Guides: Technology Help: Helpful Software &amp; Apps

Free Software

Accessing, Downloading, and Installing Microsoft 365

The above link will take you to an OTS document giving you instructions on accessing your Microsoft Office 365 account and installing Office 365 on your personal computer.

Adobe Reader

This software is free and allows you to open and view PDF documents, and fill out PDF forms.

Adobe Creative Suite

In order to help our LSC team members be successful, we provide Adobe CC (Adobe® Creative Cloud™ Desktop Applications) to all LSC faculty and staff (1 work license and 1 personal license) free of charge.

Adobe CC for ETLA gives faculty and staff access to Photoshop for image editing, Illustrator for graphics and illustration, InDesign for page design and layout, Dreamweaver for web and app design, After Effects for cinematic visual effects, Premiere® Pro for video production, Adobe Muse Pro for website design without coding, and MORE!

NOTE FOR STUDENTS: Students can subscribe to Adobe CC directly through Adobe at a discounted student rate. Go to https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/buy/students.html for information and to subscribe.

One-Drive (included with your Office 365 account)
Google Drive
Dropbox

Respondus LockDown Browser
Download this tool to take exams online.

Padlet
A collaborative tool that works like a sheet of paper where you can put anything (images, videos, documents, text) anywhere, from any device, together with anyone.

Google Hangouts
WebEx

Flipgrid
Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or at home by recording and sharing short, awesome videos...together. 40 Ideas for Using FlipGrid in the Classroom

Adobe Spark
Create beautiful graphics, web pages, and video stories – in minutes. A fantastic tool you OR students can use to create professional-looking presentations for information sharing. Just log in with your mylonestar email. Adobe Spark Resources for Educators (premade lessons/presentations)
Capture (TechSmith)
Snagit
A screen capture software is the only program with built-in advanced image editing and screen recording.

Echo 360
Screen-o-matic
Piktochart

DIRT: Digital Research Tools
Collects information about digital research tools for visualizing, interpreting, organizing, sharing, and presenting information of all kinds.

Kahoot
Create your own kahoot in minutes or choose from 30+ million read-to-play games, play live in class or share student-paced challenges, and dive into game reports to assess learning. Create fun learning games in minutes, or choose from millions of existing games to introduce a topic, review and reinforce knowledge, and run formative assessment. Kahoot! Premium available for free as well during COVID closings.

Additional Resources

Study Tools

Grammarly
Ensure your grammar and spelling are correct.
Quizlet
You provide the information, the website will generate flashcards, quizzes, practice tests, matching games, and even auditory tools.
GoConqr
Content creation tools including mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and flow charts
Schooltraq
An online academic planner
HippoCampus
Multimedia content in 13 subject areas
Evernote
Organizational tool to sync all your information in one central platform
StudyStack
Create flashcard sets, then turn the information into a number of tools and games.

Learning Express Library This link opens in a new window

Skim for MAC
An advanced PDF reader and annotations app for the Mac.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Download and save a PDF version of the e-book to use Adobe Reader to annotate and highlight text. These tools are also called markup which are part of the comment and review features.
myHomework
Track assignments, projects, tests, etc with this cross-platform student planner.
Cold Turkey
Block distracting websites, games and applications.
myNoise
White noise apps to block sound distractions and help focus thoughts.
Media Bias Fact Check
Comprehensive media bias resource
AllSides
Media bias ratings provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum.
The Learning Network/NYT
Resources that utilize NYT content

Unsplash
High resolution images with attribution (credit)
Noun Project
A website that collects and catalogs symbols/icons that are created and uploaded by graphic designers.
Genially
Create a variety of interactive content; brings your content to life.
Jamboard
Save images from a Google search to the cloud automatically, use the easy-to-read handwriting and shape recognition tool, and draw with a stylus but erase with your finger – just like a whiteboard.
Colorzilla
Includes a Color Picker, Eye Dropper, Gradient Generator to use with color related tasks.
Wakelet
Save, organize and share content from across the web with Wakelet: articles, videos, images, Tweets, etc
EZGif
GIF maker where you can create animated GIFs, banners, slideshows from sequence of images.

CamScanner -Phone PDF Creator
Scanbot
Genius Scan - PDF Scanner
Mobile Doc Scanner Lite (Android)
Handyscan Lite (iPhone)