soomo services & support

• Tech support for you and your students, so you can spend time teaching, not wrestling with technology
• Help in finding the best starting point based on how you teach and what your goals are for this resource
• Customization of our resources to more precisely fit they way you teach
• Instructional design: consulting on how we can best use the web to efficiently reach an instructional goal
• Tech support in creating new assignments
• Licensing of resources not available elsewhere on the web
• New media development: original video, interactive info graphics, coursework tools and so on

the soomo platform

All of our content is provided in a simple, no-nonsense assignment manager that makes it very simple for professors to arrange, edit and create assignments, easy for students to find and complete them, and easy for instructors or TAs to review, grade and give feedback. And our team of new media developers and support staff are an essential part of supporting you as you select, modify or build. The basic features and services provide a palette of tools and interactions, but these are used in many different ways to meet specific instructional challenges:

• Present video, audio, text, flash or anything else that can be hosted on the web.
• Link to any web resource including those available only on your campus such as JSTOR
• Post any file you want your students to have access to including Word, Excel, and video.
• Add essential context to any artifact or reading.
• Pose short answer questions to encourage close reading, interpretation and synthesis.
• The notebook provides a simple organized view of all your class has completed
• An RSS reader pulls in headlines or other updates from any source(s) you’d like.
• The assignment editor allows you to easily modify current assignments or create completely new ones
• Our etextbook player provides annotation and highlighting functionality for PDFs