Instructor Support Materials…Courseware Options
While a number of open education textbooks include test banks or PowerPoint slides, only a few provide online homework management systems.
Here are three options:
TopHat: TopHat allows faculty to adopt and customize affordable, interactive textbooks. As well, TopHat provides a platform for conducting in-class polling, online assignments, and assessments/exams.
- Contact Justin Lipp, lipp@sonoma.edu
- Come to the Working Session with TopHat expertise available
Canvas: There is much you can do using the Canvas platform as your online homework management system. It is always available and free to your students.
- Contact Joel Gould, gouldjo@sonoma.edu or
- Come to the Working Sessions with Canvas expertise available
LoudCloud: With this option, you work with the bookstore to draw on their library of support materials for various OERs. Your students pay a small fee.
- Contact Steve Higginbotham, manager: bkstrmgr@sonoma.edu, or
- Come to the Working Sessions
Questions?
Email Justin Lipp, (lipp@sonoma.edu) Director of Center for Teaching & Educational Technology (CTET).