The following are recommended tools for a variety of instruction scenarios.
Engineering IT offers assistance to instructors with various instructional tools. Please email engrit-help-media@illinois.edu for consultation.
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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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Website directories along with term subfolders are automatically created for each course being taught as soon as they appear in the course catalog |
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Function | 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 | Assessment creation within Canvas |
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Computer based, proctored assessments for Grainger College of Engineering Students |
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Single platform for Q&A, discussions, and active learning |
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Single platform for Q&A, discussions, and active learning | Post discussion questions or topics publicly |
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Threaded discussions | Collaborative channels for communicating via threaded chat |
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Queue@Illinois
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Zoom
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Canvas Scheduler |
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Virtual queue for office hours that can supplement other platforms
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One on one discussions with waiting
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Customizable 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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Echo360 Room Capture | Kaltura Room Capture | ||
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Used Echo360 before? Continue using Echo360 Universal Capture to incorporate your past recordings with your personal recordings. Never created personal videos? Use Kaltura Personal Capture for ease of publishing to MediaSpace. |
Addtional Room Information & Scheduling:
Grainger College of Engineering Presentation/Lecture Capture Recordings Echo360: supported by Engineering IT Review the Instructor Checklist for Fall |
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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) | 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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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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Kaltura
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Echo360
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Zoom
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Automatic speech recognition tool | Automatic speech recognition for Echo360 audio/video media | 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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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 sending a request to ews@illinois.edu.
Review the Instructor Checklist for Fall
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Citrix
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FastX
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Remote Windows-based application access | Remote Linux-based application access |
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