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Essential tools

These tools are the main tools to be used for most, if not all courses. Training and support are available for staff, support guides for some of the below tools can be found on Canvas.  

Tool  

Description  

Canvas  

Institutional virtual learning environment – all courses have a presence to provide course content, build learning activities, communication channels 

Turnitin                   

Used for submission of course content – coursework written assignments etc.  

Panopto  

Lecture audio capture, video sharing, video editing. 


Read and Write      

An inclusion tool, that constructs digital text to be accessible for everyone


Microsoft Office   

Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, OneNote 


Microsoft Teams

Collaboration tool 

Mentimeter

Online interactivity tool - live questions, quizzes, polls to increase student engagement

Supported tools

These tools are supported and can be used for teaching and learning activities. Contact edtech@sgul.ac.uk for more information. There may be additional tools used by individual courses, please check with the course teams.  

Tool  

Description  

MyProgress  

Used for clinical placement assessments, ePortfolio    

OpenLabyrinth 

Virtual Scenario authoring tool  

FutureLearn  

MOOC creation and delivery platform  

Microsoft Whiteboard  

Collaboration board (full functionality not currently available to Mac users) 

Complete Anatomy  

3D Anatomy tool  

Microsoft Forms  

Survey, forms and quizzing tool  

Acland’s Anatomy  

Video anatomy resource 

Jove, and Jove Science Education  

Videos of laboratory methods and science concepts 

 

JISC online surveys 

To be used when Microsoft Forms does not provide the necessary functionality. Contact the Learning & Development Manager at staffdev@sgul.ac.uk for access. 

Recommended tools available, not supported

Tools which are available to use for teaching and learning, however, these are not supported. Please ensure you follow copyright, accessibility and other regulatory guidelines when using these. Data protection requirements will also need to be followed, in some cases a DPIA form will need to be completed, contact LTS@sgul.ac.uk in the first instance for guidance.   

Tool 

Description  

Audacity  

Open-source audio recording and editing software, free to download  

Flipgrid  

Video collaboration board  

iMovie  

macOS and iOS video editing tool (Apple devices only) 

VLC media player 

Cross-platform media player compatible with most known file types, which also provides basic editing functions. 

YouTube 

Collections of videos created by others that can be embedded into Canvas for teaching and learning activities. These should not be videos created by an SGUL academics for their teaching– Panopto should be used in this case.  

Vimeo  

Video sharing site. To be used as above (YouTube).  

MIRO  

Online collaboration tool – some guidance can be found in the Canvas help area 

Panopto Express 

Chrome based video recording and screen capture for those without SGUL login account. 

Not approved

These tools are not recommended by the institution and should not be used because they do not meet the mandatory regulatory guidelines.  

Tool  

Description 

Zoom 

Online video conferencing. MS Teams or Big Blue Button is available for this purpose.  

Padlet  

Does not meet accessibility requirements  

Survey Monkey  

Does not meet data protection requirements. Microsoft Forms should be used instead.  

 

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