Category: Blog (page 10)

On April 30, 2020, Turnitin will require an emergency maintenance window from 0800-1300 BST as one of our third-party network providers is performing maintenance on their circuits. During this time, there may be an interruption to our services. This may not require the…

This guide suggests good practice in organising, running and participating in an online conference or webinar drawing from a wide variety of sources. If you follow these tips you will hopefully have a far more productive online meeting, possibly even…

In light of the current public health situation, alternative assessment is required for any assessment strategy that requires face to face contact.  This includes invigilated examinations and presentations. This blog post makes recommendations for alternative assessments, via Canvas.  We understand…

Creating video and audio recordings for teaching and learning can provide students with a chance to work in a different format, develop valuable new skills, and is an opportunity for reflection. But if you’ve never done anything like this before…

If you are using ‘Conferences’ in Canvas please note that they are not part of the recommended practice that TEL team have provided for staff for remote/distance teaching. The details of which can be found here ‘Keep Teaching with Canvas’…

Overview This blog post contains a simple process for moving seminar activities online. We anticipate that you will already have learning activities for your remaining seminars. These probably will have been intended to be delivered verbally, with the possibility of…

This post provides you with some tips on how to quickly improve the quality of any video you are creating to present you in the best light! Tip #1: Planning Plan out your presentation. If you are going to be…

Your Canvas dashboard is the first page you see when you login. There are three different views which can be enabled depending on how you would like information to be displayed. Card View This is probably the most useful view,…

Semester 2 has arrived, and if you haven’t already developed your Canvas course, we have a few useful tips to help you get started: 1) Course Copy If you haven’t imported content into a Canvas course before, take a look…

Digital Learning Champions The Digital Learning Champions network met for the first time on the 27th of Jan 2020. the aims of this group are to: Jim Turner introduced the aims of the group and key current TEL projects. Heather Thrift…