CCAD provides and supports a variety of tools for teaching and learning in traditionalin-person, remoteonline, and hybrid situationssettings. These pages will offer guidance and tutorials on how to use these tools, and what they are used for.
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To ensure a well-supported experience for students and faculty, instructors are asked NOT to deploy tech tools outside this toolkit in the 2020-2021 Academic Year. If there is a tool you'd like to use that is not represented here, you must request permission and obtain approval from your program chair/director and relevant dean. |
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The Big 3
Most online and hybrid instruction and collaboration will happen in these three tools.
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CCAD's Learning Management System (LMS)
used for: course files, gradebook, forums, lessons, assignments, journals, wikis, and VoiceThread
All courses will use Moodle in the 2020-2021 Academic Year.
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used for: Gmail, Drive (unlimited storage), Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Sites, Meet, YouTube
Microsoft Teams
used for: course/group/individual audio and video calls, chats, shared files and lecture recording
Learn more about upcoming changes and exciting new Teams features here.
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Some online and hybrid instruction and collaboration will use these tools
Adobe Creative Cloud
used for: collaboration and shared file options
As of Fall 2020 students can access this for free ; see 7/21/20 email from Eileen Galvin for more informationusing their CCAD email address.
Office 365
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
used for: document creation in Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Please choose analogous Google Workplace tools first.
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used for: videoconferencing and recording. This can serve as a back-up choice for Teams. Useful for scheduling one-to-one meetings between faculty and students. You can access Access Google Meet through your CCAD Google Calendar.
Digication
used for: CCAD's ePortfolio choice
ccad.digication.com
Microsoft Stream
used for: private video streaming
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