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Introduction
Many projects in college go beyond the traditional essay and involve digital skills and media experience. Videos, infographics, digital storytelling, and creative presentations are just a few examples of creative projects.
Use this guide to find a tool for your next project or to learn a new skill. Click on the icons to access the tool.
Collaboration
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Microsoft Teams
A digital hub that brings conversations, content, and apps together in one place. Mohawk staff and faculty can create teams for collaborative learning (available for free with Microsoft 365).
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Microsoft OneNote
A digital note taking tool with collaboration features (included for free with Microsoft 365)
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Multi-user collaboration and planning (available for free with Microsoft 365)
Brainstorming
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MindMeister
Organize your thoughts, projects and teamwork with this mind-mapping tool.
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Padlet
Collaborate, organize and brainstorm with online bulletin boards.
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Miro
Miro is a space where your team can connect, collaborate, and co-create in one space no matter where you are.
Presentations
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PowerPoint
Students have access via Microsoft 365.
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Keynote
Presentation creation software.
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Sway
Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling tool that students have access to through their Microsoft 365 account.
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Google Slides
Make your ideas shine with a variety of presentation themes, hundreds of fonts, embedded videos, animations, and more.
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Picktochart
A browser-based tool for creating different presentations, such as infographics.
Graphic Design
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Visme
A browser-based tool for creating engaging visuals and presentations.
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Inskape
A professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. It is used to create a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics.
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Canva
A graphic design tool for presentations such as infographics or posters.
Digital Publishing
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Sway
Sway is an easy-to-use digital storytelling tool that students have access to through their Microsoft 365 account.
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Adobe Express
Digital storytelling tool - great for easily creating an online page to share stories, videos, audio and more.
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Wix
Drag and drop website builder
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Publisher
Create posters, brochures and many other kinds of digital and physical media
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Google Sites
Website building platform
Photo Editing
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GIMP
In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images and converting between different image formats.
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Adobe Lightroom
A family of image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Systems.
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Pixlr
Online – Pixlr is a cloud-based set of image tools and utilities, including several photo editors.
Video Editing
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iMovie
MacOS & iOS app
Turn your photos and video clips into professional movies.
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Blender
Blender is a free and open-source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modelling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.
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Shortcut
Free open source, cross-platform video editing tool.
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VideoPix Movie Creator
Desktop (Windows)
Add special effects and transitions to your video with ease.
Audio Editing
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Adobe Audition
Windows/Mac OS - An audio workstation on Mohawk Apps.
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Audacity
Windows/Mac OS - Free audio editing software.
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GarageBand
Mac OS - Audio recording software made by Apple.
You can record audio from your desktop, laptop, or other mobile devices. Use the instructions shown below to learn how to record and save an audio file.
PC (Windows)
Most laptops have a built-in microphone or you can use a headset with a microphone.
- Click the Start menu at the bottom of your computer screen
- Search for Voice Recorder, and click the top result to open the app
- A popup window may appear that says Let Voice Recorder access your microphone? Select Yes
- Click the Record button and click the square Stop button to complete your recording
- (Optional) Click the Flag button to add a marker to the recording
- (Optional) Click the Pause button to stop recording without terminating the session
- Rename the file by right-clicking and selecting Rename (the default name is Recording)
Mac
All Macs (laptops and desktops) come with a built-in microphone.
- Go to your Applications folder
- Open QuickTime Player
- Click File > New Audio Recording
- Click the red record button to begin recording
- Click the black stop button to stop recording
- Go to File >Save As to save your file to your desired location
iPhone
- Open the Voice Memos app (all iPhones have this app, and it can't be deleted)
- Press the red record button to begin recording
- Press the red stop button to stop recording
- Tap Done
- Type a name for your recording
- Press Save
- Tap your recording
- Press the share icon and email or AirDrop the file to another computer or device
Android
Each Android device is different. Your device may have an app installed already. Look for apps called recorder or voice recorder. You may have to download one from the Google Play store. These are the basic instructions for most voice recorders on Android.
- Locate or download a recorder app on your phone and click to open
- Press the Record button to begin recording
- Press the Stop button to end the recording
- Tap your recording to share
Screencasting
Screencasts are recordings of your computer screen which can include audio. Use these tools to teach or share ideas in a screencast. If you need to change your screencast recording, use an editing tool.
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Loom
Easy and free screen recorder for Mac, Windows, Chromebooks and iOS. Record with your webcam and audio or record your screen directly from
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OBS
Desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Free open-source software for video recording and live streaming.
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Capture
Desktop (Windows and Mac)
Create screenshots and screen captures on the fly and instantly share them with others.
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Screencast-o-matic
Browser-based & Desktop (Windows)
A simple tool that you can use to record, edit and share your screen.
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Screencastify
Browser-based
A lightweight Google Chrome extension that can capture your desktop, browser tabs and webcams.
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QuickTime Player
Desktop (Mac, iOS, and iPadOS)
Record the screen of your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac.