A Guide to Resources for Teaching Online: Tools

Content Resources

• Law-specific Teaching Resources to Use in Online or Hybrid Settings:
  • CALI Lessons
• Eric Voight, Faulkner Law, Online Self-Assessment Resources for Law Professors and Students

Technology Resources

• Learning Management Systems (LMS):
  • Canvas (Humboldt State University has curated these useful videos for using Canvas)
  • Blackboard
  • Google Classrooms
• Polling Tools:
  • Poll Everywhere
  • Instapoll
• Collaborative Tools:
  • Google Docs
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Slack
  • Padlet
  • Microsoft OneNote
  • Flipgrid (instructions for using Flipgrid for remote learning here)

Creating Presentations and Videos

• Voice-over PowerPoint (Instructions here.) Powerpoint also has a number of free add-ins that you can download (see video about them here).
• Google Slides
• Apple Keynote (Instructions here.)
• Panapto (Available here; Panapto support and videos here; some additional instructions here and here on Harvard’s website.)
• Adobe Presenter
• Kaltura Capture
• Vimeo
• Screencast-O-Matic
• ScreenFlow (Available here; instructions here and here.)
• Screencastify (Google chrome extension)
• Nimbus Capture

Creating animated video

• Plotagon: Has a free version, is easy to use, and allows you to create an animated narrative scene in video.
• Powtoon: Robust platform for creating animated videos, and good for training purposes. There is a basic free version, although full access requires a subscription.

Synchronous Classroom/Live Meeting Tools

• Zoom (Some instructions for using screen sharing, breakout rooms, polling, and other tools in Zoom available here.)
  • Article: Jody Greene, Zoomnosis: Avoiding Mischief and Mayhem in the Great Leap to Zoom, available on Inside Higher Ed here. (Good info about student instructions, best practices, setting up profiles, and privacy, among other tips.)
  • Blog post: Artie Berns, How to Zoom: An Introduction, available here. (Good discussion of how to use various Zoom tools, including screenshots of what things look like.)
  • Zoom’s Tips and Tricks: Teachers Educating on Zoom, available here.
• WebEx
• GoToMeeting
• Microsoft Teams (not good for larger numbers, but good for small groups or 1-on-1)
• Adobe Connect
• Skype (best for one-on-one or small groups)

Other Tools for Creative Lesson-Design or Assignments

• Medianotes (allows for annotation of videos)
• Classcaster (blogging and podcast software)
• Socrativ (app that can be used to increase student engagement, do formative assessment, collaborative work, etc.)
• Mentimeter (Get real-time input from remote teams and online students with live polls, quizzes, word clouds, Q&As and more)
• Pear Deck (add-on for Google slides – allows you to add formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides)
• EdPuzzle (Allows you and your students to engage with video content from a variety of sources)
• Quizlet
• Quizzizz
• Kahoot!
• GoConqr
• Anchor (podcasting app)

Creative Teaching Ideas

• Two Truths and a Lie (h/t Natalie Rodriguez, Southwestern Law School)