soft skills. Up until now, the P-TECH program has been provided as a model affiliated with schools. Now students who are 16 and older can register and participate on their own. https://www.ptech.org/open-p-tech/

icurio is offering free classroom subscriptions, providing access to more than 360,000 curated, vetted and maintained standards-aligned resources from open educational resource (OER) providers for grades K-12. The subscription is free until Jun. 30, 2020, to classrooms, teachers, districts, schools, regions and states. https://academy.act.org/school-closing-support/

iEARN-USA, which helps young people and educators learn how to participate in global collaboration, has been hosting a webinar series called "Wednesdays with the World" for teachers to use virtually with their classes. In each hour-long session, a project facilitator presents a mini-lesson, using activities from an iEARN project. Each lesson is then followed by a brief section with tips for online learning. All webinars are recorded and shared following the events. The organization is offering 60-day free trials, including the introductory Hello World Learning Circle, to join its community of global educators. https://us.iearn.org/news/iearn-usa-presents-wednesdays-with-the-world-webinar-series

iKeepSafe has made six digital books freely available to help elementary students learn safe online practices. The books are available as PDF files, narrated ebook videos and, in some cases, animated videos. Subjects cover sharing of embarrassing videos, online privacy, cyberbullying, balancing screen time with real life, dangerous downloads and making healthy media choices. https://ikeepsafe.org/faux-paw-the-techno-cat/

I Know It is offering free access to its online math practice lessons for students in grades K-5. The site features over 500 graphical math activities. Animated characters guide students through math lessons, and hints and graphical explanations help them along when they need it. This tool tracks progress and scores for teachers and parents. Parents and teachers can request unlimited access in a form online. https://www.iknowit.com/access.html

Identity Automation is offering temporary licenses and installation training for single sign-on and multi-factor authentication for federation licenses. These will expire on Sep. 30, 2020. Online real-time training and support are available. https://info.identityautomation.com/identity-automations-response-to-covid-19

Impero, a UK company, has launched Impero back:drop, always-free software designed to simplify the recording and management of student wellbeing for schools in the United Kingdom. The program helps teachers and other staff access a history for each student, including pastoral, child protection, behavioral concerns and mental health needs, as well as first aid incidents, medical requirements and a log of medicine administration. The system highlights patterns and connects external agencies for a single view, to enable early interventions and flag warning signs of serious concerns, including suspected home abuse or suicide risk. The company has created options within the software to support reporting specifically related to the current virus outbreak. The update enables schools to see whether a student has suspected symptoms, and to track the health of the student body as a whole. https://uk.backdrop.cloud/signup/new

Impero Software is making its pro edition free for the remainder of the school year to districts without remote monitoring software. The program combines tools for teacher control, real time monitoring and keyword detection and session tracking for student devices. Information about use of Impero Education Pro in a remote school environment is covered in a blog article. To get the software, email mailto:info@imperosoftware.com or call (844) 346-7376. 

Inclined2Learn is making its narrated guided reading passages and questions available free through June 2020. The software guides students in grades K-3 through skill assessments, reading and listening to narrated passages and follow-up quizzes. Teachers can view student reports, track learning progress and assign additional skills and reading levels. https://www.inclined2learn.com/

InferCabulary is providing two months of free access to its online visual vocabulary tool. The program is designed to help learners infer deep meanings of nuanced words for themselves by analyzing and interpreting the common thread among carefully chosen images and provided captions. The approach is designed to teach the many contexts of new words rapidly. https://infercabulary.com/covid-free-two-months/

inquirED has created "Together When Apart," a free inquiry-based lesson that builds over the course of a week and helps explore the question, "How can we stay together when we're apart?" Inquiries are targeted to early learners and intermediate learners. Teacher support includes a virtual lounge on Thursdays and professional learning webinars on Wednesdays. https://www.inquired.org/distancelearning

Insight ADVANCE, with help from Vonage, is offering its secure synchronous and asynchronous video platform to schools and districts for free through Jun. 30, 2020. The program helps with the professional development coaching process, by enabling recording and sharing of videos of teachers in practice for reflection and feedback and peer-to-peer interaction. https://www.insightadvance.com/free-offering

As always, Instructure is making its learning management system, Canvas, free for teachers. The account never expires and offers all course creation and importing, "mastery paths" to lead students through personalized learning, native use on mobile devices, a gradebook, quizzing and other features that teachers need to move their students to online learning. https://www.instructure.com/canvas/try-canvas#free-account

Intelligent Education is promoting the use of its always-free software to help educators create online courseware. Tools let instructors record lectures with slides, images and video clips and add 3D models, quizzes. The company also has 34 courses on in its catalog that various instructors have produced and made available. https://intelligenteducation.com/build-online-courses

IObit is making a utility free to help remote users speed up performance of their Windows devices. "Internet Boost" is a feature included in the company's Advanced SystemCare pro version. According to IObit, the software removes "junk files" to release more space; helps increase internet speed by "taking advantage of your maximum network bandwidth," removes privacy traces left by multiple programs; and dumps start-up processes that are slowing down start-up. https://www.iobit.com/en/advancedsystemcarefree.php

iRobot is making virtual and offline coding projects available for elementary and middle school students for home use, some of which require no particular technology. The company is also providing teachers with free access to a subscription program that comes with the company's Root coding robot. To unlock the premium content, download the Root Coding app and enter the code, "LEARN" on the home screen.

Jamf is allowing schools to use its Apple device management software free for four months, including functionality for teachers, students and parents. The company's products help with securing iOS devices and managing them, including creation of a closed environment in which students can do their school work, development whitelists of allowable apps and restrictions on use of specific device functionality. https://www.jamf.com/lp/remote-empowerment/

JASON Learning is offering free access to its online STEM curriculum. The nonprofit produces lessons for science, technology, engineering and math. Normally, it charges a per-student fee, which is being currently being waived. Interested schools and districts are asked to fill in a short online form to gain access. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEtjx-qWIf2Zp5-LqoHKpCTX5IimQFcyTe3J12s2waJK7Oag/viewform

JoVE has made its educational video content available through Jun. 15, 2020. That includes free access to the three types of resources: JoVE Core, a video textbook that covers core concepts in biology and social psychology to improve learning comprehension; JoVE Science Education, a collection of easy-to-understand video demonstrations in eight STEM fields; and Lab Manual, curriculum for introductory biology lab courses. The company is also making its curriculum specialists available to help faculty map JoVE videos to their curriculum at no charge. https://info2.jove.com/requestaccess

Jumio is providing free identity verification services through Jumio Go, to educational organizations through June 2020. Jumio can help confirm that only enrolled students are participating in the online curriculum and helps proctor exams by authenticating students prior to any online test. https://go.jumio.com/goforgood-covid#form-title

JumpStart Academy is making JumpStart Academy Math free for users until Aug. 31, 2020. Domains include operations, measurements and data, fractions and geometry. Parents can play with children in team-based multiplayer games, students can design their avatars and children can "show their thinking," which can be accessed in the teacher dashboard to understand where gaps are surfacing. The content is available in Spanish. https://www.jumpstart.com/academy/math

JumpStart Academy and Edmodo are offering Edmodo's tutoring program AskMo for free. AskMo is a mobile app for Apple and Google devices to get live, personalized tutoring in math or science for students in grades 7-12. https://askmo.com/

Just Run has announced a fitness-at-home initiative to support physical activity in children. The program encourages parents to log miles run or walked by their child in "ways that observe local health mandates," submit their mileage, and then be able to view their child's accomplishments on the website. In addition to tracking mileage, parents are encouraged to celebrate milestone accomplishments by giving their kids "mileage award cards," available on the website. http://www.justrun.org/home-school-program

K12 Inc. is offering free online curriculum. That includes access to 17,000 ebooks through the company's digital reading platform, Big Universe. Almost 2,000 of those titles are available in Spanish. Digital texts are accessible online by computer, tablet and smartphone. K12 is also offering tuition-free summer programsto let students in grades 9-11 explore careers online while earning school credit. Careers cover business and marketing, healthcare and information technology. Students can begin their online courses Jun. 24, 2020 and must finish them by Jul. 22, to receive 0.5 high school elective credits. There will also be free coding bootcamps for students in grades 8-11; a video game design and programming course runs from Jun. 15 through Jun. 27; a virtual reality course runs from Jul. 6 through Jul. 17. "Virtual campers" who finish at least one of the coding camps will be eligible to participate in an esports tournament hosted by the High School eSports League (HSEL) in late July. https://www.k12.com/coronavirus

Kahoot! has begun offering free access to the "premium" version of its game-based learning software. https://kahoot.com/access-kahoot-premium-for-free/

Kapwing is giving away licenses for its professional edition to teachers. Kapwing is a collaborative online image and video editor with a cloud storage workspace. According to the company, it serves as an "excellent tool for teachers who are making video materials or lessons to send to students for remote learning, for students working together on a group project or for a classroom looking for a digital space to share multimedia projects with each other." The pro edition can accommodate videos up to 40 minutes long (versus 10 minutes in the free, basic version), lets users edit and store all content, make the content private and offers a one-gigabyte upload limit. Free teacher accounts are available until school is back in session. https://www.kapwing.com/resources/free-kapwing-pro-accounts-for-educators-affected-by-covid-19/

Kialo Edu is a free platform that helps educators encourage thoughtful classroom discussion and assist them in the teaching of critical thinking. The online service lets teachers start private discussions within their classes, provide students with feedback and ask them follow-up questions and create teams within the class. https://www.kialo-edu.com/

KidCitizen, a social studies learning tool for elementary students funded by the Library of Congress, is supplying a free, growing set of interactive episodes where K-5 students work with primary source photographs to explore Congress and civic engagement. https://www.kidcitizen.net/episodes-blog

Kiddom is offering math curriculum for grades 6-8 for free until August 2020. The materials include assessments and practice problems, multiple-choice auto-grading and resources for differentiated learning, English learners and students with disabilities. https://teach.kiddom.co/covid-support/

KinderLab Robotics has developed a "No KIBO? No Problem!" booklet to help teachers and parents teach building, engineering and design and coding without technology. STEAM activities are intended for students three- to seven-years-old and come from KinderLab standards-aligned curriculum. Each activity includes guidance on learning objectives and the resources needed to complete the project. http://resources.kinderlabrobotics.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/03/No-KIBO-No-Problem-v3.pdf

Kinedu, an app designed to help families and caregivers engage in personalized, science-backed activities with their young child, is offering its services free. The company, which has been funded and supported by MIT Solve, provides a proprietary developmental assessment, as well as a daily activity plan tailored to each child's development. https://www.kinedu.com/

Kinedu Classrooms, an instructional platform for teachers to use with children ages 0 to 4, is offering free global access through Jun. 30. Available in English, Spanish and, shortly, Portuguese, the program features curated lesson plans with 1,800 playtime activities that teachers can share with parents to do at home with their children. https://classrooms.kinedu.com/

Kiron has broadcast access to a set of free, interactive online lessons to help teachers globally learn how to better teach students online during school closings. The startup, funded and supported by MIT Solve, focuses primarily on refugees worldwide and underserved communities in the Middle East to provide access to high-quality education. However, the course applies to educators making the switch to online teaching anywhere, covering topics such as getting active participation online and creating a learning environment. https://teach.kiron.ngo/

Knowledge Unlimited is offering free access to "Read to Know," a weekly current events-based program presented in a newsmagazine format, for the rest of the school year. Each story is presented with background information that enhances learning across the curriculum. Students learn geography, history, civics, arts and culture and science in the context of the news stories. Read to Know can be used by individual students, in family study sessions and in online group settings. To log in, use "brain" for the username and "spring" for the password. https://www.knowledgeunlimited.com/newscurrents/index.php

Knowre has announced that it would make its math service free to all American teachers, schools and districts through the end of the school year. Knowre Math is an online core supplement for grades 1-12 that needs only a browser to view or an iPad app. Features include "walk me through" support and targeted assignments to help the student work independently. Teachers receive access to student progress via a dashboard. https://www.knowre.com/school_closure_support/

Kokomo24/7 has produced "COVID19Tracker," to allow schools to collect, track, share and manage information about cases of coronavirus in their area. https://www.covid19tracker.org/

Kuder is offer free access to Kuder Galaxy, an online career "awareness" program that introduces pre-K-5 students to various jobs; and Kuder Navigator for grades 6-12, which serves as an online career and education planning system. The registration period for new users runs through May 31, 2020. Anybody who registers during this time gets "lifetime" access. The company is also making professional development resources available free. https://www.kuder.com/success-at-home/

KwikSurveys is offering its "pro" plan to teachers and schools to help them engage with and track the progress of students at home. The program enables educators to create online quizzes with automatic scoring, response tracking, segmentation and collaboration features. The offer extends to three months of usage. Company contact is required. https://kwiksurveys.com/coronavirus-free-distance-learning-tools

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