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Edit your documents on the go, with Microsoft Word. Save your files to OneDrive so you can access them on all your devices.

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Access and share your files and photos to all your devices using this cloud bases storage system. UNB has a site license with loads of storage space for everyone at UNB.

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Get more done with Microsoft 365

Create your best work with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and other Office apps. Plus, get 1 TB of cloud storage, document sharing, ransomware recovery, and more with OneDrive.

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Microsoft OneDrive | Sign In or Sign up | Free Cloud Storage

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Create your best work with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and other Office apps. Plus, get 1 TB of cloud storage, document sharing, ransomware recovery, and more with OneDrive.

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Create stunning graphics with ease. Requires an Adobe account.

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Adobe Online Photo Editor | Online Photoshop

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Use the Creative Cloud Express free online picture editor for quick and easy photo enhancement such as adding text to photos.  Edit, crop, and resize automatically for social ready images in seconds.

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Grade multiple choice, scantron style quizzes using this app.

A free version of this app is available, with paid upgrades for frequent use in large classes.

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Quick Key: iOS/Android Quiz & Formative Assessment Grading App

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Quick Key's mobile grading app makes measuring learning objectives effortless, and marking a breeze. Use a mobile device or school-issued tablet to grade 100 paper exit tickets, quizzes, formative assessments, benchmark or unit exams in less than 5 minutes. Give students instant feedback, and get instant data to inform instruction.

Now you can enable data-driven instruction in every classroom, by all teachers, without costly hardware, network upgrades, or extensive training. Invented by a teacher, backed by teachers on Kickstarter, Quick Key is one technology tool your teachers will love to use.

Quick Key's mobile grading app is one piece of a rapid feedback platform that makes tracking student progress effortless, using real-time data. Quick Key was built to serve schools transitioning from paper to digital, as well as 100% 1-to-1 environments.

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Quick Key integrates with 1-to-1 Device Quizzing Send quizzes to student devices. No sign-in or app installs needed. Get an instant score and itemization report on your device Mobile Paper Grading Give quizzes and tests on paper. Grade the papers with your phone or

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A D2L app for your students to keep track of their upcoming work.

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Welcome to the next generation mobile learning experience - learning that simply works for today's modern learner. The Brightspace platform's award-winning ¹ mobile experience is optimized to maximize productivity for people on-the-go while providing a complete learning experience that works on any device. Staying connected to learning has never been so convenient and engaging!

Mobile Apps that Ignite Learning on the Go
#1 rating for student apps in both the Google and Apple app stores.
Our mobile apps were created based on hundreds of design sessions with users to help students and instructors be more productive. They're optimized to make it super-easy to complete the tasks that people want to tackle quickly while on-the-go and, as our app ratings show, our users love them!

Students see what's up next in class, check grades and review content. If users are looking to do more, they can launch into the full experience from their phone without having to sign in again. Optimized to display beautifully on any screen-size, there are no sacrifices when accessing Brightspace from a phone.
"The Brightspace platform allows our instructors to deliver content in multiple formats to multiple devices; PCs and a variety of mobile devices. Devices our students use every day."

An App that Students Love

Rated by students as the best student mobile app, Brightspace Pulse makes it fun and easy for learners to stay on top of the work they have coming. With a visual to show upcoming activities, learners can use Brightspace Pulse to plan their week - knowing when they really have to buckle down. They can track upcoming assignments, access course content online or offline, submit a discussion post, take a quiz, access grades, or view their course activity feed.

It's easy to stay up-to-date with app notifications for new content and upcoming due dates, an activity feed of course announcements and active discussions that the student is following. We know that seeing a grade can be a stressful moment. Students can choose to reveal their grade whenever they choose.

We spent years connecting with students on campuses to find out what matters the most and designed Brightspace Pulse with a growth mindset to reduce anxiety and build confidence with friendly feedback and messages.

We have sustained the #1 rating for student apps in both the Google and Apple app stores because we built our apps optimized for the most frequent activities students need to do while on-the-go.

Feedback from Students:

"Excellent app, it's a lifesaver for students with busy schedules." - A Google User Mar 21, 2019

"Pulse is GREAT! It is making college life so much easier!!" - Mar 18, 2019

"I never rate apps, but if you use Brightspace get this app! My favorite feature is in the "upcoming" section, I can see what is due for all of my classes by date. It is more than helpful. Thank you creators!" - A Google User Mar 11

Uncompromised Learning that Works on Any Device

Our mobile apps were created based on hundreds of design sessions with users to help students and instructors be more productive. You work hard to deliver world-class learning experiences - don't let your technology compromise that work. Once someone is ready to dive in, they will have complete access to anything in Brightspace no matter what device they're on, without being tethered to a desktop. The reason they can do this is because Brightspace is the only LMS that adapts to the screen size by using responsive design-the same modern architecture that industry leaders such as Google, Amazon and Pinterest use.

Some platforms may claim they are mobile-friendly, but you can only access parts of the site on a mobile phone. Look at other learning platforms on your phone that use the three-column layout of the past. It just doesn't work on a phone, and results in the web and app experiences being inconsistent and inaccessible.

Brightspace adapts automatically to fit the screen of the device being used without comprising the learning experience. The same experience across multiple devices means faster and easier adoption and usage for you and your learners. And that's critical in reaching todays modern learner because studies have shown that students study on average 40 minutes longer on mobile devices than on desktops and finish course material 45% faster! ²

Better mobile experiences for you and your learners

Other LMS vendors don't support mobile browsers, which means that students must have the latest device to use their separate app. With Brightspace, everyone gets a consistent experience across browsers and apps.

No horizontal scrolling or pinch and zoom. Our design just works on any device!

We're able to deliver one experience because we built it from the ground up as a single responsive platform, allowing us to deliver solutions and innovations to our customers faster and with higher quality because we're only building once.

Get the same gorgeous experience whether you're accessing the platform from a desktop or mobile device.

No matter what device a student has or can afford, he or she has the same user-friendly access to learning through mobile browsers, which removes potential barriers to education.

Upload video and audio right from your phone!

Don't Take Our Word for It

We know that the quality of the mobile experience is best realized through hands-on testing, so try it out. Try using both Brightspace and our competitors' platforms from a mobile browser - or launch into our responsive design from our Pulse mobile app with single sign-on. We are confident that you'll love what you see with Brightspace. If you care about reaching every learner on any mobile device - then D2L is your platform. Reach out to us at sales@d2l.com.

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Mobile Apps that Ignite Learning on the Go #1 rating for student apps in both the Google and Apple app stores. Our mobile apps were created... The Best Mobile Learning Experience Welcome to the next generation mobile learning experience - learning that simply works for today's modern learner.

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Easily collaborate with your students using this web conferencing tool. A great way to video conference with your students.

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Microsoft® Teams replaces Skype for Business Online as Microsoft's professional online meeting solution.

Teams combines instant messaging, video conferencing, calling, and document collaboration into a single, integrated app - and enables exciting new ways of working.

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Skype for business - with security and control of Microsoft

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Cost effective and collaborative tools for businesses of any size. Collaborate with anyone, anywhere, on any device.

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Ask your students questions and receive answers live in class. Share those responses to provide immediate feedback!

Available for all at UNB with UNB's site license.

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Stream talks from fascinating presenters on a variety of topics.

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Get a daily email featuring the latest talk, plus a quick mix of trending content.

By subscribing, you understand and agree that we will store, process and manage your personal information according to our Privacy Policy

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Digital storytelling at it's best. Adobe Spark Video records your voice over images and graphics that you select from a repository to make compelling animated videos. This app is simple to use and it's free.

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Make one-on-one or group video calls of up to ten people. Stream the call over Youtube.

Great for group work.

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Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.

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iBooks allows you to store and read pdfs and books. You can also take notes, highlight and find definitions. Books that were made for iBooks may include video.

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Doceri turns your iPad into a whiteboard screencasting tool. It allows you to record videos along with your voice as you draw on the screen. This can be useful for creating short lessons, solving example problems or "flipping" the classroom.

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Annotate pdfs, Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.

Great for taking research notes or grading papers.

This app comes at a price of $9.99

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Over the years, ProfHacker has featured several posts about grading. Back in 2010, Nels asked, " Are you locked in grading jail?" and followed up his question with another post that explained " Breaking Out of Grading Jail." Billie Hara added " On the Comforts of Grading Jail" while Jason wrote about " Grading Triage." There's even a helpful Archive post by Natalie on grading. But grading is one part of professorial life that will never go away, and it's the time of year when we're all probably up to our ears in assignments to assess.

Last year, I was inspired by Mark Sample's efforts at a paperless classroom, so I decided to try paperless grading. After considering various possibilities, I decided to use iAnnotate. We've written about iAnnotate before on ProfHacker. Jason wrote about it in " Mark Up Your PDFs on Your iPad with iAnnotate" and Mark followed that introduction with a more in depth post. I have to confess that I almost never use iAnnotate for marking journal articles or other research documents, but over the course of a semester, it completely revolutionized my grading process.

When I first started to use iAnnotate it would only work on PDFs but in recent upgrades, the app has expanded to also be able to mark Word documents. This is helpful because no matter how many times I ask students to turn in their work as PDFs, someone always sends me a .doc or docx file.

The app has made grading faster and less painful for me. It has allowed me to stop lugging around stacks and stacks of paper. It allows me to both return assignments to students electronically and also keep a copy of the marked document in my files. It syncs easily with DropBox, another longtime ProfHacker favorite, so that you can transfer your files from the iPad to the cloud or another computer. Transferring the files will allow you to delete them from your iPad but not lose them forever (my main complaint about PDF grading is the amount of space PDFs hog on my tablet). iAnnotate also syncs with Google Drive, Box, Skydrive, and WebDAV if you use one of those cloud services instead of DropBox. Marking PDFs has also eliminated the problem of indecipherable handwriting. My penmanship isn't terrible, but over the course a long grading session, its quality noticeably deteriorates. Digital marking takes handwriting out of the equation, or rather, it can take handwriting out of the equation though you can also choose to keep practicing your script on the PDFs if you want.

With iAnnotate, you can underline or highlight parts of the paper. I will often highlight typos, sentences that are unclear, or phrases that I find especially interesting. I can add comments to the highlight to explain why I've highlighted that particular word or phrase. You can also add comment boxes to make more general observations or ask questions, or if you would prefer, you can type directly on the document and adjust the font, size, and color to fit the available space.

I frequently use the stamp feature, which offers letters and numbers (I use these to indicate scores or letter grades), check marks, question marks, stars of various colors, smiley faces-even a skull and crossbones (I have not yet had occasion to use the skull and crossbones). And if you'd rather, you can transform a word or phrase that you find yourself repeatedly tying onto the document into a stamp-I have added things like "yes and?" and "example?" to my collection. Finally, there is a pencil tool for those who want to write with either a stylus or a finger on the document. I have used this tool (with stylus) when a document has required a signature, but since my manual dexterity leaves much to be desired on a tablet more generally, it's not something I do very often.

Once you have finished annotating the paper, you can email it directly back to the student (or collaborator or whomever). The app offers a variety of options here as well. You can opt to mail only the pages with annotations or the entire document. You also have your choice of an editable annotated document, a "flattened" version (non-editable), or the original unmarked document. You can also send a summary of annotations with or without the document.

It's also worth mentioning that while I was happy enough with iAnnotate when I first started to use it, I truly fell in love ice I paired it with an iPad keyboard. Initially, I used the Logitech Ultratin Bluetooth Keyboard. More recently, I have been using the Belkin Ultimate Keyboard Case. Both made the grading process even faster since I found that my typing was far more accurate on a bluetooth keyboard than it ever was on the iPad's touchscreen.

We'll revisit grading workflow in the Open Thread Wednesday, but if you have tried grading PDFs either with iAnnotate or another interface, please let us know in the comments section.
[Creative Commons licensed image by Flickr user MacVicar]
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Over the years, ProfHacker has featured several posts about grading. Back in 2010, Nels asked, " Are you locked in grading jail?" and followed up his question with another post that explained " Breaking Out of Grading Jail." Billie Hara added " On the Comforts of Grading Jail" while Jason wrote about " Grading Triage."

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Is a shared, zoomable whiteboard that allows you to draw directly on your iPad and collaborate in real-time over the Internet, with other people that have the app.

A limitation of this app is that it doesn't allow you to hear your collaborators, it is a visual tool only.

This app is no longer available for free, it's available for $14.99

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A QR code reader allows you to quickly access websites without typing in the URL. Using a QR Code Generator, you can create your own QR codes to include on student handouts or project them to the class. QR codes can be used to share contact information and plain text.

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Allows you to easily save files and move between the your computer and your mobile devices. This app will definitely help you to improve your productivity. Many other apps have the option of saving and retrieving files from your Dropbox account.

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Save articles and videos to read/view on any of your devices later even without an Internet Connection.

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Connecting the Pocket button provides the best way to save pages to Pocket in just one click..

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Assignment Grader allows you to grade and annotate assignments that were uploaded to D2L even without an Internet Connection.

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Brightspace Assignment Grader | Mobile Grading App | D2L

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A mobile grader app that makes marking faster. Stay organized on the go with enhanced feedback tools. Available for iPad and Android tablets.

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This productivity app allows you to take notes and pictures on your iPad, collaborate with others and access your notes on your computer.

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Best Note Taking App - Organize Your Notes with Evernote

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Our note taking app helps you capture and prioritize ideas, projects and to-do lists, so nothing falls through the cracks. Start your free trial today!