DocsTeach vs History Master

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.

History Master is a history study app covering events, dates and timelines for learning and revision. Its topics include prehistory, ancient civilisations, the Middle Ages, the modern age, the 19th century and the world wars. Syllabus material is presented through clear, schematic explanations and summaries. Students can practise topic by topic with multiple-choice quizzes and exercises, and use interactive timelines to review chronology. An AI tutor answers questions, explains material step by step and helps with difficult topics. The notes scanner uses AI to turn photographed notes into mind maps and flashcards. The app is available on iOS and Android in 16 languages. It is free to download; the listed Free plan costs nothing, while some extra features or content may be optional. MasterApps describes its educational apps as intended for middle-school, high-school and university students. The privacy policy says studying works without registration or accounts, does not request personal study data and does not create advertising profiles. Anonymous diagnostic and statistical data may be collected through Apple and Google, while preferences remain on the device.