Instructional Design & Technology Services, IITS
Haverford College
We all adjusted to virtual or hybrid classes during the pandemic. Now that we are together again, we can still take advantage of online tools to help our students keep up with materials should they need to miss a class due to quarantine, illness, or any other circumstances. Even students that come to class can…
As of February 23, 2021, all meetings and webinars created with your licensed Haverford Zoom account have the option for auto-transcription—AI-powered real-time captioning for your meeting. You and your participants will be able to see those captions during the meeting. There is also a setting that hosts can enable prior to a meeting that allow…
The newest version of Voicethread has significant updates that will benefit users at Haverford greatly. We transitioned to this new version over break and would like to share detailed information about these updates with any current users. Below are all of the detailed updates that Voicethread made regarding assignments and how both students and instructors…
Perusall is a powerful tool with lots of features. Students can work individually, in groups, or as a class to study, annotate and discuss docs and other media. You can also use Perusall to create assignments around annotations. While you can evaluate those assignments yourself, you can also have Perusall provide students with automatic, AI-enhanced…
Read more Collaborative editing and close reading with Perusall
IITS is happy to introduce a new feature for the Spring 2020 semester. Students can now create or upload video from within the Moodle assignment tool. You can create a Moodle assignment that accepts video submissions pretty much like you create any Moodle assignment. This means that students can now easily upload videos of any…
Introduction Haverford Sites offers many unique opportunities for Faculty and Students to improve their digital literacy. Course blogs are a prime example of this. While students can be made authors of a course blog, it may be more beneficial for the students to create their own sites. This is where syndication comes in. With blog…
Read more Syndicated Blogs with Haverford Sites and WordPress
Speed Dating with Learning Technologies and UDL IITS and Team UDL are planning a “Speed Dating with Learning Technologies and UDL” event during the winter break and we are looking for faculty matchmakers and participants! Veterans and newcomers to technology and UDL are all welcome to join this event. Matchmakers: 10 faculty members who have…
Read more Call for Matchmakers! For the Speed Dating with Learning Technologies and UDL event
