Algonquin CollegeAlgonquin College offers many resources and services to support Faculty and Staff. Browse through the links below to find information on services you are entitled to as Algonquin Faculty and Staff.
Access Your Digital Activities
Click here to access all the digital activities you have created.
Algonquin Teaching with Technology Workshops
Teaching with Technology Workshops are a series of workshops designed to support faculty with different technologies that can be used in the development of course materials to engage and provide resources to students or for personal learning.
These workshops can be offered by request during the week (day and evenings) and on Saturdays.
Algonquin Academic YouTube Channel
You can upload your videos and/or Camtasia Relay presentations to YouTube and then send a link to your students through Blackboard or email.
You can list your videos as Public, Unlisted or Private. This is a collaborative area with one login. If you wish to showcase another professor's video, please contact them directly to obtain information and permission.
For more information please contact Nancy Bell by email belln@algonquincollege.com or by phone 613 727 4723 ext. 2991.
ACSIS
Algonquin College Student Information System (ACSIS) is a website where you can:
- Find your Algonquin network username and password
- View and print your timetable
- View your grades and GPA
- Drop Courses
- Transfer to a different section, etc.
Blackboard
Blackboard is the College’s main Learning Management System (LMS). Blackboard contains information about your courses, including:
- Course Outlines
- Class Schedules
- Course Materials and Assignments
- Progress reports and more
Blackboard Support
Blackboard "How-to" Tipsheets and Video tutorials
Need to learn how to set up a quiz? Forget how to make your course available?
Printable tip sheets and short "how-to" videos are available for quick access and review.
Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate is a web conferencing and virtual classroom tool that supports real-time online discussion and collaboration. It is accessible from within your Blackboard course.
Key Features: Polling , Application sharing for moderators, Breakout rooms to facilitate group work, Session capture, Accessibility options, and more.
Blackboard Tool - TurnItIn
TurnItIn is a tool that supports plagiarism prevention and academic integrity. It also provides tools for grading and providing feedback on submitted online assignments.It is accessible from within your Blackboard course.
Key Features: Originality Check, GradeMark
Voice Comments,
Coloured Highlights,
PeerMark
Convert your TEXT to AUDIO
Convert electronic text to mp3 or wav files in 3 easy steps. These audio files can then be used to add narration to notes, presentations, videos and much more.
Course Development
The Curriculum Implementation Services (CIS) supports programs with course development, online and hybrid courses in particular.
Every school at the College has a representative who can help guide faculty through the course development process and connect them to appropriate resources.
Digital Activities
Digital activities (formerly called Learning objects) are interactive activities that use creative techniques to simulate scenarios and teach skills.Digital Activities reinforce the learning outcome(s) of one specific topic displayed in one or two interactive activities. They are self contained activities that can generally be completed in 2 to 15 minutes.
IIRTS
The Information | Institutional Reasearch| Technology Services (IIRTS) website holds information about:
- Your network account
- Email (Live@AC)
- Printing Services
- Network (N) Drive
- The Wireless Network, etc.
Innovation Centre
The Innovation Centre, C043, is a classroom sized collaborative space available for ALL staff and faculty to explore and learn. This is our place to experiment with new technologies and thinking, learn from other's experiences and explore in our own ways.
The Innovation Centre website showcases and encourages Innovation at Algonquin College by: sharing Case Studies of innovative faculty and staff, indexing various free online tools with potential in higher education, and sharing and promoting various college events and projects.
Library
The library offers both in-person and online library resources and services. Our resources include:
- books and DVDs
- Articles (research databases)
- ebooks, and videos
- online tutorials
- open educational resources
Need HELP finding resources?
- Use our askthelibrary service and we will help connect you to the right resources/people.
- You can chat with us or send us an email at lrc@algonquincollege.com
Lynda.com (online tutorials)
Lynda.com is a library of thousands of up to date video tutorials designed to keep you current in software packages such as: Adobe CS 5.5 (Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Captivate etc.), Microsoft Office, Blackboard, Corel, WordPress and much more...
Mobile Learning
Students in Mobile Learning Programs are required to purchase a computing device to enhance the learning experience, obtain and work with course related material, participate in collaborative and mlearning environments, and become skilled, confident users of technology within the educational environment and the workplace.
Students in Mobile Learning Programs are entitled to Microsoft Office and Adobe Master Collection software free of charge.
Online Videos & eBooks (library)
Intelecom & FOD - Films on Demand are searchable databases of streaming academic video clips
SAFARI eBooks from the technology industry as well as Business materials
Library Multi-Database Search find journals, magazines, newspapers and other materials
Professional Development
The Centre for Organizational Learning (COL) offers a variety of Professional Development programs. PD programs offered through the COL include:
- Orientation
- Workshops
- Performance Institute,
- Kaleidoscope,
- Wellness Week, etc.
Open Educational Resource
(OERs)
Algonquin’s OER website showcases a number of high-quality repositories of media-rich resources and e-textbooks that can be used to supplement learning materials. It also contains information related to copyright and attribution.
Record your presentations or demonstrations
Camtasia Relay is a desktop capture program that enables you to record presentations or demonstrations on a computer screen, along with narration. Note: Camtasia Relay has just been updated to version 4! New features include web cam capabilities, Fuse for portable devices and closed captioning options! If you have an old version of Relay, download the newest version today!
What professors are doing with Digital Activities
Check out the Algonquin Digital Activity Gallery to view different interactive, online activities created by professors at Algonquin College. These activities can be used or adapted for your courses.
Algonquin Anatomy & Physiology Resource Site
The Anatomy and Physiology Resource site contains free information and tools for professors to use in their courses. This site includes:
- 16 sections of text
- diagrams
- video tutorials
- and interactive activities
Browse through the links below for information on obtaining and installing software that you are entitled to as an Algonquin Student in a Mobile Learning Program.
Learn how to use these software and much more with your free Lynda.com account
ADOBE
Algonquin has an Institutional Licence for Adobe Master Collection CS6.0, and Adobe Captivate.
Algonquin has extended the contract with Adobe to include a Work-at-Home agreement. All full and part-time faculty and staff can install the Adobe Master Collection on 2 personal computers.
Antivirus
The College's anti-virus software is ESET NOD32. Licenses are available for all college-owned computers and are generally installed automatically when computers are setup by ITS staff.
Blackboard Collaborate
Blackboard Collaborate is a web conferencing and virtual classroom tool that supports real-time online discussion and collaboration. It is accessible from within your Blackboard course.
Key Features:Polling , Application sharing for moderators, Breakout rooms to facilitate group work, Session capture, Accessibility options, and more.
Blackboard Test/Pool Generator
This new tool allows you to create tests and pools from numbered and formatted text similar to what you may receive from book publishers. It works with Multiple Choice, Multiple Answers, True or False, Essay and Fill in the Blank type of questions.
Camtasia Relay
Camtasia Relay is a desktop capture program that enables you to record presentations or demonstrations on a computer screen, along with narration. Note: Camtasia Relay has just been updated to version 4! New features include web cam capabilities, Fuse for portable devices and closed captioning options!
Digital Activity Creator
Make your own digital activities that use interactive and creative techniques to simulate scenarios and teach skills. Digital activities reinforce the learning outcome(s) of one specific topic displayed in one or two interactive activities. They are self contained activities that can generally be completed in 15 minutes.
ePage Reader (text to audio)
Convert electronic text to mp3 or wav files in 3 easy steps. These audio files can then be used to add narration to notes, presentations, videos and much more.
Fluid Surveys
FluidSurveys is a do-it-yourself online survey tool that is meant to allow customers from around the world to create their own surveys, collect data from respondents, and analyze results.
Ink2Go
Ink2Go is an extremely simple yet powerful screen annotation software. You can easily write on top of any other application that is currently active on the desktop. You can then save your annotations as an image file.
Join.me
Join.me is an easy to use, online screen sharing tool that will allow you students to view your screen by typing in a URL.
To request a Pro license for Join.me, contact us at onlineresources@algonquincollege.com
Microsoft Interactive Classroom
Add-ins for PowerPoint and OneNote
Enhance classroom presentations by increasing student participation, helping teachers assess student comprehension, and enabling students to personalize the information presented.
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office for 2010(Win) and 2011(Mac) are collections of programs that include Word, Access, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Turnitin
TurnItIn is a tool that supports plagiarism prevention and academic integrity. It also provides tools for grading and providing feedback on submitted online assignments.It is accessible from within your Blackboard course.
Key Features: Originality Check, GradeMark Voice Comments, Coloured Highlights, PeerMark
Virtual Desktop Initiative (VDI)
is a virtual desktop where the windows desktop and programs you see are run remotely on a server, but appear as though running on your machine. This is an easy way to access costly software.
Microsoft Windows 7
MS Windows 7 is an operating system that you need to install on your computer in order to run the software.
Do you have any questions?
Do you have a Resource or Tool you want to SHARE?
Please contact us at onlineresources@algonquincollege.com. E-mails are answered within 24hrs during the business work week.
Do you need help with technology tools?
The Innovation Centre is the right place for you.
During Guided Innovation time slots, a member of the Innovation & Special Projects team will be available to provide guidance on tools and technologies, brainstorm new techniques and practices and learn with you. Laptops, tablets, video cameras, and other tools and technologies are available for experimentation during Guided Innovation hours.
Do you need help with course development?
The Curriculum Implementation Services (CIS) supports programs with course development, online and hybrid courses in particular. To contact your curriculum implementation services representative (CIS) please click here.
Would you like to request a technology
related workshop?
We offer a variety of workshops on different tools that can be used in and out of the classroom. To browse and request workshops on these tools, please click here.