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
- Record, edit and share videos
- Video platform via vu.cloud.panopto.eu Links to an external site.
- Integrated in Canvas via Panopto Video
- 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
Engaging students during class
Mentimeter
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Create interactive presentations
- Low threshold to participate
- Polling, quizzes, instant feedback, Q&A, icebreakers and more
- Students respond via phone or laptop
- Receive instant results
- Integration in Powerpoint not possible on VU classroom computers
Microsoft Whiteboard
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Collaborate on a digital whiteboard
- Use sticky notes to brainstorm ideas
- Use images, text, drawings, videos and links
- Make classes more active and interactive
- Decide who has what rights to participate
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
Zoom
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Organise online meetings up to 300 people
- Chat, share screen or record meetings
- Integrated in Canvas
- 49 participants visible at the same time
- Use breakout rooms for interaction
- Use whiteboard and polling for active learning
MS Teams
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Organise online meetings up to 300 people
- Chat, share screen or record meetings
- 49 participants visible at the same time
- Chat, share files and collaborate asynchronously
- Work together in files simultaneously
Issue and handle student assignments
Peer Review
Licensed to VU
Advanced
- Organize peer feedback assignments
- Streamlined workflow for students
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Turn peer feedback into dialogue
- Option to reflect on received feedback
- Overview of student progress
- Synched with Canvas Groups
- Integrated in Canvas
Group Member Evaluation
Licensed to VU
Advanced
- Prevent free-riding and improve collaboration
- Organize group member assessment
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Option to reflect on received feedback
- Overview of student progress
- Synced with Canvas Groups
- Integrated in Canvas
Group Formation
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Create the perfect groups for group assignments
- Ask questions to students to form groups
- Based on similar or different answers
- Groups are automatically created
- Synced with Canvas Groups and Sections
- Integrated in Canvas
Google Sites
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Use as portfolio tool
- Show student progress over time
- Show student success
- Freedom in design
- Create showcase for all portfolios
- Manage who can edit and view
MS Copilot
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Generates human-like answers
- Wide range of topics
- Chat interactions to help solve problems
- Data is protected when using VU account
- May generate biased content
- May not be able to handle complex domain-specific tasks
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
Assignment Review
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Organize individual or group assignments
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Reuse meaningful feedback
- Turn assessment into dialogue
- Overview of student progress
- Option to reflect on received feedback
- Integrated in Canvas
- No plagiarism check
Discussion on Work
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Students discuss each others' work
- Students can be assigned to specific peers
- Create requirements or areas for focus
- Students can participate in open discussion
- Overview of student participation
- Integrated in Canvas
Self-Assessment of Work
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Let students review their own work
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Students can review themselves or their group
- Overview of student progress
- Integrated in Canvas
Self-Assessment of Skills
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Let students review their own skills
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Students can review themselves or their group
- Overview of student progress
- Integrated in Canvas
Google Apps for education
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Share content
- Collaborate real time
- Give each other feedback
- Make questionnaires and collect data
- Design your own websites
- Do not work with two accounts
Writefull
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Support students during their writing process
- Spent less time correcting errors
- Monitor your students’ academic language skill
- Get insight in which language aspects need attention
- Evaluate and stimulate students’ progress
- Get tools for targeted feedback and follow-up
Test student learning achievement
TestVision
Licensed to VU
Expert
- Develop Question Banks
- Develop Exams
- Various Question Types incl. open ended
- Very secure
- Full Psychometric Analysis
- Only use under supervision of Faculty Key-user
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
OnStage
Licensed to VU
Intermediate
- Streamline graduation projects, like thesis and internships
- Make plans and agreements
- Monitor student progress
- Give feedback
- Assess easily with several assessors
- Archive graduation projects
Annotate PRO
Pilot by VU NT&L
Intermediate
- Easily develop libraries of feedback comments
- Insert written feedback in one-click
- Share libraries with co-workers
- Helps you to save time
- Works with FeedbackFruits, Google Docs, Word Online and Canvas
- VUmc needs special login
Automated Feedback
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Get higher quality work
- Works well in English
- Set your desired criteria for referencing, language and structure
- Integrated in Canvas
- Use stand-alone or in combination with Assignment Review or Peer Feedback
- Dutch feedback not yet fully developed
- No plagiarism check
- Not for grading
Ouriginal Plagiarism Checker
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Teachers can quickly scan for potential plagiarism by looking at the percentage
- Easy to interpret plagiarism report
- Directly integrated in Canvas assignments
- Ouriginal was formerly called Urkund, but has rebranded. This has not affected the tool.
Similarity (by Turnitin) Plagiarism Checker
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Easily check the similarity score
- Easy to interpret plagiarism report
- Directly integrated in Canvas assignments and various FeedbackFruits assignments
- Similarity replaces Ouriginal.
Skill Review
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Give feedback on skills
- Customize criteria or rubrics
- Reuse meaningful feedback
- Turn assessment into dialogue
- Overview of student progress
- Integrated in Canvas
SURFsharekit
Licensed to VU
Beginner
- Archive student theses
- Let students upload their work
- Archived safely for 7 years
- Easy accessible deposatory for educational reviews
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