Tools Supported by IDAT
- Ally – accessibility tool
- Audacity – audio editing
- Brightspace – learning management tool
- Flipgrid – video engagement
- Foxit Editor & Reader – PDFs
- Google Workspace – email, collaboration, & storage
- Infobase – training platform
- Kahoot! – interactive quizzes
- Kaltura – video creation & hosting
- MindMup 2.0 – Google Drive mind map add-on
- MyMeredith – campus intranet portal
- ReadSpeaker – text to speech
- Respondus Lockdown Browser – secure testing browser
- Turnitin – originality checker
- VoiceThread – multimedia discussion
- WeVideo – video editing
- Zoom – web conferencing
- Zoom Scheduler – browser plugin, schedule Zoom from Google Calendar
Explore tools by teaching goal
Do you know what you are trying to do but just don’t know which tool to use? We’ve got a chart to list tools by the teaching goal.
- Engage with students
- Assessments
- Student collaboration
- Accessibility
- and more
For another list of what Instructional Technology tools by purpose or instructional goal, please visit our list our page within the My Meredith portal.
Other Instructional Tools
In addition to our categories exclusively for Zoom, Brightspace, and Google Workspace, we have many other instructional tools to use. You can also explore instructional tool tutorials and tips here on the blog under the “Instructional Tools” category.
Rubrics are a set of clear explanations or criteria used to help staff, faculty and students focus on what is valued in a work project, subject, topic, or activity (Russell, & Airasian, 2012). Strong components of a well-developed rubric include aspects of a task which may be considered when making a judgment about performance on …
Chances are you have a group of people you regularly email or add to calendar events. Well here is a little tip to make it just a little quicker for you! Using Google Contacts It is easy to search up faculty and staff emails but through Google Contacts you have more control. You can create …
Quicker Gmail and Events using Google Contacts Groups Read More »
Professor of History Dan Fountain spoke to us about the North Carolina Women’s Oral History Collection, including the history of the project and how those working on it adapted capture methods during the pandemic. Tell us about the project. We’ve been doing oral histories at Meredith for over 15 years. It began with a partnership …
North Carolina Women’s Oral History Collection with Dan Fountain Read More »
Around the world, instruction is increasingly delivered asynchronously online, with educators facing new challenges and searching for ways to maintain rigor and quality content. As online education has emerged across mainstream higher education, an increasing number of MPA programs are offering online courses, hybrid courses and entire degree programs online (Naylor and Wilson, 2009; Powell, 2007). …
Benefits of Implementing Course Templates in Your Department Read More »
Join us in the new IDAT News chat space on Google! Get IDAT news & updates 1x/week + training and critical announcements from Brightspace, Kaltura, etc.. As a Google Chat space, this is a group that you can leave/join at any time. No more missing out on any training or blog updates. Purpose of the …
Faculty have access to thousands of educational and documentary videos from Infobase’s Films on Demand. This is a fantastic resource on campus and you can learn more about it on the Carlyle Campbell Library website. This post focuses specifically on how to easily use this resource in Brightspace. It is possible share with a link …
It is a good practice to remove content you no longer use, has become outdated, or contains private student information from your My Media repository. This also has the benefit of helping Meredith make the best use of our storage resources as we do not have unlimited storage space. Some questions to consider when evaluating …
Faced with having to fill in while multiple colleagues were out, and always looking for new ways to engage students, Director of the Dietetic Internship program Cathie Ostrowski used an Escape Room activity to solve both challenges. On the video below, Cathie guides you through how she used Google Slides and Forms to create this …