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Web 2.0 Tools
This section contains links to software and software utilities that Students and Instructors might need to use while using MyUni.
- Adobe Presenter
- Articulate Presenter
- Blogs
- MapleTA
- Mobile Phone Voting - Votapedia
- Online Content Management
- Respondus
- Safe Assign
- Showoff
- StudentView of MyUni
- Turnitin
- Wikis
- Wimba Create
- Using Voice
- Virtual Classroom
Adobe and Articulate Presenter allow you to create web friendly versions of Powerpoint presentations, and support features such as audio narration and embedding video content and interactive quizzes.
Adobe Presenter and Articulate Presenter
The blog tool in MyUni can be configured for course wide, group or individual private journals. Blogs can be used for reflective writing tasks and class or group discussion. Students and instrutors can view each others posts and provide comments and feedback.
Maple T.A. is a web-based teaching and assessment tool which allows online testing and assessment of mathematically and scientifically oriented material. For more information, contact Judi Baron (Centre for Learning and Professional Development), or Paul McCann (School of Mathematical Sciences).
- Votapedia
Mobile phones can be used as an alternative to clickers or personal response systems in the classroom. They provide a convenient way to engage large groups of students in lectures. You can pose questions using a readily accessible web page and students can respond to options (eg multiple-choice questions) by ringing an individual number for each option. The results are displayed for the whole class to see. To use the external Votapedia system click the link to the web site below, create an account (top right of the login page) and email geoffrey.crisp@adelaide.edu.au with your logon name (not password). You will not be able to create surveys or quizzes until you have been made a known user in the system. This system is external to the University of Adelaide, but is free to use and students do not pay for the phone call from their mobile phones if they dial as they receive an engaged signal.
Online Tutorial showing you how to make your reference(s) available in your MyUni course. It is for those staff who have already lodged their reading list or individual reference(s) to the Library's Digital Resources Management Centre (DRMC) for entry to the Online Content Database.
- Email Support: online.content@adelaide.edu.au
Please use email if time permits. - Telephone Support: 8303 8085
Call Allan Carrington if you have further questions
Respondus BB is a software application that enables MyUni Instructors to create a Quiz or Online Assessments on their own computer without being connected to the web.
Respondus Assessment Tool (Staff Access Only)
Due to feedback gathered throughout 2010 we are now recommending that staff use Turnitin instead of SafeAssign. It has become clear that SafeAssign text matching reports sometimes return inconsistent results. SafeAssign will remain available in MyUni for Semester 1, 2011 at which time a decision will be made as to future support.
ShowOff is a new application unique to the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide. It provides a place where students can display their work in an online gallery and allows for peer review, assessment and feedback to be given.
ShowOff.adelaide.edu.au (SALUD Staff and Students only)
StudentView of MyUni
This new tool allows you to create a 'student account' for yourself and use it to enrol as a student in the courses you teach. This allows you to check your course as a student would see it including assignment submission and interactive activities.
Note that this is currently only accessible from univeristy networked computers.
This service helps teachers detect text that is copied from other sources and may not be referenced or acknowledged appropriately. Turnitin can be used by students to assist them in evidenced-based writing and proper attribution of content from other sources. Due to feedback gathered throughout 2010 we are now recommending that staff use Turnitin instead of SafeAssign.
A wiki is a website where multiple people can quickly and easily collaborate on a project, document or any kind of information.
The University of Adelaide Wiki Farm (Staff/Student access only)
Create interactive online course materials. We now have a campus wide license for Wimba Create that enables you to quickly and easily create new materials or convert your Microsoft Word documents into content for your online courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of webpages that are easily uploaded in to your MyUni course and include interactive features.
Wimba Create (Staff access only)
Wimba Voice Tools are now available in all MyUni courses. You can make voice announcements, record voice messages, send voice email, use a voice discussion board and make voice presentations. You access the voice tools from Control Panel in any Content Area in your course by using the drop down menu on the right to add Voice Tool items.
The virtual classroom allows lecturers to communicate online with their students in real time via voice, webcam, a shared whiteboard, and text messages and is available to all staff as part of the core online learning technologies at the University of Adelaide.
There are two different versions of the classroom for 2011, the Elluminate rooms need booking by emailing allan.carrington@adelaide.edu.au while the Wimba classroom uses a Blackboard Building Block (plugin) and is accessed through a drop down menu in MyUni.
