Kami

Kami is very easy to figure out and has many features that make the experience worth it (ex. text recognition and google drive uploading).

It occasionally is incredibly laggy and almost unfunctionable.

Kami is helping me annotate documents

It is easy to share and upload documents.

A downside is that there is limited mobile use.

It is benefiting me in being able to edit PDFs in a much easier way for the person who sent document to me.

I am currently working as a TOSA (teacher on special assignment) to coach and support technology integration at the secondary level throughout our district. Kami is undoubtedly our go-to tool for professional development, as it's the delivery method of our monthly challenges. In the classroom, Kami integrated seamlessly with Google Classroom and Canvas, our LMS, and Google Workspace with the Open with Kami button throughout. You can also find this button in Canva, which is wildly helpful. I support teachers who use Kami daily, and even our data suggests that it has the HIGHEST use of any of our premium apps throughout the district. It is used in our Dual Language classes to support Spanish language students with its translation of menu and interface, Multilingual Student Dictionary, and Read Aloud in Spanish. Our math teachers use the built-in supports for students with virtual rulers, compasses, and protractors. All students are issued a touchscreen Chromebook with a stylus, and this allows students to draw and write their answers. Moreso, students have access to scaffolded supports. Kami supports our IEPs for students with the ability to add audio comments, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, video comments, and Dyslexic fonts. Videos also generate captions for students in real time. Teachers can leave audio comments as repeatable directions for students or leave video comments for our deaf and hard of hearing students and use ASL to translate. The Feature Controls allow teachers to easily target student learning and support all students with one app! It saves time and creates efficiency patterns for all users. Integration was as easy as pushing out a Chrome Extension and students and staff log in easily with SSO with Google. What I love most is their customer support. Teachers can request 15m, 30m, 60m virtual support sessions to freshen up on their skills, learn new features - which Kami releases ALL THE TIME! They are wildly positive people to work with and your best hype team!

I think Kami is coming along in creating more tiered levels of worksheets and activities in their Kami Library. I would like to see more supports come their way.

Kami is meeting the needs of all of our students; especially, those students with IEPs or 504s, students in our Dual Language (DL) and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) programs, and EL students receiving services and support benefit greatly from Kami. Kami provides a multitude of accommodations, such as voice typing (in over 30 languages!!!) with speech-to-text, audio comments, video comments (with real-time captions), dyslexic fonts, multilingual dictionaries (that read aloud the words, definitions, etc. in English and Spanish. Additionally, Kami's Read Aloud feature reads to all of our students in Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Thai, etc., and can be controlled by pitch and speed. Moreover, Kami's integrated tools for assessments and grading such as pass-back, grade-by-page, question tool, banked annotations, update work, and more all save teachers time and reduce workload!

Kami is an incredible accessibility tool. I work with high school students and Kami is easy and intuitive for my students to use. It give them control over their learning without needing tons of settings adjusted. I use it regularly because it is compatible with pretty much anything I am doing online with my students.

I use the free version. My school is unable to pay for the premium.

Accessibility tools at my students' fingertips.

My first experiences with Kami were simply being able to edit a PDF file. Then I discovered all the wonderful tools that it offers and was able to transform many of the resources I had into interactive resources for my students. That is why I shared it with the teachers. So that they could also try it. And what I really love about Kami is that it is very user friendly and has many multimedia elements that help engaging students.

Kami has improved so much over the years that I can't really think of anything that I least like about it. Little by little they have been adding new features that were on my wish list and up to now I am very satisfied with the product.

Kami was designed for teaching and learning experiences. I have used it in the classroom in both distance and on-site learning love the versatility of the tools that it integrates helping teachers enrich the experience for the students. A major situation that Kami helps solve is the fact that they can reduce the number of copies. Requested by teachers and it encourages them to transform their resources into interactive ones.

As a Kami user for over 5 years now, I've witnessed the evolution of this tool. The initial draw to use it was becasue of it's robust ability to provide accessibility to all learners. I've worked with students from 2nd to 8th grade, and Kami was always my go-to tool when needing to share assignments for students to complete. Their seamless integration with Google Classroom for both student use and teacher grading capabilities, it simply can't be beat! Did you know you can even disable tools from being used when assigning an activity (maybe students just don't need to be overwhelmed by all the tools offered; some might not be needed; some might hinder ability to see what student's know; etc.). Assigning a task to Google Classroom is super easy and can be done either right from Kami, or through Google Classroom. Kami is also my favorite virtual whiteboard. The tools are perfect for use with touchscreen projection, and they save directly to my Google Drive! My favorite tool - Spilt and Merge. This tool is a godsend! Being able to manipulate large files and make them into smaller, more managable ones, saves me so much time. I can even delete pages I won't need or use without making permanent changes to the original file! With Kami, I'll never need to print a paper copy of a work assignment again (if I don't want to)! If I ever encounter issues, their customer service team responds quickly to my request and sees the task through. I have yet to have an interaction with any member of their team that wasn't kind, curtious, and sympathetic to my needs. I simply cannot praise this tool, and company, more!

There have been a few instances of markup changes not being saved. However, I later discovered it was user error/poor internet connections. If students are quick to close their tab/device after making edits, they could cause sync to malfunction. Always be sure to have students check that disk icon, or "SAVE" feature, to ensure changes are saved!

Kami is saving me for making a bunch of photocopies of assignments, as well as providing accessibility features to all students. It also creates a fun and engaging way to interact with learning!

When you first experience Kami, you will be so excited about all its incredible engagement tools that will enable your students to interact with text in meaning ways... Then you'll see that engagement pay out with high yield learning out comes which will thrill you, and empower them ! But, the magic won't stop there! Oh, no! These feats are nothing compared to Kami's support team! Kami has the MOST INCREDIBLE teacher support staff that has EVER been assembled. Kami's entire company is founded on and infused with teacher focused support! Team Kami lives their commitment to its teachers in every aspect! They are quick to support and coach you to yes, use their tool for the most instructional impact, but more importantly to help you be the BEST teacher you can be. They are on the frontline of innovation. They genuinely love their teachers, and it's MAGIC. They is no other educational company that treats its customers and teachers the way team Kami does! With Kami, you're not just getting an incredible instructional tool, your gaining a cheer squad. A see you at the podium when you reach your goals squad! Get Kami. Period.

This is funny... There's absolutely nothing.... Kami is magic.

Kami is the instructional tool every single teacher that teaches in the universe needs to engage their students to produce the academic outcomes they desire.

Kami not only allows you to interact with a PDF document, it also connects to products like Google Classroom, Schoology and Canvas allowing teachers to easily have their students access, complete and submit assignments. Kami also has templates to help teachers supplement their lessons. In addition, our district uses Kami on the administrative side of the business for filling out and signing forms that were previously paper-based. The files save directlyt to Google Drive and can easily be shared.

There is not much to dislike about Kami, but a desired feature would be the ability to have an approval routing system for forms and documents that would help tremendously. Also the ability to create a form inside of Kami would be an excellent feature.

Our district has moved to blended learning and we utilize Google Classroom in elementary and Canvas in our secondary schools. We are transitioning to Schoology for elementary and the versatility of using Kami for students to complete worksheets in an easy format that connects to lessons for teachers has allowed our district to move towards a more paperless district. Kami is as essential to the blended classroom as paper and pencils are in a traditional classroom.

I really love the versatility that Kami provides. You can edit, add, merge, highlight... PDFs, it will even read to you! It is a great tool for students to use, especially students with learning difficulties.

I don't like that it costs so much money. $100 for an individual teacher subscription is way too much for a teacher to need to pay out of pocket. My district doesn't provide it and once my 90 day trial is up, I probably will have to find something else.

Kami is solving a big problem of lack of a printer. It allows students to do their work online instead of needing to print out worksheets to complete.

As a student, I often need to engage with the material I am reading in order to truly understand it and apply to my other classes, research project, career interests, and personal life. Kami steamlines that process and makes it super easy.

I dislike that there is no true dark mode and lack of an inverted contrast option. Reading on a white page at night hurts your eyes over time no matter how low the brightness is. I've had to use a different Chrome extension to help my eyes out.

Kami is making it easy to edit, engage with, and personalize the documents that I work with in everyday life. It allows me to not have to open up a separate app and instead makes it easy for me to organize my files on Google Drive---no other apps, no saving to my computer and then uploading elsewhere, just easy.