Trouble connecting? See UMN IT Service Status for updates on network outages.
FAQs specific to IT in Psychology
- Training required for working in Psychology Labs: Training and Data Security
- Access shared drives for your lab (the S: drive) or to wts.umn.edu for special software: Network Resources
- Department available software (Matlab, SPSS, Office, Adobe, MPlus, plus more): Software
- Data access for graduates? visitors? remote colleagues? Sponsored Accounts
- Check-out equipment from PsyIT: Projectors, laptops portable web conferencing, more are available in N211
Academic Technology Resources
General
- Manage Your Emails (Inbox Zero)
- For headshot photos, contact Silke Moeller, smoeller@umn.edu
- Make sure your presentations, documentations, and Canvas courses are accessible! Accessibility presentation Sep 2019
"I believe that accessibility is everyone's everyday responsibility." Bernie Gulachek, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology
Exam Options
- Reserve S121 for exams (64 computers)
- Quiz options in Canvas
Using Quizzes in Canvas offers several advantages:- Instant update in Gradebook
- Feedback via Quiz statistics and analytics
- Proctorio can be used for exams in class or online, from locking the browser to fully online recorded eProctoriong. FYI, in Fall 2019 the Dept of Psychology administered 3,356 exams using Proctorio.
- Paper exams and Gradescope (OMS offers to scan exams: order form); CSE demonstration of Gradescope
Canvas
- Student resources
- Instructor resources
- Checklists: Start of semester
- Send Grades to PeopleSoft (directly from Canvas)
- The New Gradebook Introduction [3:27] and Grade Posting Policy [2:45]
- Feedback (Comments) in Canvas Assignment [4:14]
Teaching: Group Projects and Collaborations
- Faculty Guide to Team Projects
- Teamwork: Surviving Group Projects
- Canvas Workshop: Groups and Collaborations
Tools for Student Engagement in Learning
- Ideas about engaging students using Zoom meetings
- ChimeIn (Version 2.0 will be available Fall 2019 and will be Canvas integrated)
- PollEverywhere (free tool)
- FlipGrid (Canvas integrated)
- VideoThread (Canvas integrated)
- Hypothes.is
- KnightLab
- StoryMaps
- ThingLink
RATE Tool and Assignments
- RATE tool
- RATE Instructor Guide
- Integrating a RATE assignment in Canvas (Canvas integrated)
Zoom: Videoconferencing
- Zoom
- Webcams, microphones, laptops can be checked out in N211
- Zoom Training (Get started, Host online meetings and webinars)
- Students are able to host online meetings with Zoom
- Fall 2019 Zoom will be Canvas integrated
Recordings
For lecture recordings, contact Silke Moeller, <smoeller@umn.edu>, Elliott N211
- Recording Studio Elliott N108B
- Screencast-O-Matic, for screen recording and editing
- KalturaCapture and KalturaMediaspace (for hosting recordings, Canvas integrated)
- Loom, Chrome extension for free and easy screen recording
- Audacity, free audio recording and editing
