Low-Cost Tech Tools for E-Learning Course Creation

There are a number of "one stop shopping" cloud solutions, but they can be expensive or limited. You can build your own solution if you use low-cost tools.

Here are some of my favorites:

Audio editing:  Audacity http://www.audacityteam.org/
Video editing: YouTube http://www.youtube.com
Collaboration content generation:  Google Apps, including Doc, Sheets, Slides

Webcasts / animated presentations:  Screencast-o-matic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com)
Animated presentations: Knovio  (http://www.knovio.com)
Template presentations: emaze (https://www.emaze.com)

Animation: Powtoon (http://www.powtoon.com)
LMS / VLE Solution: Moodle Cloud (http://www.moodlecloud.com) and Canvas https://canvas.instructure.com/login/canvas)
Adaptive Learning: Smart Sparrow https://www.smartsparrow.com/

Synchronous and Archivable Webinar Solution: Big Blue Button https://bigbluebutton.org/
Online classroom management: Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com/
Quiz and poll generators: ProProfs https://www.proprofs.com/

Free images:  Pixabay https://pixabay.com/  Wikimedia
Photo editing:  Cloud-based – Ipiccy https://ipiccy.com/
Photo editing:  PicMonkey http://www.picmonkey.com
Image editing (must download):  GIMP https://www.gimp.org/

Stripping out Word macros:  Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus-plus.org )
HTML editor: SeaMonkey Project https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Immersive Experiences:  Thinglink http://www.thinglink.com/
Free Multiple Choice Test Maker:  TestMoz  https://testmoz.com/