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Virtual bulletin board and whiteboard app

Faculty, Staff, Students

Web


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Property Value
Description Virtual bulletin board and whiteboard app
Access Faculty, Staff, Students
Platform Web

Description

Padlet is a easy-to-use service to create bulletin boards to collect, organize, and present information. Often used in student projects to share images, maps, audio, and video. Faculty can create a shared board for students to post information. Its strength is simplicity.

Digital Padlet board titled Favorite Literary Quotes with multiple text notes displaying quotes from various books against a background of book spines


The Padlet Sandbox feature is a “collaborative digital canvas with tools for drawing, writing, and adding media.”

Login

Anyone with a Swarthmore account can log into the paid version of Padlet at swarthmorecollege.padlet.org/auth/login. Use Google to complete the login process.

Faculty can set up a link from Moodle to automatically enroll students in a Padlet.

Accessibility and Padlet