CAMPUS Resources

A Wealth of Teaching Resources at Your Fingertips

Facilitate collaborative teaching and learning with tools you can trust! The following platforms and enterprise software solutions have been approved for your use in partnership with the CU Anschutz Office of Information Technology.

Canvas

A robust learning management system (LMS) with a mobile app that helps manage all aspects of the higher education classroom experience—whether virtual, hybrid or in-person

Capabilities

  • Create and share course materials
  • Collaborate on projects in real time
  • Create rubrics for reviewing, grading, and providing feedback on assignments
  • Track student grades, usage and engagement
  • Manage calendar events and deadlines
     
Panopto

A comprehensive and secure video platform designed to support learning environments

Capabilities

  • Stream live events and capture lectures, meetings, and presentations
  • Automatically index videos using speech and optical character recognition
  • Add interactive quizzes and polls and edit videos directly in your browser
  • Seamlessly integrate with Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Webex
     
Poll Everywhere

A tool for turning presentations, meetings and classes into immersive interactive experiences

Capabilities

  • Allow students to participate in polls, quizzes, and Q&A sessions in real time using any device
  • Create multiple question types
  • Easily add live polls to presentations with tools like PowerPoint, Google Slides and Keynote
  • Enjoy easy grading and reporting
Office 365

A suite of productivity apps and cloud-based tools that support teaching and communication in a flexible, user-friendly way

Capabilities

  • Create and share course materials, manage grades and take organized notes
  • Host virtual classes, share files and communicate with students in real time
  • Manage email, calendars, meetings and deadlines
  • Access and share files from anywhere 
     
Hypothesis

A social annotation tool that fosters a sense of community in online and hybrid courses through collaborative reading experiences

Capabilities

  • Make passive reading assignments more engaging
  • Encourage students to share insights, ask questions, and respond to peers
  • Easily create and grade assignments
  • Monitor student interaction
     
Zoom

A video conferencing solution that makes it easy to teach, collaborate, and stay connected in both remote and hybrid learning environments

Capabilities:

  • Hold live classes and share documents virtually, while recording sessions for later viewing
  • Enable discussions and real-time communication for groups of all sizes
  • Manage participants with tools like mute controls and waiting rooms 
     
TechSmith Camtasia & Snagit

Solutions for creating and sharing visual content that supports learning inside and outside traditional classroom settings

Capabilities

  • Use Camtasia to create professional-quality videos, lecture recordings, tutorials, and demonstrations with voice narration, screen capture, and visual effects
  • Use Snagit to grab and edit images or short videos from your screen to enhance learning
     
Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

A robust suite of creative tools for creating engaging and professional-quality content for your courses

Capabilities

  • Design high-quality course materials
  • Handle advanced video and audio editing for recorded lectures and multimedia projects
  • Edit and manage PDFs for assets like syllabi and reading assignments
  • Access your work and collaborate with colleagues and students from any device 
     
Proctorio

A secure testing environment that allows students to take exams from anywhere while ensuring academic integrity

Capabilities

  • Integrates with common web browsers and LMSs
  • Confirms students’ identity and locks down browsers to prevent specific actions during testing
  • Flags suspicious behavior for later review
     
Turnitin

State-of-the-art plagiarism detection software that empowers students to do their best original work

Capabilities

  • Compares written student assignments to a vast database of websites, academic publications and previously submitted papers
  • Flags matching content and similarity scores
  • Assesses writing quality and helps students improve writing skills
     
Blackboard Ally

An accessibility checker that helps identify and address accessibility issues in course content and improve usability for all learners

Capabilities:

  • Checks uploaded files for accessibility issues
  • Easily fixes accessibility shortcomings
  • Generates alternative content formats like audio, electronic braille, and HTML
     
Lockdown Browser

 A custom web browser for proctoring and securing online exams

Capabilities

  • Integrates seamlessly to lock down testing environments in any LMS
  • Temporarily disables non-essential tasks and functions during exams
     
Respondus 4

A powerful tool for efficiently creating and managing online exams

Capabilities

  • Build tests offline and publish them directly to your LMS
  • Create a wide range of question types or import and manage them from other documents or test banks
  • Save time when preparing large exams or reusing assessments across different courses
     
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