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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…

Assessment support We have been working with Student Advice and Well-being to consider how to help students submitting assessments. Some students find it difficult to understand an assignment brief, they can struggle with uploading the document and find feedback confusing.…

Technology can often be used to save time and improve processes. Delivering online feedback in Canvas is just one way you can save time and provide consistent and engaging feedback. In this post you’ll find lots of useful tips on…

Your students are expected to conduct themselves appropriately and in accordance with the LJMU academic misconduct policies. Academic misconduct covers all deliberate attempt(s) to gain an unfair advantage in assessments, including cheating, plagiarism and unauthorised collusion. This resource can help…

Audio Headsets and Webcam Project This blog post reports on a short project to support academic staff to produce videos at their desks and communicate via online webinars. A number of LJMU staff were provided with webcams and headsets. The…

Over the next few weeks, you’ll be able to access marks and feedback provided by your tutor in Canvas. There are many types of assessment tools and ways to provide feedback; so its important you know where to find it.…