🎉 The Teaching and Learning Academy is pleased to announce the launch of Ally, a powerful accessibility tool now integrated with Canvas. Ally is designed to help you identify and resolve accessibility issues in your Canvas digital content. We encourage…
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Blog Post: Introducing Ally for Canvas – a new accessibility tool
The Teaching and Learning Academy is pleased to introduce Ally, a revolutionary tool designed to take accessibility to new heights in your Canvas courses. Students will have access to alternative formats making Canvas even more accessible to your diverse learning…
What’s New in Buddycheck: Custom Scales and Score Management
For those unfamiliar, Buddycheck is an online peer assessment tool integrated into Canvas that helps instructors manage groupwork. Students can review their teammates’ contributions, providing a weighting factor to adjust individual grades based on participation and effort. This enhances the…
Blog Post: Accessibility – Just do one thing [1. Headings]
We’re committed to making digital content accessible to as many people as possible at Liverpool John Moores University. This article is one in a series of accessibility tips to help you improve the digital environment for everyone. We would like you to adopt these tips as part of your practice. There are some simple steps you can take…
Blog Post: 5. Accessibility – Just do one thing: Using ColourÂ
At Liverpool John Moores University, we’re committed to making digital content accessible to as many people as possible. This article is one in a series of accessibility tips to help you improve the digital environment for everyone. We would like…
Blog Post: Communicating across multiple courses using your Canvas inbox (Staff)
Sometimes, information needs to be shared across a number of your Canvas courses. You may want to highlight shared resources or notify your students of up-coming events that might be useful for these courses. The inbox can be used to…
Blog Post: What makes a good accessible home page? (Staff)
At Liverpool John Moores University, we’re committed to making digital content accessible to as many people as possible. To help meet this objective, this article aims to help you create an accessible Canvas course home page for your students. What…
Welcome New and Returning Students!
Welcome to the LJMU learning technology help site. If you’re a new student, you may not yet be able to see your courses. Courses appear after you complete your enrolment, in September. We also have some open courses – feel…
Blog Post: Introducing Vevox PowerPoint Plugin Update -For PC &Â Mac (Staff)
Vevox is the institutional classroom voting system. Vevox integrates with PowerPoint to allow seamless voting during a presentation. Vevox has updated and released a BETA version of this new connection.
Blog Post: Using Microsoft Teams as a shared communication space for your students
Within a Canvas course you can use discussion boards to create a space where students can communicate around a theme, topic or question. Discussion boards allow students enrolled on that course to engage by posting and viewing comments and replies. …