Teaching & Learning

Academic tools that support teaching and learning, including hardware within physical classrooms, testing and proctoring, Canvas, Blackboard, Top Hat, VoiceThread, Panopto, and more

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Academic Room Scheduling: Astra Schedule

Academic room scheduling software.
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Blackboard Learning Management System

Blackboard Learn is an online service for posting course-related materials and facilitating interactions between students, instructors, teaching assistants, and guests. Blackboard Learn integrates communication tools with a multitude of content delivery options.
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Canvas Learning Management System (LMS)

Canvas by Instructure is a learning management system that allows faculty to enhance course design while delivering a consistent student experience. Canvas utilizes a modern and user-friendly interface to provide intuitive access to course content and features. Canvas seamlessly integrates a wide range of third-party tools and service to increase its flexibility and functionality.
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Classroom Hardware

Hardware tools that are available in all standard classrooms, including cameras, lecterns, microphones, wireless display projection, and more
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Course Offering Search

Web-based search tool for finding available courses. Integrated with PeopleSoft SIS.
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Custom IT Projects

If you have an IT need that is not met by an existing service, we can work with you to identify possible solutions and provide detailed price estimates on implementing those solutions.
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Degree Progress Report: Degree Audit Reporting System (DARS)

Web-based tool to allow students and advisors to view a student's progress toward the completion of a degree. Can also be used as a planning tool for students looking to declare or to change majors.
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Digital Course Materials: Inclusive Access

Technology solutions that promote affordable, digital content like ebooks and courseware for students.
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Faculty & Advising Center

Web-based tool to allow instructors and advisors to manage their student and advisee data, including class listings, grades, and advising status.
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Instructional Technology Course Production Support

The Instructional Technology Consultation and Course Production Support service offerings support our campus stakeholders, using a consultative approach in the selection and best use of available academic technology tools that foster engaging, pedagogically sound teaching and learning environments.
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Interactive Discussion & Feedback Tool: VoiceThread

Upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files and videos. Provide comments/feedback via microphone, webcam, text, phone, audio upload, or freehand markup.
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Lecture Capture: Panopto

Panopto is a cloud-based application for recording lectures, presentations, or events for later replay by students or colleagues.
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Live Student Response System: Top Hat

The Top Hat student response system utilizes students' personal devices (smart phones, tablets, laptops, etc.) combined with interactive slides to facilitate classroom discussions, track attendance, and conduct real time polls or quizzes. Outside of the classroom, Top Hat offers an InteractiveText platform where instructors can adopt, customize, or create Open Educational Resources for their courses in place of traditional textbooks.
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Ohio University Learning Network (OULN)

A network of dedicated videoconferencing classrooms on the Athens campus, regional campuses, and regional centers that support high-quality, real-time, simultaneous interactions between participants in multiple locations.
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Proctored Testing & Scoring

Resources for on-campus, online, offsite, and accommodated proctoring, as well as standardized tests and automated scoring tools
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Required Textbook Management: Textbook

Web-based tool to allow instructors or their delegates to manage required textbook information. Integrates with PeopleSoft SIS and Course Offerings.
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Student Information System: PeopleSoft

Enterprise application for storing, managing and updating student data. Specific functions within PeopleSoft are supported by offices outside of OIT. Those offices include Admissions and Transfer Credit, Financial Aid, Registrar (Student Records), and the Bursar (Student Financials).
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Video Conferencing: Adobe Connect

Video conferencing solution that is web-based but can also be set up with additional hardware and be designed as a multipoint video conferencing solution for instructional purposes.
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Course and Instructor Evaluations: Blue

Blue allows you to design your own custom course and instructor evaluations and administer them online.
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Getting Started with GitHub Classroom

Initial getting started instructions for GitHub Classroom, including how to join the OHIO GitHub User Group.