Technology Tutorials

In this part of our textbook resource you will find brief tutorials for each of the tools used in this FitFOL course plus a few others that have now become available to U of L educators during the Pandemic.

In case you wish to select another technology, please take a look at the infograph below to guide your decision-making.

Name of Tool/ Medium Purpose
Camtasia Record videos/ screens and edit afterwards
Canva Edit pictures online
Crowdmark* Collaborative grading for instructors, especially in large classes
Etherpad Write in real-time multiplayer editor and download online exchange afterwards
ePoll* Activate student learning using poll questions in your courses.
Flipgrid Collaboratively create video vignettes
H5P* Create interactive content such as videos, presentations, branching scenarios, etc.
Hypothesis* Collaboratively annotate readings
Images Access open online pictures repositories
Lightboard* Create explainer videos for your courses, especially useful when wanting to use a board work (solutions, graphs, etc.)
Microsoft Office Apps* Collaborate with colleagues and students using Teams, OneNote, Sharepoint. Create Forms and Polls for classes using Forms. Create  interactive lesson content using Sway.
Moodle* Share information and do learning activities in secure environment
123 App Audio/ Video recording + editing through a browser
Padlet Collaborate by sharing text, images, video, etc. on online noteboard
Pressbooks* Collaboratively author open textbooks for teaching and publication.
Qualtrics* Survey people online
Snagit Edit pictures
Youtube

Yuja*

Upload and share videos

Record/ Edit/ Stream/ Share videos

Zoom* Conduct video conferences

* =support available to U of L professors and instructors


How to select technology for teaching?

Infograph how to select technology
Credit: Kwantlen Polytechnic University CC-BY 4.0

Ed Tech Tool Checklist Infographic [pdf document]

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