Teaching Tools / Software

The “tools” listed below can be used by instructors to deliver information to, assess progress, communicate with, or receive feedback from their students. Some tools you can download and request a license using the provided request form and others are available to use within our e-Learning lab.

If you have any questions regarding the tools listed below, please contact the Help Center at extension 7-3100.

Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio can be used for real-time recording, editing and publishing video presentations which can be used for training, demonstration, tutorials, and many other uses.

Read More >> Camtasia Studio

0 comments

Centra

logo Centra is a web conferencing program which lets people interact with one another "live" in a virtual online meeting environment. You can meet, learn and collaborate from anywhere you have access to a computer and an Internet connection using multi-way audio and video, application sharing and content display. All Centra sessions are automatically recorded, so those unable to attend the live meeting can playback the session at a later time.

Read More >> Centra

0 comments

Clickers: Personal Response Systems

UNC Charlotte is using a new system, the NXT Clicker by Turning Technologies!

Clickers enable you to involve and interact with an entire class, while capturing real-time assessment data. Clickers automate and streamline administrative tasks such as taking attendance, grading quizzes and tests, and tracking student and class performance. Data collected from the clickers can be easily integrated with the Moodle grade book.

Read More >> Clickers: Personal Response Systems

0 comments

Google Apps

Google Applications, or as it is more commonly known Google Apps, is a suite of communication and collaboration tools used to create wikis, websites, and more. You can access it here: Google Apps

Read More >> Google Apps

0 comments

Moodle

Effective: 23 August 2011 at 3:00 PM

This message is to alert you to a critical situation regarding the delivery of email to students at UNC Charlotte.

Due to hardware problems with the student mail servers, email has become unacceptably slow. We have reports of some messages taking up to 7 hours to be delivered. No messages are being lost, the mail servers are just taking a remarkably long time to process them.

We want you to know about this service impact so that you can plan your communications to students accordingly.

Announcements can be posted which appear immediately in your course. Encourage your students to check your course for announcements as emails will not be sent. Quickmail will generate email messages, though these will be delayed.

ITS is currently working on a plan that will involve moving students to the new NinerMail service very soon, but sooner than we had planned. We will have more information about this process within 24 hours.

The Provost has accepted the recommendation made by the LMS Evaluation Committee to begin the transition to the Moodle LMS. All courses listed in Banner are now available to be delivered in Moodle.

Read More >> Moodle

0 comments

Opscan

Opscan (Optical Mark Reading) at UNC Charlotte may be more commonly known in other institutions as Bubble Sheet or Scantron testing.

Read More >> Opscan

0 comments

Respondus

Respondus is a Windows application (no Macintosh compatible version is available) that enhances the functionality and usability of Moodle's Quiz Activity and it can also be used to develop tests for traditional classes.

Read More >> Respondus

0 comments

SurveyShare.com

SurveyShare is a web-based tool designed for:

assessment of teaching and learning
survey research
evaluations
... and more.

Read More >> SurveyShare.com

0 comments

TurnItIn

Link to Turnitin.com.

Turnitin is plagiarism prevention system that makes it easy to identify students who submit unoriginal work. It acts as a powerful deterrent to stop plagiarism before it starts.

Read More >> TurnItIn

0 comments

Wimba (UNC Charlotte Live)

Every UNC Charlotte faculty and staff member has a live meeting room that can be used to facilitate live classroom sessions, conduct virtual office hours, host meetings with remote colleagues, and much more.

Read More >> Wimba (UNC Charlotte Live)

0 comments

Additional Tools

Though not directly supported at this time, CTL provides general information on collaborative online tools and services such as Wikis, Blogs and RSS aggregators. These tools are all potentially very useful for enhancing online learning, and are generally easily acquired through outside sources for free or at minimal cost.

Wikis

A wiki (wĭk'ē) is a collaborative web application that allows users to add and edit web content. Wikipedia is a well-known example: www.wikipedia.org. Wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website. Faculty can use wikis to encourage collaborative activities among their students. Many are publicly available, and can be found searching “free wiki” on the Internet.

Blogs

A blog (short for weblog) is a website that enables users to instantly publish ideas, images, and links for other people to view. Blogging can be an effective journaling, collaboration and communication tool for small groups of people. Many blogs are freely available: www.blogger.com is one such example, or you may find others by simply searching "free blogs" on the Internet.

RSS

RSS comes in a few formats but is best known as Really Simple Syndication. RSS feeds are titles or brief summaries of web content with links to the expanded content. Some of the most common providers of RSS feeds are news sites, bloggers and podcasters. You will know a site has an RSS feed if you see one of the following icons: , , or . You can subscribe to an RSS feed with a news aggregator application (e.g. RSS Owl), online aggregator, or directly with a browser with built-in RSS integration, such as: Firefox, Netscape 8, Safari, and Opera 8. To look for feeds by topic try the RSS Network at www.rss-network.com.

Read More >> Additional Tools

0 comments

Accessibility Navigation: