There are a number of tools that are available to Kenyon faculty for a variety of interactions with students. We will be offering training sessions for some of them, and you may already be familiar with others. In general, you should use what you are comfortable with.
Below are some options based on anticipated faculty needs. If you are curious about something else, please contact us and we will help you evaluate it.
| Communicating with groups of students | Course Mailing List Moodle Announcement Moodle Email |
| Virtual office hours | Google Meet |
| Share documents | Google Drive Moodle (small files or links to Google Drive) |
| Discussion in real time with audio or video | Google Meet Zoom |
| Talk to students with video or audio but have them respond via text chat | Google Meet Zoom |
| Live text chat with students | Google Meet chat Moodle Chat |
| Asynchronous discussion | Moodle Forums (text) Flipgrid (video clips) Perusall (social annotation for texts) |
| Record a lecture or presentation (for faculty or students) |
Google Slide with audio recording |
| Document submission | Moodle Assignment Turnitin Assignment |
| Handwritten or drawn submissions | Moodle Assignment photo submission Turnitin Assignment photo submission |
| Paper comments from faculty | Moodle Gradebook comments Moodle Assignment grader interface Turnitin grader interface |
| Sharing grades with students | Moodle Gradebook |
| Student peer review | Moodle Workshop Google Docs with comments |
| Quizzes and tests | Moodle Quiz Moodle Assignment (for essay questions) Turnitin Assignment |
| Student oral exams | Google Meet Zoom |
| Group project planning | Moodle Groups Slack Trello |
Last Updated: 3/11/2020