Learning Technology Support
The Learning Technology team supports and provides resources to meet the needs of the UBC Okanagan community.
LEARNING TECHNOLOGy SUPPORT
Learning Technology step-by-step guides.
- Check out our 12 tips on setting up a Canvas course shell.
Tools
Canvas
Canvas is UBC’s primary learning platform for delivering online course content. In Canvas, you can share materials (text or multimedia), enable student collaboration and discussion, manage assignments and quizzes, and assign grades. Canvas can also be used with many other UBC learning technologies.
Kaltura
Kaltura is a media platform for instructors and students to create, store and share multimedia content directly in Canvas, without using your course disk space limits.
Zoom
Zoom is a video/audio web-conferencing and collaboration tool that lets you meet with others in real time.
Blogs: (coming soon)
Canvas: UBC’s primary learning platform
CLAS: peer annotations of multimedia
iClicker Cloud: polling in the classroom
iPeer: peer review of the intra-group collaboration process
Kaltura: video capture, storage, and streaming in Canvas
peerScholar: peer review of individual, group or case study assignments
PeerWise: peer review of study questions
Piazza: a discussion board tool
Respondus Lockdown Browser: a custom browser that locks down the testing environment
Respondus Quiz: creating and managing exams or quizzes
Remark (Optical Mark Recognition): scanning and marking multiple choice bubble sheet exams (in person classes)
Wikis: (coming soon)
Zoom: video/audio web-conferencing and collaboration
Learning Technology Hub
The “LT Hub” is a central unit that supports the UBC community in using learning technology—for face-to-face classrooms, hybrid courses, and fully online learning.