Category: Blog (page 8)

Vevox have have a number of interesting updates arriving on the 16th November. If you’ve been debating whether to include polling in your Zoom meetings, take a look at some of their new features: Dashboard In this latest update you’ll notice that the dashboard…

‘What’s working?’ provides an outline of key issues raised in cross-institutional student feedback from the the BluePulse Survey. Feedback indicates that there is a lot of excellent practice right across LJMU, and that students appreciate the efforts that academic staff are making to support…

We would like to notify you of a couple of recent changes to Zoom in Canvas, which will be effective from Monday 9th November. Summary of Changes

The facility to create a copy of a group set from one Canvas course to another The Teaching and Learning Academy have developed a tool which creates helps you to create multiple copies of the same group across a different…

Digital accessibility is even more critical at this particular time. The Teaching and Learning Academy, IT Services and Student Advice and Wellbeing have collaborated to ensure all support workers, working alongside a student to support them academically, are enrolled in…

BuddyCheck is an easy to use peer evaluation tool within Canvas, which allows students to evaluate each team member’s performance in a group activity, as well as self-assessment. It is a valuable tool to helping your students successfully manage group work. The Teaching and Learning Academy are…

The Canvas Enhanced Analytics Dashboard allows Academic Staff to view student engagement with Active Blended Learning Tasks in relation to other students on their programme. This Can help staff to identify those students who may be be participating in the course as…

This page outlines at number of key things you can do to help you build a successful online learning community for those PGR students who are supporting online learning. Having said that, this information could be useful for any tutors.…

This post outlines how we expect students and staff to behave in an online environment.  This will support the development of a successful learning community and guide us all to become considerate digital citizens.   Please read the following principles.  As you do this, think about which are the most important to you.  Are these things…

This page outlines the current process for automatic captions on Panopto and Zoom recordings. What are captions? You find captioning (CC) on all TV and most online videos. It’s where you can see the text of what is being said at…