LibGuides: The Bay State Teaching Excellence Guide: Technology Tools for Remote Learning

Using Technology in Teaching

Looking for a tech tool for your online course? Check these tools that are either free or offered through Bay State!

1) How should I record my lectures? What is the best way to do so?

It depends on your style and what you're trying to do. You can check out Illinois' Delivering Lectures to look at the options.
PowerPoint: If you want to record Narration in PowerPoint, here's a video to check out. Here is the documentation (for the most recent version).

2) How do I use tools like Google Drive to teach?

Check out this resource by Sophie Nicholls, Notes on Using Google Docs for Writing

3) I am planning to use Teams to teach online. How do I get started?

If you scroll down to "Available Through Bay State", there is a tab called "Teaching With Teams" that has some resources to help you!

Tools Available Through Bay State

Tool	Purpose
Conferences (aka "Big Blue Button")	Web Conference/Meetings. Documentation here. This PDF called Teaching Online Through Canvas has some useful tips.
Collaborations	Collaboration-you can add Google documents or Microsoft documents to use as a whiteboard or way for your students to collaborate. In your course, go to Collaborations to set up documents and groups. More information in the Canvas Documentation.
Studio	Presentations--Upload and manipulate YouTube Videos or other video files for your courses. Here are the i nstructions .
Inbox	Send messages to students and co-teachers through Canvas

Tool	Purpose
Whiteboard	Online white board--free-form drawing, collaboration tool. Access from Outlook apps on the Microsoft Office homepage after you login.
One Drive	Documents/Slides/Spreadsheets/Collaboration
Teams	Collaboration--Access from the main Outlook page

Education/ Microsoft Teams
This is a collection of articles that helps you get started, manage your course and assignments, and troubleshoot
Microsoft Teams (Playlist)
Series of short videos that cover a variety of features and topics such as how to record a meeting, set up office hours, and more
Microsoft Teams Online Classes and Lectures, Part I (Video)
Training webinar through Microsoft that covers setting up a course, inviting students, and adding materials. There is useful navigation in the description so you can go right to a particular topic.
Microsoft Teams Step by Step Tutorial
Includes tips for using Teams and provides helpful tips for getting set up and using teams for lessons and mroe
MIcrosoft Teams Video Training
Created by Microsoft, this is a collection of training videos on using Teams' various features, including team-setup, calls, files, and meetings. These are not geared to education specifically, but may serve as a good starting point.
Schedule Online Meetings With Your Students, Part 2 (Video)
Training video from Microsoft that covers create meetings, do a presentation, manage your course, and add materials/lessons
Teaching from Home
Describes how to set up a course-including learning activities and quizzes--using Microsoft Teams and more
Teams Teacher and College Support Staff Guide (Video)
Provides an overview of the features as well as how to set up a class and conduct meetings. If you have a specific question, you can go to the description and select the section you want to use.
Top 10 tips for teaching with Microsoft Teams (Video)
This seven minute video covers talks about the various functions you can use to manage your class in Teams and some other things to consider as you teach.
Using Teams for Distance Learning
Tips from Microsoft on using Teams for distance learning. Learn how set up and manage a meeting and how to run and record meetings

Free Tools

Google Calendar
Free calendar where you can add key events. and set up reminders. You will need a Google account.
Google Hangouts
Use hangouts to make video or phone calls.
Skype
Free calls, video chat, and text-based chat. You can create groups or chat one-on-one. Compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux. Not embeddable in Canvas. Note: You will likely need to download the web version.

Google Drive
Writing/Collaboration; Docs, Forms (surveys), Slides, and Sheets all available.
Padlet
Create collaborative boards. Free account gives you 5 padlets

H5P
Interactive presentations, games, and more. Can be embedded in Canvas!
TechSmith (formerly Jing)
Screencasting software--record and upload videos for asynchronous access/presentations
Loom
Video recording tool that allows you to use your webcamera, microphone, and desktop
OBS Studio
Open source video recording software for Mac, Windows, and Linux
Prezi
Create nonlinear/maplike presentations
Screencast-o-matic
Screencasting software--idea for asynchronous presentations
ShareX
Open source video recording tool for Windows
Zoom
Meeting/Class/Collaboration--Free version hosts up to 100 participants, and sessions run for 40 minutes.

H5P
Interactive presentations, games, and more. Can be embedded in Canvas!
Flipgrid
You and your students can interact by creating short videos!
Poll Everywhere
Online polling tool
Kahoot
Quizzes and online learning activities
Quizlet
Create interactive study materials

Looking for a tech tool for your online course? Check these tools that are either free or offered through Bay State!

1) How should I record my lectures? What is the best way to do so?

It depends on your style and what you're trying to do. You can check out Illinois' Delivering Lectures to look at the options.

PowerPoint: If you want to record Narration in PowerPoint, here's a video to check out. Here is the documentation (for the most recent version).

2) How do I use tools like Google Drive to teach?

Check out this resource by Sophie Nicholls, Notes on Using Google Docs for Writing

3) I am planning to use Teams to teach online. How do I get started?

If you scroll down to "Available Through Bay State", there is a tab called "Teaching With Teams" that has some resources to help you!