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Teaching & Learning

Assessments & Plagiarism Detection

When paired with a Learning Management System, assessment tools facilitate students and instructors to improve their learning experience. Here are some options available for Texas A&G users:

Peerceptiv
It is a peer cess technology, that improves writing and critical thinking skills past engaging students in the role of the teacher. Peerceptiv supports writing across the curriculum and is too effective for other types of assignments—such as presentations, videos, art projects, business organisation plans, and legal briefs—that require formative feedback. It does not need to download whatsoever software as information technology is fully integrated with eCampus at no accuse for students and instructors.

Respondus
It is a tool for creating and managing exams that tin be printed to paper or published directly to eCampus. It allows instructors to create an cess database and reuse information to create new exams. We provide a academy-broad site license for Respondus, which is available at no cost for instructors.

Turnitin
Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to engage students in the writing process, provide personalized feedback, and assess student progress over time. Information technology is recommendedfor plagiarism detection, citations, peer review, and paperless grading.

Classroom Technology

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Powerful touchpanels with faster processing to control all classroom features from one single device.
Document cameras for displaying an object in real-fourth dimension to a large audition.
Audio/video arrangement to facilitate delivery of content and communication.

Multimedia & Streaming

Adobe Creative Suite
It gives you a variety number of apps and services for video, blueprint, photography, and the web. It contains the entire collection of twenty+ creative desktop and mobile apps including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe Spark Premium. If you are faculty and/or staff delight contact helpdesk@tamug.edu to get a free membership as office of a A&M System-wide Adobe Contract. Visit the Adobe Education Exchange to enroll in free online courses to ignite creativity in your classroom.

Camtasia Studio & Snagit
Camtasia Studio is a screen recorder and video editorto tape and create professional-looking videos on Windows and Mac. Snagit is a screenshot programme that captures video brandish and audio output. Visit the Texas A&M Software Center to download Camtasia Studio (and Snagit) for a old cost of but $18.

MediaMatrix
It is a specialized database application specifically designed to handle internet media streaming content,which is available at no cost for instructors.Texas A&Thousand is currently working to replace MediaMatrix and implement a new tool called MediaSite to improve performance and functionalities.

MediaSite
Mediasite is the university's standardized streaming media system that provides either public or private admission to video and audio content. Mediasite integrates with eCampus. Implementation in progress.

Techsmith Relay
or Camtasia Relay is a powerful tool that allows you to quickly record, publish, and stream screen presentations. You lot tin can go information technology at non cost. For more information click the corresponding button beneath.

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Learning Management System

Sheet

Canvass is the electric current Learning Management System that supports online learning and teaching. Canvas is a secure, modern, centralized system that allows the user to create a grade structure. The collaborative workspace enables the user to design lessons, develop content, and maintain active communication and interaction with students.

Canvas Roles

Sheet Roles can be added past instructors and administrators for both course management and member management for Sheet courses.

Course, Educational activity, and Student roles are assigned via Compass past the registrar office.

Observer type roles in Sheet such as Faculty Peer Evaluator, Pupil Peer Mentor, Transcriber, Librarian, and Visiting Educatee are assigned via Compass through SWASECT by the department administrator.

Course acquaintance roles such as Course Designer, Grader, Teaching Assistant, and Lead Education Assistant are assigned via ORCA by the Instructor of Record or the Academic Liaison.

ORCA allows to create, combine, and manage Canvass courses based on Compass sections, and to add/manage additional users to your Canvas course(s)

Online Survey Tools

Qualtrics
Information technology enables users to create their own web-based surveys and bear statistical analysis every bit a feedback tool. Asking your business relationship and/or training at helpdesk@tamug.edu. Some benefits are:

Reach respondents wherever they are with surveys on mobile devices, apps, and websites.
Create and test surveys in real time and interact effortlessly.
100+ question types.
Pre-built survey templates.
Uncover new insights with predictive intelligence and powerful statistical analysis congenital-in.
Launch your survey with confidence.

Student Response System

iClicker
It is a student response system that can assistance appoint students in classroom give-and-take topics. Information technology tin be used with or without remote devices, depending on the iclicker teacher version you choose iClicker Classic or iClicker Deject . It is free for instructors only students have to select a paid-program in order to participate in polling or quizzes. iCliker is free for students if is just used to track attendance.

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Training in LinkedIn Learning

The Texas A&M University customs now has admission to more than 13,000 courses at no charge, cheers toLinkedIn Learning(LiL) and the Part for Academic Innovation.

Texas A&Grand upgraded to LiL from Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn Learning. All saved files, certificates and progress from Lynda.tamu.edu users were transferred to LiL during the upgrade.

Students can log in tolinkedinlearning.tamu.eduwith their NetID and countersign to learn:

Tips for crafting a resume and landing the perfect job
Hobbies such as cartoon, playing an musical instrument and photography
Software skills including Adobe Creative Cloud, Office 365 and project management

Kinesthesia can employ LiL to discover supplemental textile for their classes and polish skills such as:

Cadre strategies for teaching in college educational activity
Teaching with engineering science
Creating effective learning assessments

Users tin can acquaintance their personal LinkedIn account with LiL then course completion certificates appear on their contour.

Frequently asked questions and answers regarding the upgrade can be found on theTexas A&M IT Self-Servicewebsite.

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