Technology For Teaching
There are a lot of technologies that aid in teaching, grading, assessment, communication, etc.
Below we give a few tools that are used (or have been used) by our department.
| What It Is | Where To Find It | Who to Contact |
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Formative A tool for flexible formative assessment online. Write multiple choice, short-answer, and “show your work” questions with the ability to display answers and track participation. |
Dr. Andrea Arauza Rivera | |
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Remind A useful and simple method of communicating with students that behaves a lot like text messaging. |
Ozlem Guclu | |
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Gradescope A streamlined tool for assigning, collecting, and grading assignments online. |
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FlipGrid Allows a teacher to create a video prompt and then students respond to the prompt and each other in 90 second video responses. |
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Jamboard An alternative to the zoom whiteboard for sharing. It’s part of the Google suite. |
Dr. Jesus Oliver | |
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Desmos Creating your own classroom exercises to explore ideas in Calculus I/II/III. |
David Yrueta | |
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Lucidspark Students and teachers can whiteboard together in real time. Lucidchart brings intuitive and dynamic graphic organizers like timelines, mind maps, and Venn Diagrams that accommodate all students. Anyone with a school/.edu email address (including both students and faculty) can sign up for a free plan on LucidSpark and LucidChart. |