Faculty Knowledge Base

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Accessibility

Ensuring that courses and course materials are accessible for all students provides everyone with an equitable opportunity for student success.

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Instructional & Course Materials

Faculty have a number of resources/materials to pull from for use in your course curriculum.

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Remote Testing

This category provides knowledge base articles on how to set-up and deliver tests/exams through Blackboard or other means.

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Semester Prep

These core knowledge base articles provide essential guidance to faculty in preparing for the start of a new term.

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Looking for specific software & platform topics?

Adobe Creative Suite

Austin Community College is an Adobe Creative Campus, making the Creative Suite available to faculty, staff, and students at reduced or no cost.

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Blackboard

As the ACC Learning Management System, Blackboard provides countless features and tools to deliver your class either fully-online or in a hybrid format.

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Class for Zoom

With Class, instructors can add teaching and learning tools to Zoom. Faculty can take attendance, hand out assignments, give a quiz, grade work.

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Google Tools

Faculty, staff, and students have access to GSuite, a set of tools that promotes collaboration and sharing among peers. These tools can be seamlessly integrated into your course.

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Packback

Packback is an education technology platform that builds “smart” discussion communities to allow professors to promote and assess critical thinking in students.

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Padlet

Padlet is an online bulletin board accessible on any device via a web link or the Padlet app. Padlet supports collaboration and interaction.

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Panopto

Panopto is an asynchronous video communication tool, enabling the creation and sharing of on-demand videos and screen recordings, as well as one-to-many live streaming.

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Suitable

Suitable is a digital badge delivery platform used to award graphic representations of micro-credentials earned by students, faculty, and staff at ACC.

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VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways – using voice, text, audio file, or video.

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WebEx

WebEx is one of the supported web-conferencing solutions at ACC. From holding virtual office hours to delivering a real-time class session or meeting,

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Zoom

Zoom is the newest web conferencing solution supported at ACC. While many of it’s core functions are self-explanatory, these articles provide additional support on using the tool in courses.

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