2019 Novel Coronavirus/COVID-19

Complete this tutorial to learn how to create a Blackboard Collaborate session, provide the link inside your course to your students, and use the basic functions during a session.

Tips and instructions from Blackboard

Provide this tutorial to your students to get them ready to learn in Blackboard Collaborate.

Complete this tutorial to set up Google Voice to text and call students without giving out your personal phone number.

Giant, continuously updated list of Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings

The free trial allows up to 25 participants for 90 days.

The 6th and 7th edition style guides and other books by APA are free to quarantined campuses online until May 25.

All Booklist and Book Links content on www.booklistonline.com is now freely available until further notice. The content includes book reviews and readers' advisory and collection development tools.

Enhanced free trial that allows up to 100 participants for an unlimited meeting length.

Free MOOCs (including courses from Ivy League schools)

Send a poll to colleagues to find the perfect time to meet online.

Our Open Ebooks program provides thousands of free ebooks to Title 1 schools. Readers can immediately download some of the most popular works of the past and present, with no costs, no holds, and no late fees. Titles were selected by DPLA’s Curation Corps of school and youth librarians. Register your school today and start getting free ebooks.

This collection of free primary source sets cover a wide range of topics from Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women to Negro League Baseball to Angel Island. All include a curated set of primary sources, lesson plans, discussion questions and tips for primary source analysis.

Use our search to access more than 36 million images, texts, videos and sounds from our 4,000+ partner institutions across the country. Our collection is useful for primary source research and analysis and research projects on almost any topic under the sun as well creating things like scavenger hunts and games for putting a little fun in e-learning.

Send and receive texts to communicate with your students while away from your office phone.

To help educators conduct distance learning, we’re providing schools and higher education institutions affected by the coronavirus with free access to Kahoot! Premium until they reopen.

We are providing free access to the most important news and useful guidance on the coronavirus outbreak to help readers understand the pandemic. Sign up with an email address to read all of the articles on this page.

Use Padlet to ask a question or let students discuss and share on an online "wall".

Create interactive polls and quizzes. Students respond by visiting a website. You can show the results live with screen sharing in applications like Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.

For K-12

Record, edit, and share videos easily.

Meet with up to three people for up to 40 minutes with the free trial version. K-12 educators have free Zoom access during the pandemic.