Centrally supported tools: Education & Training Technologies

A web-based assessment system that automates the creation and grading of multiple-choice exams.

Assignments in which the final product created by the students is a video or audio recording, such as student presentations, creative assignments, interviews, and role playing.

Create a virtual meeting space allowing you to engage with one student, a small group of students, or up to 150 students with live video.

An online, collaborative marking system designed for page-at-a-time grading. Pages in an assignment or test can be graded by markers and reviewed by instructors concurrently.    

iClicker/iClicker Cloud can be used as a student feedback or polling tool.

LEARN supports announcements, email, chat, discussions, content creation, video notes, dropboxes, gradebook, quizzes, rubrics, and groups.

Web-based training from LinkedIn Learning that can supplement teaching and learning activities. 

M365 apps provides access to a variety of communication, collaboration and productivity tools including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, Bookings, Stream, Teams (including polling), and Forms.

Möbius is a robust online authoring and delivery environment specifically designed for the needs of STEM classrooms.

Outline.uwaterloo.ca is a web-based tool for authoring and publishing course outlines, providing useful tools to authors and a valuable resource for students. 

PebblePad supports students as they plan and prepare for learning, record and reflect on curricular and co-curricular learning experiences, and curate and showcase evidence of this learning for different audiences.

An easy to use tool for peer review or group evaluation that can be used across a wide range of pedagogical contexts.

An interactive document tool that allows you and your students to discuss specific words, sentences, and passages in a written text by highlighting key portions of a document for comment and discussion.

Q&A platform in wiki-style format, to collaborate in a single space. Students can post questions and collaboratively edit responses. Instructors can answer questions and/or endorse student answers.

Create questionnaires or surveys with a vast library of question types and response options, incorporate skip patterns and other types of logic, and generate reports to summarize data collected. 

A text-matching software that may be used to screen course assignments, Turnitin® is used to verify that all materials and sources in assignments are documented.

A simple to use platform for real-time polling, Q&A, and interactive quizzes that can support both academic and non-academic uses. 

A cloud-based video conferencing platform that can be used for video conferencing meetings, audio conferencing, webinars, meeting recordings, and live chat.