Faculty Guide to the Library

One-way text communication with your students. Messages can be sent immediately or scheduled in advance to remind students of due dates or room changes. Phone numbers are not exchanged between teacher and student.

Group conversations around images, documents, and videos by attaching audio commentary.

Load a webpage into Hypothesis to allow students (after making free accounts) to add annotations directly on the page itself.

Create a virtual corkboard to which students can add notes (varying degrees of moderation, but students don't have to have account to create notes). Can be used for brainstorming, comments, or questions.

A completely free tool to import videos from YouTube and other sources and add questions and additional info. Student responses and progress are recorded for the instructor.

Add polls and questions to imported YouTube or Wistia videos. Videos can be embedded, and responses can be directed into a Google spreadsheet.

Group conversations around images, documents, and videos by attaching audio commentary.

Use templates or start from scratch to create visuals. Upload your own images or take advantage of the free graphics available from Canva.

Drag-and-drop design resources to customize a template or start from scratch.

Create online Presentations, animations, animated HTML5 banners, infographics and other rich visual content free in your browser.

Create customized word clouds, including making the cloud fit a shape.

If your students have access to a computer, you can embed these little 1-question polls or brainstorms to a webpage (like in D2L) for them to contribute answers to.

Create game-style quizzes/polls that students can access via the web or app when you provide them the PIN for https://kahoot.it.

Free version lets you have unlimited responses to up to 2 questions per presentation.

Students text their answers from their phones. Answers are displayed live as they come in. Free version allows 25 responses per poll. There is also a free plugin to integrate polls with your existing PowerPoint.