This blog tells you about digital accessibility and the resources and events we have to help you. It also highlights Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the 19th of May. This is an important event to help promote good accessible design…
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Blog Post: Change to default Canvas assignment due time
The default time in a new Canvas Assignment will be 1PM (13:00) Why is this change happening? Previously the default for a Canvas assignment was 23:59. Completing and submitting assignments are probably the most anxious times for students. Although there…
Blog Post: Enhanced Gradebook Filters
Enhanced Gradebook Filters is a new feature available in the Canvas grades area. You can create new filters in the grades area to filter assignments or students by: Assignment Group Modules Student Group – show only students in a selected group…
Blog Post: Fair dealing week (21st -25th of Feb)
What is fair dealing? This week is the UK Fair Dealing Week. This blog will help you understand what fair dealing means and why it’s important for you to know about it. Copyright is an intellectual property right that automatically…
Blog Post: ‘Connecting the feedback dots’
This blog highlights a TLA inspire story that discusses Will Jackson & Anne Hayes from the School of Justice Studies who have been using the feedback dashboard to support tutees.
Blog Post: Accessibility – Just do one thing [4. Using Audio and Video]
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: Personal Pronouns in Canvas
We use pronouns to identify or refer to somebody when we are not using their name… “They”, “Them”, “She”, “Her”, “He”, “Him”, are some examples. You can change your personal pronouns in the account section in Canvas. Personal pronouns display…
Blog post: Three teaching principles for inclusivity
Dr Miranda Melcher from City, University of London gave a recent presentation at the University of Kent’s Digitally Enhanced Education Webinar series. Here are her three key principles for support inclusivity and examples of implementation. You can listen to her full talk Teaching inclusively to…
Blog Post: Canvas Quizzes are changing
New Quizzes is both a redesign and an improvement on the underlying system that replaces the current classic Canvas quizzes in July 2022. Canvas sees this change as providing a “new assessment engine that leverages modern technologies, enhanced features and workflow improvements“. New functionality includes: The TLA team will be creating guidance…
Blog Post: Recent Assessment and Feedback Developments in Canvas (Staff)
This blog post will concentrate on two new assessment functionalities, which are small in themselves but offer a creative opportunity to rethink how we connect students with their feedback. Annotation assessment type The first is a new assignment type that allows your students to analyse and…