Technology is a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent our approaches to learning and collaboration, shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps, and adapt learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners. At Des Moines University, we are exploring innovative approaches and tools that provide learner-centered classroom environments and empower personalization for our students. The Educational Technology team provides application support for teaching and learning tools and is available to assist with new educational technology tool selection and review. Adobe Acrobat DC Adobe Acrobat allows users to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). There are 2 different versions of Adobe Acrobat:     Acrobat Reader DC is free and comes installed on all DMU computers. It allows you to view, sign, and print PDF files.     Adobe Acrobat DC is available by request and allows for additional manipulation of PDF files, including editing, combining files, and creating forms. Learn More About Adobe Acrobat Make an Adobe Acrobat Request Articulate Storyline Articulate Storyline allows for the creation of interactive content for use during eLearning. Make an Articulate Storyline Request Coursedog Coursedog provides Academic and Event Scheduling services, Event Management, and Curriculum Management services to all programs. Access Coursedog Make a Coursedog Request CoursEval CoursEval allows for the creation and distribution of course feedback surveys, as well as the analysis of results. Access CoursEval - Students and Faculty Access CoursEval Admin Portal Learn More About CoursEval Make a CoursEval Request Desire2Learn Brightspace/Desire2Learn (D2L) is the learning management system in use at DMU.  D2L houses course content--which may include lectures, assignments, assessments, and grades--that students can access anywhere, anytime, and from any Internet-connected device. As faculty or staff, you can store and track student participation and grades. Access D2L Learn More About D2L Make a D2L Request eValue eValue is a software solution designed to simplify program administration, improve learning outcomes, and ensure institutional oversight of clinical education programs. Access eValue Make an eValue Request Learn More About eValue ExamSoft ExamSoft is an assessment software that provides a secure offline testing environment. ExamSoft allows faculty and staff to build exams, question banks, and create reports that tag individual quiz items to competencies or topics. Students take exams wirelessly through the ExamSoft application Examplify, and after exams have access to quiz results and reports. Access ExamSoft Learn More About ExamSoft Make an ExamSoft Request Leo Leo provides curriculum mapping functionality for the COM. Access Leo Make a Leo Request Learn More About Leo LinkedIn Learning All faculty, staff, and students have access to LinkedIn Learning and the thousands of on-demand courses in a broad range of topics. Courses are broken into bite-size videos to make it easier to fit into your schedule and allow you to focus on a key topic of interest. You can also download videos to watch offline. Access LinkedIn Learning Learn More About LinkedIn Learning Make a LinkedIn Learning Request Panopto Panopto is our current video management platform at DMU. It can be used to record content on your computer screen either at your desk or in the classrooms during a lecture. It also allows the option to upload pre-existing videos as well as edit out parts of a video using a web browser. Any videos within Panopto can have share permissions modified to only allow access to those who need it. This includes a D2L integration that limits course videos to only staff, faculty, and students enrolled in that course. Access Panopto through the application on your computer or mobile device or via the Panopto website. Access Panopto Learn More About Panopto Make a Panopto Request Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere is a real-time polling tool to gather feedback during classes and presentations. It can be used as a standalone platform or embedded into PowerPoint presentations. Students or participants can respond from a laptop, phone, tablet, or desktop computer. Access Poll Everywhere Learn More About Poll Everywhere Make a Poll Everywhere Request Qualtrics The Qualtrics Survey Platform allows you to create and customize surveys, distribute them, and analyze both individual responses and overall trends. Results can be viewed as reports and downloaded in various formats. Qualtrics is available at no cost to all DMU faculty, staff, and students. Access Qualtrics Learn More About Qualtrics Make a Qualtrics Request SPSS Statistics SPSS Statistics is a powerful software package used for interactive or batched statistical analysis. Make an SPSS Request Zoom Zoom is a unified application for voice calls, video conferencing, virtual meetings, and chat. It is also our virtual learning environment tool for both fully virtual and hybrid synchronous classes. DMU's phone system is built on the Zoom Phone cloud phone system. DMU offers all faculty, staff, and students a Zoom license for online meetings with up to 300 participants. Webinar licenses and additional meeting capacity are available by request. Access Zoom Learn More About Zoom Make a Zoom Request Related Services Classroom and Meeting Room Technology

Audience: Course Assistants Purpose: There are important steps that must be taken before the start of each term to make the course experience less stressful for our faculty, course staff, and students. This checklist is intended to help course assistants double-check completion of key tasks within D2L, Panopto, and Zoom. Knowledge base articles with step-by-step instructions are also linked where relevant. If you have questions or encounter any issues along the way, please contact the Solutions Hub! D2L Course Setup – Copying Course Elements CAUTION: If you have a cross-listed course and are seeing multiple duplicate courses when you search in D2L, do NOT proceed with copying forward materials. Please contact the Solutions Hub as soon as possible so the extra sections can be deactivated. REMINDER: Click into the Respondus Dashboard after you copy quizzes into the course to activate the new version of the quiz in the course. Learn More. REMINDER: Click into the Panopto course folder in D2L after you copy forward your content to provision the Panopto folder for the new course. Learn More. Course Zoom Links For NEW course sections, create a new recurring Zoom Meeting link. Learn More. For existing course sessions, confirm meeting settings and alternative hosts for last year’s recurring Zoom Meeting link. Click the link to confirm you can join. Provide or verify the Zoom link in the spreadsheet sent out by the Registrar’s office. Consider adding your Zoom link to the D2L course homepage for quick access. Set Panopto auto-routing settings for your Zoom link to ensure Zoom recordings are automatically routed to the course Panopto folder (must be completed by the Primary Host of the Zoom meeting). Learn More. Once course Zoom links are added to Coursedog by the Registrar’s office, they will populate for all Outlook events for the course section. This includes student, faculty, and cohort calendars, as well as room calendars for one-touch join. Learn More. CAUTION: If you need to share your recurring Zoom link for a class session (for example, with a guest lecturer), please send this link via an email message.  Do NOT include this Zoom link in a separate Outlook calendar appointment. IN ADDITION, please do NOT edit any calendar appointments that are automatically added to your calendar via the Coursedog process. Forwarding an appointment, opening an appointment and selecting “Save”, and opening an appointment and selecting “Save & Close” are ALL examples of editing the appointment and should be avoided. Learn more about the known Zoom issue driving these recommendations.