Tool Finder

Wondering which tools you can use to achieve common teaching goals? Pick an area and compare options to choose what tools are best for your course.

You can alwayscontact or visit usfor one-on-one pedagogical consultations too. We’d be happy to give you personalized advice for your specific context and needs.

Share your course content online through powerful, multi-use, interactive tools like Canvas, edX Edge, Kaltura, UBC Blogs, and UBC Wiki.

Communicate with students online using announcements (Canvas, UBC Blogs), virtual office hours (Collaborate Ultra, Mattermost, Zoom), and individualized messages (Canvas, OnTask).

Give online lectures or presentations to students with tools for synchronous interaction (Collaborate Ultra, Zoom), recording at home (Camtasia, Kaltura, VideoScribe), or recording on campus with professional equipment (Campus Media Capture, Lightboard, One-Button Studio).

Facilitate assignments and quizzes online with general assignment tools (Canvas, Respondus Studymate, Turnitin, Webwork), formative quiz tools (Canvas, Respondus Quiz, Kaltura, Webwork), and tools for student peer assessment assignments where students review each other’s work (CLAS, ComPAIR, peerScholar, PeerWise).

支持group work online with tools that enable synchronous collaboration (Collaborate Ultra, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Zoom), asynchronous interactions (Canvas, Microsoft OneDrive, UBC Blogs, UBC Wiki), and student peer assessment wherein students review other members in a group (iPeer).

Host online discussions that happen in synchronous conversations (Collaborate Ultra, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Zoom) or asynchronously using discussions boards (Canvas, Piazza, UBC Blogs).

Ask for feedback with polling during live online class sessions (Collaborate Ultra, iClicker Cloud, Zoom) or asynchronously in an online survey (Qualtrics).

Run online exams using tools for non-proctored assessments (Canvas, LockDown Browser) or ones that enable remote proctoring (Collaborate Ultra, Proctorio, Zoom).

Grade online on your own in Canvas (Gradebook, Speedgrader) or work with an instructional team using tools that streamline collaborative marking and feedback (Crowdmark, Gradescope).