Synchronous “During Class”
DoIT offers three synchronous meeting tools with robust functionality:
To learn more about these synchronous platforms, please explore pedagogical and technical use cases in this comparison chart.
If you have a specific use case not listed, please open an RT ticket for a consult.
Asynchronous “Before/After Class”
Sometimes it’s just easier to show than tell. Using YuJa, faculty can capture and narrate anything they see on their computers, and then publish an online screencast movie tutorial or mini-lecture for students to watch and replay on their own time. YuJa provides multiple recording and editing options for the video and audio output, embed quizzes, live webcasting for interactive, synchronous presentations, cloud-based video storage integrated directly into Blackboard.
VoiceThread is a collaborative, asynchronous tool that acts like a video conference over time (not at the same time) or a discussion board that allows you to hear and see others, not just read what they write. All participants can navigate at their own pace and leave comments about any added content (e.g., images, documents, and videos) via microphone, webcam, telephone, text or even another uploaded file. Users can annotate on the screen while commenting, and pick which comments are shown through moderation.