Canvas Studio is a fully-integrated Canvas video creation tool that offers interactive teaching and learning opportunities between instructors and students.  

• DVC Studio Guide
• Full Canvas Studio Guides 

3C Media is an option for captioning and storing videos.  This tool is free; however, there are a limited amount of captioning hours each year, so it's best to prepare ahead of time when using this service.   

• DVC 3C Media Guide

YouTube allows users to upload videos for free captioning. While the accuracy rate isn't perfect, it's easy to edit the time-stamped file and embed videos in Canvas or on the website.

• DVC YouTube Guide 

Google Drive is a web-based word processing suite (for documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations) available with a free gmail account.  Because students are often familiar with Google tools, many choose Google Drive for student collaborations.  Learn more about Google Drive. 

NOTE: With Google Drive, you can share live links to documents and slideshows in Canvas, which can help save you storage space and time, as any edits to your original materials automatically update in Canvas.  Learn more in What are my storage options?

Adobe has many useful applications for instruction: make accessible documents, digitally sign documents, or use Adobe's graphic design tools.  For at home access:

1. Visit the Adobe home page.
2. Click "Sign in."
3. Enter your long email address (ex. FirstInitialLastNameLast3digits@email.4cd.edu). 
4. This will bring you to the Single Sign On page to log on with your InSite username and password. 

If you'd like to learn more about using Adobe, check out GROW@4CD for self-paced trainings available to all employees free of cost.

Hypothesis is a digital annotation tool that makes reading social.  Scaffold readings for your students with your own annotations, or encourage peer-to-peer interaction with student annotations.  Hypothesis is fully integrated into Canvas at our college, so there is no need to install anything yourself! 

Learn how to layer Hypothesis on a reading in Canvas, or self-enroll in our Hypothesis Pilot Canvas shell to connect with other users, access additional instructor and student training materials, and view recordings of past trainings. 

You can also check out our District's work with Hypothesis as featured on Liquid Margins:

Microsoft Immersive Reader is enabled on Canvas pages, providing support for those with certain learning disabilities (or preferences) and English language learners.  Learn how to leverage this tool in our DVC Microsoft Immersive Reader Quick Guide.

PopeTech is a tool that can help instructors identify and remediate accessibility issues.  Training is available in the Accessibility Newsletter Archives.

Turnitin is a Canvas-integrated plagiarism checker that runs student submissions through an extensive database of student essays and web-based materials. 

• DVC Turnitin Guide

Gradescope is a tool for delivering online assessments that enables instructors to provide better and faster feedback.  

• Gradescope Instructor Guide

Respondus 4.0 is a tool for creating and managing exams that can be published directly to Canvas or printed for paper-based exams. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment and can also be moved from one LMS to another.  Respondus is available for use in the Staff Development Lab (AB-217).  Please contact Jeanette Peavler at jpeavler@dvc.edu for help.

DVC now offers students access to Handshake!  This is a platform where students can create a digital resume/portfolio, find job and internship opportunities, attend career fairs & events, schedule appointments with DVC Career Services, and more!  Students log in using their DVC username and password.