Tools and Platforms

Explore teaching tools and digital platforms that support course management and student engagement.

Information about moving to Canvas

How to Choose and Assess a Learning Tool – Guidance for selecting and evaluating instructional technologies.
Enhancing Active Learning with Digital Tools – Explore key elements of active learning and practical strategies for integrating digital tools that enhance these practices.
Micro-Learning with Digital Tools – Deliver content in short, focused bursts that improve engagement and retention.
Designing Online Training – Best practices for designing effective asynchronous and synchronous online employee training.

AI Fluency: 101 for Instructors – Learn how to effectively utilize AI while still retaining academic integrity and human-centered learning.
AI Fluency: Prompting Basics – Learn what prompting is, why it matters in teaching and learning, and how instructors can craft prompts that reflect their values and classroom needs.
AI Fluency: Course Design – Learn how AI tools can support early stages of course planning, beginning with well-written learning objectives.
AI Fluency: Developing Instructional Content and Learning Activities – Explore ways AI tools can assist with creating learning materials.
AI Fluency: Designing Assessments and Summarizing Student Work – Learn how instructors can design assessments that remain meaningful in an AI-rich environment.
Designing Assignments and Activities with Generative AI in Mind – Create assignments that encourage authentic thinking while accounting for AI tools.
Developing Course AI Guidelines & Driving Class AI Discussion – Learn how to address AI with your students in your course and individual assignment policies.
Using Generative AI for Efficient Teaching and Work – Explore some uses of Gemini and similar tools to make work easier

Moodle Basics: Create a Canvas-friendly Moodle course
Tips for Organizing Your Moodle Course – Organize course layout to help students focus on learning.
Assessing Student Learning With Core Moodle Tools – Overview of built-in Moodle tools that assess student learning.
Ready to Roll! New Semester Tasks – Find a list of tasks for preparing a course for a new semester.
Spruce Up Your Moodle – Enhance visual course design with banners, headers, and content blocks.

Help Students Stay Organized in Moodle – Provide explanations and lists to help students track course tasks.
Use Moodle Checklists to Help Students Get Organized and Track Progress– Use checklists to help students manage their work.
Customize Learning Experiences for Students: Adaptive and Personalized Pathways – Learn how to create adaptive and personalized learning pathways that guide students through course content based on their choices, proficiency levels, and individual needs.

H5P: Using H5P Interactive Content in Moodle – Create dynamic, interactive activities directly within Moodle.
Panopto: Panopto Basics – Create and host instructional videos to enhance the learning experience for students.
Perusall: Interactive Reading Assignments – Use social annotation to increase engagement with readings.
WeVideo (formerly known as PlayPosit): Interactive Video – Add questions and interactions to video content.
Wooclap: Making Lectures Interactive – Use polls and other activities to engage students during lectures.

Digital Whiteboards for Teaching and Learning – Support collaborative work and visual brainstorming using digital whiteboards.
Padlet: Collaborative Boards for Teaching and Learning – Use Padlet as a collaborative platform to build boards that help increase engagement, collaborative learning, and continued interaction.
VoiceThread: Interactive Presentations and Student Discussions – Use multimedia slideshows for asynchronous discussions and presentations.
WolfWare WordPress: Student Blogging Assignments – Blogs can foster reflection, community, and project-based learning.
Yellowdig: Get Your Students Talking – Encourage discussion through student-led posts and responses to build community within a course.

Gradescope: Streamline the Grading Experience – Use Gradescope to simplify assignment submission and grading.
Turnitin: Writing Feedback, Plagiarism Checks, and Peer Review – Use Turnitin tools to support writing feedback and academic integrity.