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Padlet

byPadlet
in Visual Collaboration Applications
4.9

Overview

Product Information on Padlet

Updated 7th October 2024

What is Padlet?

Padlet is a visual collaboration software designed to help educators, businesses, and personal users collect, organize, and share ideas effectively. With its intuitive boards and sandboxes, Padlet offers a versatile platform for creating digital whiteboards, interactive lessons, and collaborative activities. Padlet's flexibility allows it to serve a wide range of markets, making it a valuable tool for enhancing creativity, communication, and productivity in educational, professional, and personal settings alike.

Padlet Pricing

Padlet offers versatile subscription plans for individuals, teams, and educational institutions. Options range from a free tier with basic features to premium plans offering unlimited padlets, increased storage, and advanced tools. Paid plans (Gold, Platinum, Team, Classroom, School) cater to diverse needs, from personal use to district-wide deployments. Pricing varies from $6.99/month to custom enterprise solutions.

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Overall experience with Padlet

Associate Director of Special Projects
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Template Variety and Effective Sharing Highlight Padlet’s Benefits”

5.0
Jul 15, 2025
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professor
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Padlet is fun for students”

3.0
Apr 14, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 4th December 2024

Padlet is a visual collaboration platform used by 40 million monthly active users worldwide. Padlet offers beautiful boards and canvases for visual thinkers and learners. Use boards to collect, organize, and present anything. Use sandboxes for whiteboarding, lessons, and activities. Padlet enables teams to organize and present files, assets, and ideas through interactive digital boards. Users create workspaces (padlets) for file collaboration with clients, instructional video management, marketing asset organization, real estate listing management, presentation creation, meeting agenda planning, feedback collection, and team brainstorming sessions. Padlet supports document sharing, media management, team communication, and project organization across departments and organizations.

Company Details

Updated 4th December 2024
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2012
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://padlet.com

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Padlet Reviews and Ratings

4.9

(36 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
94%
4 Star
3%
3 Star
3%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • Associate Director of Special Projects
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Template Variety and Effective Sharing Highlight Padlet’s Benefits

    5.0
    Jul 15, 2025
    Padlet has proven itself to be an effective tool to facilitate live-time collaboration between faculty and students.
  • Associate Director of Special Projects
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Template Variety and Effective Sharing Highlight Padlet’s Benefits

    5.0
    Jul 15, 2025
    Padlet has proven itself to be an effective tool to facilitate live-time collaboration between faculty and students.
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Reviewer Insights for: Padlet
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Padlet Likes & Dislikes

Like

There have been three main strengths as we utilize Padlet: 1. Large offering of unique templates that can fulfill needs for a variety of classroom activities 2. Seamless integration of photos, audio recording, and video recording into various notes allows for multimodal learning and more efficient information sharing 3. The slideshow feature makes it easy to focus on one set of notes at a time when the activity may involve a large number of categories of information

Like

There have been three main strengths as we utilize Padlet: 1. Large offering of unique templates that can fulfill needs for a variety of classroom activities 2. Seamless integration of photos, audio recording, and video recording into various notes allows for multimodal learning and more efficient information sharing 3. The slideshow feature makes it easy to focus on one set of notes at a time when the activity may involve a large number of categories of information

Like

There have been three main strengths as we utilize Padlet: 1. Large offering of unique templates that can fulfill needs for a variety of classroom activities 2. Seamless integration of photos, audio recording, and video recording into various notes allows for multimodal learning and more efficient information sharing 3. The slideshow feature makes it easy to focus on one set of notes at a time when the activity may involve a large number of categories of information

Dislike

The Padlet-Canvas LTI is too confusing. This could could be a Canvas issue. Once you figure it out, it works fine, but it is much easier to use the embed links. Unfortunately, those don't connect to the Canvas Gradebook.

Dislike

The Padlet-Canvas LTI is too confusing. This could could be a Canvas issue. Once you figure it out, it works fine, but it is much easier to use the embed links. Unfortunately, those don't connect to the Canvas Gradebook.

Dislike

The Padlet-Canvas LTI is too confusing. This could could be a Canvas issue. Once you figure it out, it works fine, but it is much easier to use the embed links. Unfortunately, those don't connect to the Canvas Gradebook.