Instructional Technology Tools
The following tools are all approved for use.
Tool Name | Tool Name | Purpose | Notes | Integrated |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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. | Yes |
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 | Yes |
Perceivent | Perceivent | New text book | 17142040 | Yes |
PGS Learning - Navigate 2 | PGS Learning - Navigate 2 | Provide students supplemental course materials. | Pending compliance review, but available | Yes |
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 |