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I. ONLINE TOOLS AND RESOURCES
Technology has gifted us with tools and resources to render the teaching and learning process more organized, informed, accessible and interesting. This page is dedicated to introducing students, research scholars and teachers to the various kinds of online tools and resources available.
1. Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning
Introduction – Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning.pdf
2. Learning Management System
Moodle is a platform for online learning that enables you to create online courses, add assignments, and keep an eye on your students’ progress. Through Moodle faculties can upload their recorded audio for online classes, notes, and study materials, and conduct quizzes. It is also a platform where students can upload their assignments and answer sheets. Loyola employs Moodle as LMS.
https://moodle.loyolacollegekerala.edu.in/moodle/
3. Online Conferencing Platforms
3.1 ZOOM – Zoom has become one of the leading video conferencing software apps. It enables you to virtually interact with one another when in-person meetings aren’t possible. Zoom is basically a video conferencing app where you can use to virtually meet with others – either by video or audio-only or both, all while conducting live chats – and it lets you record those sessions to view later. You can share your whole screen, or a single application window with meeting participants. This lets you share and collaborate with ease. This has become one of the important online conferencing platform for conducting online classes and webinars. As a virtual learning platform, Loyola employs ZOOM for online conferencing.
3.2 Google Meet – Google meet is another online Conferencing platform for conducting online classes and webinars. It is a video conferencing app that’s available to everyone who has a Google account. An online meeting is easy to set up through Google meet where you are allowed to have up to 100 participants and can be in the meeting for as long as 60 minutes. Similar to ZOOM, Google Meet can also share the whole screen, or a single application window with meeting participants. As a virtual learning platform, Loyola employs Google meet for online conferencing.
4. Online Teaching tools
4.1 Whiteboard – The whiteboard feature will allow you to share a whiteboard that you and other participants (if allowed) can annotate on. This helps to replicate the experience of the physical class. This feature is both available in ZOOM and Google meet. In both of these applications, there is an option called screen sharing, where you can select white board during your online class.
4.2 Kahoot is a game-based learning application used by people to discover, create, play and share learning games. It makes learning fun and engaging for students and teachers, families and friends. Kahoot allows you to create quizzes that serve to test students’ knowledge or review content that has already been worked on in the classroom. Games can be projected on a screen, making the entire class participate and having students respond from their computers or mobile devices. This can be mainly categorized under the section
online quiz: https://kahoot.com/.
For tutorial – Kahoot tutorial.pdf
4.3 Mentimeter: Mentimeter is presentation software where you can make your presentations more interactive. It helps you to make your presentations, events and lectures more innovative and memorable. This application can be categorized under the section online polls: https://www.mentimeter.com/
For tutorial – Mentimeter tutorial.pdf
5. Audio and Video Editing
5.1 Loom is a video messaging tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos. With Loom, you can record your camera, microphone, and desktop simultaneously. Your video is then instantly available to share through Loom’s patented technology.
5.2 InShot is an all-in-one visual content editing app. It allows you to create- edit video edit photos and creates image collages. Through this app you can trim clips, change the speed of your footage and add filters, music and text. You can also flip and rotate footage, which is a handy feature that many other apps don’t have. InShot is a simple app for video and photo editing. You can easily download the app from play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camerasideas.instashot
5.3. PowerDirector – CyberLink PowerDirector is a professional-level video- audio editor app that has all the tools you need to edit and publish your work. The workstation is a multi-track editing board, making it easy to line up multiple video clips, add transitions, audio files, and effects. You can easily download the app from play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberlink.powerdirector.DRA140225_01
6. Photo Editing Tools
6.1 CANVA is a photo editing tool where you can upload any photo that you want, apply filters, advanced effects, crop it, and more. Using Canva, you can edit photos, add custom elements to them, modify their background, and add text to them. It is also best to create posters flyers for different events.
6.2. InShot is an all-in-one visual content editing app. It allows you to create-edit video edit photos and creates image collages. You can also flip and rotate footage, which is a handy feature that many other apps don’t have. InShot is a simple app for video and photo editing. You can easily download the app from play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.camerasideas.instashot
6.3 Geotag: Geotagging is the act of including geographical information about where a photo was taken in with the digital photo file. Geotagging is extremely helpful to anyone who takes a large number of pictures and needs a way to record exactly where each photo was taken. By default, the camera application on your Android smartphone has the ability to add GPS coordinates to the image file, but there are a few settings you have to change for this feature to work correctly.
For tutorial- Geotagging tutorial.pdf
7. MOOC and Online Course Creation
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enrol. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale. In an era of online teaching and learning, knowing how to create a MOOC course is an essential skill.
For tutorial- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMty6R0Bn0I
8. Documentation Tools
8.1 Evernote: Evernote is a documentation app. It will help us to instantly document and send the material to IQAC. To download the App, you should have an Android phone with internet. To document you don’t need internet, however to send the documented material you will need internet again.
For Tutorial – Evernote Tutorial.pdf
https://www.evernote.com/Login.action
8.2 Google Keep: Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
8.3 MS-Word: Microsoft Word is a word processing program and a documentation tool that allows for the creation of both simple and complex documents. The program can work on multiple platforms, like Windows, macOS, smartphones, and tablets. This documentation tool helps to make professional-quality write-ups, editing and formatting the existing documents, creating graphical documents that comprise images and more. Navigation, Comments, Track Changes, Table of Contents, Book Marks, Hyperlinks etc. are specific features that help Word create dynamic documents.
9. Data Collection and Management Tools
9.1 Google Forms: Google Forms is free online software for creating surveys and questionnaires. You only just need a Google account to make a Google Form. It is widely used to conduct surveys, to collect details about the students, to know about the opinion of students, to evaluate their academic performances and more. Basically, Google forms are a data collection tool.
https://www.google.com/forms/about/
9.2 MS-Excel is a powerful data analysis and collection tool. It is a part of the Microsoft Office suite software. Generally, it is a spreadsheet program that helps the user organise statistical data. Excel can perform mathematical calculations, draw graphs and charts etc. The users can create efficient reports with the help of Excel.
9.3 MS-Access: Microsoft Access is a Database Management System that allows you to link, chart, query and report your data to customize the information you need. It helps import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases. You can export data to and import data from word processing files, spreadsheets, or database files directly.
10. Presentation
MS-Powerpoint is a commonly used slide show presentation program which is included in the Microsoft Office suite. It is used to make presentations for personal and professional purposes. MS- Powerpoint is an easy and simple presentation tool that is widely used in the educational field. Apart from adding slides, you can insert video directly to your PowerPoint, which helps you to present as a single document.
11. Collaborative working and writing
11.1 Google Docs– Google Docs is a commonly used free Web-based application where we can use to create documents and spreadsheets. As a Google docuser, you can import, create, edit and update documents and spreadsheets in various fonts and file formats, combining text with formulas, lists, tables and images. You can use Google Docs on your computer as well as Android and iPhone &iPad.With Google Docs, you can create and edit text documents right in your web browser— no special software is required. Even better, multiple people can work at the same time; you can see people’s changes as they make them, and every change is saved automatically.
https://www.google.com/docs/about/\
11.2 Google Sheets: Similar to Google Docs, Google Sheets is an online spreadsheet app that helps you to create and format spreadsheets and work with other people. In an online learning space, Google sheets are ICT tools for a collaborative working where you can share files and folders with people and choose whether they can view, edit, or comment on them.
https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
11.3 Google Slides: Google Slides is an online presentation app that helps you to create and format presentations and work with other people. The user can add, edit, or format text, images, or videos in a presentation. Similar to Google sheets, you can share files and folders with people and choose whether they can view, edit, or comment on them. The teachers can use this Google space as a platform to work together and Loyola utilises this Google space for collaborative working.
https://www.google.com/slides/about/
12. Personal Websites
12.1 Weebly is a freemium website creation and Web-hosting service. It is generally a website creator that allows you to create pages with template skins and content widgets. Users can easily drag-and-drop content widgets like pictures, text, video and Google Maps.
12.2 Google Sites is a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google.
13. Document Editing and Plagiarism
13.1 Grammarly – Grammarly is an online grammar checking, spell checking, and plagiarism detection platform developed by Grammarly, Inc.Grammarly as a plagiarism app automatically detects potential grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in writing. Loyola uses the paid version of Grammarly.
13.2 Urkund (Ouriginal) – Urkund is another online plagiarism detection tool that compares submitted documents with over 11.5 million archived student papers, journals, periodicals and books and all over the web, to return an originality score (also referred to as the Urkund score). The Urkund score is the percentage of the document which is similar to other documents within the Urkund database. A low score indicates that there is little similarity and a score of 100 indicates that the entire submitted item has been copied from a single or multiple sources.
14. Literature Review and Reference Management
A good literature review is critical for academic research in any field, whether it is for a research article, a critical review for coursework, or a dissertation. There are different software tools to make it easier for academics to aggregate evidence for research articles, dissertations, or coursework. We can retrieve and save our work for later articles. Searching through all your hardcopies and forgetting where you read something is common. There are different types of Reference management software’s which allows researchers to link to and correctly cite referenced works in their papers. Also known as citation management tools, the software can create proper citations in a desired style (e.g. MLA, APA, etc.).
14.1 MS Word Reference management Tool: Word has built-in tools for managing references.
14.2 Mendeley – Mendeley is free reference management software that can help you to collect references, organize your citations, and create bibliographies. Mendeley is also an academic social network that enables you to share your research with others. With Mendeley Reference Manager you can: Store, organize and search all your references from just one library, you can insert references and bibliographies into your Microsoft Word documents using Mendeley Cite.
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/web
14.3 Zotero – Zotero is an open-access, easy-to-use reference management tool that serves as your personal research assistant and helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It helps to save references from library catalogues, research databases, and the Web. The user can create bibliographies using most major citation styles.
https://www.zotero.org/user/login/
14.4 ReadCube – ReadCube is a desktop and browser-based research tool, which organizes and manages data.You, can run it from your own computer and it uses Google Scholar, to locate and download articles. While reading through articles, researchers can highlight text, make notes, and click on enhanced reference information. Citations are also easier to write and organize with support for thousands of styles, the ability to instantly insert bibliographical information from Microsoft Word documents, and the capacity to collaborate with multiple authors without losing any data.
15. Data Analysis
15.1 SPSS– Statistical Package for the Social Sciences is used by various kinds of researchers for complex statistical data analysis. Loyola College of Social Sciences provides SPSS training for their students prior to their dissertation.
https://www.ibm.com/in-en/analytics/spss-statistics- software
15.2 QDA Miner is qualitative data analysis software for organizing, coding, annotating, retrieving, and analysing collections of documents and images. This qualitative data analysis tool may be used to analyse interview or focus group transcripts, legal documents, journal articles, speeches, even entire books, as well as drawings, photographs, paintings, and other types of visual documents.
https://provalisresearch.com/products/qualitative-data-analysis-software/
15.3 NVivo– is a data analysis software program used for qualitative and mixed-methods research. Specifically, it is used for the analysis of unstructured text, audio, video, and image data, including interviews, focus groups, surveys, social media, and journal articles. There is playback ability for audio and video files so that interviews can easily be transcribed in NVivo.
16. Publications and Collaboration
16.1 Google Scholar – Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Google Scholar includes journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research.
16.2 Linkedln – Linkedln is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. It is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs. LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and “connections” to each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to become a connection. Basically it is a social networking site designed specifically for the business community and employment services. Loyola employs a Linkedln account for its online social network.
16.3 Other Social media platforms: Facebook and Twitter
II E- RESOURCES
1. MOOC: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available for anyone to enrol. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance your career and deliver quality educational experiences at scale.
Swayam Central: https://swayam.gov.in
edX: https://www.edx.org
Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/in
Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/
Canvas: https://www.canvas.net/
Future Learn: https://www.futurelearn.com/sign-in
Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/
2. Open Education Resources
2.1 Lumen learning – Lumen Learning provides digital course materials designed to strengthen learning, using open educational resources (OER). Lumen replaces expensive textbooks with affordable digital content that emphasizes interactivity, learning by doing, and ease of use. Adding timely updates, learning design, and technical support to OER, Lumen makes open-content simple, reliable, and effective for instructors and students.
2.2 OER Commons – OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. It helps to explore, create, and collaborate with educators around the world to improve curriculum. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
2.3 NROER – National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) is developed by CIET, NCERT. It was launched during the National Conference on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for School Education. NROER was launched on 13 August 2013 in New Delhi in collaboration with the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. NROER is a digital repository for Open Educational Resources. The repository houses a wide range of educational content and resources covering all subjects and all grades students, teachers and other stakeholders. In addition to the educational resources which are available in a wide variety of forms, the NROER also provides opportunities to users to enroll in various online courses and participate in online contests.
2.4 LibriVox – LibriVox is a free public domain audiobook. LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD.
2.5 Shodhganga provides a platform for research scholars to deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly community in open access. The repository has the ability to capture, index, store, disseminate and preserve ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) submitted by the researchers.
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/password-login
2.6 N-List: N-LIST stands for “National Library and Information services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content”. The programme was funded by the MHRD under NME-ICT to extend access to selected e-resources to colleges covered under Section 12B of UGC Act as well as Non-aided colleges during from 2010 – 2013. The programme has subsumed under e-ShodhSindhu Consortium as college component from year 2014 being funded by UGC. . Loyola College utilises the services of N-List for the benefits of their students.
https://nlist.inflibnet.ac.in/
3. Digital Library
Loyola Library is envisaged to serve the needs of our Faculty, Research Scholars, Students and other academia and is developed as an important repertoire of learning resources, functioning as the heart of the college. Loyola College implemented DSpace Digital Library system. DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. The college emphasised the need to be proactive and be alert to the shift that is happening in the academic world. The scope for online and digital learning is increasing day by day and the college makes sure that they are able to keep up the space. The DSpace Digital Library has been customized to meet the requirements of our students and research scholars.
http://digitallibrary.loyolacollegekerala.edu.in:8080/jspui/
III. LOYOLA- IT PROGRAMMES
1. Students: 2. Research scholars: 3. Teachers: 4. Non-teaching staff:
Important Links
