Tech Tips

This feature is a great resource for technology questions of all kinds, highlighting the many different technologies available to BYU faculty. Here you can read an overview of a featured technology or get in-depth application ideas with helpful links, tutorials, and videos. If you have a valuable insight about using technology effectively, please share it by contacting Taylor Halverson.

4 Ways Faculty Can Use Google+ Hangouts

4 Ways Faculty Can Use Google+ Hangouts

For the innovating professor who uses Google+, here are a few ways to use Google+ Hangouts that might actually change how you do things.

Google+ Hangouts is a great video-conferencing tool that can help faculty hold office hours, bring in guest speakers, and collaborate with ease on a variety of projects with TA’s and other faculty.


3 Ways to Hold Virtual Office Hours

3 Ways to Hold Virtual Office Hours

Check out all the options available to you for "going digital" when it comes to your office hours.

There are many options available to professors who want to streamline the process of setting up and having appointments with students.  Hopefully, with these resources at your disposal, you’ll be able to reach more students more easily.


Make more dynamic presentations with Prezi

Make more dynamic presentations with Prezi

Turn your presentations into thinking and discovery tools with Prezi

Prezi is a free online presentation tool that allows you to create and share dynamic presentations. Without slides and bullet points, you are able to explore relationships among ideas through movement, allowing the form of your presentation to support its content. According to Dr. Gideon Burton, “It’s not just a presentation tool, it’s a thinking and discovering tool.”


Interactive PowerPoint

Interactive PowerPoint

Your classroom presentations don't have to be linear.

These methods of non-sequential navigation in PowerPoint can help you add flexibility to your class sessions and better respond to the needs of your students.


The World is Our Campus

The World is Our Campus

Powerful software provides new possibilities for your classroom.

Adobe Connect makes it possible for students and professionals from all over the world to share, discuss, and learn together.  Read BYU Professor Mike Bush's experience to see how you might use it in your classes.


The Document Camera

The Document Camera

An overhead projector that doesn't require transparencies.

A document camera displays a live image of whatever you place on its flat surface. It’s a great tool for showing small objects to students, collaborating on group notes, and more.