UnSplash

Photos for everyone

Category: Find & Use

Resource Type: Stock Photography Sharing Platform

External Links:
https://unsplash.com/

Website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. Claims over 110,000 contributing photographers & generates more than 9 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 810,000 photos.

Recommended by our Digital Champions:

A picture is worth a thousand words! I like to use images from UnSplash to reinforce messages, encourage discussion and to generally enrich course material visually.

Orla Skehill

ATU Galway-Mayo

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Ease of Use

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.

Media Rich & Flexible Features

Rated 0 out of 5

Not applicable.

Mobile Design & Functionality

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool can be accessed either via app or a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. Design of the mobile tool fully takes into consideration the constraints of a smaller-sized screen and has full functionality.

Integration / Embedding with Moodle

Rated 3 out of 5

The tool can be embedded (as an object via HTML code) or fully integrated (e.g. LTI- compliant tools) into Moodle while maintaining full functionality of the tool.

Support / Help

Rated 2 out of 5

Technical support and help documentation is available directly from the software providers website and/or built in to the application.

Facilitation

Rated 0 out of 5

Not applicable

Learning Analytics

Rated 0 out of 5

Not applicable

Enhancement of Cognitive Tasks

Rated 2 out of 5

The tool enables functional improvement to engagement in the targeted cognitive task(s)

Metacognitive Engagement

Rated 0 out of 5

Not applicable

Collaboration

Rated 0 out of 5

Not applicable

Sign Up / Sign In

Rated 2 out of 5

Either instructors are the only users required to provide personal information to set up an account; or the tool has been vetted through appropriate channels to ensure strict adherence to local, institutional, or personal policies/standards for protecting the collection and use of student personal data by a third party group.