eLearning: Recommended Teaching Resources and Tools
Engineering IT offers assistance to instructors with various instructional tools. Please email engrit-help-media@illinois.edu for consultation.
Course Setup & Management
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Function | Collaborative online space for delivering course content, course materials | Use recommended Engineering template to create landing page for course content and links to tools | One stop landing page for course content and links to other tools |
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Assessment Tools
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Function | Assessment creation within Canvas | Supports variable-length assignments and fixed-template like worksheets, quizzes, or exams | Offers a wide range of built-in widgets to accelerate question writing development |
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Proctoring Tools
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Computer based, proctored assessments for Grainger College of Engineering Students |
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Engagement & Interactivity
Live Discussion
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Single platform for Q&A, discussions, and active learning |
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Collaborative digital whiteboard |
Collaborative channels for communicating via threaded chat |
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Asynchronous Online Discussion
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Post discussion questions or topics publicly | Single platform for Q&A, discussions, and active learning |
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Threaded discussions | Collaborative channels for communicating via threaded chat |
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Office Hours
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Virtual queue for office hours that can supplement other platforms | One on one discussions with waiting room option | Custom virtual spaces for people to gather | Create a block of time where students can meet with you |
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Recording Lecture Tools
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Kaltura Personal Capture | Kaltura Room Capture |
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Never created personal videos? Use Kaltura Personal Capture for ease of publishing to MediaSpace. |
Additional Room Information & Scheduling: Review the Instructor Checklist |
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Dual capture of room camera video with projected presentation content from multiple sources: e.g. resident computer, laptop, document camera (where available) |
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Live Lecture Tools
Personal Live Recording
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Transcription Tools
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Automatic speech recognition tool | Open-source, web-based platform that leverages crowd sourcing to address the problem of accurate, reliable, and fast transcriptions of college lectures. | Automatically transcribe audio of a meeting or webinar that you record to the cloud |
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Captions are automatically added to media in Kaltura using ASR (automatic speech recognition) |
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Remote Engineering Software Access
For instructional needs that require access to software typically found in our Engineering WorkStation (EWS) labs, these are the recommended connection solutions. Support is available by submitted a help request at https://go.illinois.edu/ewshelp.
Instructor Checklist - Engineering IT
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Remote Windows-based application access | Remote Linux-based application access |
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