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The following apps are available to faculty, staff, and student accounts and are suitable for course activities. Some suggested use cases are listed, but many other types of activities can be facilitated with these tools. To explore other uses, request a consultation with an ILI staff member. For tutorials on each app, click the app name link at the start of each row.
| App | Use Case |
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| Document creation tool. Can use it for individual projects such journals, blogs, and assignments; collaborative writing and editing during group projects; and creating student-generated class support resources (e.g. glossaries, study guides). Facilitates peer review through commenting features. | |
Diagramming tool. Can use it to create timelines, flowcharts, hierarchical visual tables, and bar/line/pie charts. | |
| Survey tool. Can use it to collect peer reviews, survey students on availability and preferences, and collect course feedback. If a project requires students collecting information from others, students can create and share surveys. Instructors can also use the myCourses Survey tool or Qualtrics to create surveys. | |
| Digital whiteboard tool. Can use it for solving math, geometry, or graphing problems; concept mapping and visual note taking; group project brainstorming; and facilitating presentations and digital storytelling. Can also be edited asynchronously over time. Note RIT does not have the physical boards, RIT has only the browser/mobile apps. | |
| Spreadsheet tool. Can use it for shared data collection and analysis. | |
| Slidedeck tool. Can use it for individual and group presentations, and media-rich project documents. | |
The place where your Google files are stored. There are two areas: My Drive and Shared Drives.
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| Note-taking tool. Accessed within Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides, as well as the separate Keep app. Can use it for individual or group project tracking, to-do list reminders, note-taking, and brainstorming. Keep items can be shared with others, turned into a Google Doc, or dragged into a Google Doc. | |
| To-do list tool. Accessed within Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides. Best for individual self task management. Task items cannot be shared (no collaborative lists). | |
| Photo storage space. Can be used to curate portfolio images for sharing. | |
| Sites | For creating website-like pages. Can be collaboratively edited. Faculty and staff can also use the Confluence wiki to create website-like pages or people.rit.edu. |
Student-Only Apps
The following apps are not available to faculty or staff accounts. Only students can use them.
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