Wentworth is committed to enhancing teaching and learning through a diverse array of technology. These tools are designed to promote active learning, increase student engagement, and improve communication in and beyond the classroom.
The ATLAS Center team is here to ensure you make the most of these resources, providing expert guidance to match the right tools with your unique teaching and learning goals.
Explore available technology
Below are some key technology areas and tools to consider for your courses:
Learning Management System (LMS)
Brightspace
Brightspace is Wentworth’s Learning Management System (LMS). The Advancing Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (ATLAS) team has curated videos, step-by-step instructions, and infographics for both technical and pedagogical support to faculty and staff using Brightspace across campus.
Video Tools
Zoom
Zoom is a communications software that combines video conferencing, online meetings, chat and mobile collaboration. Zoom allows for HD video and high-quality audio for all meetings. It contains collaboration tools such as polling, chat and breakout rooms. Zoom also allows the host and participants to share their screen and co-annotate for a more interactive meeting. Zoom can also be used to record and share webinars and trainings.
Panopto
Panopto is an enterprise lecture capture and delivery platform that allows the user to include video, audio, screen capture, slides and quizzes into a recording. All Wentworth faculty, staff, and students have the ability to create and share recordings in Panopto. Panopto generates automated closed captions for videos, which can be easily edited for accuracy and to comply with accessibility standards.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning offers more than 5,000 on-demand courses on business, creative, and technology skills, and it’s available at no additional cost to Wentworth faculty, staff, and students.
Student Engagement Tools
Perusall
Perusall is a social reading platform available to students as an integration into the LMS. Perusall allows students (and teaching staff) to digitally annotate readings (with text, links, and embedded content). Perusall is already integrated in Brightspace. Simply add it from a module by selecting “Existing Activities” > “External Learning Tools” > Perusall.
ThingLink
ThingLink is an award-winning education technology platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information and links. Please take a moment to watch the product tour video to learn more about this exciting tool that we added to our academic technology toolkit.
Qwickly
Qwickly is a productivity integration for Brightspace that allows users to set course availability, post announcements to multiple classes, send emails, and post content to multiple courses at once. Qwickly is already integrated in Brightspace. Simply add it from a module by selecting “Existing Activities” > “External Learning Tools” > Qwickly Attendance or Qwickly Course Tools.
Accessibility
Panorama
Panorama is a tool embedded in Brightspace including an automated accessibility checker that can review common file formats such as Microsoft Word, PDF files, or images for compliance with accessibility standards. Panorama provides a report to instructors with issues to be addressed, directions for how to fix them, and can generate alternative formats for you or your students. Additionally, Panorama includes an accessibility widget to adjust your individual display settings in Brightspace such as text size and color contrast.
Assessments and Grading
Gradescope
Gradescope is an external learning tool designed to streamline and standardize paper-based, digital, and code assignments. Gradescope supports worksheets, quizzes, exams, and papers. With Gradescope, students can upload pen-and-paper problem sets or computer code to be graded Gradescope is a great tool for Math, Science, and Computer Science classes.
Respondus
Respondus 4® is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Brightspace. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved between different learning systems.
Academic Integrity
TurnItIn
Turnitin is a service that reviews submitted documents for citation mistakes or inappropriate copying and compares documents to text in its database of student work, websites, books, articles, etc. Turnitin can be enabled for an assignment through the Assignments tool in Brightspace. When Turnitin is enabled for an assignment, all submissions are automatically sent to the Turnitin repository. The Similarity Report that it generates will identify possible instances of plagiarism.
Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) Headsets
Make your projects or lessons more engaging, impactful, and memorable by incorporating virtual reality!
How to Request VR Headsets:
- Develop the project/lesson and the correlating learning objectives and academic purpose.
- Fill out the Virtual Reality equipment request form. (see below)
- A ticket request will be created on your behalf and a team member will reach out to set up a consultation with you.
- After the consultation, a technician will come to your classroom to set up the equipment.