Resources
Educational Technology
There are many trending resources available to develop engaging multimedia content for your online course. This section provides information about popular resources available to UH West O‘ahu faculty and staff either through UH site licenses or through free subscription options. This list of Commonly Used Third Party Online Tools has been approved by UH Data Governance. Use your UH Google account to access the link.
Hypothesis is a free social annotation tool for highlighting and commenting on webpages, documents or eBooks. Pressbooks installations and books hosted at pressbooks.com come with the Hypothesis plugin installed.
Perusall is another free social annotation tool that allows learners to make text-based annotations on a webpage, document or eBook. Users can highlight text and add comments. Class members are able to see and respond to each other’s shared annotations. Perusall can be integrated into a Laulima course by special request. Email Kenwrick Chan at kchan@hawaii.edu.
Laulima Support
This section provides links to information about how to use various tools in the Laulima Learning Management System when building Laulima sites. Some tutorials were recorded in previous versions of the LMS and some tool differences may be noted.
Laulima v19 Upgrade: What’s New?
Laulima Video Tutorials (UH West O’ahu)
UH West O’ahu Distance Learning YouTube Channel
Laulima Tutorials (UH Online Innovation Center)
Online Teaching Resources
This section provides resources related to standards and best practices for high-quality online teaching and learning.
- Content Creation
- Multimedia
- Laulima accessibility
- Third party apps
- Website accessibility
- Accessibility Checkers
- Accessible PDFs
- Remediation of existing content
- Individual student accommodations
- ADA and Section 504 legal matters
Quality Matters
OSCQR Standards
Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR)
Online Teaching Professional Development
In coordination with the Office of Professional Development and Academic Support (OPDAS), the Office of Distance Learning offers ongoing workshops on a variety of topics related to online teaching and learning. Check the calendar on the homepage for upcoming workshop dates. Please submit topic suggestions to: uhwodl@hawaii.edu
Courses to Help You Create Better Images and Videos