Google Workspace
With your UCLA Gmail account, you have unlimited free access to Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite). This includes a variety of collaborative applications: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, Sites, Keep, and more. These applications allow you to create and edit files online while collaborating with other users in real time.
Adobe Creative Cloud
UCLA Extension instructors can receive a discounted (and in some cases, free) subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud, a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, and photography. Please check with your department's program representative to learn more about accessing Adobe Creative Cloud.
Quizlet
Quizlet is a free website that provides learning tools for students, including flashcard, study, and game modes. Create flashcards for your students to use, or have students create flashcards on their own and share them with you. Either way, Quizlet is a great tool for test prep that integrates well with Canvas.
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in K-12 schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, "kahoots", are user-generated multiple-choice quizzes that can be accessed via a web browser or the Kahoot mobile app.
Kahoot! can be used to review students' knowledge, for formative assessment, or as a break from traditional classroom activities. Kahoot! also includes trivia quizzes.
Flip
Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and sharing app that is provided for free by Microsoft. Flip allows you to record and share short videos with your students. Also, you can set up classroom or study groups to help students express their ideas and learn from one another; you can basically create a safe place for peer-to-peer support group discussions. View the resources on Flip's Educator Toolkit page for more information to get started.
Canva
Canva is a graphic design platform that you can use to create social media graphics and presentations with readymade templates. You can create a free Canva account, but with a paid subscription you can access huge catalog of professionally designed templates and stock photos and graphics. Canva is an invaluable tool for helping you level up your presentation design skills, even if you're just getting started.
Panopto
Panopto is a video recording and hosting platform for lecture capture, flipping the classroom, active learning, recording demonstrations, and student recordings. UCLA Extension has an institutional license, so Panopto is free for all instructors. It automatically produces captions for any videos you upload. You can use Panopto for free in Canvas since it is automatically integrated into your UCLA Extension Canvas account. UCLA Extension's Academic Technology and Learning Innovation (ATLI) team conducts several drop-in sessions to share Panopto best practices and to answer any questions you may have about using it.
ScreenPal
ScreenPal (formerly Screencast-O-Matic) is a free screencasting and video-editing software tool that can be launched directly from a browser. It has been widely used in education to support video creation for flipped classrooms, blended learning, bi-directional student assessments, lecture capture, and student video assignments. Educators and students use ScreenPal for easy video communication.