Explore educational technologies that can enhance teaching and learning.
Most of the tools are easy to use and available free online.
Connect with your CTET program liaison for support or conversation about ways these technologies can complement your teaching.
Technologies and privacy
The main learning platforms at Royal Roads University (Moodle, My Media, Zoom, WordPress) comply with BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FIPPA) law. Students have the right to make an informed choice about using tools that do not conform with FIPPA legislation.
At Royal Roads, students are asked to provide a one-time response, consenting to the use of cloud-based tools as part of their learning experience. Their response is recorded, visible to instructors, and can be changed by students in their Moodle profile any time.
If a student opts out, the course instructor must provide an alternative assignment that does not require the use of the tool to allow the student to meet the learning outcomes of the assignment.
Need to know more? Please see the RRU Cloud-based Learning Tools notification Knowledge Base articles
Tool |
Category |
|---|---|
Canva Use Canva to create posters, graphics, banners, and more. |
Graphic design |
Feedly Compiles and organizes feeds from a variety of online sources. |
News aggregation |
Google Drive Create, collaborate and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, forms, and more. |
File creation and storage |
Google search Search the web for a variety of information such as websites, pictures, maps and more. |
Search engine |
A social networking tool made for sharing media. |
Photo sharing |
A professional social network for people to connect with colleagues and business associates. |
Social networking |
Padlet Virtual noticeboard for collaborative collections of text, documents, images, and videos. |
Online bulletin board |
PiktoChart Create infographics and presentations using themed templates. |
Graphic design |
A visual bookmarking tool for finding, saving, and curating images, videos, links, etc. |
Social bookmarking |
PowerPoint A tool for creating slides to support presentations. User can add pictures, videos, links, or text. |
Presentations |
Screencast-o-Matic Capture your screen, add a webcam and use narration to customize your video. |
Screen recording |
Slack Slack is a set of team collaboration tools and services. |
Team communication |
SurveyMonkey A tool that allows you to launch any kind of online survey project such as student or staff feedback. |
Survey tool |
TED Talks & TEDEd A TED Talk is a video created from a presentation at a TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference. TedEd has interactive lessons. |
Online lectures |
X (formerly Twitter) An online news and social networking service. |
Social networking |
YouTube A free, multi-platform, video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. |
Video sharing |