Below are links to information and tutorials about tech tools available to all faculty, students, and staff of Middlebury, whether at the College, Institute, or Schools. Resources are added here as they become available. For information about additional software available at Middlebury, including Adobe Creative Suite and Office 365, check out the Middlebury ITS Software page.
Course Hub
Course Hub is the starting point for accessing official course information and for provisioning digital resources for classes. Access course descriptions, schedules, and rosters, and also provision digital
Google Apps for EDU
Middlebury Google Apps is a suite of web-based Google services such as Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and more. All Middlebury faculty, staff and students have access to Google
MiddCreate
With MiddCreate, faculty, staff, and students can create online websites and spaces for writing, self-expression, professional, academic, or creative portfolios, and more. MiddCreate is Middlebury’s open web design project,
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda)
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda) is an incredible video-based online resource for learning software or building your creative and business skills, available for free to academic year faculty, staff, and
Poll Everywhere
With Poll Everywhere, a classroom response system, faculty can promote engagement and interactivity in their classes.
Toolshed Guides
Below is a searchable, sortable list of tech resources and guides available to faculty, students, and staff at Middlebury. You can sort by the different columns or enter a keyword in the search box to filter to specific topics.
| Title | Tools | Keywords | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creating Posters with Adobe Illustrator | Adobe Illustrator, Excel, DeltaGraph, ChemDraw | Graphic Design, Layout, Presentation, Posters, Printing | students, staff, faculty |
| Poster Printing (Vermont) | Plotter Printers | Davis Library, Armstrong Library, Posters, Printing, Vermont, Presentation, Graphic Design | students, staff, faculty |
| Finding Photos | Creative Commons, Unsplash, Pixabay , Wikimedia Commons, Flickr | Photos, Stock Photos, Presentation, Graphic Design | students, staff, faculty |
| Canvas Learning Management System | Canvas Commons, Course Hub, Canvas App, | Canvas, Templates, Examples, Guide, Videos, Webinars | faculty |
| MiddCreate Course Sites | WordPress, Known, Dokuwiki, and Omeka | Domain of One's Own, Choosing Digital Tools | faculty |
| Google Drive, Canvas | Google Drive, Canvas, Guide | faculty | |
| Enable Office 365/Canvas Integration | Office 365, Canvas | Office 365, Canvas, Guide | faculty |
| Canvas, Course Hub | IT Help Desk ticket, Directed study, Student Clubs, Working groups, Communities of Practice | faculty | |
| Panopto | Recording, Course Media | faculty | |
| Canvas Commons | Canvas Commons | Resource Sharing, Copy-right Policy, Intellectual Property | faculty |
| WordPress | WordPress | WordPress, MiddCreate, Sites DOT, Website Creation | students, staff, faculty |
| Tools to Create a Program Logic Model | MiddCreate, | Logic Model | students, staff, faculty |
| MiddCreate, Easy!Appointments, Hypothes.is, | Applications, Website Design | students, staff, faculty | |
| Camtasia Basics | Camtasia | Audio Recording, Podcasts | students, staff, faculty |
| Creaing a Website or E-Portfolio | MiddCreate, Sites DOT, Word Press, Square Space, Wix, Weebly, Lynda | E-Portfolio, Webiste | students, staff, faculty |
| WordPress Privacy Settings | WordPress, MiddCreate, Sites DOT | Public, Protected, Private, Visibility, Hack Education, Reverse Search, FERPA | students, staff, faculty |
| MiddCreate Domains | MiddCreate | Domain of One's Own, Domain name, website | students, staff, faculty |
| Setting up your new WordPress site | WordPress, MiddCreate, Sites DOT | Guide, website | students, staff, faculty |
| WordPress, MiddCreate, Sites DOT | Guide, Guest account, website, Exporting/Importing | students | |
| WordPress, MiddCreate, Sites DOT | Worksheet, Transcription, Mobile App, Security | students, staff, faculty | |
| Tips on Using iMovie | iMovie | Movies, photos, Import, Export | students, staff, faculty |
| Upload to YouTube | YouTube | YouTube | students, staff, faculty |
| Recording Resources | Panopto, Zoom, Camtasia, Quicktime, Skype, & (Keynote, Movenote, iMovie, Doceri, Explain Everything, Screen Chomp, Jing, Capture Fox, Movenote, BB flashback express, CamStudio, Webinaria, Powerpoint) | Recording, Production | students, staff, faculty |
| Video Production Guidelines | Creative Commons, Unsplash | Planning, Production, Camera People, Cameras, Audio, Interviews, Lighting, Copyright, Post-Production, Media Services | students, staff, faculty |
| Handbrake (Extracign DVD clips) | Handbrake | Ripping, DVD, legality | students, staff, faculty |
| Importing Media from a Digital Camcorder | Canon XA10 camcorder, imovie | Importing | students, staff, faculty |
| Getting Started with Adobe Premier | Adobe Premier | Importing, Editing | students, staff, faculty |
| Record and edit audio with Audacity | Audacity | Recording, Editing, Audio, Podcasts | students, staff, faculty |
| Building your Web Presence | Google+, LinkedIn, Slideshare, YouTube, Vimeo, etc. | Content Marketing, Blogging | students, staff, faculty |
| Tips for Stronger Personal Website Security | MiddCreate, WordPress, Backup Wizard, Roboform, KeePass, LastPass, 1Password, Dashlane, WorldFence, DokuWiki | Content Management, Safety, Surveillance, Access, Permissions, Plugins, Backups, Login | students, staff, faculty |
| Digital Tools Guide | All DCL available tools | Tools installed on DLC and Media Lab computers to create, express, understand, analyze, network, and recall information | students, staff, faculty |
| Digital Self-Protection | Duck Duck Go, Tor, Witopia, VPN, | Digital autonomy, Feminist Cybersecurity, Resources, Data Encryption, Ad-blocking | students, staff, faculty |
| Panopto, Canvas, Zoom, PowerPoint, Prezi, Skype, Keynote, Skype, Google Hangouts, Screenflow, iPad Capture Kit | Remote Learning, Continuity, Social Learning, The Attention Economy, Community Agreements | faculty | |
| Media Production Tools | Media Production Tools | Project management, podcasts, MiddCreate, websites, video | students, staff, faculty |
| ThingLink | ThingLink | Virtual, Remote Learning, Language Learning, Augmented Reality, 360 Photos and Video, Continuity, Social Learning, The Attention Economy, Marketing, Training | students, staff, faculty |
| Zoom | Zoom | students, staff, faculty | |
| Panopto | Panopto | students, staff, faculty | |
| Google Apps for Edu | Goolgle | students, staff, faculty | |
| Coures Hub | Course Hub | students, staff, faculty | |
| Canvas | Canvas | students, staff, faculty | |
| Sites DOT—Middlebury WordPress | Sites DOT | students, staff, faculty | |
| LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda) | students, staff, faculty | ||
| MiddCreate | MiddCreate | students, staff, faculty | |
| Poll Everywhere – Classroom polling | Poll Everywhere | students, staff, faculty |