Sutori: How to Use It to Teach
Sutori, previously known as HSTRY, offers a presentation tool that goes beyond presenting alone and is designed specifically to serve schools.
Unlike many other presentation tools, the company here has designed the online system to develop interactive stories. As such, this can be used by students and teachers to plan and deliver projects with a really open-ended set of options. It is used by more than 2.5 million teachers and students across the world.
Since this is all online-based it can mean easy access across devices and internet connections, making it readily accessible for students and teachers. Collaboration also can occur across the classroom, home, and beyond, from both school-assigned and personal devices.
This guide aims to lay out all you need to know to see if Sutori could help with your class.
What is Sutori?
Sutori is an online-based tool that offers the ability to create, collaborate on, and share presentations and storylines.
As such, this is a very adaptive tool that allows teachers from various subjects to work with it, from sociology, history, and geography to languages, arts, STEM, and beyond.
Thanks to a selection of templates that offer a canvas to build on, this is an open-ended tool that allows for a great deal of creativity and variation. Think of it like an endless digital pinboard that everyone can interact with using various types of media.
Since this is designed to be easy-to-use, its access can span a range of ages and abilities, letting students focus on the content itself without wasting time on working out how to use the system.
How does Sutori work?
Sutori lets teachers create storylines and share these via codes with the class or students individually. Thanks to starter templates, this creation process is a guided and simple even for those new to these types of tools.
Everything is scrolling-based, so you can add images, words, videos, interactive questions, and more with no limit on length. Thanks to assessments and quizzes, this can be a deeply interactive tool and can grow as a class or project progresses.
The tool is built to work well with Google Classroom, and it offers real-time collaboration, both of which are ideal for schools setup with that system that want students to work together digitally.
What are the best Sutori features?
Sutori offers a lot of templates to get you started and that’s both from the company but also from other users who leave their creations for anyone to use. As such, there is a huge amount of options to pick from, making this great for most subjects and many, many topics. All 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. So a teacher may place information in a storyline for students to read and follow up with an assessment, through which each individual can complete for teachers to see how well they have learned from that story.
Thanks to the social media-style feed, this is more interactive and freeing than many other presentation tools, making it an easily implemented tool for students. Sharing output is easy and can make this a useful way to set and have students submit class projects.
How much does Sutori cost?
Sutori offers a free trial and paid premium version as well as tiers specifically designed for schools or departments.
The Essential Free model gets you the basics through which you can create stories, add text and images, share and collaborate, present, embed into websites, and use basic student management.
Go for the Unlimited tier, at $120/year/educator, and you get the above plus videos, quizzes and polls, audio, bulk media uploads, headings, links, customization, feedback, class discussions, story analytics templates, Google Drive integration, LMS integration, and more.
The Department plan is offered at $500/year for up to six educators.
Or go for the Schools tier at $2,500/year to cover all educators in the entire school.
Sutori best tips and tricks
Feed into a lesson
Use a feed to teach a lesson as a way to show students how this 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 taking in the subject material along the way, and adjust teaching accordingly.
Project
Set projects for groups or individuals and have them present it back using the Sutori tool, encouraging a class presentation so everyone learns from the result.
