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Main Functionality: Send one-way communications to entire class.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Blackboard Announcements help

Main Functionality: Organize and share a variety of learning material types such as text, video, audio, attachments, social media

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Humber BB91 Content Creation Help | Blackboard Create Content Help

Main Functionality: Create a space for each assignment where students can submit their assignments. Automatically creates a column in the Grade Center where instructors can review submissions.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Blackboard Assignments Help

Main Functionality: You can use tests and surveys to measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information from students.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Humber BB91 Tests Help | Blackboard Tests & Surveys Help

Main Functionality: An all-in-one fully interactive web conferencing environment that allows you to connect with one student, your entire class, and external guests. You and your students can collaborate using audio, video, and recording capabilities. You can also use private and public chat, a whiteboard, application sharing, a clip art library, and add and edit content at any time. Can also be used to hold virtual office hours.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Printable Quick Reference Card | Humber BB91help | Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Help

Main Functionality: Pose questions to groups or the class to discuss. Encourages students to think critically about coursework and interact with each others' ideas. You can create discussions around individual course lessons or for your course in general.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Blackboard Discussions Help

Main Functionality: Fully customizable in terms of text, categories and even scoring guidelines. The rubric can be deployed prior to an assignment and can be a powerful tool when it comes to assignment expectations. Creating a thorough, accessible rubric ensures clear scoring and evaluation expectations that are important for a student's success.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber Credentials

What students need to do: Log in with Humber Credentials

Help/Comments: Creating Rubrics

Main Functionality: The Grade Center tool allows faculty to build out simple, or complex, grading schemas with the built-in option to display grades to their students in real-time.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber Credentials

What students need to do: Log in with Humber Credentials

Help/Comments: Grade Center

Main Functionality: The free Bb student app uses an Activity Stream feature that allows students to track multiple courses, plus enables students to view assignments, grades and assessments. Available for iOS and Android.

What teachers need to do: Recommend students to download the app.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber Credentials

Help/Comments: Blackboard App

Main Functionality: Padlet is a real-time collaborative space in an interactive bulletin board. Add posts and respond to other participants’ posts. Share images, audio, web links, videos and documents.

Free version features: 3 Padlets.

What teachers need to do: Teachers must sign up, create Padlet, and share it with students through a link.

What students need to do: Students access the Padlet from any browser or device through a link or QR code. No sign-in required.

Help/Comments: Getting started with Padlet.

Main Functionality: Mentimeter creates interactive presentations that incorporate opportunities for student input, polling and responses (multiple choice, word cloud, open-ended questions, Q&A, quizzes, scales).

Free version features: Unlimited presentations and unlimited audience size. Maximum of 2 questions and 5 quizzes per presentation.

What teachers need to do: Teachers need to sign up and create presentation.

What students need to do: Students access with a code from any browser or device.

Help/Comments: There are Pro licences available for Faculty through the Mentimeter Licence Loan Pilot Project. For more info Mentimeter Licence Loan FAQ or email edtech@humber.ca

Main Functionality: Poll Everywhere transforms one-sided presentations into two-way conversations with the audience. Choose from a large variety of poll activities, including multiple choice, open response, live word clouds, clickable images, up-and-down-voting for Q&A, and rank order. View and share results.

Free version features: Unlimited questions. Maximum audience size: 40.

What teachers need to do: Teachers need to sign up and create presentation.

What students need to do: Students access with a link.

Help/Comments: Getting started with Poll Everywhere

Main Functionality: Use Kahoot! to create a learning game or quiz, adapt a quiz created by other users, host the game live in a group setting and invite your students to play. Student-paced games, called Challenges, are available.

Free version features: Free plan allows to create, play, and host games and student-paced challenges.

What teachers need to do: Teachers create or host a Kahoot from any browser or mobile app. Sign in required.

What students need to do: Students can access the Kahoot with a code from any browser or mobile app.

Help/Comments: Free access to Kahoot! Premium Plan due to Coronavirus

Main Functionality: Quizlet enables educators to create study aid and review materials that students can access at their own pace and through multiple formats. Quizlet Live available to host quizzes in a group setting. Teachers can keep track of the study sets and activities students have completed (if they sign in) but not the results.

Free version features: Create study sets or use sets created by other users, and share with students.

What teachers need to do: Teachers must sign in to create and share study sets.

What students need to do: Students can access the sets with a link. In order to keep track of their own progress, students must sign in.

Help/Comments: Quizlet Teacher Guide

Main Functionality: Flipgrid is a video sharing tool that engages students in discussions through short video creation. Incorporate rubrics to assess student work and provide feedback to students with video, audio or text. Encourage discussion among peers.

Free version features: All features available.

What teachers need to do: Teachers need to sign up and set up Grid (classroom) and Topic (discussion prompts) for students.

What students need to do: Students access the topic with a link or QR code and need to log in with emails or student IDs (created and provided by the teacher).

Help/Comments: Getting Started with Flipgrid

Main Functionality: EdPuzzle enables educators to create interactive video lessons and embed multiple choice questions, open-ended questions, notes and narration. Teacher decides whether the student must complete each task in order to move forward in the video or can navigate the lesson freely. Students must complete all tasks and watch the full video to submit the assignment. Track students’ responses.

Free version features: Access to more than 5 million videos. See detailed analytics on your students' results. Get storage space for 20 videos.

What teachers need to do: Teachers need to sign up, create the video lesson or use an existing lesson.

What students need to do: Students access with a link or class code and input a nickname.

Help/Comments: Getting started with EdPuzzle

Main Functionality: TED-Ed Lesson makes it easy to create interactive video lessons that incorporate multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions, discussion forums and other resources to complement the video. Students freely navigate the lesson. Track student progress.

Free version features: All the features

What teachers need to do: Teachers need to sign in to create the Ted ED lesson.

What students need to do: Students access the lesson through a link and input their names.

Help/Comments: How to create a TED-ED Lesson

Main Functionality: Panopto is Humber’s new academic video streaming platform. This platform will help you record, edit, discover, and share academic content with your students. Embed videos into Blackboard.

Free version features: All features available for Humber's Faculty, Staff and Students.

What teachers need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

What students need to do: Log in with Humber credentials.

Help/Comments: Contact Humber’s Panopto Support Team at panopto@humber.ca.

Main Functionality: QR Code Monkey creates and customizes QR codes to access web links, videos, audio files, sms, locations, and more.

Free version features: All features available.

What teachers need to do: No sign-in required.

What students need to do: No sign-in required.

Main Functionality: Bit.do shortens and personalizes any link. It automatically generates a QR code as well.

Free version features: All features available.

What teachers need to do: No sign-in required.

What students need to do: No sign-in required.