Technology For Teaching

There are a lot of technologies that aid in teaching, grading, assessment, communication, etc.

Below we give a few tools that are used (or have been used) by our department.

Technology For Teaching
What It Is Where To Find It Who to Contact

Formative

A tool for flexible formative assessment online. Write multiple choice, short-answer, and “show your work” questions with the ability to display answers and track participation.

Dr. Andrea Arauza Rivera

Remind

A useful and simple method of communicating with students that behaves a lot like text messaging. 

Ozlem Guclu

Gradescope

A streamlined tool for assigning, collecting, and grading assignments online.

FlipGrid

Allows a teacher to create a video prompt and then students respond to the prompt and each other in 90 second video responses.

Jamboard

An alternative to the zoom whiteboard for sharing. It’s part of the Google suite. 

Dr. Jesus Oliver

Desmos

Creating your own classroom exercises to explore ideas in Calculus I/II/III.  

David Yrueta

Lucidspark

Students and teachers can whiteboard together in real time. Lucidchart brings intuitive and dynamic graphic organizers like timelines, mind maps, and Venn Diagrams that accommodate all students. Anyone with a school/.edu email address (including both students and faculty) can sign up for a free plan on LucidSpark and LucidChart.