Turn your classroom into a learning community. Students can learn from any source, anytime, anywhere, and from any device.

Two versions: Yellowdig Classic and Yellowdig Engage. Now that Yellowdig Engage is available, they discourage using Yellowdig Classic since it has less flexibility and allows less organization of course communities. Data is not compatible between the two systems so work done in the old version will not be available in the new version without some special request data transfer work by Yellowdig.

Create-your-own digital lessons by combining your own materials with interactive learning content and rich media. The mixture of personalized content, embedded assessment, and interactivity will increase student engagement and improve learning outcomes.

Poll Everywhere engages students through live online polling, surveys, Q&As, quizzes, word clouds, and more.

Note: This App is currently installed in Canvas only for the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis (SoN); they are paying for a student use license.  If you are SoN faculty and wish to use this tool for one of your courses, contact the SoN Educational Technologist who is the Poll Everywhere Administrator.

Panopto is a video content management system for uploading, managing and sharing your video and audio files. It comes with built-in video analytics, a web-based video editor, automatic encoding to help your videos play efficiently on any device, and a search engine that helps your students review material mentioned or shown in their course videos.

Mediasite Video Platform is a system for creating, publishing, searching and managing your video. It allows you to capture video, edit and organize it, and share the video through many different platforms.

EduSourced is a cloud-based software platform to help track students’ real-world experiential projects and course activities with an employer-project component in the college classroom.

The application helps with coordinating, standardizing, and archiving all projects to help manage the experiential learning program. It allows an administrator to create and manage projects, form teams by connecting students and faculty under specific projects, and maintain a single repository for all project-related items.

Based on the American Psychological Association (APA) style guide, this is a suite of quick guides, tutorials, self-quizzes, sample papers, sample references, sample tables, and sample figures to master the art of scholarly writing.  Students can learn about research by viewing tutorials, dictionaries, and reference books, planning and tracking tools. There are also paper templates to facilitate writing, as well as tips on publication.

Vetting of the APA Style Central LTI tool is on hold awaiting a faculty sponsor for the pilot.

Ally is an accessibility tool consisting of two parts: 1) a reporting tool that evaluates the content in your course for accessibility, and 2) an remediation tool that can improve the accessibility of some course content in some cases.

For more information on this commercial product: https://www.blackboard.com/accessibility/blackboard-ally.html

Vetting of the Ally LTI tool is on hold waiting for a funding sponsor to start the purchasing process.

ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) is a Web-based, artificial intelligence assessment and adaptive learning system that determines each student’s progression in a course. As students work through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses each student's knowledge to determine if previously studied topics were retained; it then guides the student to review material or to advance, as determined by each reassessment.