eLearning: Recommended Teaching Resources and Tools

• Communication Tools
• Assessment Tools
• Interactive Tools
• Analytics

• Self-service website creation
• Use Engineering template for quick setup

• Website directories along with term subfolders are automatically created for each course being taught as soon as they appear in the course catalog

• Getting Started with Canvas
• Video Guides
• Request a Canvas Space
• Canvas Checklist
• Grainger College of Engineering Canvas Best Practices

• View the Engineering Template
• Get Started with publish.illinois.edu
• Import Engineering Template

• https://courses.grainger.illinois.edu/
• Managing Course webpage

• Utilizes built in tools for tests and surveys
• Automatic grading of single-answer choices

• High quality feedback may reduce the burden on students to seek help

• Score adaptively based on student mastery and question difficulty
• Automate the submission and grading process
• Analyze assessment quality and student outcomes

• Guide to creating assessments in Canvas

• Gradescope Workshop Video (using with CBTF)

• Request your course

• Utilizes PrairieLearn
• Online Zoom-based proctoring
• Facility for in-person testing
• Reservation-based scheduling

• Video conferencing for live class sessions
• Group discussions
• Office hours

• Video conferencing
• Threaded chat
• Instant messaging

Collaborative digital whiteboard

Collaborative channels for communicating via threaded chat

• Breakout rooms
• Waiting rooms
• Whiteboard
• Polling
• Chat

• Course communication in one place
• Polling
• Breakout rooms
• Queuing
• Screen sharing

• Chat
• File sharing
• Calling
• Teams live events

• Annotating
• Drawing
• Load in pictures or documents and draw on top of them

• Organize conversations
• Search
• Share files

• Zoom Training for Educators
• UIUC Zoom Instructor Training

• Getting Started
• Demo

• Microsoft Teams UIUC Info
• UIUC Microsoft Teams Training

• Jamboard tutorials

• Getting started with Slack

• Public or private Q&A
• Provides structure to interactions

• Multiple discussion boards in one course
• No need for students to be logged in at the same time

• Class feed for discussion

• Can be anonymous
• Both students and instructors can respond

• Chat
• File sharing
• Discussion threads

• Organize conversations
• Search
• Share files

• Creating a discussion group in Canvas

• Getting Started
• Demo
• Campuswire Live Session

• Create a space on Piazza

• Microsoft Teams UIUC Info
• UIUC Microsoft Teams Training

• Getting started with Slack

• Group students together based on topic they are having trouble with, the instructor doesn't have to explain the same concept separately
• Students can monitor their position in the queue

• Hold small group discussions or use breakout rooms
• Waiting room

• Virtual spaces that lets multiple people hold separate conversations in parallel and walk in, out and around the conversations.

• Appointments display in your calendar after a student or group has reserved a time slot.
• Appointment details are also included when you export the calendar using the Calendar feed.

• Queue@Illinois webpage

• Configuring break out rooms
• Using waiting room feature

• Virtual worlds options

• Adding a Scheduler appointment to the course calendar

Never created personal videos? Use Kaltura Personal Capture for ease of publishing to MediaSpace.

Additional Room Information & Scheduling:
eLearning: Grainger College of Engineering Presentation Recording Spaces

Review the Instructor Checklist

• Record lecture, screen capture, webcam video and audio
• Upload and publish previously-recorded media

• Software- and web browser-based capture
• Compass2g & Moodle integration
• Flexible media sharing options (to specific individuals, course sections, or off-campus audiences)
• Basic video editing capabilities
• Auto-captioning, with ability to edit captions
• Variable speed video playback

• Pre-schedule a semester’s worth of course recordings in advance
• Remotely steerable camera can be set to capture in-room blackboard or whiteboard
• Compass2g & Moodle integration
• Flexible media sharing options (to specific individuals, course sections, or off-campus audiences)
• Basic video editing capabilities
• Variable speed video playback
• Auto-captioning, with ability to edit captions

• Publish to MediaSpace for content sharing and management
• Getting Started with Kaltura
• How to Use Kaltura Personal Capture
• Kaltura Personal Capture Video Demo

• Grainger College of Engineering equipped classrooms

• Video conferencing for live class sessions
• Live interaction between instructor and peers

• Whiteboard option
• Accessible from many different OS platforms including mobile
• Add Zoom tool link within LMS

• Zoom, Students, Getting Started
• Zoom Training for Educators
• Zoom Recording Guides
• Zoom, Usage in China
• Zoom Restricted Countries

• Student reviewed transcribing
• Searchable by captioning

• Option to display the transcript text within the video itself
• Similar to closed caption display

• Captioning Kaltura Video Guide
• About Kaltura Captioning Tool

• More about ClassTranscribe

• Using audio transcription for cloud recordings

• Connect to Citrix from Windows or macOS
• Course instructors can request software
• Application computing needs are handled by EWS-hosted servers
• Includes college-wide and department specific applications

• Connect to EWS Linux environment by browser-based interface or desktop client
• Course instructors can request software

• Requires VPN
• Available Software

• Requires VPN
• Guide to opening Linux applications
• Available Linux software modules