Technology Tools Available for Faculty and Staff

Canvas

• Canvas, the primary learning management system for the Rollins community, is the go-to platform for academic courses, committees, and training. 

• As the instructor of a Canvas course, you play a crucial role in managing the course content and communication with students. You can share content and create assignments, discussions, tests, collaborative group spaces, and more. Gradebook to automatically weigh and calculate grades. 

• Access Canvas by logging into okta and clicking on the Canvas tile 

• Canvas Guide

Teams 

• Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration platform that allows you to join or start video or audio meetings, chat, share and edit files, and more.  

• Teams is available to all faculty, staff, and students through our Office 365 site license. 

• You may access Teams on a desktop computer, laptop, or mobile device. 

• Access Teams by logging into okta and clicking on the Teams tile 

• Microsoft Teams Guide 

Office 365 Applications

• Rollins has a site license for several Microsoft Office 365 applications (e.g., Outlook email, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more) which means that you and your students may download and install these applications onto your computer. 

• You may also access these applications in the cloud, from any device.

• To see the full list of Office 365 applications you have access to, login to okta, click on Office 365 mail, click on the waffle grid in the top left.

• Directions to access and download Office 365 applications   

OneDrive 

• OneDrive is a cloud storage platform that can store and access your files from anywhere, on any device, and at any time.  

• You get 5 TB of storage 

• Create and edit Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files within your OneDrive.  

• You can invite colleagues or students to edit collaboratively 

• Directions to access OneDrive 

OneNote 

• OneNote is a digital notebook 

• You can share a OneNote notebook with students, using it as a collaborative space for everyone to contribute content.  

• OneNote can also be used as a digital whiteboarding tool.  

Forms 

• Microsoft Forms is a survey tool. It offers various question types and options, such as the ability to create question branches. 

• You can embed a Form in your Canvas course to poll students informally.  

Copilot Chat (AI)

• Microsoft Copilot Chat is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft. Based on a large language model.

• Log in with your Rollins credentials and look for the green circle with a shield icon to verify that Commercial Data Protection (CDP) is active.

• More information on Copilot

Video Tools 

Various tools are available to help you create, edit, publish, and share video projects.  

Kaltura 

• Kaltura is an all-in-one video tool that allows you to upload, store, create, share, and trim videos. 

• Once you upload videos to Kaltura, you can  

  • create video quizzes 

  • generate captions  

  • embed them in multiple Canvas courses 

  • add faculty, staff, and students as collaborators to co-edit and/or co-publish videos. 

  • access video analytics 

• Within Kaltura is a tool called Kaltura Personal Capture that allows you to create a screen recording, webcam recording, voice only recording, or a combination of these. This tool is helpful in recording narrated PowerPoints and embedding them in a Canvas course. 

• Directions to access Kaltura 

• Kaltura Guide 

Video Equipment 

You can check out video cameras, tripods, and lighting equipment from the Olin Library Circulation desk. 

Video Editing Software 

• iMovie is a good video editing tool for beginner and intermediate users on Macs and is available in the Mac computer labs on campus. 

• Adobe Premiere Rush is a good editing tool for beginner and intermediate users on PC or Mac.  

• Adobe Premiere is an advanced video editing program available in all Mac and PC computer labs on campus. 

• Kaltura allows you to create clips of videos or chop the beginning or end of video clips. See the Kaltura section for more information.  

Perusall

• Perusall sets up annotation activities for course content, including text documents, web pages, videos, podcasts, books, and images.

• Enables collaboration among students on the coursework while leveraging critical thinking skills.

• Perusall can be integrated into Canvas as an external tool. Please contact the helpdesk for installation.

• If you have questions, book a consultation with the Instructional Design and Technology team member or send an email to helpdesk@rollins.edu.

• Perusal Guide

Adobe Creative Cloud 

• Rollins is an Adobe Campus, which means you can access the Adobe Creative Cloud tools (e.g., Photoshop, Premiere, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator). 

• Faculty and staff with Rollins computers may contact the IT Help Desk to request that Adobe Creative Cloud tools be installed on their machines. 

• All faculty and staff may access the Adobe Creative Suite in computer labs on campus. 

  • Please remember lab computers are workstations and not for storing your work, so be sure to bring an external storage device to save your work. 

Qualtrics 

• Qualtrics is a survey tool that allows you to create and distribute surveys, collect data, and view or download data in various formats.  

• You can collaborate and share surveys with other Rollins students, faculty, and staff members. 

• Rollins’ Qualtrics account is open to faculty, students, and staff and only for institutional use. 

• Access Qualtrics by logging into okta and clicking on the Qualtrics tile. 

• Qualtrics Guide 

WordPress 

• Rollins hosts an instance of WordPress used for academic purposes. You may request a WordPress site set up for a class blog or website project. 

• You may set up your class’ WordPress site to be open to the world or only to members of the Rollins community. 

• WordPress is a wonderful tool to promote professional writing and can also be used as a wiki where students collaboratively create content together. 

• Contact the IT Help Desk if you would like to have a WordPress site created or for more information. 

• WordPress FAQs and Resources  

Turnitin

• Turnitin is a tool that allows you to provide formative feedback on writing assignments and check the originality of writing.  

• There is also a peer review option and the ability to build a customizable library of drag-and-drop comments. 

• Turnitin is integrated into Canvas and accessible within the Assignments area.

• Directions to create a Turnitin assignment

NVivo (Faculty only) 

• NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research. 

• You may access NVivo in certain computer labs on campus. 

• Faculty with a Rollins computer may request NVivo be installed by contacting the Help Desk. 

• The NVivo license is only for faculty and students. 

SPSS 

• SPSS is a collection of software utilized in logical batched and non-batched statistical analysis. 

• You may access SPSS in certain computer labs on campus. 

• Faculty with a Rollins computer may install SPSS on their machine. 

• Directions on installing SPSS  

SAS/JMP 

• SAS/JMP is a statistical analysis tool for data visualization and data modeling features. 

• You may access SAS/JMP in certain computer labs on campus

• Faculty with a Rollins computer may install SAS/JMP on their machine. Please get in touch with the IT Help Desk.