SVSU Technology Tools and Resources

Table of Contents

• Workshops are Available Every Semester
• Webinars Offered Outside of SVSU
• Request EchoVideo in Your Course
• Canvas Tools to Help You Teach
  • Canvas Quick Start Video by Instructure (30:42)
• Tools to Help You Teach Outside of Canvas
• Web Conferencing Tools
• Teaching Apps for a Touchscreen Device
• Teach Without a Touchscreen Device

Workshops are Available Every Semester

Please visit www.svsu.edu/workshops to look for session topics and times. Please note the related articles on the right-hand side of the page.

Webinars Offered Outside of SVSU

• Adobe Higher Education Distance Learning
  Strategies for effective distance learning.
• Microsoft Teams
  Watch previous On-Demand Microsoft Teams recordings or register for a webinar.
• Kahoot.com
  Use Kahoot to engage students and help them learn remotely
• Leslie Fisher (partnered with Microsoft, K-12 Educational Technology Conference presenter)
  Learn tips, tricks, and best practices using Microsoft 365 apps (Teams, OneNote, MS Stream, etc.), Flipboard, Apple, and more.
• Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor (Instructors)
  Used for online exam proctoring. Register for live webinars to learn more.

Request EchoVideo in Your Course

Canvas Tools to Help You Teach

• Announcements: Send timely course communication messages to students or delay them for a specific date. Students can make comments if enabled. Show recent announcements on your course Home Page.
• Quiz: Online testing, surveying, and quizzing (graded/non-graded).
• Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor: Used for online exams that restrict students from accessing websites/applications and monitor via webcam (must be enabled). View the Respondus Student Guide.
• Discussion: Asynchronous text discussions with and among students.
• Use Microsoft Teams in Canvas - Create MS Teams online meetings in your course within Canvas from the Announcement tool. MS Teams is available in the Rich Content Editor (plug-shaped icon). Teams is great for collaboration (file sharing), online office hours, sharing your screen, there is a Lobby, breakout rooms for group activities, reactions, chat, and more. Microsoft Teams is the default conferencing tool for web conferencing in Canvas, set up your Team's class in Canvas.
• Big Blue Button Conference: We recommend Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) in place of Canvas Conferences (Big Blue Button (BBB).
• Class meetings with Big Blue Button Conference tool can be recorded, they store for 7 days only. You can use it for synchronous meetings, it offers real-time video/audio, computer screen share, chat, a whiteboard, and reactions. View our article with a comparison table of what applications we recommend for synchronous and asynchronous teaching tools. 

Canvas Quick Start Video by Instructure

Watch this YouTube video "Canvas Quick Start Guide" by Instructure, it is a condensed version of the needed essentials to help teach using Canvas. For full training on using Canvas's tools register for our training workshops at svsu.edu/workshops

Tools to Help You Teach Outside of Canvas

• Microsoft Stream (on SharePoint) - This is an online video maker, comes with white board, backgrounds, a teleprompter, and more. There is s maximum recording limit of 15 minutes. We recommend that students use Microsoft Stream for biographies and presentations. Available for faculty, staff, and registered students.

  • Log into stream.office.com ​​
  • Stream (on SharePoint): Getting Started

• Prezi Video - This is an online video maker. The video is created with you and the content right along the side of you on the screen. It comes with pre-made templates and is FREE for educators and students.

  • Get Started with Prezi Video  (sample lessons and blog)
  • Prezi Video Tutorials and Tips
  • Sign up for Prezi live training
• PowerPoint - Recording Narratives of Class Lectures
  • How to add narrations to a PowerPoint slide 
  • How to save a PowerPoint Presentation as an MP4 and upload your video to your EchoVideo personal library.
  • Live Presentations with PowerPoint on the web

Web Conferencing Tools

•  EchoVideo: It is SVSU's chosen lecture capture system. You can pre-record your video lectures or stream them live in your Canvas courses. Record your screen, audio, yourself, and engage your students. Are you an instructor? Visit svsu.edu/echohelp if you are a student view our EchoVideo Student Guide.
• Microsoft Teams: Use MS Teams for Features two-way communication using chat (private/public), video/audio, break-out rooms, file/screen sharing capabilities, meeting lobby, ability to record your online meeting with live transcription, present live with PowerPoint, raise your hand virtually or react in a meeting, join all your colleagues with Together Mode, and more. MS Teams is our RECOMMENDED collaboration platform. Learn more about MS Teams.
• Zoom: Free/basic Zoom accounts have a 40-minute time limit, it is one of our supported online meeting tools. For video training see Zoom's collection of resources be sure to check out our Zoom Video Conferencing Guide.

Teaching Apps for a Touchscreen Device

• Microsoft Whiteboard: This is a collaborative digital canvas that integrates with Microsoft Teams, you can use it during an online meeting. Use the Whiteboard app online via the Microsoft 365 app launcher. Available from the Microsoft Store and iOS devices. Coming soon for Android.
  • Teach with the Microsoft Whiteboard app
  • MS Support Whiteboard (help resources) 
• Microsoft Draw feature: Use your touchscreen device (Windows, Mac, and iOS/Android) and sketch your ideas and teach lessons within Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. You can annotate, highlight, and emphasize content. Math faculty use the Ink to Math or Math Assistant in OneNote. Learn how to "Use the Draw feature in Microsoft Apps with your Touch Device".

Teach Without a Touchscreen Device