To avoid compromising the integrity of Yale’s secure networks, systems and institutional data, instructors should not implement new platforms or resources (free or paid) for Yale teaching without consulting with the Poorvu Center or Yale ITS. Unvetted platforms, tools, or resources pose a data privacy risk as well as legal risk related to FERPA and digital accessibility policies. Accounts created on systems outside of Yale’s vetted resources may impact the security of our students or faculty. Companies often monetize the data they collect—including the intellectual property submitted on unvetted platforms.
The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning reviews all third-party tools that faculty or departments indicate they are interested in using for teaching. The review process vets tools for effectiveness, security and accessibility before pursuing an agreement.
Learn more on our Requesting an External Application page.
Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices and organization for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning.
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (1977).
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Accessibility Tools
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Panorama
Panorama assists instructors in building a more inclusive learning environment, and improve the student experience by helping them take clear control.
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Yale ITS: Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool
Promotes anonymous feedback reporting for accessibility barriers at any time on course or content during the term by providing an open feedback box.
Assessment Tools
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Canvas Assignment Tool
This is one of several native Canvas tools that allows instructors to collect student work for grading.
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Canvas Quizzes
A native Canvas feature which is available in all Canvas course sites. Canvas Quizzes allows instructors to create high and/or low stakes assessments.
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FeedbackFruits
FeedbackFruits is a robust assessment and feedback tool suite that can facilitate individual or group oriented assessment activities.
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Gradescope
Designed to streamline and standardize paper-based, digital, and code assignments. It supports problem sets and projects, worksheets and quizzes.
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LabArchives
LabArchives is a cloud-based lab notebook that can be used to organize, create, collaborate, and collect lab / research notes.
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Respondus LockDown Browser
A custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.
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Turnitin
A tool to help faculty and students develop and evaluate written scholarship.
Blogging
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WordPress
Wordpress is an online blogging solution creating a site where students and instructors can post and comment on a variety of topics.
Collaboration
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Canvas Collaborations
The Collaborations tool in Canvas allows students and instructors to create collaborative documents together.
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Canvas Groups
Canvas Group Sets/Groups tool allows instructors to split students up into smaller working groups for collaborative assignment work and discussions.
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FeedbackFruits
FeedbackFruits is a robust assessment and feedback tool suite that can facilitate individual or group oriented assessment activities.
Communication
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Canvas Announcements
Instructors in a Canvas course have the ability to send Announcements to students in their course.
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Canvas Inbox
Inbox is a two-way messaging tool used instead of email to communicate with a course, a group, or an individual user.
Course Facilitation
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Canvas Modules
Canvas Modules allow instructors to bring together resources and activities from across their Canvas course site into modules for easier access.
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Canvas Pages
Canvas Pages deliver information and content to students, create a front page to welcome students to your course, or provide a way to collaborate.
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Canvas Syllabus
An interactive syllabus of the course site using the rich content editor to add links, files, images, media, and more.
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Yale ITS: Photo Roster
Available to Instructors and TAs to provide additional information like student photo, major, year, college, course section, and email address.
Discussion
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Canvas Discussions
Provides instructors and students the opportunity to contribute and discuss asynchronously.
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Ed Discussion
A powerful threaded discussion tool that allows instructors and students to share and interact asynchronously.
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Perusall
An annotation tool that helps your students engage collectively with texts.
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VoiceThread
An asynchronous discussion tool that centers video and audio responses as the primary form of response option to promote community and engagement.
Feedback
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FeedbackFruits
FeedbackFruits is a robust assessment and feedback tool suite that can facilitate individual or group oriented assessment activities.
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Qualtrics LTI
Qualtrics allows for faculty to create and share robust, responsive surveys to collect data and feedback.
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Yale ITS: Feedback & Accessibility Barriers Tool
Promotes anonymous feedback reporting for accessibility barriers at any time on course or content during the term by providing an open feedback box.
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Yale ITS: Mid-Semester Feedback
A Yale-developed survey tool created to support faculty in the collection of anonymous student feedback during a set-time around the semester midterm.
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Yale ITS: Post'Em
Provides detailed text feedback to students by uploading a single CSV file. The file can contain multiple columns of feedback or upload multiple files
Surveys
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Poll Everywhere
Yale’s supported system for in-class polling. Using a cloud based “bring your own device” model for polling.
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Qualtrics LTI
Qualtrics allows for faculty to create and share robust, responsive surveys to collect data and feedback.
Video
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LinkedIn Learning
Online, curated video courses designed for in-depth and just-in-time instruction on various tools (e.g. Excel, Tableau) and technical / soft skills.
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Media Library (Panopto)
A streaming video service that is integrated into Canvas. Media Library can be used to store, share, and stream uploaded audio and video files.
Web Conferencing
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Zoom
A web / video conferencing tool, which allows instructors to meet with their students synchronously online.
