Find tools for sharing course content with your students online at UBC. All tools recommended by the LT Hub receive central technical and pedagogical support.
Course Content
These tools let you share course content like text, video, audio, and images online. They also offer other ways of engaging your students with interactive activities.
General Tips
- Break down your course content into clear and concise units of information, which are easier for students to absorb.
- Switch between different mediums of delivery to increase the engagement and accessibility of your course content.
- Keep your course content accessible for everyone by following accessibility best practices (e.g., adding closed-captioning and transcripts for video and being mindful of how you use colours, tables, and links).
- Use UBC’s Library Online Course Reserves (LOCR) to add articles, books, web links, and media resources to your course in a copyright-appropriate way.
Canvas
Share and organize content in UBC’s primary learning platform, using what are called modules to provide a clear course sequence for your students to follow.
What are the benefits?
- Since Canvas courses are automatically created each term, you can log in and immediately start filling your space with content-rich modules.
- You can organize the modules by weeks, days, topics, or whatever makes the most sense for your context.
- Each module can contain text, multimedia, and files, as well as discussions, assignments, quizzes, and other interactive learning activities. Content can be dragged and dropped in the desired spot in your module sequence.
- You can hide modules until a specified date or set up prerequisites students need to complete before accessing the next module.
Kaltura
Cost:
Free
Bandwidth:
High demand
Privacy:
Verified by UBC’s Privacy Impact Assessment process.
Kaltura in Canvas
Upload video, audio, and image files (or have your students do so) in a Canvas course, then embed this multimedia wherever you want to share it.
What are the benefits?
- With Kaltura, you have unlimited file storage and can upload individual media files up to 5GB each.
- You can add in-video quizzes to engage students as they watch video lectures, which can count in your Canvas course gradebook as assignments, if you want to track student performance.
- Kaltura’s auto-captioning streamlines adding closed-captioning and video transcripts to your media, which improves accessible for students with less time commitment for you.
UBC Blogs
Cost:
Free
Bandwidth:
Low demand
Privacy:
Verified by UBC’s Privacy Impact Assessment process.
UBC Blogs
Host open course websites, where you and your students can create, share, and comment on content.
What are the benefits?
- UBC Blogs allows content to be posted publicly, meaning people outside the course can engage with it and students can continue accessing it after the course is over.
- Content from other UBC platforms can be embedded into UBC Blogs, such as media from CLAS, pages from Wiki, or videos from Kaltura.
- You can provide direct access to UBC Blogs in Canvas through your Course Navigation or as part of a module, if you want to use both tools together.
UBC Wiki
Cost:
Free
Bandwidth:
Low demand
Privacy:
Verified by UBC’s Privacy Impact Assessment process.
UBC Wiki
Create, manage, and share content in a collaborative space that is editable by anyone with a UBC Campus-Wide Login (CWL).
What are the benefits?
- Enable quick collaboration on course content for your students, without having to do much setup yourself (like creating a site on UBC Blogs or setting up Canvas groups).
- Having students learn the markup language used in UBC Wiki provides an additional real-world skill, as this language is also used for other wiki platforms like Wikipedia.