Technology Available To You

Below you will find a list of the common technology tools used at Wilson College along with resources that will help you learn to use those tools. If what's available on this page does not suit your needs, please email helpdesk@wilson.edu to talk about your needs. Please click on Modules in the menu on the left to view more tools and tutorials.

Important note about technology: It is very important that you use Wilson-sponsored tools and only use something else after speaking with the Helpdesk about it. For example, if you are an education professor at one of our school district cohorts, please do not use your district LMS. Use Canvas. There are reasons for this that go beyond the scope of this page.

Canvas

Canvas is a Learning Management System and if you didn't know, is the system you're in right now viewing this page. Canvas is useful for a lot of things, but for this situation, focus on the following:

Delivering Content: Videos, Files, Pages (like this one), external links, etc.
Accepting and Grading Assignments
Discussion Boards

How to get help with Canvas

In the blue menu there is a ? button for the Help menu. The help menu gives you access to a 24/7 chat and 24/7 phone support line.
If Canvas Support cannot help you, please contact the Helpdesk at helpdesk@wilson.edu

Panopto

Panopto is what's called a Video Hosting and Lecture Capture system. It is for ASYNCHRONOUS use. You (and your students) can record videos using Panopto. You can also upload videos you have from other sources (your phone, etc.) for Panopto to hold. When recording using Panopto you can share your screen, share a PowerPoint, and have your voice heard (webcam view optional). So really most things you would typically do in your lectures in class, can be recording using Panopto. Panopto is kind of like Wilson College YouTube.

This tool is very useful for things like:

Teacher Uses
- Recording a lecture for your students to view
- Recording a skills demonstration
- Explaining how you want something done in a way that's not just text.
- Record assignment feedback for a student to view
- Anything else you can think of that students could learn from via video.
- Delayed Exam Proctoring
  - You could have your students record themselves while taking an exam. You could tell them to begin their recording with their webcam, microphone, and screen being recorded. Depending on how much you trust your student(s) you could even tell them that they need to move their camera around at the start to make sure they don't have notes on their desk or anything. You then go back and go through the video to look for potential issues.
Student Uses
- Record a presentation
- Exhibit a skill
- Respond to a discussion board with your voice rather than text (if the teacher allows it).
- Show the teacher how you're thinking through something like a math problem without being in the same room as the teacher.

Getting Help with Panopto

This Document has all the how-to information for how teachers use Panopto.
The students have access to a page in their own Canvas training course as well.
Panopto's Support website has many more tutorials and some webinars you can view.
Panopto did a basic training webinar you can view here.
After making some attempts following the tutorial document, reach out to the Helpdesk at helpdesk@wilson.edu if you need help.

Here's an example of a video playlist. The first video shows me sharing a PowerPoint. The 2nd video in the playlist shows me sharing my screen.

Zoom

Zoom is for SYNCHRONOUS meetings/lectures. Other services like this you might be familiar with would be Skype or Google Hangouts. You could schedule a Zoom meeting for your class and email them the link to join. With Zoom, you'll be able to see your students, speak to them, have them speak to each other and to you, etc. You can share your screen to show them something on your computer or a whiteboard. You can have them share their screens or whiteboard as well. There are even annotation tools when sharing a screen or whiteboard. A really useful feature of Zoom is that you can use Breakout Rooms. So if you have a class of 20 and you'd like them to discuss something in groups of 4, you can make 5 breakout rooms. You can then pull them back into the main room when you're ready.

Note about recording Zoom meetings: Depending on the circumstances, it is very possible that you have a few students that do not have computers and that would make it difficult for them to join the Zoom meeting. There is a mobile app but I don't know that I'd want to rely solely on that for a whole 40 minute meeting. As a result, you should consider recording your meetings and uploading them to Panopto for students to view on their own time later.

Getting Help with Zoom

The zoom support page has tutorials and guides for every single thing you could do in zoom.
This Using Zoom page I created is also helpful and focuses more on the essentials.
Zoom created this PDF that's a guide for teaching with Zoom.
- Note: That PDF has links to a bunch of other Zoom resources too.
- This file is a sample of what you could send to your students to help them.
This Zoom Test room is a great place to practice
This is the download page where you can get the Zoom Client for Meetings.
This video shows you how to record a Zoom meeting and then upload it to Panopto for your students to view later.
- My apologies for this particular video being less well-scripted than my videos usually are. I made it quickly to get it on this page. I'll re-make it after the COVID-19 scare is over.
As always, you can also contact the Helpdesk at helpdesk@wilson.edu

Office 365

Office 365 is how you can access and use Microsoft Office apps from anywhere with internet access. Once you add files to your OneDrive (O365’s file system), you can go to Office.com from anywhere in the world and have access to your files for reading and editing. You can also use Office 365’s sharing features to easily collaborate with anyone in the world. You can even do so in real-time. Even if you don't have the desktop office apps, or if you have a Chromebook, you can still use the web-apps at Office.com

This page is a tutorial for how to access files in OneDrive, share files, and discusses how to use Office 365 to enhance teaching and administrative work.

This page shows you how to upload files to Office 365 One Drive.

Proctorio Exam Proctoring

Proctorio is what we use for online exam proctoring. View information about Proctorio here.

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