CCAD provides and supports a variety of tools for teaching and learning in traditional, remote, and hybrid situations. These pages will offer guidance and tutorials on how to use these tools, and what they are used for.
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.
The Big 3
Most online and hybrid instruction and collaboration will happen in these three tools.
Moodle
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.
G Suite for Education
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.
Supporting Tools
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 information.
Office 365
Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
used for: document creation in Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Please choose analogous Google Workplace tools first.
Google Meet
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 Google Meet through your CCAD Google Calendar.
Digication
used for: CCAD's ePortfolio choice
ccad.digication.com
Microsoft Stream
used for: private video streaming
Loom
used for: short, 10-15 minute screen recordings
loom.com
Miro
used for: collaborative whiteboard
miro.com