Explain Everything vs Lumio: OTIS for Educators Evaluates EdTech Software

In education, collaboration tools play a crucial role in enhancing classroom experiences and the options available to teachers can seem endless. To help you make an informed choice, our friends from OTIS for Educators dived into two prominent options, Lumio and Explain Everything.

Let’s see how Lumio stands out in comparison to Explain Everything.

Ease of Use

Lumio: Features a user-friendly interface designed specifically for educators, allowing them to quickly create and deliver interactive lessons with minimal setup.

Explain Everything: While it offers a wide range of tools, it comes with a steeper learning curve, which might make it less intuitive for teachers seeking a straightforward solution.

Features

Lumio: Provides interactive game-based activities, formative assessments, and a variety of ready-made lesson resources. Its emphasis on real-time feedback and collaboration is ideal for enhancing student engagement.

Explain Everything: Offers a different approach to student engagement by focusing on a variety of multimedia content which may not provide as many opportunities for student collaboration and interactivity.

Collaboration

Lumio: Offers strong collaborative features with real-time student engagement and feedback, which are crucial for both in-person and remote learning environments. This fosters a more interactive and participatory classroom experience.

Explain Everything: Real-time collaboration features are very limited unless the user is on a school plan, which even then may be limited to only 8 users.

Delivering Your Lessons

Lumio: Classroom management is a breeze with easy options to deliver synchronously or asynchronously and a seamless experience to control how the lesson is shared through teacher or student paced mode.

Explain Everything: While it offers the ability to deliver both synchronously and asynchronously, the process requires a few extra steps such as assigning roles (for live delivery) or downloading content (for offline sharing).

Outcome: Lumio is a more robust choice for overall use because of its variety of interactive resources for student engagement, collaboration tools and lesson delivery options.

Thanks to our friends at OTIS for Educators for this digital tool showdown. Find more reasons to love Lumio! Read the full story on OTIS for Educators.