DocsTeach vs Historo
DocsTeach
docsteach.org
Historo
historo.appSide by side
| Figure | DocsTeach | Historo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · History Learning Apps | 8.8 (#3) | 7.1 (#22) |
| Maker | LinkedIn identifies the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration as a Washington, DC government agency founded in 1934 with 1,001–5,000 employees. | The Historo site identifies Sapraxis as the maker and links to its company site, which describes Historo as its first AI educational app. |
| Purpose | DocsTeach is an interactive website for teaching with activities based on documents in the National Archives holdings. | Historo is an AI history learning app with short lessons, illustrated chronicles, guided courses, quizzes, and an AI history guide. |
| Support | DocsTeach lists [email protected] for questions and comments. | Support is available through the in-app settings, a contact form, or [email protected]; the site says a person reads messages and replies usually within a couple of days. |
Plans
In their own words
DocsTeach
DocsTeach is a free interactive teaching website built around primary sources in the National Archives holdings. Its collection includes thousands of letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, and videos. Teachers can create activities by selecting a tool and sources, then customizing instructions. Activity formats include document analysis, discussion, compare and contrast, zoom and crop, sequencing, mapping, and interpreting data. Students can submit and save responses for a teacher to view in My Students’ Responses, or send responses by email. Teachers can share activities to Google Classroom, where students can turn in their work through its button. For lessons using other materials, teachers can upload JPG, PNG, GIF, or JPEG documents and images up to 8 MB per file. The redesigned site supports exploring and creating activities on computers and tablets, and students can turn in work through the DocsTeach App for iPad. A free account costs nothing and allows users to create, save, and share activities and primary sources, and access hundreds more educator activities. Creating an account requires a name, email address, and password.