Instructional Tools

Course Site

Course Site is Lehigh's instance of Moodle, an open-source learning management system. You can access Course Site from several Lehigh websites and directly via the URL: coursesite.lehigh.edu

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This page provides a deeper dive into Generative AI tools and answers some FAQs about AI. This includes how to sign up for free AI tools.

Google Tools

Google has a suite of programs for productivity including Google Docs, slides, and sheets. You can integrate Google files submission in Course Site allowing you to utilize Google’s functionality.

Gradescope

Gradescope is a paper-to-digital grading platform that helps you administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or handwritten. Gradescope passes grades to Course Site.

Panopto

Panopto is a lecture capture tool - create, edit, and host videos. You can link and embed videos in course site. You can add captions, embed quizzes and review viewing statistics using Panopto.

Perusall

Perusall is an annotation tool that allows students to collaboratively markup digital textbooks, PDF documents, and a variety of other sources. Perusall is integrated with Course Site.

Piazza

Piazza is a question-and-answer tool with more added functionality than the discussion forums in course site. Piazza allows students to upvote each others' posts and reply to one another. Course site forums can be integrated with grade book, but piazza forums currently can not.

Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a web-based audience response system that lets presenters embed activities directly into their presentations.  You can pass grades to course site from poll everywhere, but there is some set-up.

Slack

Slack is a collaboration tool that enhances group communications. Request a workspace for your class.

Zoom

Zoom is a web-based video conferencing tool. You can also create and record lectures with Zoom. You can back-up your zoom recordings to Dropbox automatically.

Linked In Learning

LinkedIn Learning is an online learning platform that provides access to thousands of courses.

You can integrate into your course site.

Turnitin is a tool that allows users to check for unoriginal text in electronic documents. Turnitin does not currently check for AI-generated text and is not a fail-safe tool.

Data Camp

Data camp is online learning platform specializing in teaching data literacy.