Instructional Tools & LTIs
Canvas is a learning management system, a platform for creating digital content for online, hybrid, and in-person courses. Canvas has additional LTIs (learning technology integrations) and apps built in. RCCD offers support and assistance for using (some of) these apps.
These tools and LTIs are available to all faculty. Click on the link to be taken to the resource page inside the RCCD DE Instructor Resource Shell in Canvas. There you will find a product description, getting started videos, vendor support, and digging deeper info. We have categorized these tools by usage.
Explore These Tools!
- NameCoach -- Community building tool to assist faculty and students with accurate pronunciation of names.
- VoiceThread -- Multi-media tool that lets you & students create threads that users can interact with by leaving text comments, recording video comments, and recording audio comments.
- PlayPosit -- Robust tool that adds graded quizzes, interactions, and reflections to video content.
- DesignPLUS -- Variety of course design tools for Canvas that can significantly reduce the time it takes to develop and style high-quality content in Canvas.
- Canvas Studio -- Video content storage with added quizzes & discussions
- 3C Media -- Video content storage
- TechConnect Zoom For Video -- Video content
- Mediasite -- Video content with added quizzes
- TextExpander -- Tool to store & paste comments, feedback, and information to speed up grading
- Turnitin -- Plagiarism detection tool that helps promote originality in written assignments and provides feedback to students to help them improve their writing.
- Proctorio -- Remote proctoring service software that works within Canvas and is compatible with Chromebooks.
- Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor -- Custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Canvas and utilizes a student's webcam to help prevent cheating during online exams. Online proctoring via a student's webcam, used with LockDown Browser.
- Gradescope -- Grading tool that allows you to seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class.
- Pope Tech -- Page-level accessibility scanner for the WCAG standard.
- TidyUp -- Course scan to identify old, unused, non-student-facing files and pages in a Canvas course that can be deleted or moved to a DEV shell for later review.
- Link Validator -- Canvas tool to verify internal and external links in published and unpublished content in your Canvas course.
- Canvas Accessibility Checker -- Page-level accessibility scanner that checks a few accessibility errors within Canvas' Rich Content Editor.
- Immersive Reader -- Learning tool that uses proven techniques to improve reading.
- WIRIS -- Equation creator and editor that lets you create an equation that appears as an image.