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List of supported technologies to use in course content creation
Tool selection is an important part of building a sustainable course design. It will determine the level of support you receive, the level of support your students receive, and how robust and reliable that support will be. The following is a list of centrally-supported tools. The criteria for tools to be on this list are that users should receive some combination of the following levels of support:
NOTE: This list is not intended to restrict or discourage use of tools outside of this list, but instead, it is a guide for those who desire a fully-featured support ecosystem around the tools they use. Faculty are encouraged to consult with their departmental support services for lists of software leveraged through their school, college, division or institute.
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The following are resources available for course management systems (CMS) supported by campus.
Canvas is the new learning management platform for the campus. It contains a variety of robust tools ranging from communication to the online submission of course assignments. Canvas can support online, face-to-face, or hybrid course models. You can turn course tools on and off so that the tools available in your course are specifically tailored to your pedagogy and course materials.
Lecture and presentation technologies are important tools in the presentation of content within absorb-type activities.
Adobe® Captivate® CC offers enhanced support for HTML5-based eLearning content and also lets you create courses that meet accessibility standards.* Add more interactivity to your courses with drag-and-drop modules, YouTube video streaming, and in-course web browsing. Record system audio along with narration. Generate reusable advanced action templates. Import GIF format questions to create quizzes in a jiffy.
Acrobat is a great way to deliver content to students. While most operating systems now allow you to print to PDF, Acrobat provides additional features to make more interactive documents. Acrobat is provided to campus at no cost.
Camtasia is a video creation application for creating tutorials, narrated presentations, and screencast recordings, and other multi-source recordings. While Camtasia is not an advanced video editing tool, it is not recommended for beginners to video content. Those new to Camtasia should complete the built-in tutorials, as well as the LinkedInLearning training resources.
Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
Kaltura (vendor and product name) MediaSpace is a media management platform that provides users with the:
Kaltura CaptureSpace combines painless recording, automated publishing, and interactive viewing to enable easy video capture in class, at the office, at home, or on-the-go.
Users are encouraged to keep recordings created with CaptureSpace short — less than 10 minutes in length.
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft 365 is a ubiquitous application for creating course content. The Microsoft 365 suite includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. All of these tools are supported by the Help Desk and the campus has a site license for it.
Zoom is an enterprise cloud platform for video, voice, online meetings, screen sharing, chat, and webinars. This enterprise web conferencing and distance learning application runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom can be used to record stand-alone content for students as well as for recording synchronous meeting sessions for later viewing by participants and non-participants alike. Zoom is integrated with Canvas, allowing instructors and enrolled students to easily access web conferencing sessions from within their courses. It can help instructors optimize their time and engage students in new and stimulating ways. It can be used to support face-to-face, blended and online courses. Current UW–Madison instructors are using it to deliver: online lectures; guest speakers; virtual office hours; student group projects; student presentations; virtual and outside class review sessions and more.
These tools provide a means by which instructors can provide formative feedback before, during, and after online learning activities.
Canvas is the new learning management platform for the campus. It contains a variety of robust tools ranging from communication to the online submission of course assignments. Canvas can support online, face-to-face, or hybrid course models. You can turn course tools on and off so that the tools available in your course are specifically tailored to your pedagogy and course materials.
Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.DoIT Academic Technology does not provide individual consultations for these applications.
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft 365 is a ubiquitous application for creating course content. The Microsoft 365 suite includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. All of these tools are supported by the Help Desk and the campus has a site license for it.
Qualtrics is a web-based survey service that is available for use by all UW–Madison faculty, staff, and students. The UW-Madison Qualtrics Survey Hosting Service allows the campus community to easily create surveys, collect and store data, and produce reports. Qualtrics was selected by the UW System because it combines exceptional ease of use with an advanced set of features. Some of the new capabilities include the following:
Top Hat is a student engagement system that allows you to ask questions, take polls, give quizzes, and receive feedback from your students during class. Top Hat is a bring-your-own-device solution, which means that students can use any web-enabled device (laptop, tablets, smartphones) to participate. Top Hat also allows for text messaging to submit answers, so students can use older cell phones, as well.
These tools are helpful in the facilitation of instructor-student and/or student-student interactions within the technology-enhanced portion of your course.
Canvas is the new learning management platform for the campus. It contains a variety of robust tools ranging from communication to the online submission of course assignments. Canvas can support online, face-to-face, or hybrid course models. You can turn course tools on and off so that the tools available in your course are specifically tailored to your pedagogy and course materials.
Classlist is an automated no-charge system that allows instructors to have email distribution lists generated based upon their course enrollment. The Classlist system is based entirely on authentication using your UW–Madison NetID and password. The Classlist system automatically updates the email distribution lists with Registrar data six times a day, seven days a week, throughout the semester. Thus, student changes, e.g. add/drop, are automatically reflected.
Piazza is an interactive, student-driven online service for managing Questions and Answers in both online and face-to-face classes. Piazza gives students a space to ask and collaboratively answer course-related questions in a timely manner.
Zoom is an enterprise cloud platform for video, voice, online meetings, screen sharing, chat, and webinars. This enterprise web conferencing and distance learning application runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom can be used to record stand-alone content for students as well as for recording synchronous meeting sessions for later viewing by participants and non-participants alike. Zoom is integrated with Canvas, allowing instructors and enrolled students to easily access web conferencing sessions from within their courses. It can help instructors optimize their time and engage students in new and stimulating ways. It can be used to support face-to-face, blended and online courses. Current UW–Madison instructors are using it to deliver: online lectures; guest speakers; virtual office hours; student group projects; student presentations; virtual and outside class review sessions and more.
These tools provide a means by which instructors can provide formative feedback before, during, and after online learning activities.
Canvas is the new learning management platform for the campus. It contains a variety of robust tools ranging from communication to the online submission of course assignments. Canvas can support online, face-to-face, or hybrid course models. You can turn course tools on and off so that the tools available in your course are specifically tailored to your pedagogy and course materials.
Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, whether they’re board or team meetings, dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips, or anything else. UW–Madison has licensed Doodle for campus use.This smart assistant saves time for millions of people worldwide, and in the end, it brings people together.
Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
Additional ResourcesMicrosoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft 365 is a ubiquitous application for creating course content. The Microsoft 365 suite includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. All of these tools are supported by the Help Desk and the campus has a site license for it.
UW–Madison Box is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration service. UW–Madison Box accounts are providing users with 50.0GB of storage. In addition to uploading and editing a variety of file types, Box also allows campus users to:
Zoom is an enterprise cloud platform for video, voice, online meetings, screen sharing, chat, and webinars. This enterprise web conferencing and distance learning application runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom can be used to record stand-alone content for students as well as for recording synchronous meeting sessions for later viewing by participants and non-participants alike. Zoom is integrated with Canvas, allowing instructors and enrolled students to easily access web conferencing sessions from within their courses. It can help instructors optimize their time and engage students in new and stimulating ways. It can be used to support face-to-face, blended and online courses. Current UW–Madison instructors are using it to deliver: online lectures; guest speakers; virtual office hours; student group projects; student presentations; virtual and outside class review sessions and more.
The following are resources where you and your students can host websites, files, and videos for your course.
Google Sites can be used to create websites for a course, organization, or personal use. A UW–Madison is available for campus users to conform to campus website standards.
WiscWeb (formerly “WiscWeb CMS”) is a web content management service that enables users to easily deliver an engaging online experience for students, potential students, parents, faculty, staff, and interested visitors. We provide website authoring, collaboration and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage the site’s content with relative ease. The WiscWeb service utilizes a custom campus theme (known as the <a href="https://uwtheme.wordpress.wisc.edu/">UW Theme</a>) in a content management tool known as WordPress.
These tools allow students to share files with each other on group projects outside of face-to-face class activities within a blended course.
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Canvas |
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Box |
OneDrive |
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File Types | Any | Any, some gaps in Office file support | Any | Any |
Capacity | 1 GB very limited capacity | Unlimited | Unlimited | 1 TB |
Ease of Use | Very Easy | Very Easy | Very Easy | Very Easy |
Access across devices | Yes Via browser | Yes Google Drive Sync | Yes Box Sync | Yes OneDrive Sync |
Sharing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and drawings. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
UW–Madison Box is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration service. In addition to uploading and editing a variety of file types, Box also allows campus users to:
Microsoft 365 OneDrive is a cloud-based file storage and collaboration service. Microsoft 365 users are providing users with 1 TB of storage within OneDrive. In addition to uploading and editing a variety of file types, it also allows campus users to:
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Kaltura |
YouTube |
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File Types | Video, audio, images | Video |
Capacity | Unlimited | Undisclosed by vendor |
Ease of Use | Very Easy | Very Easy |
Access across devices | Yes Via browser | Yes Via browser |
Sharing | Yes | Yes |
Kaltura (vendor and product name) MediaSpace is a media management platform that provides users with the:
YouTube is a video delivery platform that provides users with the:
Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. Share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms and drawings. Collaborate in real-time with your team or with your whole school. You can publish final documents to the entire world, too.
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft is a ubiquitous application for creating course content. The Microsoft 365 suite includes Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications. All of these tools are supported by the Help Desk and the campus has a site license for it.
Adobe InDesign is a professional desktop publishing tool in which you and students can create posters, books interactive PDFs, and more. Campus users may not receive any support for these tools other than directing users to Adobe support resources.
Pressbooks is software that lets you author textbooks for the web in formats like PDF, MOBI, and EPUB. It can be used to create Open Educational Resources (OER)
The world’s most advanced image editing app lets you enhance, retouch, resize, and manipulate photographs and other images in any way you can imagine. Campus users may not receive any support for these tools other than directing users to existing Adobe support resources.
Create vector art and illustrations using advanced, precise drawing and typography tools. Work quickly and intuitively on everything from brand identities and marketing materials to graphics for the web, video, and film. Campus users may not receive any support for these tools other than directing users to existing Adobe support resources.
Edit video faster and more fluidly with Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Brand-new features include an integrated color grading pipeline with Adobe SpeedGrade CC, expanded native format support, improved multi-cam editing, and more.
Camtasia is a video creation application for creating tutorials, narrated presentations, and screencast recordings, and other multi-source recordings. While Camtasia is not an advanced video editing tool, it is not recommended for beginners to video content. Those new to Camtasia should complete the built-in tutorials, as well as the LinkedInLearning training resources.
Kaltura (vendor and product name) MediaSpace is a media management platform that provides users with the: