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Teaching isn't reliant on technology, but the right tools can enhance the experience and transform the learning environment. Here you can find software recommendations and standard campus technology.
Check Available Campus Technology for software installed on university-owned computers and classrooms. Access online training via LinkedIn Learning or by requesting a consultation through support@stedwards.edu.
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All St. Edward's classroom spaces are equipped with a standard set of technology including a computer, projector, video camera, microphone and document camera based on the usage of each room. We have compiled a list of classroom technology and campus-licensed software applications available for installation on university-owned computers.
St. Edward's uses Canvas as the supported learning management system. It automatically loads all courses, instructors and students as they are entered in Banner. Utilize Canvas to post syllabi, assignments, readings, slides, quizzes, online discussions, and track grades.
Documentation/Training: Access comprehensive Canvas Guides for assistance. Faculty members can receive individualized training through Instructional Technology consultations.
Availability: SEU Accounts grant all students, staff, and faculty access to Canvas. All users must have an active St. Edward's University account.
Canvas offers Roll Call Attendance and Qwickly Attendance applications for tracking class attendance. See their overviews to choose the right one for your class.
Documentation/Training: Get started with Qwickly Attendance using the setup and usage guide. For Roll Call Attendance, refer to the Canvas guide for setup and usage instructions.
Faculty can create auto-graded quizzes in Canvas, using either "Classic" Quizzes or New Quizzes. Classic quizzes are enabled in every class by default. New Quizzes, which includes new question types, a new Build interface, and additional options for accommodations and multiple attempts must be enabled in your class via Settings and Feature Options.
Documentation/Training: Best Practices for Creating Quizzes in Canvas covers options and Quizzes offers all of the Canvas guides on creating quizzes. An introduction to New Quizzes is also available.
Honorlock, integrated with Canvas, provides on-demand proctoring for online exams. Students can take exams at any time with a video recording of their session.
Documentation/Training: See Proctoring Exams Online with Honorlock
Canvas works with different publishers, some offering deep integration with assignments and grades. Check each publisher's website or contact them to see how well your textbook is supported. To enable integration, access the tool through Navigation or a Module.
Publisher content integrated with Canvas includes:
Documentation/Training: Access documentation and training for these applications directly from each publisher through the provided links.
Availability: All listed publisher tools are integrated into Canvas. Student pricing will vary depending on the textbook.
Turnitin, the university-supported plagiarism checker, provides Originality Reports for plagiarism checking and Feedback Studio for grading online assignments. Turnitin is integrated with Canvas Assignments and should be accessed through Canvas. This integration is already set up system-wide in Canvas, so you don't need to integrate it separately into your courses.
Documentation/Training: See the Instructions for Setting up a Turnitin Assignment in Canvas.
Availability: Turnitin is available as an external tool assignment in Canvas.
Interested in creating a class website or blog? Students can journal, blog and create online content with Google Sites:
- Google Sites: Use G Suite to create websites without any HTML knowledge.
Documentation/Training: See the guide to Using Google Sites. Faculty and staff can contact Instructional Technology at support@stedwards.edu for consultations.
Availability: Google Sites are available to all St. Edward's students, faculty and staff.
Many, if not most, of the tools you'll use during the average day on the hilltop have integrated AI features in the last few years. IET staff maintain a non-exhaustive list of AI-enabled products in use on campus. For more information, see "Getting Started with AI." Some tools (like the Zoom Meeting AI Companion) have articles to help you use them. Search "AI" to find all of our articles about AI at St. Edward's.
Google Gemini
Google Gemini is a generative AI tool built into Google Workspace, which provides your St. Edward's email, calendar, and Drive storage. Chat with Gemini is a standalone, web-based tool that lets you prompt Gemini with questions, requests, and more.
Documentation/Training: Refer to 'Using Google Gemini' for a step-by-step guide to get started.
Availability: Gemini is available to all members of the SEU community through their Google account.
Google NotebookLM
NotebookLM is an AI-driven tool from Google Labs that helps users understand complex information by allowing them to upload various source materials (documents, web pages, audio) into a notebook and use AI to synthesize and analyze it. NotebookLM offers options to create study guides, briefings, FAQs, and audio overviews. Users can interact directly with the AI via a chat interface, posing questions and receiving answers grounded in the uploaded material, complete with inline citations to notebook content.
Documentation/Training: Refer to Using Google NotebookLM to get started.
Availability: Google NotebookLM is available to everyone with a St. Edward's University account at https://notebooklm.google.com/.
Rumi
Rumi is an instructional tool that allows faculty to set AI policies for writing assignments in Canvas. Based on the policy, students can create papers using selected AI (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), and faculty can view the students' use of AI as well as track their path. Faculty will be able to view which content was pasted into the Rumi assignment, as well as other insights into the student's writing process, including the percentage of copied content, writing duration, and the percentage of words revised.
Documentation/Training: Refer to the Faculty Guide to Rumi Settings for detailed instructions.
Availability: Rumi is available in all Canvas courses as an External Tool assignment type.
There are two tools available for mapping, ArcGIS and Social Explorer.
ArcGIS
ArcGISis a Geographic Information System (GIS) used to display geographic data. You can use contextual tools to visualize and analyze your data as well as collaborate and share via maps, apps, dashboards and reports.
Documentation/Training: There is a global community of ArcGIS users where you can find solutions, share ideas, and collaborate to solve problems with GIS. Extensive documentation and video tutorials are available at an Introduction to ArcGIS. In addition, LinkedIn Learning offers a course titled "ArcGIS Pro Essential Training."
Availability: ArcGIS is available on all lab and classroom computers. Faculty and staff with university-owned computers can request licenses by emailing support@stedwards.edu.
Social Explorer
The St. Edward's University Library provides access to Social Explorer, which combines demographic data with innovative technology to enable you to access, analyze, and visualize data on an easy-to-use platform, all while uncovering in-depth insights.
Documentation/Training: Social Explorer provides documentation on using maps and reports in their Help Center.
Availability: Log in to Social Explorer using your SEU email address. You will receive a code via email that you can use to set up your account.
The Digital Media Center (DMC) supports digital media creation and usage for education, scholarship and creativity. It offers in-person consultations and online resources for audio, video, images and interactive media. Adobe Express is an alternative to Canva and is also available to the SEU community.
Documentation/Training: Tutorials for Adobe Creative Suite products can be accessed via LinkedIn Learning or by consultation with the Digital Media Center. Here are instructions on accessing and getting started with Adobe Express.
Here are some sample LinkedIn Learning collections available:
Availability: Adobe Creative Cloud is available on all lab and classroom computers. Faculty and staff with university-owned computers can request licenses for Adobe tools (e.g., Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere) by emailing support@stedwards.edu. For more details, refer to Using Adobe Creative Cloud with Your St. Edward's Account.
Use a polling or audience response app to create and answer real-time polls. Students can participate using their devices or alternate means.
Poll Everywhere: Instructors to create polls for students to respond to via the app, web browser, or text message. Instructors can create and display questions on the fly, including Q&A and multiple-choice polls.
- Note: Physical clickers are no longer supported. Poll Everywhere can be used with students' personal devices.
Documentation/Training: Poll Everywhere has support and training available in the Poll Everywhere Support Center.
Availability: Faculty can request a Poll Everywhere license by emailing OIT Support at support@stedwards.edu.
Panopto, a supported tool within Canvas, allows instructors and students to record presentations. Recordings can be done in the classroom or on personal computers. All Zoom Meetings recorded to the cloud are also backed up to Panopto, and copies are available in your Panopto Meetings folder.
Documentation/Training: Get Panopto training through Instructional Technology consultations. Find information on using Panopto in the What is Panopto? guide.
Availability: Panopto is available in all Canvas courses and classroom teachers' stations. For usage outside of Canvas, please contact Instructional Technology.
Munday Library: Access over a million resources, including ebooks, journal articles, specialized databases, streaming videos, images and archives. Explore with the library catalog, save and share collections. Try simple and advanced search engines.
Data Analysis Platforms (Qualtrics, SPSS, NVivo, and Excel) and Literature Review apps (Google Scholar) are accessible campus-wide. Get training for SPSS, NVivo, Excel and Google Scholar on LinkedIn Learning. Training on Qualtrics is available through the Qualtrics support site.
Citation management application Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research. View our guide to Using Zotero for Citation Management.
Faculty can use social annotation tools for collaborative text analysis, engagement and student connections around online texts.
- Hypothesis: An open-source application integrated into Canvas, allowing sentence-level note-taking or critique on online content like news, blogs, scientific articles, etc. Students can add links, images and videos to their annotations.
- Perusall: A collaborative e-book platform with annotation features. Students can ask questions, respond to each other (in threads, Facebook-style) and share perspectives while annotating passages in readings.
Documentation/Training: Support for Hypothesis and Perusall is available through their respective online support sites.
Availability: Hypothesis has a supported integration with Canvas. Faculty can integrate Perusall into a Canvas class by following their integration instructions.
Supported means of videoconferencing at St. Edward's include:
- All classrooms are equipped with cameras and microphones for videoconferencing.
- Faculty, staff and students can use Zoom or Google Meet for audio and videoconferencing.
Documentation/Training: Get training on videoconferencing tools and best practices through Instructional Technology consultations.
Availability: Access Google Meet with your university email and password. All St. Edward's faculty, staff, and students have a Zoom Pro license with cloud recording capabilities. Find Zoom usage details in our Using Zoom article.
Other Tools
If you have questions about any tool listed or if there's one missing, email support@stedwards.edu and let us know which tool you are interested in using, and a member of Instructional Technology will contact you.