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Vevox facilitates classroom voting as well as additional functionality, and used appropriately could improve teaching practice. This post aims to help share this developing practice and to support others who are using the system or are considering it. It shares…

As part of a recent review of Panopto; 23 academic staff were interviewed about their innovative use of the tool. What follows are broad descriptions of the types of activities and innovative practice that staff have undertaken: 1) Quick Fix…

‘Canvas Revisited’ training and development for staff The Teaching and Learning Academy Learning Technology Team are launching a new training programme for staff to develop their use of Canvas and other Learning Technologies. Canvas Revisited provides a suite of training…

The facility to create private Canvas course Journals is now available. The TEL team have developed a tool which creates a private discussion space for each student in your course, so that individuals can post entries privately and receive feedback.…

If you’re finding the process of uploading updated files and re-linking these in your Canvas pages/modules a bit of a faff, there’s a much easier way. It’s all about managing filenames. The start of each academic year begins with the process…

You can change your profile picture in Canvas. It’s a great way of getting to know other students on your course. The video below details how Canvas users can manage their profile image: Download placeholder image (Right Click and select ‘Save…

Programme Community Sites What is a programme community site? Programme community sites are to allow communication and connections between all the students in a programme and all the teaching team. This is different from the usual Canvas courses based around…

There are bound to be questions you would like to have answered whilst we are changing to Canvas as our new Virtual Learning Environment We will do our best to answer any and keep this list up to date. Answers…

This post explores some of the research in this area in order to help you understand the possible benefits and issues surround this type of assessment. This guide generally focuses on peer assessment, although many of the points can apply to…