BookWidgets vs Deck.Toys

BookWidgets is a content creation and evaluation tool for teachers to build digital exercises and activities and share them with students. Its library has over 40 widget types, including quizzes, worksheets, games, and interactive activities. Quiz, Video Quiz, Worksheet, and Split Worksheet activities offer 36 question types, 30 of which can be automatically graded. Teachers can use activities for formative or summative assessment, monitor progress, and collect, review, grade, and return work with feedback. LMS integrations include Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard, Brightspace, itslearning, and Smartschool. Through a connected LMS, teachers can monitor students in real time and synchronize grades. Students can access activities through a web link, LMS, QR code, or short code without logging in to BookWidgets. A free 30-day trial offers unlimited widget creation. Without an active subscription, users cannot create or edit widgets, and LMS integrations stop working.

Deck.Toys is a classroom engagement platform for teachers building interactive lessons for students. Lessons can combine PowerPoint slides, PDFs, videos and activities arranged on a map with connected paths. Teachers can use Study Set questions in self-paced games or multiplayer Arcade games, and collect student text, drawings, photos and uploads on slides. Teacher Sync keeps students with the teacher’s current slide; Free Mode lets them explore at their own pace. The platform tracks student progress in real time and provides classroom reports. Teachers can share classroom URLs through learning platforms including Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, Canvas, Schoology and SLS. Teachers can register with Google or Microsoft; students can join with those accounts, as guests or with a username and password. It works in Chrome, Safari or Firefox on connected devices including Chromebooks, iPads, laptops and smartphones. Student access to a teacher’s classroom may be free. Pro costs $8 a month, billed annually at US$ 96 billed annually.