Sutori, formerly known as HSTRY, offers a presentation tool that goes beyond presentation alone and is designed specifically to serve schools.
Unlike many other presentation tools, the company has designed the online system to develop interactive stories. As such, students and teachers can use it to plan and execute projects with a truly open set of options. It is used by more than 2.5 million teachers and students worldwide.
Since this is all online-based, it can mean easy access across devices and internet connections, making it easily accessible for students and teachers. Collaboration can also occur in the classroom, at home, and beyond, both from personal and school-assigned devices.
This guide aims to lay out everything you need to know to see if Sutori could help you with your class.
What is Sutori?
Sutori is an online tool that offers the ability to create, collaborate and share presentations and stories.
As such, it is a highly adaptable tool that allows teachers of various subjects to work with it, from sociology, history and geography to languages, arts, STEM and more.
Thanks to a selection of templates that offer a canvas to build on, this is an open tool that allows for great creativity and variation. Think of it as an endless digital dashboard that everyone can interact with using various types of media.
Since it is designed to be easy to use, its access can span a range of ages and abilities, allowing students to focus on the content itself without wasting time figuring out how to use the system.
How does Sutori work?
Sutori allows teachers to create stories and share them using codes with the class or individual students. Thanks to the starter templates, this creation process is guided and easy even for those new to these types of tools.
It's all scroll-based, so you can add images, words, videos, interactive questions, and more with no length limit. Thanks to assessments and quizzes, this can be a deeply interactive tool and can grow as the class or project progresses.
The tool is designed to work well with Google Classroom and offers real-time collaboration, both of which are ideal for schools set up with that system that want students to work together digitally.
What are the best features of Sutori?
Sutori offers many templates to get you started, and they come from both the company and other users who leave their creations for anyone to use. As such, there are a wealth of options to choose from, making it ideal for most subjects and many, many topics. All of that means this is a great time-saving tool for planning and presenting projects.
That collaboration piece is really powerful as students can work together on projects, but also teachers can monitor progress. Therefore, a teacher can place information in a story for students to read and follow up with an assessment, which each individual can complete through for teachers to see how well they have learned from that story.
Thanks to the social media-style feed, it is more interactive and free than many other presentation tools, making it an easy-to-implement tool for students. Sharing results is easy and can make it a useful way to set up and have students submit class projects.
How much does Sutori cost?
Sutori offers a free trial and a paid premium version, as well as tiers designed specifically for schools or departments.
He Essential Free model gives you the basics through which you can create stories, add text and images, share and collaborate, present, embed on websites and use basic student management.
go for it Unlimited level, at $120/year/educatorand you'll get the above plus videos, quizzes and surveys, audio, media bulk uploads, headers, links, personalization, comments, class discussions, story analysis templates, Google Drive integration, LMS integration and more.
He Department The plan is offered in $500/year for up to six educators.
Or go for it Schools level in $2,500/year to cover all educators throughout the school.
Sutori's Best Tips and Tricks
Feed a lesson
Use a feed to teach a lesson as a way to show students how it works and how they can interact with it on their devices.
Assess
Use a feed for a lesson and offer assessments to see how students are absorbing the subject material along the way and adjust teaching accordingly.
Project
Set up projects for groups or individuals and have them present them using the Sutori tool, encouraging a class presentation so everyone learns from the result.
