Instructional technology tools refer to the software ITS provides Trinity faculty to enhance their overall teaching experience. These tools enhance faculty teaching and delivery, but also Instructional Technology solutions are managed by ITS.
The Adobe Creative Cloud Suite is available on Trinity labs, library, and podium computers. For more information, click here (Link to updated Adobe CC Suite article).
"Lecture capture" is the process of recording classroom lectures or presentations and making them available remotely and on-demand. Our current lecture capture software is Echo360.
Google Forms are used in the classroom to create short and easily graded quizzes directly assigned to students and to create short surveys designed to collect data directly from a small group.
Poll Everywhere is a cloud-based response system. It provides tools for live polling and works with in-person or remote students. Poll Everywhere allows faculty to share the polling results live or use the results as a short quiz.
Presentation software can be used to share information and media like images, videos, and audio clips to engage visual learners. Trinity supports both desktop and cloud-based presentation options.
Examples of desktop presentation software include Keynote, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.
Qualtrics is a web survey system that offers powerful capabilities for building, distributing, and analyzing surveys to large or complex groups of participants. It includes powerful data analysis tools and many reporting options.
The Trinity University Strategic Communications & Marketing division now offers Trinity-branded websites that faculty can easily use for simple lab websites or classroom/personal blogs.
IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a software package for statistical analysis and highly complex data manipulation.
SAS (Statistical Analysis System) is a software suite developed by the SAS Institute for advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, data management, and predictive analytics.
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis software that organizes and analyzes non-numerical or unstructured data. NVivo supports qualitative researchers in organizing, analyze and discover insights in small or large volumes of unstructured or qualitative data, including but not limited to interviews, open-ended survey responses, journal articles, social media, and web content.
MATLAB is a mathematical and graphical software package with numerical, graphical, and programming capabilities. It has built-in functions to perform many operations, and there are toolboxes that can be added to augment these functions (e.g., for signal processing). (Description from Matlab)
Qualtrics is a respected and powerful web-based survey system for building and distributing surveys for research. It also includes sophisticated data analysis tools for sifting through survey results.
Supercomputing, or high-performance computing (HPC), is a computer or cluster of computers with a high level of computing performance when compared to a typical computer. The performance of a supercomputer is measured in floating-point operations per second instead of million instructions per second. High-performance computers can run advanced applications efficiently and quickly and are used mainly in computer science and for computationally intensive tasks like molecular modeling, climate research, weather forecasting, quantum mechanics, and database analysis.