Resources

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES

These resources are recommendations. We encourage you to explore them and make use of them for a better learning experience. We do not give technical support for these third-party products. For further assistance, contact their respective support section

Online Learning:

Online Learning Policy

Faculty should comply with the ONLINE LEARNING POLICY in designing and delivering any online component for their courses.

Online Readiness Tool

This Online Readiness Tool (online survey) to help rate yourself in each of the topic areas allowing you to make the right decision about enrolling in an online, hybrid or blended course.

Browser check

Perfom a browser check before logging in to ensure your computer is ready to use Piedmont College - Moodle.

Recommended current software:

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, manipulate, and print files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Adobe Flash Player

The Adobe Flash Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform.

OpenOffice

Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office productivity software suite containing word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, graphics, formula editor, and database management applications.

Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation.

Other resources:

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)

The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open Source project based at Tufts University. The VUE project is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information.

Processing

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work.

Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Moodle:

Tutorials

YouTube contains a plethora of tutorials.

Hot Potatoes

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source.

eXe

The eXe project developed a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup.