Snow day? Remote teaching? Unable to attend class? Regardless of the reason, it is important to have a plan for enabling continuity of instruction. With Canvas, Kaltura, and Zoom, you can keep students engaged and accountable for course material whether your primary mode of instruction is in-person, remote synchronous, remote asynchronous, or mixed mode. In this session, you will get an overview of options that will help you deliver your content using various Zoom, Kaltura, and Canvas tools such as automatic chapters and slides, interactive transcripts, and reusable lectures.
This handout compares tasks, features, and options related to the Adobe Connect and Kaltura tools.
Find out what faculty, staff, and students can do with Kaltura media in Canvas and in Penn State's MediaSpace Portal.
Top Hat is a student engagement system and comprehensive teaching platform that instructors can use to engage students in and outside of the classroom with interactive slides, graded questions, customized content, videos, discussions, and polls. When integrated with Canvas, instructors can also seamlessly synchronize rosters and grades. Top Hat utilizes no separate hardware but rather asks students to use their smartphones, tablets, laptops, or ordinary cell phones to participate in activities.
Using an interactive whiteboard is a great way to increase engagement in an online synchronous class. While Zoom includes its own whiteboard and annotation tools, Office 365 and G Suite offer two interactive and sharable whiteboarding applications that can be used synchronously or asynchronously via the web.
Please Note: This page only covers the browser-based versions of these tools. Microsoft Whiteboard's downloadable Windows 10 and mobile app versions offer far more features than the browser-based version. For more information about the Windows 10 and mobile versions of Whiteboard, see Microsoft’s Whiteboard Help page. Jamboard's mobile app includes handwriting, shape, and drawing recognition in addition to the tools listed below.
