Technical Support & Tools
The Centre for Teaching and Learning develops resources in collaboration with units across the university to meet the various teaching and learning needs of the UBC Okanagan community.
Access Support
CTL Helpdesk
Email the Helpdesk at ctl.helpdesk@ubc.ca for all of your Teaching and Learning support needs.
Support Documents
Visit our CTL Support site for Learning Technologies step-by-step guides.
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.
Camtasia: video capturing and editing
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
Microsoft OneDrive: a secure file hosting service for securely sharing and collaborating on documents
Microsoft Teams: group chat, web-conferencing, and document collaboration
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)
Snagit: capturing simple multimedia
Qualtrics: distributing surveys and analyzing responses
Turnitin: checking assignments for plagiarism
Zoom: video/audio web-conferencing and collaboration
Learning Technology Hub
The Learning Technology Hub (also known as the LT Hub) is a central resource (based in Vancouver) where faculty and staff can explore the learning technology tools available to them at UBC.