CCAD provides and supports a variety of tools for teaching and learning in in-person, online, and hybrid settings. These pages offer guidance and tutorials on how to use these tools, and what they are used for.

The Big 3

Most online and hybrid instruction and collaboration 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 2021-2022 Academic Year.

Google Workspace 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 using 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.

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. Access Google Meet through your CCAD Google Calendar.

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

Other available software

Autodesk Maya

used for: Animation classes

Article coming soon

https://ccadit.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/ID/pages/1829896200

used for: Animation classes