Teaching Tools
Canvas
The Canvas Learning Management System enables collaboration, feedback, and access to documents, assignments and other materials.
Zoom
Host meetings or record lectures for your students. Zoom's Canvas tool lets you schedule and share meetings directly from your Canvas courses.
OpScan Test Grading
OpScan testing is an easy way for grading multiple choice tests using standardized forms and automated grading.
WordPress
The WordPress professional suite is available to the entire ODU community, giving users tools to create and publish fully featured websites in minutes.
Top Hat
Top Hat is a comprehensive teaching platform that instructors can use to engage students with interactive slides, graded questions, customized content, videos, discussions and polls.
Classrooms & Resources
Technology Classrooms
Classrooms at ODU are equipped with the newest and most advanced technology to help facilitate learning for students.
Lecture Capture
Record your lectures along with the images that are displayed through the ceiling mounted data projector. You can make these recordings available to students within Canvas.
Student Response System
Add interaction and assessment to your classroom with Turning Point Student Response System. Ask questions in class and get instant feedback from your students.
Teaching Labs
Faculty/staff members can reserve any of the teaching labs on the Norfolk Campus or at the Higher Education Centers.
Monarch Virtual Environment (MOVE)
The Monarch Virtual Environment provides access to workstation that have the same configuration as those in the standard ITS computer labs as well as access to specialized labs.
Attendance Management Tool
This automated attendance system is used across campus, allowing students to check in and out of class. Attendance data is added to Canvas where faculty can integrate the data with their course.
Collaboration Tools
Course Collaboration Tool
The Course Collaboration Tool makes it easy to add all of your students to a collaboration group at one time, whether you choose to use Zoom, Microsoft Teams or Google Drive to share information and documents with your class.
Zoom
Zoom is a cloud-based web conferencing service available to ODU faculty, staff and students that allows users to host and participate in meetings over the Internet.
Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is available at no cost to all members of the ODU community in order to improve communication and collaboration across campus. Download the latest version of Office, or collaborate with others using OneDrive or OneNote.
Google Workspace
Students and faculty have access to all Google tools in order to create and share documents, spreadsheets, calendar events and more with each other.
Large File Transfer
Securely transmit and receive large files large beyond the limits typically allowed by email systems.