Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional is a web communication system that provides web conferencing, online meetings and multimedia presentations.
Blackboard Vista is an online course environment that can be used for distance education courses or to supply an online component for a traditional on-campus course. Vista's secure course site can be accessed with a Web browser 24/7 and enables instructors to update online materials anywhere, any time.
Blackboard Scholar is a social bookmarking tool that instructors can add to their Blackboard course.
BoilerCast, powered by iTunes U, uses digital audio delivery technology to deliver classroom audio recordings. Students can listen to BoilerCast lectures by downloading, streaming, or podcasting.
Course Email Lists can be requested each semester for any course and are pre-populated with students registered for the course.
Distributed Rendering Environment (DRE): The DRE allows students to render complex 3D models and animations on several computers distributed across the campus and is available through a Maya plug-in available in the Windows ITaP labs.
Dyknow software uses a wired or wireless internet connection to send information between desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, or interactive whiteboards. It offers electronic note delivery, interactive tools, content playback, classroom monitoring and anywhere, any time access.
eInstruction or "Clickers in the Classroom" can be used to add interactivity to even the largest lecture hall. Attendance, quizzes, learning games can all be done using the hand held response pad.
GoBinder allows any document to be turned into electronic note paper. Web pages, PDF's, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, class handouts, can all be organized digitally, so you can highlight and annotate.
OpenMind coming soon
Purdue career account: Your account login and password can be used to access most ITaP services, and provides you with 500 MB of storage. You are also provided with a @purdue.edu e-mail account.
Software Remote (formerly DACS) provides free access to a wide variety of programs from any computer with a Web browser. Many of the same software applications found in the ITaP labs are available with just an internet connection and your career account.
Respondus is a tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Purdue's course management system, WebCT Vista. Exams and assessments are created offline using a Windows interface. Respondus supports up to nine questions types, including calculated and algorithmic formats and can import questions from existing text or MS Word files. Many authoring features are included that allow easy formatting and the inclusion of graphics, audio and video.
Screencorder coming soon
Streaming Media Servers TLT supports two streaming servers: Windows Streaming Server and Helix Streaming Server
StudyMate is an authoring tool that allows you to create ten Flash-based activities and games using three simple templates. The Flash activities can be used with any web server or published directly to WebCT's Vista. StudyMate will import items from MS Word files, Respondus, IMS QTI and other formats as well as publisher test banks.
Turnitin: Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin identifies papers containing unoriginal material. Submitted papers are compared against the internet as well as academic and professional content not available on the public internet, including millions of commercial pages from books, newspapers and journals.