ArcGIS StoryMaps is a web-based story-authoring application that allows you to easily integrate maps alongside narrative text and other multimedia content.
Classroom technology includes the hardware and software available in classrooms and computer labs across the MIIS and Middlebury campuses.
Concerto was an image and audio repository allowing for private and public sharing, and cataloging of media. [Decommissioned]
GitHub is a web-based code management system. GitHub for EDU is a program offered by GitHub that provides students and instructors with free or discounted 3rd party tools like app hosting and continuous integration services. Additionally, it allows instructors to create GitHub Classroom spaces for assignments and classroom collaboration.
H5P is an authoring tool that you can use to create and embed interactive videos, presentations, a variety of quiz types, games, timelines, and other rich media content.
The Hypothesis integration with Canvas brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of texts.
Linux is an open source computer and server operating systems used for many academic computational purposes.
MediaWiki is the software behind Wikipedia. Middlebury ran a private installation of this software. [Decommissioned]
Microsoft Immersive Reader is a free tool built into a variety of Microsoft products which alters content to enhance and focus reading and writing skills.
MiddCreate is a space on the web where students, faculty, and staff can explore and connect their learning, experiment with digital tools for teaching and learning, and create a digital identity that is owned and managed by them, to take with them when they leave Middlebury.
Omeka was a free, open source content management system for online digital collections. [Decommissioned]
Pressbooks is an easy-to-use book production software that lets you create a book in all the formats you need to publish. You can use Pressbooks to author and publish textbooks, scholarly monographs, syllabi, manuals, fiction and non-fiction books, white papers, and much more in multiple formats.
SensusAccess allows anyone at Middlebury to translate files into other more useful types of media. You can turn text into audio books for your commute. You can translate files so they work on Kindle and other eReaders. You can make documents more accessible and create Braille versions of content.
Speechify is a text-to-speech service that converts written content like articles, documents, and ebooks into natural-sounding audio. The app uses AI voices and supports multiple languages, allowing users to listen to text.
The platform enables instructors and students to create clickable hotspots to various media types including images, videos, 3D models, and augmented reality content. Elements can link to custom content, websites, or multimedia resources, allowing the creation of branching scenarios and interactive learning tasks.
UDOIT – or the Universal Design Online Content Inspection Tool – (pronounced, “You Do It”) is an automated accessibility auditing tool for Canvas courses.
Ensuring that physical classrooms, specialized learning environments, and virtual learning environments (e.g., immersive learning, augmented reality) are suitably equipped and functional to meet the needs of the education experience.