Learning & Student Engagement Tools

The academic integrity tools Proctorio (online proctoring and lockdown browser), Respondus (lockdown browser), and Turnitin (a plagiarism checker) provide instructors with proctoring support for Canvas exams and assignments.  See more details about these Academic Integrity Tools and tips on how to deliver electronic exams.

The Office of Community Standards provides more information about Academic Integrity (including Promoting Academic Integrity).

ChimeIn is a student response (clicker) tool created at the University of Minnesota. with advanced functionality. Participants can access ChimeIn with a mobile device or computer. Instructors can set up ChimeIn to integrate with a Canvas site. ChimeIn can be used in classes, but it can also be used for meetings, conferences, or any type of event in which you want to collect feedback.

How to use Canvas Peer Review Assignments? Here a Comparison of Peer Evaluation Tools: FeedbackFruits, Canvas, and Turnitin

FeedbackFruits is an all-in-one LTI solution to boost student engagement and collaboration in any course setting. For an overview see this FeedbackFruit faculty session: 

Four features are currently integrated at the UMN; they can all be combined in one assignment as needed:

• Peer Review
  • Setting up Peer Review
  • Teacher Perspective
  • Student Perspective (share with students in FbF assignment)
• Group Member Evaluation
  • Setting up Group Member Evaluation Review
  • Teacher Perspective
  • Student Perspective (share with students in FbF assignment)
• Self Evaluation
  • Setting up Self Evaluation Review
  • Teacher Perspective
  • Student Perspective (share with students in FbF assignment)
• Skill Evaluation
  • Setting up Skill Evaluation Review
  • Teacher Perspective
  • Student Perspective (share with students in FbF assignment)

ATTENTION: On June 3, 2024, Flip (formerly Flipgrid) made this announcement! 

What does this mean? See Flip's blog post.

• Starting July 1, Flip will no longer be available in mobile app stores, and our website on Flip.com will go into view-only mode. While you will no longer be able to create new groups, topics or videos after this date, you will still have access to download your Flip videos through September 30. This includes the Flip Canvas integration!
• By September 30, 2024, Flip will be moving some of the core Flip features into Teams for Education and will be retiring their website and mobile apps. After this, all Flip videos will be deleted within 30 days. 

If this impacts you, please reach out to Silke Moeller, smoeller@umn.edu to discuss and/or test alternatives. Possible alternatives (Canvas Discussions with Video Reply, VoiceThread, FeedbackFruit, Assignment Video submissions, external tools). Read this Blog Post "Flip: Alternative Tools." 

Hypothes.is is an open-source web-based annotation tool for use with PDF documents or webpages. It enables group members to collaboratively annotate a text.

Resources: 

• Enhancing Student Engagement with Course Materials through Digital Social Reading
• Pedagogical Uses for Annotation
• UMN Hypothes.is Resources
   

Kaltura is a media management platform for video and audio files used for teaching, learning, non-PHI research, and outreach. Kaltura automatically optimizes video and audio files for use with any device. It includes strong accessibility workflows, powerful search functions, video quizzes, and deep analytics.

StoryMaps (ArcGIS) allows students to create inspiring, immersive stories by combining text, interactive maps, and other multimedia content. 

• Instructional Resources for Building Assignments
• Gallery

A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slideshow that holds images, documents, and videos. It allows people to navigate between slides and leave audio, video, or text comments on each slide. VoiceThread runs inside your web browser, so there is no software to download, install, or update. Anyone with a University of Minnesota Internet ID has a VoiceThread account.

• Canvas: VoiceThread Overview
• Watch how to set up VoiceThread in Canvas (video; 5:53)
• Instructor Resource for VoiceThread
• VoiceThread Blog