Teaching Tools
The UIS Educational Technologies (EdTech) group administers and maintains the following online academic enterprise-level tools and integrations for use by faculty, staff and students specifically for teaching, learning, and research at Georgetown University.
UIS has determined that these desktop and laptop computers have sufficient resources for most remote educational tools and activities. However, some academic programs may use software platforms that require more resources. Check with a faculty advisor or your academic department before purchasing.
Visit Georgetown Commons to find more resources related to teaching, including additional teaching and learning tools, examples from faculty, and suggestions for further reading on a range of pedagogical topics. Applicable to all disciplines and open to anyone, Georgetown Commons is supported by the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).
Canvas
Canvas is an online course management system for face-to-face, hybrid and online courses. Using this flexible, open, and extensible platform for course sites, instructors can post content, create assignments and quizzes, assign grades, and communicate with students. Integrated within Canvas are a number of third-party tools that can be used to enrich students’ learning experience.
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Zoom
Zoom is a web conferencing tool that provides a platform to conduct live online conferences, presentations, lectures, meetings and group chats. Use Zoom on your desktop or laptop computer (Windows and Mac), mobile device (iOS and Android), or other conferencing systems such as Polycom (H.323), to connect to anyone internal or external to Georgetown.
Faculty can use the Zoom Conferencing tool in their Canvas courses to schedule meetings with students and hold online office hours. Students (and faculty too) can use Zoom outside of Canvas to create and host their own meetings.
All Georgetown faculty, staff and students will receive licensed Zoom Pro accounts. This allows for 300 attendees in all Zoom meeting rooms. If you anticipate more attendees please email us in advance.
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Panopto
Panopto is a cloud-based lecture capture and media playback service that’s integrated in Canvas. Use Panopto to record content using your computer’s audio, video, and desktop screen. Instructors in Canvas can share lecture capture recordings and uploaded media with students in their courses. Check out the CNDLS page on Panopto for more information.
Note: To provide the best possible experience we recommend setting your NetID@georgetown.edu email address as the default contact method in Canvas.
- You can check to see what your current contact method is in Canvas.
- Students will have their NetID email address set as the default in Canvas.
- If faculty and staff have claimed their first.last@georgetown.edu email alias then it’s likely set as the default contact address in Canvas.
- You can change your default contact method in Canvas to your NetID@georgetown.edu.
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ShareStream
The ShareStream media platform provides audio and video to courses and to the public at large. ShareStream is integrated in Canvas and can provide students with video and audio content streaming. It can be used with Canvas’s Rich Content Editor, Assignments, Pages, and can be added to the Course Menu. Check out the CNDLS page on ShareStream for more information and to schedule a consultation.
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Respondus LockDown Browser
LockDown Browser is a web browser that locks down the testing environment in Canvas. When students use LockDown Browser they are unable to print, copy, visit other websites, access other applications, or close the quiz or exam until it is submitted for grading. When a Canvas quiz or exam requires LockDown Browser it cannot be accessed by standard browsers.
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Turnitin
Turnitin helps instructors check students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against numerous online databases. Turnitin’s Feedback Studio also provides instructors with tools to leave written annotations, video and text comments. Turnitin is available to instructors and students through Canvas.
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Musition
Musition Practice and Task Launch is integrated in Canvas and provides instructors the ability to create questions using audio recordings and notation excerpts and then utilize these questions for assessment, worksheets and curriculum mapping. Tasks and assessments created in Musition are linked with a Canvas course, and scores flow back into the Canvas gradebook.
Support for this tool is provided by Musition. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: This tool is only available for courses in the Music department. Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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Google Assignments
Google Assignments is a free tool in Canvas that uses Google Drive Apps to help instructors create, distribute, collect, analyze and grade student work. Instructors can also use Google Assignments to embed files from their Drive account into Canvas Pages, Announcements, and more.
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Beagle Learning
Beagle provides a platform that can be integrated in Canvas where users practice analyzing information, coming up with solutions to issues, and learning both independently and in groups. Use Beagle to enhance learning with case studies, research, projects, capstones, lectures, or discussions. Beagle guides students through a process of questioning, finding information, and sharing learnings in a visual mind map.
Support for this tool is provided by Beagle. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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Ed Discussion
Ed Discussion is a tool that facilitates discussions and interaction between students and instructors. Students can post messages, ask questions, and provide feedback. Instructors can draw attention to good replies and endorse posts that have correct answers to questions. You might use this to facilitate discussions, engage students, and track student participation.
Once Ed Discussions is enabled in Canvas, they recommend instructors to remove the Canvas ‘Discussion’ tool from their course menu.
Support for this tool is provided by Ed Discussion. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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Hypothes.is
Hypothes.is is a collaborative annotation tool that can be integrated in a Canvas assignment, allowing students to annotate an external webpage or PDF, as well as see and comment on each other’s annotation. The instructor can also participate, and access individual student annotations through SpeedGrader. Check out the CNDLS page on Hypothes.is for more information and for help getting started.
Support for this tool is provided by Hypothes.is. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
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Piazza
Piazza provides an online class forum that can be integrated in Canvas for students to hold discussions and pose questions to their peers, instructors, and TAs. Instructors are able to moderate the discussion, along with endorsing accurate answers.
Support for this tool is provided by Piazza. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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Perusall
Perusall can be integrated in Canvas and allows students to make annotations directly on papers, which can be graded by AI. Instructors can check whether students are reading papers without having to give them quizzes. Perusall can incorporate etextbooks, online articles, and PDFs, which can then be marked up in a myriad ways.
Support for this tool is provided by Perusall. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
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VoiceThread
VoiceThread is an online discussion, assignment and presentation tool that can be integrated in Canvas. Instructors and students can use VoiceThread to create and share dynamic asynchronous conversations recording their computer’s audio and video, typing, and drawing on the screen. Check out the CNDLS page on VoiceThread for more information and to schedule a consultation.
Support for this tool is provided by VoiceThread. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
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Yellowdig
Yellowdig can be integrated in Canvas and provides a discussion platform to communicate and collaborate about class content. Users of Yellowdig can share a broad array of learning resources (e.g., videos, news articles, blogs and more).
Support for this tool is provided by Yellowdig. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Instructors will need to contact Yellowdig prior to enabling the tool in Canvas, and users may need to pay to access this tool. Please reach out to support@yellowdig.com for more information.
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Barnes & Noble College
The BN Bookstore tool in Canvas provides instructors the ability to link their course with the campus bookstore, where students will see the materials selected for your course, and be able to purchase those materials. BN Faculty Resources tool can be used by instructors in Canvas for researching, adopting, and sharing textbooks and course materials; making it easier for students to access a variety of affordable options in all the formats available from the bookstore.
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Cengage Learning
Cengage Learning integrates with Canvas and provides web-based textbooks that include interactive, multimedia resources, flashcards and assessments.
Support for this tool is provided by Cengage. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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FlatWorld Homework
FlatWorld Homework is an educational publisher that can be integrated in Canvas and is used to create and administer assignments that are automatically graded and recorded in the Canvas gradebook.
Support for this tool is provided by FlatWorld. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool; also to provide the best possible experience we recommend setting your NetID@georgetown.edu email address as the default contact method in Canvas.
- You can check to see what your current contact method is in Canvas.
- Students will have their NetID email address set as the default in Canvas.
- If faculty and staff have claimed their first.last@georgetown.edu email alias then it’s likely set as the default contact address in Canvas.
- You can change your default contact method in Canvas to your NetID@georgetown.edu.
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Flatworld Homework Student Guides
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Lingco
Lingco Classroom is an online personalized language learning platform for students that can be integrated in Canvas. It uses artificial intelligence to quickly assess students’ existing language level so it can guide them, fix their mistakes, and work on exactly what they need in order to improve. It provides instructors with real-time insights on where their students are struggling and uses machine learning to recommend activities and content for the instructors to assign.
Support for this tool is provided by Lingco. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Instructors will need to contact Lingco prior to enabling the tool in Canvas. Users may need to pay to access this tool. Please reach out to support@lingco.io for more information.
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Macmillan Learning
Macmillan Learning’s institutional solutions are designed to engage learners through tools for pre-class learning, in-class engagement, and post-class assessment. Macmillan Learning e-textbooks and other products integrate with Canvas.
Support for this tool is provided by Macmillan Learning. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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McGraw-Hill Campus
McGraw-Hill Campus is an educational publisher that provides customized educational content that integrates with Canvas. They also provide reference and trade publications for the medical, business, and engineering professions.
Support for this tool is provided by McGraw Hill. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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myBusinessCourse
myBusinessCourse provides lecture videos created by the authors of the textbook, as well as quizzes and assignments that integrates with Canvas.
Support for this tool is provided by myBusinessCourse. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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MyLab and Mastering
Pearson MyLab and Mastering provides collections of online homework, tutorial, assessment products, and digital textbooks that integrate with Canvas.
Support for this tool is provided by Pearson. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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Pearson Access
Pearson Access provides collections of online assessment products, and digital textbooks that integrate with Canvas.
Support for this tool is provided by Pearson. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desk will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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W.W. Norton
W.W. Norton provides collections of online assessment products, and digital textbooks that integrate with Canvas.
Support for this tool is provided by W.W. Norton. Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Note: Users may need to pay to access this tool.
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iClicker Cloud
With iClicker Cloud you can poll students using a number of different question types: multiple-choice, word cloud, open-ended, numeric, and clickable image. Students respond to polls using their mobile device or computer’s web browser.
iClicker Cloud can sync your course roster and send poll session scores to your Canvas Gradebook. To ensure students are included in your iClicker Cloud roster, students must use their NetID@georgetown.edu email address when they create their iClicker accounts.
Note: Faculty/instructor accounts for iClicker Cloud are free. However, iClicker Cloud student accounts have a 14 day grace period. Once the grace period has ended payment is required for continued use. Please see iClicker pricing for more information.
Support for this tool is provided by iClicker (Macmillan). Georgetown UIS and Canvas help desks will not be able to resolve issues related with this tool.
Are you still using iClicker Classic that requires a base station and remotes? iClicker Cloud provides more question types and functionality than iClicker Classic, integrates with the Canvas Roster and Gradebook, and gives you the option to use the legacy remotes (in addition to mobile devices and web browser). Contact edtech@georgetown.edu for questions about iClicker Classic.
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Jesuit Worldwide Learning (JWL)
JWL is a collaborative global partnership comprised of organizations, institutions, companies, and above all, people, to provide tertiary education to those who would otherwise not have access to higher learning opportunities.