Academic Technology

Adobe

Tools for the creators of the future. Adobe gives educators the power to inspire, students the power to express themselves, and staff new ways to collaborate with all the latest Adobe creative apps and services in the Creative Cloud. Discover and use the Adobe Creative Cloud apps that best fit your individual or collaborative digital project.

Blue by Explorance (Course Evaluation)

ACU uses Blue by Explorance to distribute and collect data for course evaluations. Faculty can check response rates during the timeframe that evaluations have been sent to students, or they can access reports for previous semesters at acu.bluera.com/acu.

Canvas

Canvas is Abilene Christian University’s learning management system (LMS). Getting familiar with Canvas is a simple task. It is designed for user-friendliness and flexibility. Technology can be daunting for some, but Canvas is designed for everybody.

Getting Started Guide for ACU Students (Created by the Adams Center)

LinkedIn Learning

ACU faculty, staff, and students have unlimited access to the complete library of online training courses and skill building provided through LinkedIn Learning. To log in to LinkedIn Learning, navigate to myACU and find LinkedIn Learning under Quicklinks.

Respondus LockDown Browser

LockDown Browser is a custom that locks down the testing environment within Canvas. Exams and quizzes within Canvas can add LockDown Browser to mitigate cheating, such as full-screen display that cannot be minimized, preventing access to other applications, copying and pasting anything to or from an assessment, etc. 

Research Data Tools

Data services is a new initiative from the Brown Library aiming to help researchers in all stages of the data lifecycle. Here you can find information on creating a data management plan, software available for working with data, as well as information on saving and sharing your data. Available research data tools include Nvivo, SPSS, Qualtrics, etc.

Virtual and Augmented Reality

Virtual and Augmented Reality as an educational technology tool meets educational needs that may be felt currently lacking. Through an increased sense of presence based on the immersive and interactive nature of the technology, VR and AR has the potential to increase student engagement, and provides students with access to abstract concepts, inaccessible locations, or unique but replicable scenarios.

3D Models & Photogrammetry

Photogrammetry is a method of transforming physical resources into digital assets. Using photogrammetry, we can transform physical teaching aids or models that can be used to reinforce student learning outside of the classroom or lab.

Turnitin

Turnitin is a plagiarism-checking engine that composes the student’s work into one database and checks for originality while comparing it with other internet sources. Through this, Turnitin is able to detect any plagiarism that appears on the student’s work and shows a percentage of the amount of plagiarism by color-coding matching passages, sourcing the matched cite, and allowing for direct feedback. By providing this tool to instructors nationwide, students are held more accountable for their original work as well as, a faster grading process.