Teaching with Technology

If you are a new instructor, please see the 2022/23 Faculty Primer document, which provides a list of curated resources, workshops, and people that can help with your teaching responsibilities. For a more in-depth exploration of learning technologies supported by ETS see the list below.

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https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/hypothesis/

Hypothesis

Hypothesis is an annotation tool designed to facilitate collaborative and interactive online discussions. It allows users to add comments, annotations, and discussions to web pages, PDFs, and other online content.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/embed-zoom-recording-on-canvas-via-kaltura/

Uploading Zoom Recordings to Kaltura

UBC Zoom recordings have a one-year retention period, so uploading the recordings to Kaltura allows long-term cloud storage and sharing on Canvas with ease.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/canvascatalog/

Canvas Catalog

A native to Canvas, Canvas Catalog is an all-in-one learning solution that includes a course catalog, course registration system, payment gateway, and learning platform used at UBC for non-credit courses.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/elearning-student-help-resource/

eLearning Student Help Resource

This Canvas course is designed to house useful guides, information, and links to resources to assist students in their use of learning technologies.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/ally/

Ally

Ally is a content-checking tool that works in Canvas to help you improve the accessibility of your course content.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/low-bandwidth-teaching-and-learning/

Low-Bandwidth Teaching and Learning

Thinking about the bandwidth and immediacy of tools can help in designing accessible courses that can support students with limited Internet access.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/h5p/

H5P

H5P is an open-source tool that allows you to make interactive HTML5 content easily. With H5P, you can create, share, and reuse over 40 different kinds of interactive content.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/turnitin/

Turnitin

Turnitin is a plagiarism-prevention tool that helps you check the originality of student writing. You can also use Turnitin to provide marks and detailed feedback for each student, as well as re-use common feedback across multiple student submissions.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/padlet/

Padlet

Padlet is a real-time collaborative web platform in which users can upload, organize, and share content to virtual bulletin boards. It supports a wide variety of file types and allows you to embed content from anywhere on the web.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/peer-assessment-tools/

Peer Assessment Tools

Student peer assessment tools can facilitate assignments where you have students review and leave feedback on each other’s work. Learn more about the different tools available.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/microsoft-onedrive/

Microsoft OneDrive

Microsoft OneDrive is a secure file-hosting and document collaboration tool for UBC faculty, staff, and students. It offers 1TB of encrypted data storage, file versioning, and granular control over permissions.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/mind-mapping-tools/

Mind Mapping Tools

Mind maps are visual diagrams used to organize information.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/microsoft-teams/

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration tool to create virtual meeting spaces and facilitate group work. It has web conferencing and group chat functionality, and integrates with Microsoft OneDrive.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/requesting-av-support-for-online-sessions/

Requesting AV Support for Online and In-Person Sessions

UBC's AV support can provide in-person and live online support for your real-time meetings.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/faculty-service-centre/

Faculty Service Centre

The Faculty Service Centre is the platform used by faculty to manage the administrative end of their classroom.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/snagit/

Snagit

Create visual documentation with Snagit, a powerful screen-capture software.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/compair-tool/

ComPAIR

ComPAIR is an open source peer assessment and feedback application where students can compare and respond to pairs of peer answers.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/ipeer-tool/

iPeer

iPeer is a peer review application where instructors can customize and receive students' evaluations of one another.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/qualtrics-tool/

Qualtrics

UBC's official survey tool is provided by Qualtrics; it is an easy-to-use, top-tier platform that offers a wide range of features.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/canvas-assess/

Canvas – Assess

Canvas offers several assessment tools you can use to track and improve student learning in your courses.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/canvas-communicate/

Canvas – Communicate

Canvas provides instructors multiple ways to facilitate communication in a course.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/canvas-share/

Canvas – Share

Your Canvas course can be used to share course content in effective and elegant ways.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/replacing-broken-links-in-canvas-shells/

Replacing broken links in Canvas

If you are importing content from another Canvas shell, there may be outdated or broken links. Use Canvas' tool to ensure all your links are accessible and functioning.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/clas-tool/

CLAS

Collaborative Learning Annotation System (CLAS) is a specialized online media player for recording, sharing, annotating, and commenting on videos.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/video-production-process-2/

Video Production Process

Looking to produce a video? Submit a video production request or explore DIY options.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/zoom-tool/

Zoom

As an alternative option to Collaborate Ultra, Zoom is a web-conferencing tool that facilitates real-time meeting rooms.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/kaltura/

Kaltura

Hosted at UBC, you or your students can upload, share or record videos inside Canvas.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/camtasia/

Camtasia

Make and edit audio or video with this versatile multimedia tool. Available at no cost to UBC faculty, staff and students.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/library-online-course-reserves/

Library Online Course Reserves

Provide your students direct access to books, articles and multimedia all through LOCR.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/ubc-blogs/

UBC Blogs

UBC Blogs is a WordPress environment anyone can use as a public or private site for creative expression and information sharing.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/student-privacy-fippa/

Choosing Learning Technologies: Student Privacy + FIPPA

Student information and privacy is important. Learn more about FIPPA!

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/canvas-access-requests-shell-creation/

Canvas Access Requests & Shell Creation

ETS helps faculty in adding users to their courses (with certain limitations), as well as creating non-credit shells in Canvas.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/extend-canvas-availability-dates/

How can I change a Canvas course availability dates?

Give students access beyond the default class dates.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/how-to-publish-a-course-on-canvas/

How to publish a Canvas course

If your students are not able to see your Canvas course on their dashboard, it is likely that you need to publish your course.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/re-create-groups/

Re-Creating Canvas Groups

When a course is imported or copied for a new term on Canvas, you will find that previously created Group Sets are no longer there.

https://lddi.educ.ubc.ca/export-course-content/

Disable Canvas export course content

Exporting content will allow students to access the course content offline- don't want students to export your course content? You can disable this option for students.