Google Slides
Description Google Slides (an app within the Google Drive suite) is a free web-based tool used to create slideshows and presentations. This tool contains many of the popular features found in...
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Description Google Forms provides the user with the opportunity to easily create personalized surveys and quizzes. Results from Google Forms can be directly sent to a Google Spreadsheet for auto...
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Description Google Jamboard (an app within the Google Drive suite) is a free web-based tool used to enhance lessons and lectures/live sessions and create collaboratively-created whiteboard projects...
View ArticleAdobe Spark
Description Adobe Spark is a media design app that can be accessed online or on a mobile device. Adobe Sparks makes it easy to create professional looking web pages, graphics (called Posts), and...
View ArticleMicrosoft OneDrive
Description OneDrive is an online file sharing and cloud content management tool as part of Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity apps. OneDrive is based on sharing, collaborating, and working with...
View ArticlePiazza
Description Piazza is a web-based application dedicated to creating more interaction inside and outside the classroom via polls, questions, and posts that can be made by both the instructors and...
View ArticlePoll Everywhere
Description Poll Everywhere is an online tool to be used to create live polls, quizzes, Q&A sessions, and a point-based multi-question contest during a presentation. Note: There are multiple types...
View ArticleKaltura
Description Kaltura is Penn State’s newly adopted enterprise-level, cloud-based media management platform for storing, publishing, and streaming videos, video collections, and other media. Kaltura...
View ArticleLynda.com at Penn State
Description Lynda at Penn State provides free access to thousands of top-quality video tutorials on topics from software to soft skills to any Penn State faculty, staff, and students with a valid Penn...
View ArticleQualtrics
Description Qualtrics is a web-based software program that enables you to create surveys to collect and analyze feedback from participants. The surveys can be administered fully anonymously. Qualtrics...
View ArticlePressbooks
Description Pressbooks is a WordPress based e-book publishing software. You can import files to create a book or you can build it from the beginning by creating chapters and pages. Features...
View ArticleZoom
Description Zoom is a cloud meeting platform that provides video, audio, and screen sharing options for the host and participants across multiple platforms, including mobile. Features Instructors and...
View ArticleCanvas Conferences
Description Canvas Conference is a web-conferencing solution for courses in Canvas and is primarily used for virtual (real-time) lectures, office hours, and student group collaborations. Features...
View ArticleTurnitin at Penn State
Description turnitin logo Turnitin is a web-based writing assessment toolkit which allows instructors to provide feedback to students through markup tools, rubrics, proofing tools and originality...
View ArticleBox at Penn State
Description Box is an online file sharing and Cloud content management service. Box is based on sharing, collaborating, and working with files that are uploaded to Box. Box at Penn State is a secure...
View ArticleBlogs
Description A personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis. Features Easy for users to write and upload posts and edit them later...
View ArticleYammer
Description A collaborative environment for connecting with people across the University community and sharing meaningful information. Mostly text based, but sharable documents may be created....
View ArticleANGEL Communication & Interaction
Description ANGEL can be used to communicate and interact with students and among groups of students in various ways, including emailing via Course Mail, distributing Announcements and/or News, using...
View ArticleANGEL Information Dissemination
Description ANGEL can be used to disseminate information using the following tools: The calendar is used to schedule events for yourself, for select students, for a team, and/or for your entire class....
View ArticleANGEL Assessing Learning
Description ANGEL can be used to assess learning in various ways by using the following tools: Drop Box: Provides an area for students to submit assignments electronically. Instructor can have a...
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