Teaching with Technology

HelloIn this Course Readiness Guide, you will find information on organizing your course syllabus and Canvas site and making course readings available through the Library Online Course Reserves (LOCR).

HelloHypothesis 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.

HelloUBC 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.

HelloA 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.

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

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

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

HelloH5P 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.

HelloTurnitin 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.

HelloPadlet 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.

HelloStudent 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.

HelloMicrosoft 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.

HelloMind maps are visual diagrams used to organize information.

HelloMicrosoft 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HelloIf 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HelloGive students access beyond the default class dates.

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

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

HelloExporting 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.