Category

Description

Tools

Tools to allow faculty and students to communicate, share materials, check-in, etc.

DoIT Supported Tools

• Outlook 365 (Microsoft Office 365)
• Blackboard
  • Announcements
    • Ultra Course View
      
  •  Email
    • Ultra Course View
      
  • Discussions
    • Ultra Course View

Other Tools

• GroupMe app
• Social Media apps: Messenger, What’s App, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
• Phone Text Message

Tools to engage students and allow them to work together on projects and assignments.

• Blackboard - Ultra Course View
  • Groups
  • Blog (not yet available)
  • Journal
  • Discussions
• Microsoft Office 365 Application Support (OneDrive, Word, PowerPoint, Sway, etc)

Tools that allow for live classroom lectures to be recorded and give faculty the ability to perform personal captures from their computers and/or mobile devices. Personal capture includes narrated (Voice Over) PowerPoints, videos of themselves, and recording of the faculty’s device screen.

Note: The Office of Distributed Learning (ODL) assists faculty with creating rich media experiences in professional production studios. ODL also helps create transcripts for audio and closed captions for videos.

• Narrated (Voice Over) PowerPoint
• Panopto

• ScreenPal
• Screencastify
• Use laptop webcam
• Smartphone videos and voice messages
• Loom

Tool that allows you to hold live meetings, presentations, virtual office hours, etc. Faculty can:

• Share content
• Share whiteboard
• Share screen
• Record

• Skype
• Microsoft Teams
• Zoom

• Google Hangouts

Tools that provide an online collection of movies, documentaries, educational films, etc.

• YouTube
• Thomas Coooper Library Educational Streaming Films & Databases
• Ted Talks
• Professional association websites

The campus' learning management system is used to help faculty create effective course materials such as quizzes, discussion forums, assignments, etc.

• Blackboard Learn

Tools available to check for cheating and plagiarism.

• Blackboard SafeAssign
• Blackboard Proctoring Services

The library provides assistance with course materials including scans or links in Blackboard to articles, textbooks, ebooks, streaming video, book chapters, and open educational resources. Some textbook publishers provide access to digital materials.