Distance Learning: Free Service to Create Interactive Worksheets

Interactive worksheets have become especially popular during distance learning. Today we will talk about Interacty — a service that allows teachers to create interactive worksheets with bright designs, interesting tasks and games.

To create worksheets, teachers usually use Google services, LiveWorkSheets, GoFormative, Wizer, Kahoot, Teacher Made and others.

Unlike most educational services, Interacty was originally created as a platform for creating interactive content for business. But with the onset of the pandemic, it began to gain popularity among teachers as a service that allows them to make vivid educational content. Now Interacty allows you to create interactive worksheets with quizzes and games in minutes, easily integrates into all popular LMS (Learning Management Systems) and is used by tens of thousands of teachers around the world. The service has a free version for teachers. Let’s take a closer look at this tool.

Interacty allows you to create interactive pages from blocks like website builders do: on one page you can combine text, pictures (including GIFs), add videos from Youtube, and of course interactive blocks — tests, quizzes, educational games and much more.

One of the notable features of Interacty is the Memory game. Here you can read more about how you can use it to make make learning process more engaging. You can give tasks for comparing facts, searching for matches, linking a picture and text. The game is done in a few minutes in a convenient editor. The finished game can be used in the lesson (you can number the cards for this), or you can send the students a link. If you are using an LMS (Learning Management System), then the project can be easily embedded using an iframe. Here you can play the ready-made Memory game about animals.

You can add a timer or a countdown, and in the paid version you can display the rating of the players so that pupils or students can compete with each other who will complete the task better.

Another interesting format is an interactive picture. You can upload an image, and add tags. An illustrative example of this format is interactive maps or the structure of the human skeleton.

Interestingly, the interactive picture can be used as a “task card” with which you can combine several worksheets into a single topic or course. For example, you can make a real treasure map: each interactive point on the map will open a window with a task, and for a button you can specify a link to go to the desired worksheet. You can also find the Treasure Map template on the Interacty website in the Interactive Pictures section.

In addition to quizzes, Memory games and interactive pictures, there is a Before and After slider, Hidden objects game, Flip cards, Interactive blur (to make the picture clear, you need to click on it), interactive Timelines (an example of a timeline about the era of dinosaurs) and much more — all depends on your tasks and your imagination.

Additional advantages — the project is actively developing, and support willingly helps in case of questions and difficulties. You can write what is missing and there is a chance that the required functionality will appear on the platform.