Flipgrid is a website that allows teachers to create “grids” to facilitate video discussions. Each grid is like a message board where teachers can pose questions, called “topics,” and their students can post video responses that appear in a tiled grid display.
Pros: Free, simple to use. Web-based.
Cons: Limited editing capabilities.
Expert: Alex Savoth, Charles Woodard
Panopto is available directly from Moodle, and allows Faculty or students to record their screen or camera and share it with others. Panopto can also be used as a repository for Zoom recordings or additional media.
Panopto has many useful features for capturing and replaying lectures. It will time stamp and index PowerPoint or Keynote presentations, allow you to insert questions into a lecture, and let students take notes or ask questions at a particular time stamp. There are also detailed stats for each video, which are only accessible to teachers and admin.
Pros: Easy and efficient built in editing. Accessible metrics. Indexes Powerpoint or Keynote presentations, which will allow students to jump to important sections for review. Built in quizzing. Editable captions. Allows video upload and streaming.
Cons: Integration between Moodle, Zoom, and desktop client can be a little confusing. Also, the program is complex; while it can perform a number of different tasks, there is a bit of a learning curve for some of it’s features.
Expert: Sharon Strauss, Alex Savoth, Charles Woodard
Zoom is available to all Haverford community members, and allows users to video conference with people either in large groups or in smaller sessions. Zoom also has the ability to record your meetings online and add captions, if you want to do more formal presentations that you can then share afterwards via Moodle.
Pros: Available to everyone with a haverford email address, can be used with anyone as long as the ‘Host’ has a licensed account, allows for interaction with participants to be a part of the recording, if that is important to you. Provides meetings transcriptions, which can be downloaded as caption files.
Cons: Limited long term storage space, you will have to download the recording after it is available and upload it to Box.com, Google Drive, or Moodle if you want to hang on to the recording. Limited to no editing capabilities.
Note: Starting September 27, 2020, Zoom will require a password for all meetings. See this explanation from IITS.
Expert: Alex Savoth, Charles Woodard
Voicethread is a great tool for collecting audio from students. It will also work for short video assignments or performances.
Pros: Lightweight, done entirely within the browser so students don’t have to download any extra software, integration with Moodle, accepts a wide variety of media formats.
Cons: Requires an internet connection to use. Archiving presentations is somewhat of a tedious and cumbersome process.
Expert: Hiroyo Saito, Sharon Strauss, Charles Woodard, Alex Savoth