Instructional Technology Tools

The following tools are all approved for use.

Tool Name	Tool Name	Purpose	Notes	Integrated
ActiveClass	ActiveClass	Intuitive, social-media-like functionality, right inside your LMS.	18215787 - on hold due to Pilot agreement requirement	Yes
Adobe Creative Cloud	Adobe Creative Cloud	Used in courses with students	12873532	Yes
Aleks	Aleks	This McGraw-Hill tool is being used by TNCC's credit level math courses	Part of McGraw-Hill Campus	Yes
Alexander Street Press	Alexander Street Press	Allow students to make play lists for music courses	Available	Yes
AME Engage by Paradigm	AME Engage by Paradigm	We specialize in educational technology that prepares students and adults to enter the workforce with the digital literacy skills and career knowledge needed to succeed. Our learning solutions drive skill proficiency, course completion, and career readiness.		Yes
Anthology (Campus Labs)	Anthology (Campus Labs)	This application comes at the request of the Director of Institutional Effectiveness. He needs an application that will allow him to better compile, organize, and evaluate multiple course outcomes.	16024923	Yes
Aqua	Aqua	To retrieve student assignment submissions for alternative assessment processes against Gen Ed outcomes.	10960051	Yes
ArcGIS	ArcGIS	Part of the Esri Geospatial Cloud, ArcGIS Online enables you to connect people, locations, and data using interactive maps. Work with smart, data-driven styles and intuitive analysis tools that deliver location intelligence. Share your insights with the world or specific groups. VCCS license information is available from the Director of Teaching and Learning Technologies	unintegrated	No
ATI	ATI	ATI provides nursing students with practice exams for the TEAS and NCLEX tests, which are created and deployed by the same vendor who administers the actual exams. As pass rates on these tests are not overly high, the ATI tool gives students the opportunity to learn from their mistakes before taking the exam for entrance (or not) into our nursing program or to obtain their licensure.		Yes
Badgr	Badgr	Automatically award module completion badges in Canvas courses to give students meaningful credentials that directly represent the skills and experiences employers are looking for.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
Badgr Pro	Badgr Pro	Issuing digital badges for course completion etc. Pedagogical value offers motivation and incentive to students.	18730525	Yes
Barnes & Noble College LTI Web Application	Barnes & Noble College LTI Web Application	The Barnes & Noble College LTI Web Application is designed to seamlessly transmit a student’s course information from their Learning Management System to the campus bookstore’s website, instantly generating a list of the books and supplies needed for each course. The link helps ensure that students who wait until they have access to their LMS course can obtain the correct course materials in order to be successful in their course. The LTI application also allows faculty to place and submit course material adoptions to the bookstore (through FacultyEnlight) while configuring their course sites. Please see the following link for our Canvas demo video: https://vimeo.com/242122062	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
Cengage Mindtap	Cengage Mindtap	Integrated eBook, simulations, interactivities, for ITE 115.	All Cengage products are included under the “MindLinks” deployment. The only exception is WebAssign. Compliance information has been provided, and Mindlinks has been deployed for twenty-two colleges.	Yes
ChemVantage	ChemVantage	Open Education Resources for teaching and learning General Chemistry	17908428	Yes
Cidilabs Design plus, UDOIT and Tidyup	Cidilabs Design plus, UDOIT and Tidyup	Our products help course designers improve the Canvas experience for students with improved course design, accessibility, course readiness tracking and file management.	10412516	Yes
CircleIn	CircleIn	Study groups	14279973	Yes
CirQlive MEETS	CirQlive MEETS	CirQlive MEETS integrates web conferencing with the LMS such as Canvas, streamlining usage of WebEx web conferencing in an efficient and effective manner for online live education, office hours, tutoring, and more.	Available - Passthrough to WebEx	Yes
Cirrus	Cirrus	Provides AST and ITE students learning support for Microsoft Office and other basic computer skills		Yes
Class Climate	Class Climate	The tool is a course evaluation survey component that allows students to review their course as well as their instructor at the end of the semester. The current iteration of the tool queries a database to send out a series of mass emails to the student to encourage them to click on an external link to reply to the course survey, the LTI version of the tool places the survey into the course itself which will enable us to improve response rates.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
Connect4Education	Connect4Education	Provides text, multimedia, and interactive simulations.	configured on a per course basis, which is unfortunate and painful	Yes
Coursera	Coursera	Google IT Professional Support Technician training	12036518	Yes
Courseval	Courseval	Tool used to collect student evaluations of courses each semester.	9006057	Yes
Credo InfoLit - Core (InfoBase)	Credo InfoLit - Core (InfoBase)	Information literacy component used in WCC's English classes	was able to implement anonymously 18455734	Yes
Digital Pathology Virtual Microscope	Digital Pathology Virtual Microscope	Digital Pathology Virtual Microscope Slides for Hematology, Body Fluids, Bacteriology & Parasitology with Online Database - Medical laboratory slides, quizzes, and videos	13785792 - anonymous, so no requirements	Yes
Econ Lowdown LTI	Econ Lowdown LTI	Provide more realistic economic content to students	17219745	Yes
Electude	Electude	Has been used for several years in various VCCS College's Automotive programs but now apparently has the ability to integrate into Canvas. Modules, content, quizzes, assignments, videos, etc... have been created for the automotive curriculum.	13731849, 16198597	Yes
eScience Labs	eScience Labs	Allows students to engage in real laboratory experiments for lab sciences, by using a purchased kit to interact with the online lab content.		Yes
EvaluationKIT	EvaluationKIT	EvaluationKIT is a replacement for Class Climate and serves as a tool that will integrate Course Evaluation Surveys more directly with the LMS in an an attempt to get stronger response rates from TCC students.		Yes
Evolve by Elsevier	Evolve by Elsevier	Nursing content	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
ExamSoft	ExamSoft	Provides the required assessment platform for nursing that provides human proctoring and other assessment tools such as analytics.	14294678	Yes
Films on Demand	Films on Demand	Describe the functionality and pedagogical value of the external application or tool: Films on Demand currently contains over 34,000 films on a variety of topics from Allied Health to World Languages. If this tool were integrated with Canvas, students would be able to view any film or segment of a film directly within Canvas without having to go to the Films on Demand website, log in, and then search for the specified film.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
FlipIt (Macmillan Learning)	FlipIt (Macmillan Learning)	Online physics interactive lectures/practice		Yes
Follett Discover	Follett Discover	College Bookstore for most colleges	Colleges have mostly elected to place a tile on MyVCCS, but we have recently worked out the details on adding to Canvas if asked	Yes
Gale	Gale	We support three integrations to our Canvas System: Literature Resource Center, Science in Context, EBooks	integrated, but not in regular list	Yes
GMetrix	GMetrix	Test out functions for various Networking and IT skills	anonymous - 18839139	Yes
Go Sign Me Up	Go Sign Me Up	Used for Professional Development course management	14149813	Yes
Goodheart Wilcox	Goodheart Wilcox	Testing materials and modules	Goodheart Wilcox - import the cartridge which contains the links	Yes
Google Drive and Docs	Google Drive and Docs	Integration with our Google instance	Available	Yes
H5P	H5P	Create, share and reuse interactive html5 content in your browser	18172262	Yes
Harmonize	Harmonize	Increase student engagement and participation in online classes; supplement the discussions occurring in face-2-face classes.	15554161	Yes
Hawkes Learning	Hawkes Learning	Provides interactive content, and classroom documentation for seated sections, as well as housing online content. The platform provides design assistance for redesigning instructor's courses, and is considered the best in customer service for both instructors and students.	waiting on support response to deployment question	Yes
Hayden MacNeil	Hayden MacNeil	Online labs for online lab science courses	Under the MacMillan umbrella	Yes
Honorlock	Honorlock	Online test proctoring service.	9058792	Yes
Hoonuit	Hoonuit	provides training for soft skills and computer application; allows for custom content to be developed and uploaded for onboarding and BRCC specific training	Available	Yes
Hypothes.is	Hypothes.is	Using annotation, we enable sentence-level note taking or critique on top of classroom reading, news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more.	14402095	Yes
InSpace	InSpace	This tool will be used to provide students with a virtual lounge, chat feature, and virtual faculty office hours for the Accelerate programs.	18689132	Yes
Intellus Learning	Intellus Learning	Intellus is our OER platform that integrates with our library resources. We have been using it for the past year and would like for that to continue.	Available	Yes
IOTA	IOTA	Course evaluation with robust reporting tools	Available	Yes
JB Learning	JB Learning	Labs		Yes
Khan Academy	Khan Academy	Online Video Tutorials	As of mid-2020 Khan Academy is not supporting LTI integrations, so turned off	Yes
Knewton alta	Knewton alta	A complete course solution, alta is designed to optimize the way students study and learn while completing assignments. All of Alta's content — including instructional text and video, examples and assessments — is organized by learning objective and served up at the precise moment a student needs it. Knewton seems to have a focus on adaptive release.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
Labster	Labster	Provide a link to labs (organic chemistry) from inside Canvas - student may access labs easier	13635013	Yes
Labyrinth	Labyrinth	Support learning accounting principles in accounting courses	9124572 - A LOT of back and forth...finally approved Jan 2022 - 18315512	Yes
Late Nite Labs (Macmillan)	Late Nite Labs (Macmillan)	Late Nite Labs recreates a traditional science lab in an online environment.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
LibGuides	LibGuides	LibGuides is an easy-to-use content management system deployed at thousands of libraries worldwide. Librarians use it to curate knowledge and share information, organize class and subject specific resources, and to create and manage websites. Increase the usage of your library's resources and content by showcasing them in LibGuides.	Available	Yes
Lippincott CoursePoint+	Lippincott CoursePoint+	Nursing course resources	18263518	Yes
LRNR Personalized Homework Solutions	LRNR Personalized Homework Solutions	Lrnr is a cloud-based educational content delivery, personalization and analytics platform that integrates OpenStax digital textbook content with intuitive personal learning tools and adaptive assessments. OpenStax’s free textbooks are developed and peer-reviewed by educators to ensure they are readable, accurate and meet the scope and sequence requirements of introductory college courses. LRNR provides the teaching and learning value as described by the faculty and based on research supported best practices. Instructors can decide what changes they need to make so that all students can succeed. Personalized self-assessment is continuously measured for managing learning outcomes.	9545185 - was something of a pilot/beta that we did not follow through with, but requested again by TCC in Jan 2020 - testing	Yes
Lumen Learning	Lumen Learning	OER Partner with the VCCS	Available	Yes
Macmillan Launchpad	Macmillan Launchpad	LaunchPad is a resource to help students achieve better results by providing a place where they can read, study, practice, complete homework, and more.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
MathType	MathType	Adds Math Equations that aren't found in Canvas for Student and faculty. Students would use it for discussions boards so those equations symbols are available	Anonymous - 17471187	Yes
MATLAB - Mathworks	MATLAB - Mathworks	Simulation	anonymous - 15295247 and 17235199	Yes
McGraw-Hill	McGraw-Hill	Publisher integration	Pending compliance review, but available - needed to adjust tool for TCC and Reynolds from the pilot but that was done	Yes
Microsoft Office 365 (SharePoint)	Microsoft Office 365 (SharePoint)	Instructor made links	The question is always, "which one?", but approved	Yes
Microsoft SAIL	Microsoft SAIL	SAIL seems to be the HR point for MS Azure, which is the Microsoft version of cloud servers. Our CTE site in South Hill is a training point for Microsoft, and they are hoping to train all their cloud computing people for southern Virginia there. Security of cloud resources is a key component of client confidence, so SAIL is a needed aspect of any program for web servers.	13344432	Yes
Miller Welds	Miller Welds	The tools provides welding students with teachable content, testing, and simulations for welding programs	No LTI integration - non-issue?	Yes
MyLabsPlus	MyLabsPlus	Best product for DevEd math, which is required by the majority of students at Southside. The tool allows for both teacher led and self paced learning, so that developmental students can move through material either way. Integrates with SIS to allow seamless movement of students from one DevEd level to the next as they complete each four week session.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
MyMathLab	MyMathLab	As most of our math students begin in DevEd, which is taught through a Pearson product, this platform mirrors what students are already used to. Instructors feel it is the best product in terms of how it presents the math concepts to students, and adapts to student performance in how it moves students through content.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
MyOpenMath	MyOpenMath	Provides students the opportunity to complete homework exercises and receive immediate feedback.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
National Healthcare Association	National Healthcare Association	Integrate NHA curriculum into Canvas	15826974 - Ascend/ATI may already be approved	Yes
Navigate 2	Navigate 2	Provides interactive exercises, labs and assessments for IT type courses (ITN, etc). Also provides access to ebook at less cost than print.	17852623	Yes
NDG Introduction to Virtualization labs	NDG Introduction to Virtualization labs	Virtualization is software used to simulate hardware. It is the fundamental technology that powers cloud computing which delivers computing resources, software or data as a service through the Internet. The Canvas cartridge is pre-built by NetDevGroup and can integrate directly into Canvas. The VMware Introduction to Virtualization will enable students to: •Explore creating a virtual machines and the benefits •Move from a physical environment to a virtual one •Describe types of virtualization used for data centers •Describe virtualization, virtual machines, hypervisors, and VMware vSphere® components •Describe the concepts of server, network, storage, and desktop virtualization •Understand how individuals and businesses benefit from virtualization •Access embedded videos and labs to help students along the way		Yes
Nearpod	Nearpod	Gamified learning experiences for students.	18173854	Yes
NetTutor	NetTutor	Online Tutoring	discontinued due to online tutoring contracts	Yes
NewsBank LTI	NewsBank LTI	Easier for faculty to provide access to the students for articles for current, local and historical newspaper databases.	16146048	Yes
Norton InQuizitive	Norton InQuizitive	Provides interactive exercises, activities and grading opportunities for students based on textbook content.	Pending compliance review, but available	Yes
OpenSkill	OpenSkill	OER content for a variety of courses.	18419913	Yes
OpenStax Tutor	OpenStax Tutor	OpenStax provides OER resources for students and faculty. OpenStax Tutor is a low-cost tool designed to provide adaptive practice and review across course content.	17963834	Yes
Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press	Interactive online OER Textbook package	Email only	Yes
PackBack	PackBack	Interactive AI engaged Discussion software	Note that Brightpoint opted out, but it was approved 18805145
Packback	Packback	Packback is the educational market leader for A.I.-feedback in student writing activities serving 1,000,000+ students, now growing quickly in Community Colleges with tools built specifically to improve both student engagement in writing, and faculty effectiveness in facilitating writing. Packback’s A.I. is driven through two products that not only coaches writing, but teaches thinking through writing: 1) Questions - inquiry-driven online discussions (short-form writing) 2) Deep Dives - essays, cases, memos, reports (long-form writing)	18805145
Panopto	Panopto	Panopto is a lecture capture system. At VWCC, our faculty has adopted this technology since summer 2010. Panopto provides additional resources for students: archived lectures, tutorials for lab work, demonstrations of difficult concepts and complex procedures like printmaking or CPR presentations, allows students to review material at their own pace and convenience. Panopto offers students more flexibility in note-taking. With Panopto Lecture capture system, faculty are able to make time for active learning during class by having the lecture available for viewing before the class meetings, allows students to catch up with a missed lecture	Available. Configuration is complex requiring a higher level of access than basic LTI. Worked with Panopto support to complete for BRCC and others.
Pearson (Revel)	Pearson (Revel)	Revel replaces traditional texts with an engaging learning experience that prepares your students for class. Revel presents an affordable, seamless blend of author-created digital text, media, and assessment based on learning science. Your students will be able to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience — anytime, anywhere, on any device. The assignability and tracking tools in Revel let you gauge your students’ understanding and engagement in and out of the classroom. This visibility, paired with your students’ renewed energy for the material, empowers you to spend your class time on the meaningful instruction that only you can deliver.	Pending compliance review, but available
Perceivent	Perceivent	New text book	17142040
PGS Learning - Navigate 2	PGS Learning - Navigate 2	Provide students supplemental course materials.	Pending compliance review, but available
ProctorU	ProctorU	Proctoring Service	17853893
Quizlet	Quizlet	The more you practice recalling a piece of information or retrieving it from memory, the more likely you are to remember it later on. This psychological finding explains why it’s so much more effective to study with flashcards or by taking a practice test than it is to look over your notes until you feel like you know them. Getting feedback enhances the effect further. Quizlet’s study tools are designed to help you maximize the benefits of retrieval practice. Keep practicing retrieval, even after you get a question right the first time!	anonymous - 14650141
Qwickly Course Tools and Qwickly Attendance	Qwickly Course Tools and Qwickly Attendance	Course Tools - allows instructors to send announcements, messages, content to multiple courses at one time; Attendance is an attendance tool that integrates into Canvas	11586694
ReadSpeaker	ReadSpeaker	ReadSpeaker allows the text on the page to be read out loud to you. It provides assistance to the visually impaired and any students with learning disabilities.	17600309 - withdrawn due to lack of funding, but approved 17946499 for NOVA
Respondus	Respondus	Lockdown browser, and test creator	Available
RPNow	RPNow	Allows students to take proctored assessments remotely.	Available
Rubin Emerge	Rubin Emerge	Uses Canvas to teach Soft Skills and etiquette (email, phone, etc) for students going into customer service occupations. This application will integrate its exercises with the Canvas Gradebook.	17830360
Science Interactive Cloud	Science Interactive Cloud	SI's tool is a course-level external learning tool that provides students and instructors a single sign-on point from their LMS, some auto grading features, and grade pass-back. The LTI Credentials are set at the institution level in our system and can be accessed by all instructors and institution admins with sign-in credentials to SI Cloud. Each course and lesson hook are unique to instructors' courses to maintain grade pass-back capabilities and organization of class sections.	17465269
Sight Reading Factory	Sight Reading Factory	For reading music	12990403
Signing Naturally Units 1-6 Interactive Online Student Materials	Signing Naturally Units 1-6 Interactive Online Student Materials	Signing Naturally Units 1-6 is the first part in a series of curricular materials for the instruction of American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language. The goal is to take students with little or no knowledge of ASL and Deaf Culture and provide them with the skills needed to communicate comfortably in a wide variety of situations in the Deaf community. Cultural information taught throughout class allows students to interact with the Deaf community in a way that is respectful and aware.	name only - 16445222
SimplySyllabus	SimplySyllabus	SimplySyllabus can offer a way to manage and store syllabi in a central location. One key area of most syllabi is communicating college-level policies. Faculty will only be responsible to inputting specific information that is related to the classes they are teaching.	Approved, but not implemented for anyone yet.12086310
SIMTICS	SIMTICS	The Dental Assistant is using this program to introduce laboratory concepts to students. This will familiarize students with the material or exercise before going into the clinic.	17650559
Smarthinking	Smarthinking	Online tutoring service	Approved, but online tutoring subsequently went through an RFP process with Brainfuse and Tutor.com being selected as purchasable options for colleges
SmartWork5	SmartWork5	Smartwork helps students become better problem solvers. It offers a variety of interactive question types, extensive answer-specific feedback, instructor flexibility, and LMS integration.	17403574
SNAP	SNAP	SNAP allows IT instructors to embed live exercises in their course, which give instant, formative feedback and scores to students. Each exercise comes with guided learning, and step-by-step tutorial feedback for unsuccessful attempts.	Pending compliance review, but available
Solid Professor	Solid Professor	Providing online course materials for multiple CAD and ARC courses.	16223345
Soomo Learning Webtext tool	Soomo Learning Webtext tool	Allows for single sign on and grade passback from Soomo Webtext to Canvas course shell	13564137
TedEd	TedEd	sure	Requested by Instructure for training purposes, and so enabled. Will undergo a more thorough compliance review in due course.
TestOut	TestOut	Lab simulations	14378477
Turnitin	Turnitin	Plagiarism Detection	Available
U.S. Cyber Range	U.S. Cyber Range	Cyber security	18210416
Ucertify	Ucertify	The tool provides network security simulations for our ITN 266/267 courses	This can be a per college thing (e.g. tncc.ucertify.com) and requires a key and secret, but there is also www.ucertify.com and we have used TNCC's key and secret for everyone. Installed on www.ucertify.com, pending the usual compliance review.
Virtual Animal Anatomy	Virtual Animal Anatomy	https://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/vetneuro/	Anonymous level of privacy means no compliance required 13557566
Visible Body	Visible Body	virtual labs and interactivity for life sciences	15709183 - no HECVAT - so anonymous only
Vista Higher Learning	Vista Higher Learning	External tool that helps deliver learning materials to students through the LMS.	Configuration needed a lot of work. Usual compliance statement applies.
Vistas, 5th edition	Vistas, 5th edition	Vistas, 5th edition and the accompanying Supersite Plus Code w/WebSAM + vText + Practice App (José Blanco and Philip Redwine Donley)	8830147
VitalSource Bookshelf	VitalSource Bookshelf	Provides an opportunity for students to obtain the best possible price on books.	13222644
VIVA OER Commons	VIVA OER Commons	OER integration	15408502 - but not implemented because not properly functional
Watermark Holdings, LLC	Watermark Holdings, LLC	Student success. Faculty who are responsible for writing assessment reports can link directly into their Canvas courses to pull data from the gradebook. Our Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness are really interested in the functionality since it will save faculty quite a bit of time when they are entering their findings. "Watermark Planning & Self-Study supports the critical, foundational work of assessment planning and accreditation. Manage all assessment efforts, get results faster, engage in meaningful self-study, document institutional effectiveness for accreditation, and focus on improving student outcomes in a single, easy-to-use system." From Full HECVAT form	17771965
Webassign	Webassign	Webassign is a fully customizable content tool that allows instructors to insert mastery assessments and assignments within the content, as well as customize assessments based on content changes. The platform also contains a lockdown feature for assessments.	Pending compliance review, but available. All other Cengage products fall under Mindlinks. This does not.
Wiley	Wiley	Publisher	Pending compliance review, but available
Youtube	Youtube	Bring in educational videos and make your own.	Requested by Instructure for training purposes, and so enabled. Will undergo a more thorough compliance review in due course.
Zoom	Zoom	Provide technology for synchronous interaction: Online office hours; online tutoring; online advising; administrative webconferncing; lecture capture	Per the following article Zoom admins wiill need to generate the key and secret and send it to IT: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201363323-Configuring-LTI-with-Canvas, but system-wide contract will supercede this.
zyBooks	zyBooks	This is a tool central to the course, similar in nature to Cengage texts/MindTap. It is a subscription based learning environment that has text and graded exercises. The graded exercises are a required part of the course. The link provides SSO experience to students from the LMS to the zyBook. Instructor used this LTI provider for several years in Blackboard.
Tool Name	Tool Name	Purpose	Notes	Integrated