Grow With Your Classroom
As we look forward to what a classroom is supposed be in the future, we are expected to understand new concepts that may not be common knowledge to every discipline. This divide between technology and traditional instruction has become more prevalent than ever, and as instructors we are expected to adapt to it.
This page is intended to help guide you in utilizing aspects of your classroom beyond just the traditional lecture environment and provide guidance to other resources that may prove useful when reworking course content to fit active, and hybrid learning.
We intend to update this page regularly with content made in collaboration with faculty that is currently implementing these strategies in their teaching to help you grow as an instructor in the modern day.
If you are a faculty member who would like to be a part of this evolving initiative, please submit a request to the Classroom Help team via our Feedback Form and we’ll gladly get in touch!
The Software Center application or portal contains a list of approved software available for you to install. Local administrative access is not required to install software from the Software Center. Your computer must be located on-campus or connected to the campus VPN server to access the applications included in the "Software Center".
Please visit the Software On-Demand/Self Service Web Page or the Classroom Software List Web Page for more information.
For information about the open library computers visit The University Library Spaces and Tech Page.
Cal Poly Pomona provides a Virtual Software Lab (VSL) experience for faculty and staff to remotely log into existing campus lab computers and utilize academic software only found on them from a personal computers through a browser!
Please visit the Virtual Software Lab Website for more information.
Guides coming soon!
Canvas is the primary learning platform used by Cal Poly Pomona and will be the most common software you will use for getting course content to your students over the Internet.
Please visit the CAFE site for Canvas Policies, Procedures, Tutorials, FAQs, and Integrations for more information on getting started.
Kaltura (or sometimes referred to as streaming.cpp.edu) is a video hosting platform designed to help make it easier for instructors to upload course content in one place that easily integrates directly into Canvas.
As many of you may already be familiar, Zoom is a software that many of us use for hosting meetings, and lectures over the internet.
If you'd like to know more about how to take full advantage of the different features offered by Zoom, please visit one of the following links for more information:
In many of our Standard and HyFlex classrooms, as well as some conference, and other multi-purpose rooms, you will have the ability to wireless present content from a computer or mobile device using Mersive Solstice.
For more information on setting up Wireless Presentation, please visit the Learn Your Classroom web guide on Wireless Presentation.
Please note that to use Solstice in classrooms at Cal Poly Pomona, your device needs to be connected to Eduroam Wi-Fi by following the eduroam Setup Web Guide.
Flex 11 is a software that can be used with HoverCam document cameras that allows for annotation and screenshots of documents that can later be shared in Canvas courses.
HoverCam provides an easy-to-follow series of videos for using the software on their HoverCam Academy Website.
This software is the standard for creating slide presentations, but not many of us fully use it. So, we've filtered through and are providing a list of useful documentation provided by Microsoft on effective use of PowerPoint so you can more easily adapt course content: