Responsible citizenship in the Middlebury community obliges users of technology services to practice and maintain safe, responsible and ethical online behavior, awareness of the impacts of one’s actions, and respect for the rights of others. Appropriate use of technology services is governed by the Middlebury Handbook and ITS departmental policies.
Services where the Computing Policies - Filesharing is particularly relevant are listed below.
Flipgrid is an social video, audio, and text discussion tool that allows instructors and students to interact with one another in ways that may heighten social presence particularly in classes that are exploring blended, hybrid, and online modalities.
Privacy Level
Public
Evaluation Stage
Installed
MATLAB Grader is an application that offers:
Canvas supports an LTI integration with Microsoft Office 365 in Assignments, Collaborations, Modules, Course Navigation, and the Rich Content Editor. This integration allows students and instructors to use, create, share, and collaborate on Office 365 files within Canvas. Users can also view their OneDrive files directly in Canvas.
Panopto, videos can be included anywhere in the Canvas LMS and played back on-demand on any laptop or mobile device. From any embedded video, students can launch the full interactive Panopto video player to access captions, notes, and search. And with Panopto’s Dropbox functionality, students can securely submit their own video assignments to a private folder where the instructor can review them and provide feedback.
This integration provides the ability for the instructor and students to link from a Canvas course to access their Pearson MyLab and Mastering experience.
Privacy Level
Public
Evaluation Stage
Installed
Provides access to Pearson content from a Canvas course.
Provides access for to Pearson content from a Canvas course.
Piazza is a discussion/Q&A site with a focus on educational institutions. This integration adds a link to the course navigation for Piazza discussions, and auto-logs the user into the course discussions area.
Privacy Level
Public
Evaluation Stage
Removed
Qualtrics surveys are easily set-up as Canvas assignments, making them an integral part of the course. Benefit from all options related to a Canvas assignment like deadlines and restricted access. After completing a survey, the submission gets registered in the grade book. This helps to make evaluations part of the learning experience, and not a separate task to be done after completion of the course.
Teachers can keep track of response rates of surveys using the Canvas grade book, but won’t be able to see the answers students gave. Hereby anonymity of surveys can be guaranteed.
Remind is a 2-way text based communication platform that helps colleges to reach and engage with their entire campus community—and build the student relationships that lead to better learning. The Remind LTI integration allows instructors to quickly send links to Canvas assignments along with over 20 connected applications, including Signup.com, Box, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive—without ever leaving Canvas. For students on the go who don’t always log into Canvas and don’t have a smartphone, this allows instructors to send important resources and information that they can’t miss.
