Provided Centrally for University-wide Use

The software solutions provided by Academic Technology Services (AcTS) include online course management, blogging and survey tools, video tools, and a wiki platform. AcTS applications invite faculty to consider how technology contributes to teaching and learning. When faculty collaborate with academic computing and IT experts at their schools, or work directly with the AcTS team, they enhance the instructional computing resources at Harvard.

	Canvas by Instructure Through the Teaching and Learning Technologies program, Harvard uses the open-source learning management system called Canvas to deliver new course websites.
	Harvard Wikis / Confluence Harvard Wikis are used across the University for online collaboration and information sharing. A wiki is a web application designed to allow multiple authors to easily add, remove, and edit shared content.
	Harvard Blogs / WordPress Harvard courses can use the open-source WordPress blogging platform to enhance teaching and learning. At beta.blogs.harvard.edu, AcTS provides a PIN-protected blog service that enables teaching staff and enrollees to interact on a blog that allows only class participants to access the service.
	Qualtrics Qualtrics is an award-winning, robust, online survey tool. Through surveytools.harvard.edu, AcTS provides Qualtrics to most Harvard students, faculty, and staff.
	iSites iSites is a web publishing software solution that enables members of the Harvard community to develop and administer course websites, community websites, portals, and intranets with flexibility and ease.

	Kaltura  Kaltura is a video platform utilized by multiple Harvard schools to manage public video content.  Kaltura supports the entire video management workflow from upload and ingestion to transcoding and processing, video content management, video publishing and player customization.
	Limelight Limelight is a content delivery network chosen by Harvard to support live streaming of events.  Limelight is also used in conjunction of iSites to support on demand streaming of user generated video and lecture videos from a few Harvard schools.
	Mediasite Mediasite is a patented webcasting platform, which automates the capture, management, delivery, search and analytics of video lectures, online training, conference presentations and events.  Mediasite will be rolled out in phases to various Harvard schools starting in Fall 2014 over a two year period as the recommended lecture capture and user generated video management platform.
	Wowza Media Services  Amazon Web Services and Wowza are used by Harvard to augment Limelight for live streaming and video on demand streaming.

For more information about the technology provided by your school, please visit the Schools page.