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
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

Clipchamp

Licensed to VU

Intermediate

Make easy video edits
Remove or add video parts
Insert titles, images and music

Easy sharing with colleagues in Sharepoint
Collaborate on a video project

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

Plagiarism check now available

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

Gradeloader

Licensed to VU

Beginner

Easily import and export grades
No strict format
Developed in close collaboration with the VU.

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
Plagiarism check is now available
Not for grading

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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