The following are some of the tools and technologies available in and supported by Classroom Technology Services:
OWL-Space
WEB-BASED COURSE TOOL SYSTEM
Rice University has chosen OWL-Space for use in online courses at Rice. It is an environment for the creation and management of online course and collaboration resources. Instructors may choose pick and choose a few of the OWL-Space tools in conjunction with other online course materials they may have created, or they may choose to create an entire course environment using OWL-Space.
- Content:
- Content creation and path tools
- Any media or content types can be used within OWL-Space
- Student ability to annotate content pages
- Online glossary
- Assessment:
- Online quizzing and grading
- Question and variable randomization on quizzes
- Anonymous surveys
- Self-tests requiring no grading
- Student-view assessment tools:
- Access to quiz scores and grading
- Instructor-view assessment tools:
- Quiz scores and grading
- Analysis of quiz grades per quiz, per question
- General course tools:
- Support for student groups and presentations
- Course calendar
- Bulletin board
- Chat rooms
- OWL-Space links:
Classroom
Technology Services (cts@rice.edu)