There are many useful online tools available that can be used to enhance your workshop. 

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Useful Zoom features:

Whiteboard – https://explore.zoom.us/en/products/online-whiteboard/ How to use: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4410916881421

Annotate a document – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115005706806-Using-annotation-tools-for-collaboration 

Breakout Rooms – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Enabling-breakout-rooms

Polling – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/213756303-Polling-for-meetings

Non-verbal feedback –  https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115001286183-Nonverbal-feedback-and-meeting-reactions- 

Sharing a screen – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362153-Sharing-your-screen-or-desktop-on-Zoom

Chat – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/203650445-Chatting-in-a-Zoom-meeting#:~:text=Chat%20with%20everyone-,While%20in%20a%20meeting%2C%20click%20Chat%20in%20the%20meeting%20controls,Enter%20to%20send%20your%20message

Closed Captions and Live Transcriptions – https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4409683389709-Enabling-or-disabling-closed-captioning

Other online tools:

https://kahoot.com/ – at its most basic, you can use Kahoot to build quizzes for participants to answer. You will need an account to build a quiz, but the participants will be able to answer it without signing up themselves. 

Kahoot Zoom app – https://support.kahoot.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500010674741-Kahoot-Zoom-app

https://padlet.com/, https://www.mural.co/ and https://ziteboard.com/ are non-Zoom whiteboard options. All have free options with limited but useful features. 

https://www.classroomscreen.com/distance-learning/  (Paid website with free trial) – though obviously geared towards traditional school classes / classrooms, some of the widgets available in Classroom can be useful tools (e.g. the stopwatch, the timer, the random name generator, the poll tool). Find more information about the widgets here: https://classroomscreen.com/widgets 

https://web.hypothes.is/ – (Paid and free options) – Hypothesis is an online annotation tool which allows you to annotate in groups. 

https://www.sli.do/product (Paid and free options) – a Q&A and live polling tool. 

https://www.playfactile.com/ (Paid and free options) – create Jeopardy-style quizzes.