| TECHNOLOGY | WHAT IS IT? | WHERE IS IT? |
|---|---|---|
| Canvas | Canvas, ECU’s Learning Management System (LMS), provides the main interface to the digital learning environment where you can access your learning materials, assessment and interactive online learning activities for each unit. Many of the following technologies mentioned below are integrated within Canvas. | Student Portal > Easy Logins > Canvas |
| LinkedIn Learning | LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive collection of expert video tutorials and courses that can be viewed at your own pace whilst on campus or at home. Students and Staff have unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning during their time at ECU, and can access videos on Business, Creative or Technology topics, or suggested Learning Paths from the LinkedIn Learning Browse menu. | Student Portal > LinkedIn Learning |
| MS Teams | student peers and lecturer. Your lecturer can create a new Team and invite people to join, including students. Only your lecturer can create a Team – students can only create group chats and gain all the benefits posts. A Team is different from a group chat. It is a more permanent home for your conversation, allows for posts and replies, pinned posts, topic channels, a file repository, shared document and live document collaboration. The team manager can also add applications for collaboration. Resource: Find MS Teams: Instructions for Installation and Activation of Office 365 | Install software - - Office 360 |
| Panopto | Panopto is a video content management system for uploading, managing, editing, and sharing videos and audio files. Video capture requires downloading the small Panopto recorder program while video editing and content management are web browser based. Downloaded Resources: How to use Panopto for Windows Online Resources: | Installed Panopto recorder software OR Online web capture |
| PebblePad | PebblePad is a learning ePortfolio platform where your lecturers can create workbook assessment tasks for you to complete and where you can create ePortfolios to reflect on and document your learning journey at ECU. | Student Portal > Easy Logins > Learning Portfolio AND Within Canvas |
| Reading List (eReserve) | Reading list is a tool that brings together texts, articles and chapters that your lecturer has put together in order to support your learning and can include links to e-books, books held by the library, journal articles, excerpts from books, conference papers, links to websites, and other sources. | Within Canvas |
| Turnitin | Turnitin is a text matching system that compares text in your assignment against a database of sources, including journals, websites, and other students’ submissions. You submit assignments through a Turnitin submission point in their Canvas unit. The results can be used to identify similarities to existing sources or it can be used to help you learn how to avoid plagiarism and improve your writing. | Within Canvas |