On the 19th December, both Panopto and Canvas will be updated. This weekend sees the introduction of a new course Student preview tool in Canvas and Panopto have a number of updates including the ability to tag videos, new Smart…
Year: 2020
Blog Post: New Feedback Dashboard
The Teaching and Learning Academy have worked with Academic Staff and JMSU to create a system within Canvas that aggregates an individual student’s electronic feedback into a single Feedback Dashboard. This has now been released as a beta version for staff to use with…
Blog Post: Canvas New Analytics (Staff)
New Analytics is the name of an LTI feature for Canvas deisgned to provide some insights into student engagement at a course/module level. This is intended to compliment the expanding offering of Analytics available to staff and work alongside Canvas…
Blog Post: Keep Learning with Canvas (Students)
Originally published 15/03/2020. Updated 16/11/2020 to include most recent technologies and practice. Keep Learning with Canvas This post focuses on core Canvas functionality that is available to help you with your learning. Each course is different, if you can’t find…
Blog Post: Keep Teaching with Canvas (Staff)
Originally published 15/03/2020. Updated 16/11/2020 to include most recent technologies and practice. This post focuses on core Canvas functionality that is available to all staff and students. Please read the Active Blended Learning Strategy to help you understand how Canvas…
Blog Post: Vevox Autumn 2020 Updates (Staff)
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…
Blog Post: Online Learning -What’s Working (Staff)
‘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…
Blog Post: Changes to Zoom
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
Blog: New copy groups (staff)
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…
Blog Post: Digital Student Support Workers in Canvas
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…