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Digital Literacy

Digital Tools Available in HKU

Digital Tools Categories Purposes For Staff For Student
Adobe Creative Cloud
(Adobe Design Premium)
Software suite To create content for print, video, and online distribution Yes Yes
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate Cloud For providing students with no-cost online Cloud-related education to accelerate Cloud learning Yes Yes
Audacity Audio For audio editing and record Yes Yes
Canva Graphic design For designing presentations, social media graphics, posters, book covers, business cards, and more Yes Yes
EndNote Citation For citation management Yes Yes
Foxit PDF PDF editing For viewing, creating, editing, managing, sharing and securing PDF documents Yes Yes
Google Apps for Education
(Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Drive, Google Site, etc.)
Software suite For storing files and media, providing collaborative opportunities, supporting video conferencing and syncing across devices Yes Yes
iClass Learning management system For enhancing the interactiveness in the classroom Yes No
Kahoot! Survey For creating quizzes and surveys Yes No
Mahara e-portfolio For creating journals or blogs, uploading files, embed social media resources from the web, collaborating with others, and building resume Yes Yes
MATLAB and Simulink Programming and numeric computing platform For analyzing data, developing algorithms, and creating models Yes Yes
Mentimeter Voting, presentation For interacting and engaging students in an online/hybrid learning environment Yes Yes
Microsoft Azure for Students Cloud computing service For downloading Microsoft software developer tools, Microsoft Learn, and career resources through LinkedIn No Yes
Microsoft Office 365 Software suite For supporting teaching and learning Yes Yes
Microsoft Teams Meeting For video conferencing and communication Yes Yes
Miro Collaboration, Whiteboards, & Brainstorming For collaboration and communication across multiple platforms simultaneously Yes Yes
Moodle Learning platform For supporting teaching and learning. Yes Yes
Notion Collaboration, Whiteboards, & Brainstorming For creating notes, databases, wikis, calendars, reminders, etc. Yes Yes
Nvivo Qualitative research software For managing Qualitative Research Data Yes Yes
Panopto Video For doing  video recording, playing back through Moodle courses, video management, editing, sharing, and inside-video searching Yes Yes
Perusall Collaborative reading For instructors to create collaborative reading activities for their students based on  text book or any other PDF or EPUB document Yes No
Poll Everywhere Survey For instructor or presenter to survey an audience during an event and display the results in real time; For students to vote on custom teacher-generated polls through smartphone or computer by visiting the website Yes Yes
Qualtrics Survey For designing and publishing survey online Yes Yes
SmartDraw Diagram For capturing and presenting information as diagrams or charts Yes Yes
SPSS Products Statistical software For complex statistical data analysis Yes Yes
Teams Workspace, Meeting For providing a chat-based workspace and a video conferencing tool Yes Yes
Turnitin Similarity check For checking potential plagiarism of papers, assignments and theses submitted by students Yes Yes
Zoom Meeting For holding video conferencing and online meetings Yes Yes