Kami is the paperless educator assistant, which allows educators to create, upload, save, and share their materials using Google Drive and Classroom. It enables learners to make notes, highlight, and add shapes on the PDF files shared in class. The app is available for free. The paid version comes with extra features such as the ability to communicate with an additional 150 learners, an option for adding images, and text-to-speech technology.

Website: https://www.kamiapp.com/

What Users Love About the App

“I can edit PDF’s easily. Way easier than with other programs! I love that I can add text boxes to type/add what I need into the document.”

“Kami is helpful to edit and annotate on any variety of documents including PDFs. You can add signatures, drawings, text, and any other variety of items you need. You can download again as a PDF to save, send, or print.”

“The flexibility of Kami is great! I am able to use it through my desktop, laptop, iPad, Chromebook, classroom projector, everything. And the documents move from one to the other easily!”

“I like having the ability to write and draw on the document. I have a special needs student who lacks fine motor skills. Kami has allowed us to do math pages with a graphics pad.”

“Kami is a very simple tool to use. It offers a variety of features to transform a digital file into an interactive learning experience. You can add video posts to the document, annotate in a variety of ways including a selection of different colors, shapes and text sizes.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“I wish that I didn’t have to add a text box. I wish that it could recognize where text would go in the document automatically so that I could just click and add what I need.”

“Something that I dislike about Kami is that it can be overwhelming to use at first. It has a lot of features, and it takes quite awhile to feel fluent in using them. When I first started using Kami, I found myself getting frustrated and connecting with the support team more often than I liked.”

“They tried to charge us for additional licenses for staff and students that have left and they couldn’t figure out why Kami Tech can not remove them. Plus we have it with only people with our domain can get an account but when we log in as an admin we have a bunch of random email account that are not our domain.”

“The offline mode is very limited. I really wish that Kami had a better offline experience. About the only thing you can do is annotate in offline mode and for those annotations to be saved and sent back to the teacher the student has to come into a wi-fi accessible area.”

“Sometimes the student’s work doesn’t save or what they submit to me is different to what’s in front of them.”