Educational Technology Resources
The following educational technology tools are licensed and supported by 5X社区. Faculty can use these tools to support their teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.
FACULTY TRAINING
are available for most of the software listed below. Check back often for additional workshop dates.
The Regional Campus Instructional Design (RCID) team can also help with 1:1 educational technology support and training. Contact us or book a Teams meeting with us any time!
FACULTY RESOURCES
Click the links below to view step-by-step instructions, videos, and other support information for various educational technology.
- FlashLine
FlashLine is 5X社区's portal for access to email, Canvas, Microsoft and Google Apps, faculty and advisor tools (including reporting student grades), employee resources, etc.
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
- Canvas
Canvas is 5X社区's official learning management system, and can be used for hosting course content, assignments, tests, grades, and more.
WEB CONFERENCING
- Microsoft Teams
Teams is 5X社区's web conferencing and collaboration tool. It can be used for online meetings, chat, file sharing, and group collaboration.
VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA
- Kaltura
Kaltura (video.kent.edu) is 5X社区's video recording and hosting tool. Kaltura is integrated into Canvas.
PowerPoint is a presentation application included in the Microsoft 365 suite. It can be used as a visual aid for live lectures, and can also be used to create narrated online presentations.
VoiceThread allows you and your students to create, comment on, and share multimedia presentations. It is integrated into Canvas. are available.
- Usable Media
If you're looking for additional media that you can use to supplement your teaching, check out this great resource to locate videos, images, books and articles, and more.
TESTING & ASSIGNMENT TOOLS
- Online Proctoring
5X社区 licenses multiple proctoring software options that can be utilized for online testing.
- Respondus Campus-Wide
Respondus Campus-Wide is an offline test creation software that integrates with Canvas. It makes it easier to import questions from Word documents and to print tests and answer keys.
Gradescope can be used for creating and grading bubble sheets (Scantron replacement).
Turnitin can be used to compare student assignment submissions against institutional and global databases and produce similarity reports. It is integrated into Canvas Assignments, and can be enabled within the assignment settings.
SURVEY/FORMS TOOLS
- - preferred software (ADA compliant)
Qualtrics allows you to create online surveys and forms. Qualtrics also offers data collection reports and graphs, which can be exported in various formats. You can access Qualtrics at .
Forms is a survey and quiz application included in the Microsoft 365 suite. You can use it as a standalone application or from within Teams.
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
- offers support for the software packages SAS, SPSS, JMP, NVivo, Qualtrics, and R.