Is there a list of tech tools at UM-Flint?

Answered By: Paul Streby

Last Updated: Aug 28, 2026 Views: 6

tldr; Below are tech tools for faculty and students at UM-Flint.

UM-Flint's Office of Online & Digital Education (ODE) provides a list of technologies available for faculty and/or students. Please note that the Thompson Library does not manage or provide technical support for most of these tools, and also that some are intended only for faculty and staff members.

Adobe Creative Cloud: A collection of desktop and mobile applications and services for designing print and online media, video editing, web development, photography, and more.
- How to Log In to Adobe Products
Annoto: Enhance your video lectures in Canvas and prime students to become active participants in classroom discussions.
- Annoto: Transforming Course Videos into Exciting Interactive Learning
Camtasia: A simple, all-in-one video editing and screen recording software program.
- Camtasia login
Canvas: U-M's learning management system with multiple features for teaching and learning in a flexible and robust environment.
- U-M Canvas login
Canvas Catalog: An online course registration system designed specifically for non-credit learning experiences. It provides a public-facing course storefront where learners can browse, enroll, pay for courses, and earn certificates of completion.
- Canvas Catalog
DesignPLUS (Cidi Labs): A comprehensive suite of tools from Cidi Labs designed to enhance the course-building experience in Canvas.
- DesignPLUS homepage
TidyUP (Cidi Labs): Cleanup tool for Canvas that helps educators and instructional designers quickly identify and remove unused files, outdated content, duplicates, and empty folders.
- TidyUP homepage
Dropbox: Dropbox at U-M is a cloud file storage option that provides automatic back-up and is readily accessible from any device.
- U-M Dropbox login
Instructor Tools: A new centralized hub designed to help you easily find and enable tools.
- Instructor Tools (ODE Knowledge Base)
Kaltura: A video-hosting alternative that allows you to create, publish, edit and analyze video without leaving Canvas.
- Kaltura - Record with Kaltura Capture (ODE Knowledge Base)
LabAnywhere: Created to provide off-campus and mobile access to ITS computer lab resources and software.
- LabAnywhere login
- Thompson Library FAQs on LabAnywhere
LinkedIn Learning: Access an on-demand learning platform with training resources about business, technology, and creative skills. Complement your current curriculum and integrate offerings into Canvas.
- LinkedIn Learning login
Maizey Canvas Connector: A tool that integrates the university's in-house AI platform with Canvas. This integration offers students a 24/7 intelligent assistant within their courses, able to answer course-specific questions, clarify concepts, and provide information about upcoming assignments and deadlines.
- U-M Maizey GPT (ODE Knowledge Base)
Maizey Image Describer: Designed to help you quickly remediate inaccessible images in your Canvas course.
- Maizey Image Describer (ODE Knowledge Base)
New Quizzes: The default quiz tool for UM-Flint.
- Canvas - New Quizzes (UM-Flint Intranet)
Perusall: Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates within Canvas via LTI assignments. It enables students and instructors to collaboratively annotate PDFs, images, documents, videos, podcasts or digital textbooks.
- Perusall at U-M (Ann Arbor ITS article)
Respondus LockDown Browser: An alternative browser designed for use with testing. This browser will limit the student's ability to copy, paste, or print during their exam and will also prevent students from using the web for other uses during testing.
- Respondus LockDown Browser - Students (tech requirements and download)
- Thompson Library FAQ: Do the library computers have the Respondus browser?
Slack: Chat with individuals and groups, including classes, across U-M in real-time. Share content and keep conversations organized and accessible from anywhere, anytime.
- Slack at U-M (Ann Arbor ITS article)
SpeedGrader: Enables faculty to grade and comment on student work in the Canvas interface without having to download each student submission.
- How do I use SpeedGrader?
TurnItIn: A tool that can be enabled on Canvas assignments to check student submissions for plagiarism. Submissions are compared to a large database of sources for similarities. A report is then generated for instructors to review any matches and associated sources.
- Turnitin - Plagiarism Review (ODE Knowledge Base)
U-M GPT: Provides the U-M community with private and no-cost access to GPT-4o (Omni), DALL-E 3, and other popular large language models.
- U-M GPT
U-M GPT Toolkit: Designed for those who require full control over their AI environments and models.
- U-M GPT Toolkit In Depth
U-M Maizey: Train a custom GPT on your datasets, allowing you to craft personalized GPT experiences, which you can keep private or share with your students or community. Maizey can easily integrate with Canvas and ingest data from sources like Dropbox, Google Drive, or public websites.
- Maizey Apps
Watermark Course Evaluations and Surveys: The software vendor used to manage and collect end-of-semester course evaluations.
- Watermark login
Wolverine Learning Assistant: Make complex information understandable and engaging as a superhuman tutor.
- Wolverine Learning Assistant
Yuja Panorama: Panorama is an accessibility tool in Canvas that allows instructors and instructional support staff to create, scan, and fix accessible digital content directly within Canvas.
- Panorama for Instructors
Zoom: Host virtual meetings and classrooms with live video, audio, and content sharing from most devices.
- Zoom at U-M

The Thompson Library also provides or links to web-based software not listed above. Online resources to help store and organize citations are available on our Citation Tools guide, and tools for accessing articles and books on the remotely are on our Library Bookmarklet & Browser Extensions guide.