Approved Collegewide Educational Technologies

Below is a list of approved educational technologies for in-person and online classrooms that support teaching and learning.

How are Collegewide Educational Technologies Reviewed and Approved?

The Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable (TLTR) endorsed the process in May 2025. This process highlights how educational technology needs are assessed, identifies appropriate stakeholders, how current educational technologies are reviewed and how current educational technologies are sunset or removed. 

What about educational technologies that are used only in specific departments or courses? Department/Course specific tools such as publisher LTIs must be reviewed by the Office of Online Learning and Educational Technology but may not need to go through a larger shared governance process. 

Employees must use the following form to submit proposals for collegewide or department specific educational tools. The form is monitored year round.

Core Platforms for Teaching and Learning at CCSF

Canvas, Google Workspace for Education, and Zoom are the primary systems used by instructors and students at City College of ²ÝÝ®ÉçÇø to support communication, collaboration, and course engagement.

  • Canvas (Instructure)
  • Google Workspace for Education
  • Zoom Workplace at CCSF

Educational Technologies - Categorized for Clarity

Instructure/Canvas Tools
Use

Canvas Commons is an online repository that allows instructors and institutions to:

  • Find and import learning resources (like assignments, quizzes, modules, or even entire courses).
  • Share your own content with yourself, your institution, or the wider Canvas community.
  • Reuse and update materials efficiently across different Canvas courses.
Support
Funding

Integrated with Canvas and fully funded by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.

Use

Chat support allows students and faculty to chat with a Canvas support technician.

Hotline support allows faculty to call the 24/7 hotline to speak with a Canvas support technician. The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) removed funding for student phone support in Spring 2021, and to better support students during remote instruction, CCSF continued support through Spring 2022. Now, when students call the support number, they will be redirected to use the , which remains in place. To avoid any confusion, we recommend removing the 24/7 support number from resources that you may have provided your students.

Support

In Canvas, click the Help Button on the bottom left of the Global Navigation, and the two support options can be found near the top of the list.

Funding
  • Chat Support fully funded by the CCCCO until June 30, 2026.
  • Hotline Support fully funded by OLET until June 30, 2026.
Use

Canvas Credentials, renamed after Canvas purchased Badgr, integrates with Canvas courses and accounts to award portable digital badges to students as they complete course modules. Badges may be awarded for any achievement. Badges can recognize diverse achievements, going beyond the simple metrics found in degrees and transcripts to provide a rich picture of a student’s learning journey.

Support
Funding

Integrated with Canvas and fully funded June 30, 2026.

Use

Folio is a Canvas product based on Portfolium, and it an be used instead of ePortfolios as a place where a student can display and discuss the significant submissions and experiences that are happening during their learning process.

Support
  • Folio/Portfolium ACR (Currently unavailable as they replace the previous ACR)
Funding

Integrated with Canvas at no-cost. 

Use

Also known as New Quizzes. This app is supported by Canvas with a goal of replacing the classic quiz tool. 

Support
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no-cost. 

Use

A communication and video management tool that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio media. It is fully integrated into Canvas.

Support
  • - CCSF's Educational Technology Center
Funding

Fully funded by the CCCCO until June 30, 2027.

Communication & Live Engagement
Use

Calendly automatically schedules meetings for you and includes unique Zoom video conference details for each meeting.

Connect Calendly + Zoom to automatically add video conferencing details to your calendar events and meeting reminders so everyone is prepared and on time.

  • Automatically generate unique Zoom conference details for every meeting you schedule.
  • Eliminate the need to manually enter or remember conferencing details for all your meetings.
  • Update meeting details in real time when rescheduling or canceling. 

Note: No Canvas LTI available.

Support
Funding

Integrated at no-cost. 

Use

CityZoom, also known as the Zoom LTI Pro app, supports the ability to schedule/join/manage meetings within Canvas.

Instructors can use the LTI Pro app to:

  • Schedule and start Zoom meetings to support distance learning, office hours, study groups, lecture capture, and access their cloud recordings.

Students can use LTI Pro to:

  • Join Zoom meetings to remotely attend classes, office hours and study groups, view recordings of previous classes
Support
  •  for Using CityZoom in Canvas
  • - CCSF's Faculty Resource Center
Funding

Fully funded by the CCCCO in collaboration with TechConnect.

Use

Teachers can ask polling questions during class and facilitate active learning activities. Students can complete quizzes with mobile devices or clickers and see grades in minutes. 

Support
Funding

Instructors work with the CCSF Bookstore to determine the cost per student.

Use

Pronto is a communication hub. It connects teachers and students via chat and video, so they can learn faster, work smarter, and communicate seamlessly.

Support
Funding

Full funding by AEP until June 30, 2026.

Use

The Timer App features a sleek countdown animation and a water-like alarm when the time is up.

Perfect for keeping meetings on track, time-based tasks, and even on-Zoom group meditation. 

The Timer app can help you focus on your time management skills, reduce the cognitive load of running workshops, and ensure your team-building activities don't run too long.

Start the timer with some of our ready-made time lengths: 5 min, 10 min, 15 min, 20 min, 25 min, and 30 min.

Customize the timer with your own custom length up to 100 minutes.

Visualize the current time in the middle of the screen as the timer is counting down.

The timer app can be started from within a Zoom meeting and from the Zoom Apps Tab in the Zoom Client.

Support
  • Refer to Support Information in the .
Social Annotation & Discussion Tools
Use

Harmonize is used  to create rich, multimedia discussion activities that promote student engagement. Instructors can post prompts that include text, images, video, or audio, and students can respond using a variety of formats—encouraging more inclusive and dynamic participation. Harmonize also supports features like annotations, tagging, auto-generated transcripts, and due date checkpoints to help manage interaction over time.

Support
Funding

Funded until June 30, 2026. 

Use

Perusall is a social reading platform available to students as an integration in Canvas. Perusall allows students (and faculty) to digitally annotate readings (with text, links, and embedded content).

Support
Funding

Funded until June 30, 2026. 

Use

VoiceThread is a collaborative communication tool that allows text, audio, video, voice and annotated communication. Once VoiceThread is accessed within your LMS, your users will be signed into their accounts.

Support
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Media & Interactive Content
Use

3C Media, AKA TechConnect Cloud, connects to 3C Media Solutions, a service that hosts instructor-produced videos. Additionally, you can request professional captioning from 3C Media Solutions. Due to recent funding changes at the State level, captioning requires documentation of a student requiring captions from DSPS.

Support
  • - CCSF's Faculty Resource Center
Funding

Fully funded by the CCCCO in collaboration with TechConnect.

Use

ProQuest's Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Support
Funding

Subscription-based publisher content purchased by the student, instructor, or library system. Instructors can contact department's subject liaison librarian for more information.

Use

A communication and video management tool that allows instructors and students to actively collaborate through video and audio media. It is fully integrated into Canvas.

Support
  • - CCSF's Educational Technology Center
Funding

Fully funded by the CCCCO until June 30, 2027.

Use

Brought to you in partnership with Global Eagle, this high-interest collection offers 590+ full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes, focusing on current and hard-to-find titles. This collection is available only in the U.S.

Support
Funding

Subscription-based cost. Instructors contact their department's subject liaison librarian.

Use

View, search and embed Films On Demand videos, and custom content directly into your Canvas courses and modules. A new icon will show up in your course rich editor letting you search and preview On Demand content. No additional log in required. A Films On Demand subscription is required.

For questions about films, instructors contact their department's subject liaison librarian.

Support
Funding

Funded through the CCSF Library until June 30, 2026.

Use

H5P stands for HTML5 Package. Choose from numerous activity types for creating interactive content. Learning content may be created from within Canvas, you get your own H5P content repository accessible from within Canvas and grades are stored in Canvas. H5P.com also provides analytics accessible from within Canvas so that teachers may see what the learners answered to the different H5P questions.

Note: Online instructors will need to  to use H5P. After confirming an instructor is teaching or developing an online class, it will take up to 48 hours to process a license request.

Support
  • OLET Tutorial on
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Use

PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Instructors begin with any online video (lecture capture, screencasts, 3C Media, Youtube, and soon Canvas Studio.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for learners, with time-embedded activities.

Support
Funding

Full funding by the CCCCO in collaboration with TechConnect. 

Use

VoiceThread is a collaborative communication tool that allows text, audio, video, voice and annotated communication. Once VoiceThread is accessed within your LMS, your users will be signed into their accounts.

Support
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Assessment & Academic Integrity
Use

For use by Registered Nursing and Licensed Vocational Nursing Departments in approved CCSF labs. is a standalone browser that keeps the student on the Canvas quiz page for the entirety of the quiz. No outside tabs or applications can be used. 

Support
Funding 

Fully funded by OLET through June 30, 2026. 

Use

SimCheck checks student work for plagiarism and collusion by comparing it to work that other students have submitted. SimCheck replaced VeriCite, a similar product, which was purchased by Turnitin.

Support
Funding

Funded by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Use

Watermark is the largest provider of educational intelligence systems for higher education institutions worldwide. Watermark puts better data into the hands of administrators, educators, and learners everywhere in order to empower them to connect information and gain insights into learning which will drive meaningful improvements. Integrated with Canvas. 

Support
Funding

Funded by OLET until June 30, 2026. 

Accessibility & Course Design
Use

Allows for the creation of templates to greatly improve course design and navigation. Cidilab's Design Tools include a Content Editor Tool, the Multi-tool and an Upload/Embed Image Tool. In training, the Content Editor Tool is called the DesignPLUS Sidebar to avoid confusion with the Native Rich Content Editor provided by Canvas. You can use the DesignPLUS Sidebar to easily customize the content of your course. 

In addition to course design, you can use the Accessibility and Usability Tools built into the DesignPLUS Sidebar to identify and remediate accessibility issues.

Support
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Use

Make sure that the materials you create in Google Workspace for distance learning are accessible. 

Grackle Docs, Sheets, Slides are add-ons that run in the Google Workspace. When opened, they scan the current document for accessibility issues. When the scan finishes, Grackle arranges the document’s elements and structures into categories. These categories can be seen in the user interface on the right side of the screen. Elements in each catergory are marked as either accessible or inaccessible. Changes are made by selecting and editing these elements in these categories. 

Support
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Use

Cidilab's UDOIT Advantage scans course content, identifies possible accessibility issues, and guides faculty in repairing those issues using inclusive design principles - all from within the UDOIT interface.

Support
Funding

Full funding by OLET until June 30, 2026.

Content Repositories & OER
Use

Canvas Commons is an online repository that allows instructors and institutions to:

  • Find and import learning resources (like assignments, quizzes, modules, or even entire courses).
  • Share your own content with yourself, your institution, or the wider Canvas community.
  • Reuse and update materials efficiently across different Canvas courses.
Support
Funding

Integrated with Canvas and fully funded by the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office.

Use

CK-12 Foundation is a leading open educational resources (OER) non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality K-12 STEM education materials. CK-12 offers free high-quality, standards-aligned, open content in the STEM subjects through an integrated set of tools for learning including digital textbooks, concept-based learning resources, simulations, interactive practice and more. All content is created and curated by teachers, for teachers and students. All CK-12 products and services are 100% free and are being used by students and teachers across thousands of schools both in the US and rest of the world.

Support
Funding

No funding required - Open Educational Resources.

Use

Offers openly licensed, adaptive online courses and materials that can be used by instructors or independent learners.

Support
Funding

No-cost.

Publisher-Provided Courseware
Use

Provides students with access to Cengage Learning’s solutions (including MindTap, Aplia, SAM, CengageNOW, OWLv2, 4LTR Press Online and National Geographic Learning) from your LMS.

Support
Funding

Subscription-based publisher content purchased by the student.

Use

Integrates reference content with instructional videos and tutorials to provide research instruction in the classroom. Prepare students for any kind of research or the rigors of academia by building their confidence and cultivating essential information literacy skills.

Support
Funding

Subscription based publisher content purchased by the student.

Use

Application for healthcare educators to access and register all of their Elsevier teaching materials.

Support
Funding

Subscription-based publisher content purchased by the student.

Use

Follett Discover allows faculty to evaluate and adopt course materials. Students can order course materials from Canvas. 

Support
Funding

Integrated with Canvas at no-cost. 

Use

Allows Canvas users to directly log into their Hawkes Web Platform accounts and be enrolled into a Hawkes section associated with their Canvas course.

Support
Funding

Integrated with Canvas at no cost.

Use

Fully interactive advanced lab simulations based on pedagogy and algorithms that support open-ended learning. Labster combines these with gamification elements such as an immersive 3D universe, storytelling, and a scoring system that stimulates students’ natural curiosity and highlights the connection between science and the real world.

Please note, Labster does not offer a mobile app; students should use the platform on a desktop or laptop computer. Please review the .

Note: Labster is only available in credit Biology courses.

Support
    • Canvas guides, "getting started" webinars, chat help, as well as live support hours for Canvas administrators.
    • Webinars are listed on the .
Funding

Funded by the OLET until June 30, 2026. Only available for specific online courses in the Biology Department.

Use

Macmillan Learning integrates with Canvas creating direct links from a Canvas course into the Macmillan LaunchPad environment.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Use

ALEKS is an artificial intelligent assessment and learning system which uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn’t know in a course. ALEKS’s LTI supports external assignments that pass grades back to Canvas.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Use

Connect provides student learning tools designed to support textbook content.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Use

Newsela provides engaging content while delivering standards-aligned instruction. This authentic content comes from some of the most trusted names: PBS, History Channel, New York Times, and others.

Note: This integration is for noncredit courses.

Support
Funding

Full funding by AEP and WEWOA until September 2026.

Use

Supports student engagement and learning opportunities by providing students access to Pearson content from a Canvas course.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Use

Pearson offers integration between Canvas and its MyLab and Mastering products. This integration provides the ability for the instructor and students to link from a Canvas course to access their Pearson MyLab and Mastering experience.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Use

Provides students with direct access to WileyPLUS inside a Cavas course.

Support
Funding

Publisher content. Students may be asked to pay a subscription fee.  

Library & Scheduling Tools
Use

LibCal allows libraries to manage event calendars and schedules and it is also a platform for booking appointments with library staff, both in-person and online.
 

Note: No Canvas LTI available.

Support
Funding

Integrated at no-cost. 

Tutoring & Student Support
Use

NetTutor offers a customized tutoring experience, rather than "one-size-fits-all" tutoring. With a library of textbooks and other educational materials, they are able to understand how to best help students. Using the Socratic Method, tutors guide students through problems or concepts, but never present answers. This approach develops students' critical thinking skills and encourages them to persevere! Available through the STAR Center and in Canvas classes.

Support
  • Support Requires
Funding

Funded by the CVC-OEI through June 30, 2026.

Use

Extend the reach of campus support. When students need help but are unable to visit the campus, Pisces empowers your institution to provide online solutions. From instructor office hours and group projects to tutoring and peer study sessions, Pisces supports distance education best practices and accreditation requirements to provide regular and effective contact and comparable student services. Best-in-class web conferencing tools designed for education. Alongside traditional web conferencing tools such as audio, video, drawing canvas/ shapes, and screen sharing, Pisces includes academic collaboration enhancements that enable learners to communicate ideas and solutions in an intuitive and thoughtful way. Discipline-specific buttons, breakout room recordings, and personalized student referrals are examples of how Pisces helps take academic support online. Available through the STAR Center and in Canvas classes.

Support
  • Support Requires
Funding

Full funding by the CVC-OEI until June 30, 2026.

File Management & External Links
Use

This lightweight integration lets Dropbox users select and link to files within course content or in conjunction with homework submissions. Dropbox is a file hosting service offering cloud storage, file synchronization, and client software. Files placed in a Dropbox folder also are accessible through a website and mobile phone applications.

Support
Funding

Requires personal subscription purchase. CCSF offers similar no-cost solutions.

Use

With Google Assignment, you will also be able to:
ʉۢ Embed Drive files with the Rich Content Editor.
ʉۢ Add Drive files to Canvas Modules.
ʉۢ Accept Drive files from students for Canvas assignments.

Support
Funding

CCSF is a Google Higher Education School. Fully funded at no cost.

Use

Students can submit Office 365 files directly to Canvas Assignments.

Support
Funding

Microsoft Office is free for CCSF Students.  

Use

Allows instructor to embed resources from a variety of public sources including YouTube and Vimeo.

Support
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no cost.

Use

Add links to external web resources that show up as course navigation links. 

Support
  • This tool has no support listed.
  • The accessibility documentation for this provider is not currently available.
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no cost. 

Attendance
Use

Provides a flexible, comprehensive attendance platform that supports both simple and complex attendance tracking scenarios. aPlus+ Attendance is installed for use in noncredit courses to gather attendance information necessary for PARS. If you are teaching a credit course, we recommend Attendance (Rollcall) as an alternative tool for attendance.

Note: This integration is for noncredit courses only.

Support
  • OLET Tutorial on
Funding

Fully funded by AEP until June 30, 2026.

Use

Roll Call is a Canvas-supported app used for taking attendance. In Canvas, this app is referred to as Attendance. 

Support
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no-cost. 

Analytic Tools
Use

Course Analytics, previously known as New Analytics, is a Canvas-supported app used for monitoring student performance and activity trends. 

Support
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no cost. 

Use

Impact Course Reports is a Canvas-supported app used for monitoring and understanding tool adoption. 

Support
Funding

Integrated into Canvas at no cost.