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Tools for Faculty
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Learning Management Systems (LMS)
eCampusFor Spring 2021, all eCampus courses will be created automatically. If you need to enroll TAs or combine sections, you still need to go to ecampustools.tamu.edu. Faculty members are responsible for creating their own courses and exporting/importing content from past courses.
- eCampus Course creation (https://ecampustools.tamu.edu/etools/)
- Enrollment (Alternate instructors, TAs, staff, etc.)- eCampusTools
- Content (Archive and Import)-Export and Archive Courses
- For more eCampus tutorials, visit the eCampus tutorials page.
Canvas courses will be created automatically. If you decide to use Canvas, just publish your course.
- Go to https://lms.tamu.edu to log in to your Canvas courses and customize it. (There will be new systems to combine sections and enroll TAs and alternate instructors).
- Take the Growing with Canvas training course to learn how to use Canvas
Keep Teaching Resources
Assessment Tools
- ExamSoft/Examplify
If you are planning to use ExamSoft with scantrons or online exams/quizzes, then courses and students are automatically enrolled when syncing with eCampus courses. Please send your request at least one week before the first week of classes.
Note: for Canvas, ExamSoft integration tool will not work during Fall 2020, but you still can use the Examsoft and Examplify with students, and sending grades from ExamSoft to Canvas manually. For more tutorials, visit the ExamSoft & Examplify Tutorials page
- Respondus
1) Respondus LockDown Browser and 2) Respondus Monitor
This is a tool that works in both LMS, Blackboard and Canvas, and prevents students from accessing other applications on their desktop/laptop, including other browsers and communication channels, during an exam. Respondus Monitor is a tool used in conjunction with Respondus Lockdown Browser in eCampus and Canvas to record students taking the exam using Artificial Intelligence. This algorithm flags any testing irregularities for review by the faculty member and/or TA. See Respondus LockDown Browser Tutorials
3) Respondus 4.0
This software enables the creation and management of printed and online exams. You can create exams directly within Respondus, import existing exams from word processor files, or pull content from publisher test banks.
We provide a university-wide site license for Respondus, which is available at no cost for instructors.
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Visit the Texas A&M Software Store to download Respondus at no cost. Note: The software licensing expires annually and must be updated.
- Honorlock
Honorlock provides on-demand proctoring services for schools and universities. Our simple, affordable platform operates around you—no scheduling, headaches, or bulky software downloads. We prioritize academic integrity and are continually innovating to hinder cheating, and our patented mobile device detection system is the only technology of its kind. Remotely proctored exams shouldn’t be a pain for you or your students. Let our cloud-based service make it easy.
- Gradescope
Gradescopeis a feedback and assessment tool that reduces the time associated with grading exams, homework, and other assignments. It is widely used for delivering assessments remotely and enables instructors and graders to provide better and more timely feedback, resulting in improved learning outcomes. More info on how to sync Gradescope with your course.
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Tutorials for students
For students: Submit PDF homework
- Peerceptiv
Peerceptiv® a research-validated peer assessment technology, creates a virtuous cycle of feedback in your classroom that improves writing and critical thinking skills. This online peer assessment tool allows students to receive quick and actionable feedback from their peers to improve their writing.
- The Aggie Proctoring Center
Poll Everywhere
If you are planning to use PollEv for grades or attendance, then you need to synchronize your polls with your eCampus course. This will allow you to send grades automatically from PollEv to eCampus.
Tools for video and audio recordings
- Mediasite
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Your course has access to Mediasite, the university's standardized streaming media system that provides either public or private access to video and audio content. Since your course has a storage limit, Mediasite offers you a limit of 10GB for videos. You can find more tutorials here: Mediasite TAMU or watch theMediasite and Canvas Video
- Zoom
With Zoom, you can record your lecture and upload it to the cloud. Then, share that link. For Zoom tutorials, consult TAMU Zoom Account.
- YouTube
This is another option, but make sure your recording is unlisted: How to make your YouTube video unlisted.
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- PowerPoint
- Camtasia
Refer to the Guidance for Student Related Recordings stated by TAMU, for Zoom Recordings.
' It is recommended that faculty add verbiage to exam guidelines that are distributed to students ahead of the exam to disclose that the faculty member/TA will be recording the proctored exams.
- This information should be repeated at the start of the exam once the recording has been turned on.
- Additionally, when students register for the exam via Zoom, faculty may add a disclaimer that the session will be recorded.
- If the students are recorded and they can be identified, the portion that shows the student(s) are considered to be an educational record under FERPA.
- Only the instructor and/or TAs should have access to the recording.
- Recordings should be retained for one year from the date of the exam.
Any class recordings that include students are considered education records and thereby subject to FERPA. Recordings that show students may only be kept and used by the instructor of record for the current class and section in which the student participates. These recordings may not be used in subsequent semesters and, under record retention policy, should be retained for one year after the course completion. '
- Adobe Creative Cloud
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The School of Public Health has an Enterprise License for Adobe Creative Cloud. Please contact Academic Technology sph-at@tamu.edu for a license request. Troubleshooting issues with your ACC account.Slack Tamu
Zoom
All students, faculty, and staff have access to a TAMU Zoom Premium account. Go to https://tamu.zoom.us and log in with your NetID credentials to claim and start using your account.
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Zoom allows you to use polls during your sessions and generate an attendance report. Check out the tutorials below.
- Breakout rooms (Pre assigning students before session tutorial)
Lab computer software
- STATA /IC15 (Perpetual license for 47 users)
- SAS 9.4 (by request)
- ArcGIS (by request)
- Tableau 2019 (Free)
- Examplify (Free)
- R (Free)
For more information, consult the Office of Academic Affairs.
Disability Resources
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