Educational Technology Services provides instructors with useful tools and resources for use in technology enhanced courses. In addition to licensing many different software packages, ETS will also dedicate time to train and assist instructors on how to use the different software and technologies.
These software programs are available at the Production Studio of the TNT center.
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Plagiarism prevention |
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Turn It In is a Plagiarism Prevention Module now available to MSU. Instructors can have students submit their assignments online and Turn It In automatically checks the papers against current and archived copies of the publicly accessible Internet, millions of published works from ProQuest databases and The Gutenberg Collection of literary classics, and millions of other student papers already submitted to TurnItIn since 1996. |
TurnItIn Tour |
Surveys |
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Need to put out a survey? MSU now has access to Zoomerang. Zoomerang online surveys give you a fast way to gather vital organizational information. |
Zoomerang Quicktour |
Quizzes and self-tests |
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Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to D2L. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. |
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StudyMate lets you create ten Flash-based activities and games using three simple templates. The Flash activities can be used with any web server or published directly to a D2L course. StudyMate will import items from MS Word files and publisher test banks, making it easy to create interesting, interactive activities from existing content. Best of all, you don't have to know Flash programming or HTML to use StudyMate. |
Demo movies with tutorials |
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The Respondus Test Bank Network contains test banks for the leading textbooks in higher education. The test banks are in Respondus format and can be downloaded for free by instructors who adopt a participating textbook. Even if your book is not listed there – we still can contact the publishers, get their testbanks and convert them into D2L format for you. |
Demo "Downloading a Publisher Test Bank" |
Screen capturing and software simulations |
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Adobe Captivate automatically records all onscreen actions and instantly creates an interactive Flash simulation. Point and click to add text captions, narration, and e-learning interactions without any programming knowledge. Demonstrations – View It. A demonstration allows the audience to watch recorded on screen actions.The following are automatically generated when you create a Captivate demonstration:
Simulations – Do it. A simulation allows the audience to interact with content.The following are automatically generated when you create a Captivate simulation:
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Demonstration: Simulation: Demo movie with the overview of the features |
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Connect with your audience by creating interactive video tutorials, training, software demos and presentations. With full-motion recording capability that records the screen, webcam video and voice, you can produce professional-quality video presentations with small file sizes to post on the Internet, burn on CD-ROM, or deliver any way you choose in all the popular file formats:
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