Core Educational Technology

Blackboard addons and integrations

• UAS uses Blackboard as our Learning Management System (log in to  Blackboard)

  3rd party tools available inside Blackboard Learn include

  • Ally:  A tool to check the accessibility of course materials.
    

  • EAB/Navigate: A way to contact Care Team to get help for your students. Also provides a way for faculty to text students when appropriate. 

  • Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor: online test proctoring.

  • Screenpal: screen recording software

  • SafeAssign: plagiarism prevention service

  • VoiceThread: multimedia asynchronous discussions

  • YouTube integration

  • Zoom: web/video conferencing, AI summary also available. 

  Note: If you use a textbook integration in Blackboard (e.g., Pearson or McGraw Hill) CELT is happy to provide assistance, however, we do not have special privileges or training with these textbook integrations.  
  

Premium access UAS Academic Tools

Foxit PDF Editor: edit PDF files (check accessibility, combine files, etc.)

Google Workspace: Mail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, Meet, YouTube, Google Earth, Keep, Gemini, and more. 

Microsoft Office 365: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, OneDrive, Sharepoint, Teams, Copilot (explain AI thingies here) etc.

UAOnline: business aspects of UA (registration, grades, pay, employment information, benefits, class rosters, etc.)

UAS Connect: Event planning software for UAS. For information on reserving a room, visit how to organize events for your Campus. 

Respondus 4.0: Test creation software

CELT’s professional development memberships. Perks available to all faculty and staff.

Quality Matters. Use your UA email and credentials to sign up. 

Online Learning Consortium. Use your UA email and credentials to sign up. 

Monday Morning Mentor. Temporary password sent out via the CELT email every Monday morning.

Free Supported Tools

Google Chrome  or Mozilla Firefox  are the UAS recommended web browsers

Adobe Acrobat Reader is available for free,  however since UAS has premium access to Foxit (see above), we encourage you to use that instead. *Note that departments can buy a license for Adobe creative suite through UA here.

About this list

This page contains a list of core educational technology tools that are funded and supported at UAS, which…   

• are technology tools for teaching, learning, and productivity.

• are supported by CELT via training and documentation.

• are vetted by OIT for accessibility and data security. 

• can be used by all UAS faculty and staff at no cost.

• are, in many cases, also available to students at no cost.

Here at CELT, we primarily know about educational technology for teaching and learning. To find out more about all technology at UAS, especially student-focused technology, please visit the UAS IT helpdesk instead or  this guide for students from Student Support Services.

The tools listed on this page are the core ed tech tools at UAS that require no action from faculty or staff to be approved other than signing in, usually through email or single sign-on unless otherwise noted. For a more complete list of tools that are approved through OIT for use at the University of Alaska, see the UA software catalog. 

You can also use this link to request that additional software be approved. Contact  [email protected]  with any questions about this process.