Instructional Technology Toolkit

Here you will find many instructional technologies to add to your “technology toolkit.”  The technologies are categorized by instructional use – classroom technologies, student collaboration and discussion tools, tools for delivering course content, discipline specific tools, tools for assessing student learning, game-based learning, and time saver tools. Depending on the functions they serve, some technologies are included in more than one category. When you select a category, you will find a list of tools, a short description of each tool, and a step-by-step help sheet for using the tool. Most of the help sheets also include links to additional resources like video tutorials that may be helpful for adopting the tool.
It is important to consider accessibility for students who need accommodation as you plan course content and activities. Not all tools included in the Malone Center Instructional Technology Toolkit are fully accessible, but all can be valuable for teaching and learning. If you choose to use these tools, please consider how you will make the activity or assignment accessible if requested.

The Malone Center staff would be happy to sit down with you and help you select the best tool to fit your needs and/or help you adapt a tool for your course. Contact us today!

It is important to consider accessibility for students who need accommodation as you plan course content and activities. Not all tools included in the Malone Center Instructional Technology Toolkit are fully accessible, but all can be valuable for teaching and learning. If you choose to use these tools, please consider how you will make the activity or assignment accessible if requested.

Technology Support Policy

The Malone Center staff is pleased to assist University faculty in identifying, adapting, and adopting technologies to support their instructional goals. However, with the rapidly expanding array of instructional technologies that are available and in keeping with evidence-based best practices, we focus our efforts on technologies with the greatest potential for positively impacting student learning and our campus community as a whole. This includes:

• Canvas (UM’s learning management system);
• Other institutionally licensed software such as Box (UM’s file storage and sharing platform) and Zoom (UM’s web conferencing and synchronous distance education platform);
• Standard classroom technology;
• Malone Center equipment available for faculty checkout;
• Instructional technologies included in the Malone Center’s Instructional Technology Toolkit.

At this time, we cannot support any individually licensed technologies such as book publishers’ learning platforms. If you are interested in adopting such a tool, we encourage you to review  IS&T’s Policies and Procedures webpage. You may also wish to contact a member of the company’s customer support team for questions regarding course use and pedagogical strategies.