Learn more about those tools and how you can implement them in your teaching at the Faculty of Science.
We have made a list of tools that we support at the Faculty of Science. Some of these are essential (e.g. Canvas) but most are optional and are meant for a specific purpose. This tools are categorised and listed below.
Not sure which tool to use or how to use a tool? Don’t hesitate to contact us at tlc-science@uva.nl.
Voting tools Video tools Blended learning Digital assessment Communication and remote teaching Plagiarism
Voting tools are interactive tools that allow students to vote on certain topics or questions posed by the teacher. This can be done via mobile devices, laptios, but also via special voting devices (votingboxes). The use of voting in the classroom is a great way of adding an active element in your class, it allows students to test their knowledge, and allows you as teacher to figure out any discrepancies in knowledge. TLC-FNWI supports multiple voting tools at the moment.
Wooclap |
Turning Technologies |
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Wooclap is an ‘Audience Response Tool’. While teaching/presenting, you can use this tool to present questions or statements to activate students and increase their involvement. They can respond to these using their smartphone or laptop. The results can be displayed directly on the screen of the presenter. | By using voting devices during the lecture, students can answer anonymously on multiple choice questions. This stimulates active involvement. At the Faculty of Science, we have TurningPoint voting devices without a display. | |||
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ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: FNWI |
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About this tool | Contact TLC-FNWI |
Kaltura |
Videostudio FNWI |
VideoSribe |
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FeedbackFruits offers a range of (peer)feedback tools that are available in Canvas. The most common cases where lecturers at the Faculty of Science use this tool are: – A peer review, in which students review work written by other students; – Group member evaluations, in which students in a group project evaluate the skills and contribution of the other members; – The addition of interactive elements to documents and videos. |
The Faculty of Science has its own video studio (B1.48b) where you can create high quality educational videos, such as knowledge clips (kennisclips), or interviews with experts. You can use available hardware such as an iPad to present your Powerpoint or PDF presentation, in combination with video and/or voice-recordings. The studio is built to be flexible, so you can also bring your own laptop and create, for example, a software tutorial with a voice-over. | VideoScribe is software that allows you to easily create whiteboard animations, for instance to explain difficult to grasp concepts. It comes with a full library of graphics and other tools, allowing one to quickly put a decent whiteboard video animation together. The end result – a video animation – allows for an immersive way of telling a story, concept, or topic, especially useful in combination with other didactic formats put together in an e-learning module. | ||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: FNWI (contact Edwin van Lacum (e.b.vanlacum@uva.nl) |
Available for: FNWI |
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About Kaltura Go to Kaltura | About Videostudio Contact TLC-FNWI | Contact TLC-FNWI |
Web lectures |
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The large UvA lecture rooms are equipped with recording facilities for the purpose of web lectures. You can record your lectures on video and combine these images with synchronised presentation slides and share them on the Internet (e.g. via Canvas). | ||||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
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About web lectures |
Meer video in het onderwijs (medewerkersite)
Blended learning tools allow the teacher to ‘mix-and-match’ a variety of didactive formats. For instance, you can let your students work together on an assignment or a project, let them prepare for class by practicing online assessments, or study particular methods and skills, for instance for lab environments. Some of these tools are stand-alone, and some are integrated within Canvas.
FeedbackFruits |
Perusall |
Articulate |
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FeedbackFruits offers a range of (peer)feedback tools that are available in Canvas. The most common cases where lecturers at the Faculty of Science use this tool are: – A peer review, in which students review work written by other students; – Group member evaluations, in which students in a group project evaluate the skills and contribution of the other members; – The addition of interactive elements to documents and videos. |
Perusall is a social learning platform and interactive reading tool that helps students to prepare for class. The platform incorporates a novel e-book reader with collaborative annotation tools to ensure students learn more, come to class prepared, and become more engaged in the learning experience. | Articulate Storyline is an online environment that allows you to create your own online e-learning courses. It allows you to create highly interactive online and mobile courses, with templates, storyboarding, animation, multimedia support, character templates, & advanced editing features. You can add videos, quizzes and other interactive content. | ||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: FNWI |
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About this tool (in Canvas) | Go to Perusall | Contact TLC-FNWI |
Code Grade |
eJournal |
Labbuddy |
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BCodeGrade is a stand-alone learning environment designed to suit the needs of modern programming education and that can also be used as a module in Canvas. It makes grading and handing in programming exercises more insightful and effective for students and more efficient for teachers, by providing a variety of tools to enhance the handing in and grading processes in an intuitive environment. | eJournal is an online application that provides an easy to manage graded journal system focused on education. It allows teachers to track long-term development, such as multiple deadlines over a longer time span, requiring multiple submissions and where each submission is independently graded, for example. eJournal links with Canvas for an easy exchange of data. | Labbuddy is an online tool that allows students to learn the proper protocols for preparing and conducting experiments in laboratory environments by allowing them to virtually (and theoretically) conduct a lab experiment. Labbuddy offers a variety of didactic tools, such as automatic feedback, the option to keep a lab journal and record comments, and the option to export the lab journal to Word for handing in to the teacher. | ||
Available for: FNWI |
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Academic Writing Assistant |
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Online tool to improve academic writing skills. It automatically creates feedback on language issues, cohesion and coherence, and style. | ||||
Available for: FNWI |
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These tools can be used for digital assessment.
TestVision |
ANS Delft |
Proctorio |
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TestVision is a digital (online) asessment tool used by the the University of Amsterdam. It is suitable for most courses and examination types. The software allows you to create a variety of test (formative and summative), and provides multiple ways of analysing the test-resulst – automatically for closed questions – and giving subsequent feedback. | ANS is an application in which assessments on paper are online checked and graded. With ANS, you can grade a variety of things, such as tests written on paper, digital documents, coding scripts, and online quizzes. The tool also allows you to provide feedback to students. As data is (safely) stored in the cloud, you can grade whenever, and wherever you like, even together with colleagues. | Proctorio is a browser-based solution created for students to take tests remotely, using their own equipment, and with minimum prerequisites while ensuring the integrity of the exam. For supervisors, it monitors the students during and exam and automatically flagging suspicious behavior based on a set of rules determined by the lecturer. Flags are evaluated by a team of observers and those that remain suspicious at inspection are reported to the lecturer. | ||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
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Contact TLC-FNWI | Contact TLC-FNWI | About online proctoring |
SOWISO |
Register attendance |
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SOWISO is a stand-alone personalised learning environment for Math & Science but can also be used as a module in Canvas. You can provide your students with immediate personalized feedback while they are solving exercises. You can use SOWISO for: – Formative assignments with open mathematical questions; – Creating an adaptive learning path for each individual student. |
Hardware that allows automatic registration of attendance to datanose using a student card scanner. | |||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
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These tools are used for communication and remote teaching.
Microsoft Teams |
Zoom |
OneDrive |
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Microsoft 365’s Teams program enables safe online meetings, chats and collaboration with colleagues, lecturers as well as students within and beyond the UvA. It is a good platform for online work-groups and can additionally be used by students to work together on projects or practice outside classes. | Zoom is a videocoferencing service that allows to easily connect to your students during online-workgroups or lectures. With its integrated breakout rooms it enables easy splitting of participant into smaller groups to work on a task. The integrated whitboard can be used as a digital alternative to a classic black/whiteboard. The option to use a powerpoint as a virtual background and record yourself make it a handy tool to record video clips as well. | Personal 1 TB cloud storage that can be used to securely share data with students and other lecturers. | ||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
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About Microsoft Teams About Microsoft 365 |
About Zoom | About OneDrive |
BigBlueButton |
SURFfilesender |
Meeting Owls |
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BigBlueButton is an open-source web-conferencing system. The tool is especially useful for online learning. It provides its users with real-time sharing of video and audio, slides (from various programs), whiteboard, chat and screen (screencapture). As with other web-conference tools, the tool provides webcam support and a role structure (such as viewer, or moderator, with the latter having more control over the call). | SURFdrive is a tool from SURF, that allows you to safely save and share files up to 1 terabyte and allows end-to-end encryption for files up to 2 gigabyte. The tool is free to use for UvA employees, and you can login using your UvA login credentials via SurfConext. | A smart video conferencing 360°-camera integrated into a speaker and microphone that automatically focusses on one or more speakers. It allows students at home to be part of a class on campus. | ||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: FNWI |
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Go to SURFdrive About SURFdrive | Contact TLC-FNWI |
Graphic Tablets |
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Tablets can be used to help lecturers draw on a digital whiteboard or to efficiently grade and feedback students’ work by adding handwritten notes in a digital fashion. There are different types of tablets available: iPads with pencil, Wacom Intuos/Ones and Wacom Bamboos. | ||||
Available for: FNWI |
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These tools are used to counter plagiarism.
Ouriginal |
iThenticate |
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Ouriginal (before Urkund) is software that detects plagiarism in students’ work by comparing it to a database containing scientific literature, internet sources and other students work. It can be used integrated in the assignments in canvas but can be used stand-alone as well. | iThenticate is a standalone plagiarism checking tool, which allows you to check research, grant proposals, assignments, or other documents for missed citations and other mistakes that could count as plagiarism. The tool is available both for teachers/staff and students. | |||
Available for: ACTA | EB | FdR | FdG | FGw | FMG | FNWI |
Available for: FNWI |
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About Ouriginal | Contact TLC-FNWI |