Digital Media

Digital media tools can enhance your face-to-face lectures, student services presentations, student collaboration, recorded online lectures, and serve as great authentic assessment tools in your courses. Below are just a few of the many free or low-cost digital media tools out there that our instructional design team recommends.

Canva

With Canva, you can create tons of digital media from easy-to-use templates, or make your own designs. Canva includes databases full of graphics, images, video clips and other design elements you can use in your materials. The Canva educator account allows access to many of their pro features for free.

Sample uses for Canva:

Slideshows
Infographics
Videos
Flyers
Worksheets

Mentimeter

Mentimeter lets you create interactive presentations that incorporate interactive polls, quizzes, and word clouds. Check students' knowledge in real time as they interact with your presentations from their own devices while you present.

Sample uses for Mentimeter:

Formative assessment during lectures
Group presentations
Survey students

Social Media

Social media can be a great way to engage and assess students in your courses! Many of your students are already familiar with using these tools, and so they can be an effective and efficient strategy.

Sample uses for Social Media in the classroom:

Twitter hashtags for class discussions.
Student-created Facebook pages for historical figures.
Student-created Instagram profiles to showcase agricultural processes.
Student-created TikTok videos to promote dental hygiene.

Google Slides

Google Slides is a slideshow tool that is free with your Google account. Google slides can be created by faculty and staff, or assign your students to build their own slide decks.

Sample uses for Google Slides:

Instructor lectures
Asynchronous presentations
Student projects
Storytelling

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