Using technology in the classroom is an important part of the modern teaching role.

Whether you are working in a primary or secondary job, the most appropriate use of technology will simultaneously help you manage your time efficiently and allow your pupils to get to grips with tools that will be important to their future development.

As part of the Guardian Professional series, deputy head teacher Sarah Findlater has detailed some of the technological aids she has found useful throughout her spells in various London teaching jobs.

Top of her list is Google Drive, which doubles as both a free online storage cloud and an office suite that has word processor, presentation and spreadsheet capabilities built into it. Once an account has been created, the teacher can access documents on various devices at different locations and share any documents with pupils at the click of a button.

If students set up their own accounts, they too can share any work with their teachers and it eradicates the problems caused by missing exercise books and makes co-creating group projects much easier.

Ms Findlater writes: "Teachers can help students with the creative writing process by getting them to share their stories as they write so you can feedback live without stopping their creative flow. You can give them quick and easy targets through the chat facility or highlight specific sections and create a comment - they have to respond to these otherwise the comment alert won't disappear."

Another useful technological classroom aid the deputy head has come across is Edmodo, which is a free social learning platform for students, teachers and parents that some classes have affectionately dubbed Fakebook due to its similarity to Facebook. It can be used to share libraries and run quizzes and polls.

Have you found any tech platforms that have improved the efficiency of your teaching job? Let us know your ideas.