Engagement Tools

The Center for Academic Innovation facilitates subscriptions for several online engagement tool that are available to Chemeketa faculty:

  • Kami
  • Kahoot
  • Padlet
  • SoftChalk

These tools can be used in most teaching modalities and provide excellent opportunities to engage students in new and interesting ways. They can also be used within Canvas for easier student access. 
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Kami

is a document annotation tool that integrates with Canvas, so you can create a Kami assignment and grade it in SpeedGrader.  

Common Uses

  • Modifying or annotating PDFs
  • Social Annotation- collaboratively annotate a document or image
  • Live or asynchronous virtual whiteboard
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Padlet is an online discussion board where instructors and students can share and engage with each other in a variety of formats such as text, video, links, and audio.

Common Uses

  • Collaboration 
  • Group/class discussion
  • Knowledge sharing
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Kahoot

is an online, student-response tool that actively engages students in a variety of ways. 

Common Uses

  • Gameplay
  • Formative Assessments
  • Gathering prior knowledge
  • Track learning progress over time
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SoftChalk is a content authoring tool. It lets you create online content to use in Canvas or externally. 

Key Features

  • 30+ interactive features for online content
  • Integrates with Canvas SpeedGrader for scored activities
  • Custom themes for consistent content

Additional Engagement Tools

There are also a number of tools available online to increase student engagement and interaction in your courses. The following are a few additional resources that have robust free versions.

Socrative

Socrative is an interactive web-based response system that can help spark conversation and learning through user-created polls and quizzes.

Key Features  

  • Easy to use
  • Easy to identify where students are missing a concept and adjust teaching

    Common Uses

    • Formative Assessment 
    • Polling
    • Exit Tickets

    Plickers

    Plickers is a paper-based educational tool that allows students to answer questions by holding up a card while the instructor uses a mobile device to scan the room and view results. 

    Key Features

    • Paper-based for students, there is no need for 
    • Accessible product
    • Results downloadable for additional analysis

      Common Uses

      • Formative Assessment
      • Exit Ticket
      • Survey

      Mentimeter

      Mentimeter is an interactive presentation tool that allows instructors to build in audience or student participation. 

      Key Features

      • Dynamic Word Clouds
      • Live & Instant Polling
      • Entertaining Quizzes

        Common Uses

        • Student feedback or opinions
        • Student interaction
        • Collect immediate response in real-time
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