Academic Computing and Technology

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Summary of Academic Technologies

Campus Single-Use Licensed Software

The list below highlights some of the major Campus Academic Technologies available for Cal Maritime Faculty and Staff . These are all accesible under the Campus Applications links in the upper right corner of this page.

• SPSS

• Minitab

• Mathematica

• Office 2007

• Windows 7

• Turnitin

  Turnitin is a plagiarism prevention system that lets instructors quickly and effectively check a students work.Students submit their work to the Turnitin.com website by referencing a course and assignment ID provided by the instructor. Please reference the CMA Turnitin site for details on how to setup your Instructor account.

Lecture Delivery Tools

• SchoolVue

• PC Microphones

• Wireless Mouse

• Clickers

Online Learning and Collaboration Tools

• Moodle/iLearn

  Our Campus Learning Management System(LMS). Each Semester course shells are automatically created for each section, mirroring the information posted in PeopleSoft. Faculty can access Tutorials and How to Guides on the Moodle Wiki page.
  
  

• Respondus

  With Respondus instructors can easily create assessments. These assessments can be printed as stand-alone or be exported as Quizes , Self Tests or Surveys into Moodle. In addition Instructors can create banks of questions for future use and well as leverage questions provided by textbook publishers.
  
  

• SchoolVue

  SchoolVue is a tool that allows instructors to remotely control and view lab computers. It is installed on the Classroom (clsroom 105) and Lab building (lab 100) computer lab instructor machines. A quick start guide can be found on the CMA SchoolVue page
  
  

Web 2.0 and Technology Tools

• Free Cool and Useful Technology Tools

  Great technology tools that help productivity as well as promote student enagement and learning.
  http://www.csum.edu/itinfo/Departments/AcademicComputing/techtools.asp
  
  
  

• Web 2.0 Explained

  More detailed information about Web 2.0
  http://www.csum.edu/ITinfo/Departments/AcademicComputing/web2_0.asp
  
  

ATI Resources

• ATI Accessible Documents Course - You may login as a guest
• CMA ATI Accessible Documents Page
• CMA ATI Main Page

CSU System wide Resources

• Merlot

  MERLOT is a user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.
  

• Pachyderm

  The CSU Center For Distributed Learning has created Pachyderm 2.0. Pachyderm is an easy-to-use multimedia authoring tool. Designed for people who have little or no multimedia authoring experience, Pachyderm is accessed through a web browser and is as easy to use as filling out a web form.