Below is an overview of tools you can use for remote teaching which are general available at the TU Delft. Check which tool suits your needs.
To quickly jump to a category, click the link below:
Communication | Online (video) meeting/Virtual classroom | Videos | Collaboration & Projects | Practice & interactive courseware | (Peer) Feedback | Assessment & Assignments
Communication
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Brightspace – Course content |
Sharing content with all course members, content can be almost any type of file, video, links, etc. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Brightspace – Announcements |
Announcement tool for communication with students in your Brightspace course offering. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Brightspace – Emailing |
It is possible to send an email to your entire class or a subset of your class in Brightspace |
Online (video) meeting/Virtual classroom
Visit the online meeting tools compare page to examine in contrast TU Delft online meeting tools functionalities.
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Virtual Classroom (YouSee by Bongo) | Virtual classroom tool, suitable for online interactive classroom sessions (Session max: 150 participants per session, 240 minutes), screen sharing & virtual whiteboard tools integrated, sharing sessions with external (not TU Delft) users, recording sessions and optional publishing of recordings to a Brightspace course offering. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| MS Teams – Meetings (300) |
Video conferencing tool with screen sharing, breakout rooms and optional recording within Teams. Teams is an online collaboration platform that can be used to communicate and collaborate with groups of students, lecturers, and staff in any combination. | |
| MS Teams – Live Events (300 – 10.000) |
MS Teams Live Events enable you to broadcast your lecture to up to 10.000 participants. Students (attendees) can only listen, watch and -if you enable it- ask questions in the Q&A chat. | |
| Zoom | Video conferencing tool (like Virtual Classroom) with screen sharing, breakout rooms and optional recording. Not integrared with brigthspace. | Be aware that Zoom is not Not GDPR compliant and because it is temporarily available the TU Delft helpdesk does not support the use of Zoom. |
| Skype for Business | Tool for video and audio communication with individuals and groups. | Available to all TU Delft employees and not for students. Skype for Business communicates with normal Skype, but doesn’t have a screen sharing option. |
Videos
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Kaltura | Do-it-yourself video tool for recording from webcam / screen casting (i.e. ppt or screen) & video repository for videos created with Kaltura tool or other video tool. From the repository videos can be integrated and re-used in Brightspace course content. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Do-it-yourself studios Teaching Lab and NewMedia Centre | An on-campus studio booth to record your own presentations. Support will be available to help you getting started. | The small studios are closed because of the crisis. The large green screen studio is now available upon request. Please visit the NMC website for further information. |
| Collegerama | Service to record or live-stream your lecture in lecture halls. Recording is available directly after lecture and can be played back anytime, anywhere. It’s possible to edit recordings and add questions and annotations to specific times in the video. | More information can be found on the Collegerama-website. |
Collaboration & Projects
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Brightspace – Discussions |
Discussion forums on threads and topics, class wide or in a group setting. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Brightspace – Groups |
Creating groups of students, can facilitate communication or for group work. Unlimited group categories, max 200 groups per category, max group size: 200 students. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Brightspace – Self-enrollment group tool |
Tool to facilitate students enrolling themselves in their self-preferred groups. Max 200 groups per self-enrollment set-up. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| MS Teams | Tool for video and audio communication with individuals and groups and to work together on documents. | Available to everyone at TU Delft, supported by ICT Teams and TLS. |
| Wiki | Foswiki implements the Wiki idea of a shared whiteboard where anyone can add content or change what is written or change the organization of the content. | Access needs to be requested through TLS support for new users. |
| Overleaf | Overleaf is an online collaborative scientific writing and publishing tool. It is designed to make the process of writing, editing, and producing scientific papers much quicker for authors. |
Practice & interactive courseware
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| FeedBackFruits – Interactive Audio | Tool to help students engage with the in Feedbackfruits posted material before class with inline questions and discussions. This can be a graded activity. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| FeedBackFruits – Interactive Document | In a document uploaded to Feedbackfruits, students can see Inline questions and peer discussions linked to specific parts of the document to trigger the student to actively engage with the study material. This can be a graded activity. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| FeedBackFruits – Interactive Video | In a video posted to FeedbackFruits, students can see inline questions and peer discussions linked to specific times in the video to trigger the student to actively engage with the study material. This can be a graded activity. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
(Peer) Feedback
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| BuddyCheck | Buddycheck is a simple to set up and use peer evaluation tool which allows students to evaluate each team member’s performance in a group activity, as well as perform a self-assessment. | |
| FeedBackFruits – Peer Review | FeedbackFruits Peer Review enables instructors to create assignments for students to provide feedback to their peers on deliverables like documents or videos based on predefined criteria. | Tool needs to be requested through Brightspace Support. |
| FeedBackFruits – Group Member Evaluation | FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation streamlines how students assess their peers’ collaboration skills. The teacher specifies the criteria students use to evaluate their peers’ contribution to group work. | Tool needs to be requested through Brightspace Support. |
Assessment & Assignments
For a more elaborate comparison between online exam tools, please refer to this page.
| Tool Name | Description | Special remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Brightspace – Assignment tool |
Assignment tooling that facilitates handing in (by students & groups), assessing, annotation and feedback on handed in assignments. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| Brightspace – Quizzes |
Test your students’ understanding of the content or their prior knowledge, with quizzes. | |
| Möbius (formerly MapleTA) |
Möbius is a web-based system for creating tests, quizzes and assignments. It can automatically assesses student responses. | If you are not yet using Möbius for your course in Brightspace, you need to contact TLS Support first to have it set up for your course. |
| Turnitin | Plagiarism scanning tool available through Brightspace Assignments. | Availabe in every Brightspace Course offering, no special access required. |
| FeedbackFruits – Skill Review | FeedbackFruits Skill Review facilitates teacher feedback on activities such as presentations, oral exams or an interview. | Tool needs to be requested through Brightspace Support. |
| FeedbackFruits – Assignment Review | FeedbackFruits Assignment Review aims to improve student learning by allowing instructors to provide in-line feedback on deliverables. Teachers can specify the criteria and feedback format. | Tool needs to be requested through Brightspace Support. |
| ConTest | A tool for scanning and analyzing on-paper multiple choice exams. | Scanning needs to be done by DigitalExams, the paper exams need to be handed in at the ESA desk (ContactCentre). |