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💥 Online Tools for Workshops and Interactivity

This document is a growing, living list of online platforms and tools we can use in workshops and meeting spaces to aid our facilitation by introducing interactive elements, spark conversation or simply present ideas in more visual or novel ways.

Tool/Platform

License

Description

Wekan Boards

FOSS (Self Hosted - Already up on APC servers)

Trello-like kanban board for cards. Supports markdown and is very customizable.

Loomio

FOSS (not up on APC servers yet)

Asynchronous participatory decision making and conversation tool

Miro

Freemium Proprietary

Very powerful and flexible online whiteboard and pinboard and more.

Padlet

Paid Proprietary

Useful for collecting ideas. Think mro with only stickies.

ExcaliDraw

FOSS (Paid Hosted)

Very pretty whiteboard, but no uploading of content. It’s under active development.

Twiddla

FOSS (Free hosted)

Whiteboard with lots of fantastic features, allows annotation of entire websites and uploads. Dated interface with modern powers.

Coggle

Freemium Proprietary

 

MindMeister

Freemium Proprietary

 

Wisemapping

Free Online Hosted (FOSS)

Another mind mapping tool

DirectPoll

Free Proprietary

Super simple livepolling with animations.

Mentimeter

Paid

Very pretty live polls with charts and animations. Everything from wordclouds to graphs.

Pingo

Free Selfhosted (Coming to APC soon)

Start live polls in your browser, like mentimeter. More powerful, less pretty.