Overview Tools


Preparing students for class meetings

Canvas

Licensed to VU
Intermediate
  • Communicate with your students
  • Share study material and assignments
  • Students hand in assignments or make quizzes
  • Create groups for collaboration
  • Check and give feedback on assignments
  • Share grades
  • Students join Canvas via Educational Office

Interactive Document

Licensed to VU
Beginner
  • Students place annotations in the literature and respond to each other
  • Add questions into the literature
  • Promotes out of class discussion
  • Overview of student participation
  • Integrated in Canvas
  • Be aware of copyright

VU Reading Lists

Licensed to VU
Beginner
  • Easily create and integrate interactive reading lists for your students in Canvas
  • Always copyright compliant
  • Add notes to individual items to provide guidance and commentary
  • Edit your lists directly at any time and easily alert the library to items that need purchasing.
  • Integrated in Canvas
  • Request access via the VU Library

Perusall

Licensed to VU
Intermediate
  • Students place annotations in the literature and respond to each other
  • Promotes out of class discussion
  • Promotes high quality annotations
  • Overview of student participation
  • Integrated in Canvas
  • Be aware of copyright

Comprehension of Document

Licensed to VU
Intermediate
  • Students actively engage with study material
  • Define topics students should identify in the text
  • Collaboration and discussion possible
  • Students reflect on study material
  • Overview of student progress
  • Integrated in Canvas

Padlet

Pilot by VU CTL
Beginner
  • A digital canvas to collaborate on
  • Brainstorm ideas, share files, links, etc.
  • Create a social space for students
  • Easy to use and share

Panopto Video

Licensed to VU
Intermediate
  • Automatic subtitles
  • Add questions directly into videos
  • Create video paths

Interactive Video

Licensed to VU
Beginner
  • Make watching videos interactive
  • Students add annotations directly in the video and others can respond
  • Add questions directly into the video
  • Promotes out of class discussion
  • Overview of student participation
  • Integrated in Canvas

Kdenlive

Licensed to VU
Advanced
  • Advanced video editing
  • Make faces unrecognizable
  • Merge video recordings and sounds
  • Insert titles, transitions and effects
  • Already added to your green or orange VU laptop

WikiWijs

Open source tool
Beginner
  • Easily create educational resources, like textbooks
  • Add interactive elements
  • Reuse material of collegues
  • Share with an Creative Commons license
  • Add a DOI to your material