Sacramento State offers faculty, staff and students a variety of technology tools:

Instructional Technology Matrix - Charts provide at-a-glance tool capabilities, with links to comprehensive resources on how to use them.
IRT Software & Tools Catalog - Browse the catalog of supported software and tools available for download and installation.
Canvas Integrations Chart - Explore available external apps and classroom tools currently integrated in Canvas.

Academic Technology Tools & Resources for Faculty, Staff and Students
Use Cases/Examples/Function	Description	Tools/Apps/Software	Faculty and Student Resources
Accessibility and Universal Design	Create accessible course materials using built-Canvas accessibility tools, learn about accessibility through self-paced resources or request course material remediation.	Ally in Canvas Canvas Accessibility	Instructional Materials Accessibility Resources Accessibility Checkers - Quick Guide Services for Students with Disabilities - SSWD
Assessment creation and editing	Create timed quizzes and exams with Canvas New Quizzes or use the Gradescope integration to build online assignments and tests from your own documents. Instructors can also use Respondus, to create and edit exams, import existing exams, save or print exams, publish exams to Canvas courses or access the built in test bank network.	Canvas New Quizzes Gradescope Respondus Exam Authoring (Windows) Respondus LockDown Browser (Secure Exams)	Canvas New Quizzes Overview Access Respondus License and Installation File
Assistive Technology	Request JAWS a screen reader software that provides text to speech output or through a refreshable Braille display, ZoomText a magnification and reading program for low vision users and Kurzweil 3000 a reading, writing and study platform.	JAWS Kurzweil 3000 ZoomText	IRT Software & Tools Catalog (Request Software) Services for Students with Disabilities - SSWD
Campus Technology Resources	A variety of technology resources are available to faculty, staff and students including access to wireless network, Eduroam, access to on-campus computer labs or access remotely via Remote Access or request a laptop or other equipment for short or long term checkout. Navigate the internet securly using Duo multifactor authentication and Global Protect VPN.	Campus WiFi - Eduroam Computer Labs and Remote Access Duo Multifactor Authentication Global Protect VPN Laptop Checkout & Equipment Checkout	Campus Tech Resources
Captioning	Closed Captions are the textual representation of a video’s soundtrack which can meet the needs of students who are multilingual, assist students who are multimodal learners and are critical to provide accessibility to students who are Deaf or hard of hearing. Please only request closed captions through your Panopto Account from Automatic Sync Technologies vendor or through our Video Captioning Request form if you have been alerted by SSWD that a student enrolled in your course will require closed captions. You can also enable live captions in your Zoom meetings using the built-in Otter.ai feature.	Otter.ai CaptionSync	Accessible Video and Audio Files Captioning Requests How to Enable Zoom Captions
Collaborative Document Creation	Faculty, staff and students have access to Microsoft 365 supported tools including secure cloud storage via OneDrive, MS Office applications (Word, PPT, Excel) and Teams project management software.	Microsoft 365 OneDrive Teams	Microsoft 365 Help & Training
Live Polling	Create basic or advanced polls before or during a live Zoom meeting and view and share poll responses. Similarly, you can create polls with TopHat our campus student response system and with Microsoft Forms from your Microsoft 365 account.	Zoom Polls Microsoft Forms TopHat	Zoom Polling Overview Introduction to Microsoft Forms TopHat Educator Quick Start Guide
Library Resources	Create links in your Canvas course(s) to library resources such as e-books and articles. Instructors can request digitization of Library-owned course related media such as VHS or DVD for streaming as well as chapter scans of books.	Integrating Library Resources into Canvas Digitization Requests	Linking to Library Resource in Canvas Library Video Tutorials for Students Faculty Course Reserve & Digitization Form
Note-taking and Citation Management	Microsoft OneNote is a digital notebook you can use to type notes, record audio, add images, sketch or write ideas and share notes with others. EndNote is a citation management software to organize and manage your bibliographies.	OneNote EndNote	Microsoft OneNote Online Support Sac State Library's EndNote Support
Originality checking and plagiarism prevention service	Access Turnitin, an originality checking and plagiarism prevention resource that checks writing for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying from any Canvas course using the turnitin integration Plagiarism Framework or from the Turnitin.com external website.	Turnitin - Canvas Integration Plagiarism Framework Turnitin - Feedback Studio - Turnitin.com website	Turnitin Faculty Resource Turnitin Student Resources Reading and Writing Center
Student study and tutoring tools	Students can access both Smarthinking and StudyMate Campus, free study and tutoring resources from Canvas. Smarthinking is an academic support resource that provides students online tutoring on a variety of subjects. Instructors and students can use StudyMate Campus to create flashcards, assessments and learning games. Students can also obtain free advising and tutoring services from the Peer Academic Resource Center (PARC).	Smarthinking Online Tutoring Peer & Academic Resource Center (PARC) StudyMate Campus	Peer Advising and Tutoring Services
Survey Creation	The Canvas Survey feature offers the option to create anonymous graded or ungraded surveys from any Canvas course and provide statistics related to reliability, difficulty and discrimination. Another option is to create your survey(s) with Qualtrics, which is our campus survey software available to all faculty, staff and students.	Qualtrics Canvas Surveys	Qualtrics Login How to Access Qualtrics Support
Video recording, video hosting	Use Camtasia to record, edit and produce video for your courses. Panopto is our video hosting, recording and upload tool on campus. Zoom can be used to deliver live synchronous class sessions and other meetings as well as record any session to the cloud for easy access.	Camtasia Panopto Zoom	Getting Started with Camtasia How to Use Camtasia Panopto Resources for Faculty Panopto Resources for Students Zoom Instructor Resources Zoom Student Resources

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