Video Annotation is Here!
Interested in the ability to create video annotations and have students interact on video assignments?
You can now annotate or create online discussions right on video content with Feedback Fruits Interactive Video. Using Interactive Video, students can reply to instructor discussions threads or get credit for starting their own. Students also have the options to leave comments in multiple formats: text, audio, or video.
Feedback Fruits Interactive Video is one of three interactive study material tools that have been newly adopted by the University of Minnesota. Interactive Documents and Interactive Audio complete the trio. Also available are the Peer Review and Group evaluation tools available for all UMN faculty.
Want to learn more about Interactive Video and Feedback Fruits?
- Review the Interactive Videos: Teacher View and Student View
- Attend the Feedback Fruits Use Interactive Study Materials Webinar, September 24 at 10 am.
- Request an assignment design consultation with an ITSS instructional designer.
- View all Feedback Fruits Tools available to UMN Faculty.
Tools Update Fall 2025
The summer months bring changes and updates to Academic Technology including:
- The addition of two Generative AI platforms Google Gemini and Notebook LM
- New Accessibility tools like the Canvas Accessibility Checker, and UDOIT, and Grackledocs, and Microsoft Accessibility Checkers
- A new Exam Proctoring tool for Canvas in Honorlock
You can learn about these tools and more in Fall 2025: Academic Technology Tools Update and look to TeachingSupport for upcoming events or to find past recordings.
Speaking of Generative AI...
The University of Minnesota released two new training resources"
- Gen AI + U: An Instructor’s Guide to AI Literacy which is a guide for UMN instructors to navigate the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in education, and
- GenAI+U: A Student Learning Experience contains three modules that focus on definitions, ethics, and learning behavior. Bonus: This was created by librarians!
You can review more information about Generative AI programming at Navigating AI.umn.edu.