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What is Powtoon?
Powtoon is a dynamic and user-friendly platform that allows individuals and organizations to create engaging animated videos and presentations. It is designed to be accessible to users of all skill levels, making it an ideal tool for educators, marketers, and business professionals. With its intuitive drag-and-drop interface, Powtoon enables users to produce professional-quality content without the need for advanced technical skills. Whether you are looking to create explainer videos, marketing materials, or educational content, Powtoon offers a versatile solution.
One of the standout aspects of Powtoon is its extensive library of templates, characters, and animations. Users can choose from a wide range of pre-designed elements to quickly assemble their projects, saving time and effort. Additionally, Powtoon offers customization options, allowing users to tailor their content to specific needs and branding guidelines. The platform also supports voiceovers, background music, and sound effects, enhancing the overall impact of the presentations. With Powtoon, creating visually appealing and interactive content has never been easier.
In educational settings, Powtoon is often used to create engaging lesson materials, student projects, and school announcements. Teachers can use the platform to design interactive lessons that capture students' attention and make complex topics more understandable. Students, on the other hand, can leverage Powtoon to produce creative projects that demonstrate their understanding of the subject matter. The platform's collaborative features also enable group work, fostering teamwork and communication skills among students. Overall, Powtoon is a valuable tool for enhancing the learning experience in schools.
Recommended Usage
Educational Impact
 Age Range | 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | Animation SoftwareCommunication TemplatesMedia Library |
 Languages | English |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android Although Powtoon is compatible with all the leading browsers, we recommend using Google Chrome. |
 Training | WebinarsDocumentation We have online tutorials and webinars. Most users just start using Powtoon. The interface is very similar to google slides / Powerpoint so easy to get started. We can also support schoolwide webinars on demand, if needed. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge Base Comprehensive knowledge base with videos. |
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Powtoon PricingPricing Plans Free VersionPaid Subscription Powtoon pricing starts from $19 / month The free plan gives up to 3 mins (HD) and 100MB storage. Home users can upgrade to Pro or Pro+. There is also pricing per school, per teacher, per student and per classroom for institutions.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Jed
Vice Principal
Used Powtoon for On and off, because of changing jobs, but around 4 years
Mar 2021
I wanted to give you a 10 but subscription is costly especially for Catholic private school teachers.
Jed found Powtoon:
- Significantly improves attainment“Students are able to demonstrate mastery of content in a very engaging and interactive way and also helping improve their critical thinking skills, communication, and creativity.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Keeping the students engaged in the creation of content to demonstrate their learning not only provide them with the tool to explore their creative sides but also help them retain most of the learning.”
- Significantly increases student collaboration“Allowing students not only to brainstorm ideas during collaboration time provide them with a lot of opportunities to work together with the creation of a project. This kind of activity is so impactful for students as they learn to work with others especially with those who are in remote learning or receiving in-person instruction.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Even though as a class, we have the license, there are still some features that are still off-limits, students then learn to be efficient and resourceful in utilizing only what things or features that are available to them.”
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge and skills“The impact on a teacher's knowledge rests on the learning of new skills in presenting the lesson or content in a fun and engaging way.”
- Does not save school money“Honestly, as a teacher and admin at the same time, I use my own money to subscribe to tools that I believe can be very impactful to student learning. So there is really no impact on saving the school money.”
Feb 2021
Vernon found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment“No”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“No”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“No”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“No”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills“No”
- Slightly saves school money“No”
Feb 2021
My daughter used this platform and I just dealt with the customer service which was excellent. I don’t have a screenshot but here’s my dog.
Pam found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Slightly saves school money
Dec 2020
I just started using Powtoon and find it a useful tool. I'm still getting familiar with it, but I like what I've been able to produce so far. But there is a lot I still need to learn about using Powtoon. I am using this tool as a Business, not a school, so I responded "Neutral" to most of the questions in the survey.
Joey Alaimo found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Slightly saves school money
Julie
Assistant Principal
Used Powtoon for My school has been using it for 12 months
Nov 2020
Easy and fun to use. Effective too
Julie found Powtoon:
- Moderately improves attainment“Students learning Auslan”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Phonetics”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Making movies together”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Teachers using movies to reinforce information”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills“I'm not sure”
- Slightly saves school money“its possible that it could save money on tutors”
Nov 2020
Not sure yet, if it works the way I hope to use it for sure.
Deborah Raphael found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment“I am not using it for that purpose yet.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Can’t answer yet haven’t begun.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“Not sure yet”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Significantly improves teacher knowledge and skills“I looked at a few programs it stood out to me.”
- Significantly saves school money“When we bought more licenses the price was lower than I thought.”
Oct 2020
the platform didn't really meet our needs since we had very little time to prepare.
Shelly Robinet found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment“we were forced to go virtual for health concerns so everything was rushed”
- Slightly builds student knowledge
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“staff was learning to use but again, this was not a foreseen event”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Does not significantly save school money
Oct 2020
PowToon provides a unique service/product and a reasonable relative cost to do so.
Eric found Powtoon:
- Moderately improves attainment“Provides an efficient way to create and deliver a memorable visual experience to convey information to staff/learners.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“PowToon is a creative and memorable supplement to convey information in a new/better/different way to staff/learners. Creating a visceral and memorable experience with different tools is always key when delivering staff/learner knowledge/skills for impact (train/transfer/sustain).”
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“PowToon provides an easy-to-use interface and overall service to design and implement unique visual solution to convey information to staff/learners instead of the ol' lecture format.”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge and skills“Could help teachers think about different tools and modalities for knowledge/skill creation and delivery.”
- Significantly saves school money“Providing a cloud SAAS solution for schools/educators to use directly versus paying high fees to a professional video or media companies to create custom animation experiences/solutions. Small learning curve as well.”
Sue Windley
Project Co-Ordinator
Used Powtoon for 4 months
Oct 2020
I do like powtoon but it is limited.
Sue Windley found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment“We use powtoon as part of a learning series so not specifically about attainment.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Powtoons are great for designing examples for learning activities.”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“Use powtoons to support group learning activities.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Not really - time to design a powtoon is way longer than the use of the powtoon!”
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge and skills“Gives ideas on how to explain / express an idea for students.”
- Does not significantly save school money“see earlier answer - lot of time to design the powtoon for 3 minute video!”
Steve
Associate Professor of Trust Systems
Used Powtoon for 2 weeks :-)
Oct 2020
Sure. I have found it in the short time I have used it to be fun to use, entertaining whilst educational for the students, and a really quick way to make ideas stand out. I'd liken it to the same kind of feelings I had about HyperCard back in the day. With Powtoon and Explain Everything (the other go to for me) I have all the tools I need to go much further with my remote and face to face (eventually!) teaching
Steve found Powtoon:
- Moderately improves attainment“I've only used it in one session but it was much more engaging than usual and allowed me to cover more material by far”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“In the session I used it I was able to discuss the content of the week (supply chains) as well as how to do peer reviews of each others' assignments on top of bringing in material aboutOperations Management that I couldn't get to in a different format”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“To be honest, I'm neutral because I haven't tried that yet, but I will!”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Sure - the one I gave above re what I could cover. As well it allows me to remote teach in a much more engaging way that delivers information in a paced environment”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills“I'm not sure, to be honest. I think it may, at least teacher knowledge of the students they are working with, used properly”
- Slightly saves school money“I paid for it myself ;-) That's sure a savings for the university!”
Sep 2020
It has lots of tools and is easy to use
Angeline found Powtoon:
- Moderately improves attainment“I train educators, marketplace professionals, non-profits. It helps them create materials relevant to their teaching or communication needs.”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Students learn to be creators rather than consumers.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It's a useful tool but efficiency and effectiveness depends largely on the ability of the teacher to use it.”
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Slightly saves school money
Tun Ba Kyu
Regional Salesforce Development Manager (Lower Myanmar)
Used Powtoon for 3 months (give or take)
Aug 2020
Current version of Powtoon gives correct font only when downloaded and not during previews. Therefore, each time we want to check, we have to download and check and then correct again. It would be nice if we can have correct font during previews as well like before.
Tun Ba Kyu found Powtoon:
- Significantly improves attainment“It is much easier for "students" to understand”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“I say "neutral" because it depends on students themselves. Some may attain more and others none.”
- Does not significantly increase student collaboration“Since I am dealing with employees of an organization, I can only provide knowledge sharing with Powtoon.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Easier for students to understand”
- Does not significantly improve teacher knowledge and skills“If this question is about "knowledge" on the "subject" I am teaching, then the answer is "No". Because the knowledge of the subject has either been acquire or have to research oneself.”
- Slightly saves school money“During the COVID-19 crsis, Yes. Saved about $12,000 per month till July 2020 from April 2020.”
Jul 2020
it's very fun and easy to use
isabella found Powtoon:
- Moderately improves attainment“i use powtoon for my group project”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“enables me to learn more about how to use technology & media literacy?”
- Moderately increases student collaboration“lets me work together with my peers”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Moderately improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Slightly saves school money“idk”
Jul 2020
I've found this very user friendly, and relatively flexible. I'm not trying to create top level videos, so I don't need a full suite of products. This does allow me to create professionally appropriate videos in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost.
Adrienne found Powtoon:
- Slightly improves attainment“We haven't put our videos into use yet, so can't speak to this specifically, but general feedback has been great so far.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Our test clients felt that they were able to understand our product clearly after watching this.”
- Slightly increases student collaboration“We haven't used this for collaborative projects.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Slightly improves teacher knowledge and skills
- Significantly saves school money“We didn't have to pay $5k+ per video to each video, so we've saved significantly.”