Educational Technology Resources

The following educational technology tools are licensed and supported by Kent State University.  Faculty can use these tools to support their teaching in face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses.

FACULTY TRAINING

Technology training workshops are available for most of the software listed below.  Check back often for additional workshop dates.

The Regional Campus Instructional Design (RCID) team can also help with 1:1 educational technology support and training.  Contact us or book a Teams meeting with us any time!

FACULTY RESOURCES

Click the links below to view step-by-step instructions, videos, and other support information for various educational technology.

• FlashLine
  FlashLine is Kent State University's portal for access to email, Canvas, Microsoft and Google Apps, faculty and advisor tools (including reporting student grades), employee resources, etc.
   

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• Canvas
  Canvas is Kent State University's official learning management system, and can be used for hosting course content, assignments, tests, grades, and more.
   

WEB CONFERENCING

• Microsoft Teams
  Teams is Kent State University's web conferencing and collaboration tool.  It can be used for online meetings, chat, file sharing, and group collaboration.
   

VIDEO & MULTIMEDIA

• Kaltura
  Kaltura (video.kent.edu) is Kent State University's video recording and hosting tool.  Kaltura is integrated into Canvas.
   
• Microsoft PowerPoint
  PowerPoint is a presentation application included in the Microsoft 365 suite.  It can be used as a visual aid for live lectures, and can also be used to create narrated online presentations.
   
• VoiceThread
  VoiceThread allows you and your students to create, comment on, and share multimedia presentations.  It is integrated into Canvas.  Free VoiceThread workshops are available.
   
• Usable Media
  If you're looking for additional media that you can use to supplement your teaching, check out this great resource to locate videos, images, books and articles, and more.
   

TESTING & ASSIGNMENT TOOLS

• Online Proctoring
  Kent State University licenses multiple proctoring software options that can be utilized for online testing.
   
• Respondus Campus-Wide
  Respondus Campus-Wide is an offline test creation software that integrates with Canvas.  It makes it easier to import questions from Word documents and to print tests and answer keys. 
   
• Gradescope
  Gradescope can be used for creating and grading bubble sheets (Scantron replacement).
   
• Turnitin
  Turnitin can be used to compare student assignment submissions against institutional and global databases and produce similarity reports.  It is integrated into Canvas Assignments, and can be enabled within the assignment settings.
   

SURVEY/FORMS TOOLS

• Qualtrics - preferred software (ADA compliant) 
  Qualtrics allows you to create online surveys and forms. Qualtrics also offers data collection reports and graphs, which can be exported in various formats. You can access Qualtrics at kent.qualtrics.com.
   
• Microsoft Forms
  Forms is a survey and quiz application included in the Microsoft 365 suite.  You can use it as a standalone application or from within Teams.
   

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

• University Libraries Statistical Consulting group offers support for the software packages SAS, SPSS, JMP, NVivo, Qualtrics, and R.