Why I Switched from Zoom to Koala Go and Should You?🤔


Dear Reader,

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Confession time: I admit I’m biased.

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I switched from using Zoom for my online tutoring to Koala Go a few years back and for me, it was a great decision. Let me share with you my reasons so you can consider if it’s a good choice for you.

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Zoom has been the platform of choice for many tutors meeting their students online. Recently though, Koala Go has emerged as an alternative, offering tutors another choice for connecting and teaching online.

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​Koala Go was created specifically for teachers who work online. As such, it is tailored to the needs of online teachers and tutors, versus Zoom, which is primarily a business conferencing tool.

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Koala Go takes the ability to offer practice games and activities to a new level by offering not only a whiteboard and screen sharing browser for your materials, but a 3-D playground where you and your student become avatars and engage in learning activities and games in a virtual environment.

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Other features of Koala Go include:

  • Ease in setting up and inviting students.
  • Appealing to young students and adaptable to teens or adults.
  • Control can be shared on most devices your students might use including iPads, tablets, Chromebooks or laptop computers.
  • Ease of creating and saving separate classrooms or folders (called activities) for each student. In Zoom, you need a separate platform, such as One Note, to organize and keep your students’ information.
  • 24/7 live tech support at the touch of a button, right from your lesson. This is HUGE and unheard of in platforms like Zoom. I’ve reached out to live support a number of times when I’ve needed help.
  • Ease in importing your ready-made PDF files, PowerPoints, image files and other teaching materials you’ve already created.
  • Ease of integrating teaching websites for specific content or programs.

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Stay tuned to the next few emails where I will take you on a deeper dive into how I use each component of Koala Go in my online classroom and answer some questions like: How do you keep your students from going crazy in the playground? and Is Koala Go too babyish for my older students?

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Yours in reaching & teaching,

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The Online Tutor Toolkit

Structured literacy tutor and creator of resources to help other tutors reach and teach students online.

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