Tech tools to keep organized in your work as a professor - communicating with students, designing and delivering courses, managing a to-do list, and collaborating with colleagues.
I like google calendar reminders better than tasks. You can schedule them for a time, and then you get a reminder at that time (so you can do it or reschedule it).
Cal.com is like Calendly, but free for individuals. I can use multiple calendars to block time, set up links (public and private), easily get notifications on new appointments, etc. They also take payments, but since that doesn't apply to me, I can't say how well it works.
I'm also pretty happy with Spark on iOS and Windows. I had been using Mailbird until my campus IT banned it, but since that was about the same time Spark added a Windows version, it worked out OK. It's not perfect in the way it handles some reply-to addresses and it's slow on its calendaring sync, but I like it overall.
I’ve been very happy w Canary mail- I’m using the paid version on mobile devices and the free version on my Macs- todate it is the best email client that I’ve used in the iOS/OS landscape
"required, but not graded" How do you get students to cooperate when something is "not graded"? There are some students who just won't bother taking the time to do something that is not going to impact on their grade.
I might modify that to say "grade deduction if not done". Or, if it is a pre-requisite for some future (maybe summative) task, they either won't be able to complete or do well on the summative (follow-up) task or can even be locked out of the future task until the "required but not graded" task is done.
Can I give you some advice? It is true that you mentioned a lot of tools, but I think you seem to have missed some download tools. There are many video materials that we need to use in class, and some websites do not allow us to download its videos well. Maybe a screen recorder is a good choice, but I think a download tool would be faster and easier.
I've been using Doremi recently, here's the link: https://doremizone.net/ , hope it doesn't bother you.
I like google calendar reminders better than tasks. You can schedule them for a time, and then you get a reminder at that time (so you can do it or reschedule it).
Cal.com is like Calendly, but free for individuals. I can use multiple calendars to block time, set up links (public and private), easily get notifications on new appointments, etc. They also take payments, but since that doesn't apply to me, I can't say how well it works.
I'm also pretty happy with Spark on iOS and Windows. I had been using Mailbird until my campus IT banned it, but since that was about the same time Spark added a Windows version, it worked out OK. It's not perfect in the way it handles some reply-to addresses and it's slow on its calendaring sync, but I like it overall.
Ooh, I haven't heard of Cal.com - I will definitely check it out!
I’ve been very happy w Canary mail- I’m using the paid version on mobile devices and the free version on my Macs- todate it is the best email client that I’ve used in the iOS/OS landscape
I will check it out!
"required, but not graded" How do you get students to cooperate when something is "not graded"? There are some students who just won't bother taking the time to do something that is not going to impact on their grade.
I might modify that to say "grade deduction if not done". Or, if it is a pre-requisite for some future (maybe summative) task, they either won't be able to complete or do well on the summative (follow-up) task or can even be locked out of the future task until the "required but not graded" task is done.
Can I give you some advice? It is true that you mentioned a lot of tools, but I think you seem to have missed some download tools. There are many video materials that we need to use in class, and some websites do not allow us to download its videos well. Maybe a screen recorder is a good choice, but I think a download tool would be faster and easier.
I've been using Doremi recently, here's the link: https://doremizone.net/ , hope it doesn't bother you.
Maybe you can give it a try?