Install DCE Vetted EdTech Tools, Right from Your Canvas Site through Hello Harvard
AI
- IgniteAI Search: An AI chat bot that sources your course content.
- PingPong: Create custom text and voice based AI bots for teaching and learning.
Accessibility
- Canvas Accessibility Checker: Identify and amend common accessibility issues while working in the Canvas content editor.
- Library Reserves: Create reading lists that are linked to the Harvard Library and library databases.
Annotations
- Interactive Video by Feedback Fruits: Create a flipped classroom experience by engaging students with inline questions and discussion threads.
- Perusall: Annotations in select textbooks, documents, and assignments.
- Comprehension by Feedback Fruits: Help students focus on course material with open and collaborative annotations or guided annotations around topics you specify.
Chat
- Slack: Collaborate, communicate, and connect in real-time with the Slack messaging system.
- Canvas Chat: Real time online interactions between students and teaching staff.
Community
- Student Locations: Let students and teaching staff mark their locations on a map for their peers to see.
Course Management
- Gradescope: Streamline paper-based, digital or code assignments and assessments.
- Turnitin: Check the originality of student work.
- Course Admin Tools: Suite of powerful Canvas tools for organizing your course.
Discussion
- Ed Discussion: Community forum-style Q&A tool.
- Kialo: Host thoughtful and structured debates with Kialo, an argument mapping and debate site.
- Discussion on Topic by Feedback Fruits: Create discussions with multiple due dates and requirements based on specific guidelines.
- Discussion on Work by Feedback Fruits: Facilitate discussion and active learning on student deliverables.
- Yellowdig: News feed-style discussion board with optional point system for tracking participation.
Peer Review
- Group Member Evaluations by Feedback Fruits: Peer review group members' performances.
- Peer Review by Feedback Fruits: Streamline the process for organizing and managing individual or group peer reviews.
Polling
- Poll Everywhere: In-class, at a distance, in-time, or asynchronous web-based polling.
Proctoring
- Proctorio: Online proctoring tool for use with Canvas Classic Quizzes.
STEM
- WIRIS MathType: Math, physics, and science equation editor.
- WIRIS ChemType: Type and handwrite chemical notation.
- Labster: Immersive online simulations for science courses.
Textbook
- Macmillan Learning: Content integration between its LaunchPad products and Canvas.
- myBusinessCourse: Print and digital textbooks, instructor supplements, and reference databases.
- McGraw Hill - Connect: Digital-first vetted content and assessment materials.
- Cengage: Higher education course materials.
- Pearson-My Lab: Integration for MyLab and Mastering products in Canvas.
Instructor support
Email: InstructionalTechnology@dce.harvard.edu
Web: teach.dce.harvard.edu/itg
Emergencies: call the help desk at 617-998-8571
Student support
Email: AcademicTechnology@dce.Harvard.edu
Phone: 617-998-8571