Tools
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Lightboard
Have you ever wanted to use a whiteboard in a video? Are you frustrated that you have to keep turning away from the camera to write on the white board? A Lightboard is a teaching tool for video presentations that utilizes a clear glass board for you to create and draw lessons on, much like a whiteboard. What makes the lightboard unique is the ability to maintain eye contact with your viewers by flipping the image in post-production.
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H5P
H5P is a free, open-source content creator that allows you to easily create, share, and reuse interactive HTML5 content and applications. H5P activities can be created and embedded directly in Moodle or WordPress, making it easy to add rich, interactive learning content to your courses.
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Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an easy to use digital book production software used for self-publishing books in a number of formats. Pressbooks is an open-source platform based on WordPress.
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Twine
Twine describes itself as an “open-source tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories.”
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Slido
Slido is an audience engagement application that can help you create more interactive presentations, meetings, or class lectures through the use of live polling, quizzes, and surveys. Consider Slido as an alternative to other polling or quizzing tools, such as Kahoot or TopHat, due to it’s accessibility, privacy compliance, and support offered directly at TRU!
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Audacity
Audacity is a free, open-source digital audio recording and editing software. Audacity is easily accessible across various platforms, relatively easy to learn for beginners, and has a robust offering of features making it an excellent choice for your audio needs.
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Snagit
Snagit is a screen-capture software used to create and edit screenshots and video recordings of your screen. You can choose to capture your entire screen, a window, or a specific region. Finished projects can be saved as images or video files, or shared directly to platforms such as Camtasia, PowerPoint, and YouTube.
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Camtasia
Camtasia is a video capture and editing software used to create audio and visual multimedia including recorded screencasts, webcam recordings, voice-over and audio recordings. Camtasia offers more robust editing compared to Kaltura, but may require purchasing a license key and does not integrate directly into Moodle.
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Mattermost
Mattermost is an online communication and collaboration platform that serves as an open-source, self-hostable alternative to platforms like Slack and Teams.








