If you're a professor, please follow these instructions to set up your classroom on Felt. This guide will help you get a verified EDU account and create an organized and effective learning environment, ensuring that you and your students can make the most of Felt's powerful GIS tools.
Felt goes beyond traditional GIS applications by offering a geolocated workspace that fosters collaboration, sharing, and ease of use. These features empower both professors and students to immerse themselves in geospatial learning, creating an interactive and dynamic educational environment.
Here are some of the versatile tools and use cases you can leverage based on your teaching dynamics:
Through its versatile tools and user-friendly interface, Felt enriches the traditional classroom, enabling dynamic content delivery and engaging storytelling.
Within Felt, your map transforms into a versatile geolocated workspace, seamlessly integrating diverse layers of information. Whether it's geospatial data (such as vector layers or raster files) or multimedia resources like slides or YouTube videos, Felt provides a platform for dynamic content delivery, consolidating all educational resources in one accessible location.
Embark on narratives that vividly animate geography, utilizing descriptive texts and evocative images to contextualize data and illustrate projects. Felt empowers educators to craft compelling stories that deeply resonate with learners, fostering strong connections with the subject matter.
Unlocking interactive learning: explore Module 1 content seamlessly integrated on a Felt map, featuring slides, videos, and geospatial data.
Exploring the 2012 London Olympics Masterplan: Integrating geospatial datasets with historical images and descriptive text enhances understanding of the project's location and design for storytelling.
From submitting assignments to providing detailed feedback and grading, Felt streamlines assessment practices, promoting meaningful interactions and facilitating continuous learning.
Create notes directly on the map, including assignment details, instructions, and any necessary resources or links for students to access.
Felt map example featuring instructions, dataset links, assignment steps, and guidelines for an assignment.
Professors can offer detailed feedback on student maps using comments, linked to their accounts. These comments can be resolved as students address them, fostering collaboration and improvement. Additionally, they can provide feedback and assign grades using locked text annotations directly on student maps.
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Map example illustrating how to use comments for feedback and text for grading work.
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Map example showcasing the collaborative planning of road interventions in Melbourne.
Students and professors can seamlessly collaborate on mapping projects, fostering teamwork and enhancing collective learning experiences. Additionally, sharing content on Felt is seamless and versatile. Educators can easily distribute, among other things, geospatial datasets, maps, and links, facilitating effective and secure dissemination of information for educational purposes.
Step-by-step guide for recreating the Heritage of England Map. This map is intended for viewing and duplication purposes only, not for commenting.
Whether it's sharing maps with students or professors, Felt maps include privacy options for various uses. These range from restricting editing, commenting, and presentation to everyone except the professor, to granting students full permission to work on a map. The first option may be for a professor to showcase slides and course content that are not yet public, while the latter is suitable for maps where students need to take a map as a starting point and then work in collaboration.
Felt's feature for adding links enables professors to easily share teaching and research resources such as articles, data downloads for exercises, or YouTube videos on their maps. For students, this provides convenient access to relevant information and fosters collaboration during research activities by allowing them to include resources and share findings with peers effortlessly. This transforms the map into a comprehensive workspace where ideas are organized and information is easily accessible.
Exploring Felt's sharing options: Tailored access levels for collaborative mapping projects.
Enhanced collaboration: embedding Google Drive links on a map for streamlined access to exercise resources.