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Technology Tools

Technology Tools

Overview

The technology tools on this page can be used by Hunter faculty in their teaching. Faculty can learn more about these tools through the links below and by attending ACERT lunchtime seminars, technology workshops, or EdTech consultations. For recommendations regarding what tools to use to meet instructional purposes, please see Instructional Needs and Tools to Consider. A list of CUNY tools and their capabilities can be found at CUNY Cloud Systems’ Feature Guide for Faculty.

Maintaining Student Privacy in Distance Education
Keep in mind FERPA regulations in an online teaching environment, where personally identifiable information must be protected. With email and all online communications, it is important to evaluate the risk associated with sending student information and recognizing if it is personally identifiable information. Evaluating online educational services also requires sensitivity to privacy issues. See a recent guidance from the U.S. Department of Education and the many other resources that it points to at U.S. Department of Education Guide to Student Privacy in Distance Education.

Tools

Faculty and staff can request their own license for Adobe Creative Cloud (includes Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, etc.) by emailing Hunter College's Site License Coordinator, Noeli Rosario-Sanchez, at nrosa@hunter.cuny.edu.

If you would like your students to have access to Creative Cloud for your class, you can request access for them on a semester-by-semester basis by emailing nrosa@hunter.cuny.edu with your course information in this format before the start of the semester:

Subject Catalog Number Section
MEDP 39902 1L01
THEA 25100 01
NUTR 70300 02

 

Brightspace is Hunter's officially supported learning management system as of January 2, 2025.

All the tools previously integrated into Blackboard, such as Turnitin, VoiceThread, and Hypothesis, are available in Brightspace. Faculty will have access to Blackboard until the end of calendar year 2025. Courses and Organizations from 2021 onward have already been copied into Brightspace for you, please contact the LMS administrative team at lms@hunter.cuny.edu if you need assistance migrating any of your previous courses that you don't already see in Brightspace. 

The Center for Online Learning at Hunter has live workshops, consultations, and short video tutorials available to assist you with using Brightspace.

Another way to become familiar with Brightspace’s interface and view neatly organized courses is to explore it as a Learner. The following two courses are open for self-enrollment. Click on the link for the course and on the “Enroll in Course” button after logging into Brightspace. 

  1. CUNY Effective Online Teaching course is useful to any professor considering the idea of teaching in modalities other than in-person. 
  2. Getting Started in Brightspace for Students is meant to be an orientation course for students, but is still helpful for professors who would like to see how to navigate through a Brightspace course.
Log into Brightspace

Hunter College Resources: 

  • Center for Online Learning Technology Workshops 
  • Center for Online Learning Video Tutorials 
  • Hunter Faculty Brightspace Perspectives
  • Brightspace Tool Equivalents 
  • Same Course on Bb & BrS Slides 
  • CUNY Effective Online Teaching - Hunter Version 
  • Getting Started in Brightspace for Students – Hunter Version 

CUNY Resources: 

  • Brightspace Transition Website 
  • Brightspace Training Workshops
  • Workshop Recordings 
  • Working with migrated sites in Brightspace 
Camtasia is a tool to create instructional videos with interactivity. It allows instructors to create, edit, and share videos. To request a license and receive download instructions, please email Noeli Rosario-Sanchez at nrosa@hunter.cuny.edu.

CUNY Camtasia training & resources

Dropbox can be used to store and access files from different devices, share files, and collaborate on content. Active faculty and students can access CUNY Dropbox accounts by logging in through https://dropbox.cuny.edu with their @login.cuny.edu credentials.

CUNY Dropbox training & resources

ACERT Tech Tuesday presentation

  • Dropbox for the win! (Julie Van Peteghem)

Gradescope is an AI-assisted grading tool for worksheets, quizzes and computer code. To start using Gradescope:

  1. Go to Gradescope.com and create an Instructor account using your Hunter email address. (Choose “Hunter College” for “School.”)
  2. Create your course and upload your class roster as a CSV file including each student's first name, last name, ID number, and email. We recommend exporting your roster using the Grades tool on Brightspace to allow for importing Gradescope grades into Brightspace more easily later on - only include student names, ID numbers, and emails in the export.
  3. Gradescope will email your students with an invitation to create a Gradescope student account.

Sign up for Gradescope (video)
Create a Course on Gradescope (video)
Gradescope resources & training

ACERT blog post

  • Using Gradescope at Hunter (Katherine St. John)

ACERT lunchtime seminar

  • Assessment with Gradescope (Partha Deb)

Hypothesis is a social annotation tool recently integrated into Brightspace. Professors can create asynchronous discussion and annotation assignments around webpages and PDF documents.

Hypothesis help & resources

Please contact Brian Malone through his one-on-one booking page at brian.malone@hypothes.is for training and support.

Workshop Resources & Recordings

  • Hypothesis Activating Annotation slides
  • Social Annotation in the Age of AI slides

ACERT Tech Tuesday presentation

  • Better Reading and Writing through Annotating: hypothes.is in the composition classroom (Jeff Allred & Renee Schaller)

The Microsoft Office 365 for Education suite includes standard tools such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as Forms (for surveys and quizzes), Sway (for webpages and presentations), OneDrive (for cloud storage), and Stream (for videos). It also includes the video discussion tool Flip. Active faculty at CUNY can access it by logging in at https://login.microsoftonline.com/?whr=login.cuny.edu using their @login.cuny.edu credentials. Instructors should read the Acceptable Use of Microsoft 365 for Education Policy before using it.

CUNY Office 365 information & resources

Padlet is a tool for sharing, collaborating, and posting notes. It allows professors to create digital boards (called “walls”) to gather text notes, images, websites and videos. Professors create walls and share them with students through a link. Hunter professors who want pro accounts can request one by writing to helpdesk@hunter.cuny.edu from their Hunter email addresses.

Padlet help & resources

ACERT Tech Tuesday presentation

  • Padlet Power! (Laura Baecher)

Snagit is a simple tool to create, edit and share screen captures and recordings. To request a license and receive download instructions, please email Noeli Rosario-Sanchez at nrosa@hunter.cuny.edu.

Snagit help & Resources

Select speciality software is available to use in the CUNY Apporto virtual desktop environment. The following titles are available to use by any CUNY faculty member or student by logging in with your CUNY Login account:

  • Microsoft Access
  • ESRI ArcGIS Pro
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Maplesoft Maple 2023
  • Wolfram Mathematica
  • Mathworks MATLAB R2023b
  • Posit PBC R Studio
  • SAS

Top Hat is a courseware platform with tools for taking attendance, compiling in-class student responses, giving interactive quizzes, and collecting homework assignments. Professors can also use it to create slides, author textbooks, and customize content of textbooks in Top Hat’s catalog.

Hunter has a site license for Top Hat, allowing you and your students to use the platform at no cost.

Professors who are new to Top Hat can log in using their @login.cuny.edu credentials through https://app.tophat.com

Professors who already have Top Hat accounts can log in using their @login.cuny.edu credentials through https://app.tophat.com/login

When prompted, type "Hunter College" as School when logging in.

If you’d like to schedule a 1:1 appointment with a Top Hat representative, please reach out to Sumi Voora or Susie Liebschner (sumi.voora@tophat.com or susie.liebschner@tophat.com), or fill out this form.

Students can get tech support from Top Hat at https://support.tophat.com/student-support

Top Hat Knowledge Base

Top Hat Catalog

ACERT Lunchtime Seminar Presentation

  • Faculty-authored Textbooks (Partha Deb)
Instructional Guides 
  • Educator Quick Start Guide 
  • Uploading Slides 
  • Questions & Discussions 
  • Presenting Slides 
  • Attendance 

Turnitin is a similarity detection tool that scans student work for matched text by comparing the work to a large database of student work, publications, and materials on the internet.

  • It can be used to determine how much research was conducted by students.
  • It is integrated within Brightspace.

Turnitin Resources

  • Padlet on Turnitin

VoiceThread is a presentation and discussion tool integrated into Brightspace. VoiceThread allows instructors to record mini-lectures and create asynchronous conversations around course content. VoiceThread can also be used for students to create presentations.

VoiceThread help & resources

Workshop Resources & Recordings

  • Voice Thread Advanced Training
  • Humanizing your Online Courses with VoiceThread
  • Game-Based Learning with VoiceThread
  • VoiceThread for Assessments
  • VoiceThread Assignments: Watch, Comment, Create
  • Be Ready for Mother Nature with VoiceThread
  • VoiceThread for STEM Courses
  • VoiceThread for Language Courses
  • VoiceThread & UDL (Universal Design for Learning)
  • The Cure for Discussion Board Fatigue
  • Group Projects in VoiceThread

Zoom is a video-conferencing tool that can be used for synchronous online classes and office hours. Zoom has interaction tools such as breakout rooms, screen sharing, polling, and whiteboards. It also has accessibility features such as live transcript generation and audio transcript editing in recordings. Faculty can use CUNY Zoom accounts by logging in through https://cuny.zoom.us with their @login.cuny.edu credentials.

Zoom help & resources
Hunter College Zoom Virtual Backgrounds (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5)
CUNY Zoom
Meetings Best Practices
Webinars Best Practices

ACERT Tech Tuesday presentation

  • Superquick Presentation Recording using Zoom! (Laura Baecher)

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