13 of the best brainstorming tools to stimulate team thinking
17.12.2024 • 4 minutes
To come up with the very best ideas and stimulate teamwork, there’s nothing like a brainstorming session! Essential in the conceptualization phase of a project, time devoted to the collaborative sharing of team notes and ideas facilitates the development of project work, the reaching of objectives, and the resolution of problems.
Indeed, when members of a team brainstorm in a transparent, non-judgmental atmosphere, free ideas flow and come together in collective intelligence to respond to and resolve even the most intractable of problems.
So, what tools can you use to plan and organize productive and successful team brainstorming sessions? In this article, Wooclap gives you its top 13 brainstorming tools to come up with the very best ideas.
The strengths of Wooclap for effective brainstorming
Brainstorming for business teams
Testimonials: users give their opinions!
Choosing between the best brainstorming tools: our guide
How much does it cost to plan, organize and run brainstorming sessions on Wooclap?
How can I access the Wooclap brainstorming tool?
Can I use Wooclap for face-to-face rather than just online brainstorming?
The strengths of Wooclap for effective brainstorming
Using Wooclap, an interactive, online presentation editor, you can ask your audience members a question and organize their answers in a visual way in real time, in order to stimulate their team thinking.
Brainstorming for students
There is nothing better to stimulate your students in a workshop or collaborative project than to get them to brainstorm and share ideas. Brainstorming sessions can also be used to evaluate students’ and team members’ understanding of a subject, as well as getting them to express their opinions in an open, friendly and fun educational or business setting. Your brainstorming sessions will therefore stimulate critical thinking, teamwork, and real, open dialog!
Brainstorming for business teams
Whether to think collectively on a project or gather the ideas and opinions of business team members, a team brainstorming is one of the most valuable management tools.
Using the category templates of the easy to use Wooclap brainstorming tool, you can give the floor to your team members on a wide range of topics, and then organize and analyze the results in a structured, visual way, to help each user or participant visualize all the ideas and notes generated during the brainstorming.
Using the category templates of the easy to use Wooclap brainstorming tool, you can give the floor to your team members on a wide range of topics, and then organize and analyze the results in a structured, visual way, to help each user or participant visualize all the ideas and notes generated during the brainstorming.
Virtual brainstorming
When carrying out virtual brainstorming sessions, it’s essential to create a real, collaborative online space that offers users visual ways to connect, share and organize each idea via a common medium.
With Wooclap interactive presentations, it’s easy to boost the engagement of online team members with a variety of features and questions, including polls, media stimuli, word clouds, digital spin-the-wheels, collaborative image labeling, map labeling, ranking of options, sorting, short videos, quizzes, fill-in-the-blank questions, a digital whiteboard, mind mapping, SWOT analyses, and much, much more.
Top 13 brainstorming tools
1. Wooclap
Wooclap is an online platform and set of software tools and advanced features that help you create interactive, online presentations, and organize original and engaging collaborative meetings. Choose from more than 15 question types, including word clouds, open-ended questions, polls, and drag and drop questions, to create the right stimuli to meet the objectives of your in-person or online brainstorming sessions.
2. Mentimeter
Best for interactive business meetings, Mentimeter is a practical, intuitive collaboration tool to encourage team thinking. Just like Wooclap, Mentimeter has its own AI features to help you quickly create brainstorming contents and materials.
3. Slido
Slido is mainly used to organize webinars or business Q&A sessions. This platform offers all the tools and features necessary to engage a large audience in a brainstorming session.
4. Kahoot
Renowned in education for its gamification features, Kahoot transforms your brainstorming sessions into real, live, interactive games. The software suite has an app that makes it particularly suitable for use on mobile phones during training or icebreaker sessions.
5. Engageli
This tool is specialized in helping you create virtual classrooms and offers many options and features for live, online interactions. Engageli makes it easy to organize personalized brainstorming and to share documents. The tool does not offer one-size-fits-all pricing, but only custom pricing.
6. Klaxoon
A practical and visual project management tool, Klaxoon offers more than 10 interactive tools to engage your audience in online brainstorming sessions. Choose from many templates to put ideas front and center, without having to worry about layouts.
7. Beekast
For students and business teams alike, the Beekast platform and software is great for online brainstorming in small teams. Interactive and customizable, its user interface is easy to use, and its features encourage collaboration and creativity.
8. Vevox
In brainstorming sessions, Vevox offers the possibility of asking questions live, and highlighting the most relevant ideas through a visual collaborative voting system. Thanks to its ChatGPT integration, you can generate quizzes, polls and surveys in the app in very little time.
9. iSpring
The iSpring platform and software suite offers numerous advanced e-learning content creation tools. Its features are mainly geared to business training and online courses, but are still very practical in helping you organize structured, interactive online brainstorming sessions. The suite has annual pricing, and a one-month trial period.
10. Socrative
Socrative specializes in helping you organize and enhance school projects and visualize student progress using real-time feedback features. This is a particularly effective tool for gathering opinions and ideas.
11. Miro
Miro is a sophisticated software suite for creative project work and distributed teams, with digital visual collaboration, brainstorming, idea generation and project management tools for professional users. Its advanced features include an endless whiteboard, which can integrate sticky notes, mind map diagrams, concept maps, and collaborative flowcharts. Its free pricing plan offers 3 editable boards, 3000 Miro templates, and 10 AI integration credits per month. Its business pricing plan offers more boards, workspaces and diagramming shapes, even more advanced options and features, and 50 AI credits per month.
12. MindMeister
MindMeister is collaboration and brainstorming software specialized in mind mapping. Its easy to use tools help users organize projects and share ideas on a colorful collaborative whiteboard. It features app integrations and offers numerous templates, with up to 3 mind maps in the free plan, and unlimited mind maps in its per month pricing plans.
13. Lucidchart
Lucidchart allows teams of users to work on projects in collaboration on a whiteboard workspace, building sophisticated flowcharts, mind maps, visual item mapping, technical diagrams, brainstorming diagrams, and data visualization charts. It offers integrations with business tools, such as Slack, Microsoft Office and Google collaboration tools. Its free plan offers 3 editable charts, and its paid per month pricing plans offer more charts, more integrations with offer software, premium templates and premium shape libraries.
Testimonials: users give their opinions!
Chris Lorch, Lead for Learning Technologies Pilots and Integrations at Duke University, discusses the integration of emerging technologies in education, focusing on the challenges, strategies, and successes of improving learning outcomes. He shares the Duke faculty's favorite Wooclap use cases:
“Wooclap is much more than a student response system. It's about communication, collaboration, and conversation in the classroom.”
Colin Yuckman has played a pivotal role at Duke Divinity School, where he oversees the administration of hybrid programs and teaches several online courses each year. His focus extends beyond merely teaching content; it involves implementing best practices in digital learning and sharing them with his colleagues.
"Wooclap offers way more variety of question types, and provides both live and self-paced forms of engagement with an audience or student population."
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Choosing between the best brainstorming tools: our guide
If you don’t know how to choose between the various tools available, don’t panic! Here are the main criteria to consider when comparing different brainstorming tools:
- Number of possible participants
- Variety of features
- Integrations with other tools, software and app platforms
- Ease of use
- Free customization of the tools ****and contents
- Plan pricing, free features, and free trial periods
Organizing brainstorming sessions has never been so easy and fun thanks to Wooclap. Its intuitive user interface allows you to create engaging and dynamic presentations for an unlimited number of participants, with extremely affordable pricing.
FAQ
How much does it cost to plan, organize and run brainstorming sessions on Wooclap?
Create and share your first Wooclap event to try out its brainstorming and word cloud features completely for free and without any obligation, with just a two-question limit per event.
And if you want to take your brainstorming sessions to the next level, the Wooclap Pro plan subscription at just €14.99 per month offers all the features with unlimited access, including the creation of contents with AI.
How can I access the Wooclap brainstorming tool?
Once your Wooclap account has been created, select “Create event”, then “New question”. Choose the “Brainstorming” question type, tailor-made to collect ideas from your audience and team members in a structured and visual way. You can also vary your brainstorming contents and questions by adding word clouds, interactive polls, mind maps, and many other question types and features!
Can I use Wooclap for face-to-face rather than just online brainstorming?
Wooclap is perfectly suited to in-person as well as online brainstorming sessions. For example, simply using their smartphones, your colleagues or team members can connect directly to the event and participate directly from their device. Each idea can be submitted individually and the submissions will all appear live in the Wooclap event, facilitating stimulating discussions, collaborative brainstorming, and the generation of plenty of new ideas!
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