Blog – Page 12 – Learning Technology@LJMU

Blog Post: Organise course content using the Blueprinting feature in Canvas (Staff)

An introduction to Blueprinting Sometimes it may be required to share common materials across several Canvas courses. One example might be when students across several courses are required to have access to the same series of lecture materials and that…

Blog Post: Key Module Information Area (Staff)

Important Please Note This information and guidance has now been replaced by the ‘key information’ course menu item. The ‘Key Module Information’ area was recently introduced into the ‘Modules’ section of your Canvas course replacing Module Guide Templates. The new…

Good Practice Post: Active Learning with Vevox (Staff)

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…

Blog Post: 4 Tips to Keep Your Canvas Courses Consistent (Staff)

It’s a well-known principle in web design to keep the layout, navigation and content consistent in order to help users become familiar with a website. This, in turn, helps users to use it effectively and find the information they are…

Blog Post: 8 Ways to Use Panopto (Staff)

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…

Blog Post: ‘Canvas Revisited’ training and development for staff

‘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…

Good Practice Series: Get Ready for Rubrics (Staff)

Rubrics are a great way of marking student work and aligning feedback with module outcomes. They are easy to create and allow you to consistently mark work quickly using a pre-defined set of criteria. Rubrics are a useful tool for…

Blog Post: About New Grades (Staff)

Canvas grades is changing! The grades area has been revamped with improved intuitive workflows allowing you to quickly access and mark student work. Canvas have a number of guides available on the Canvas Community pages to help you get started. These changes only affect…

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Blog Post: New tool available for managing quizzes – Respondus 4.0

Respondus 4.0 is a powerful tool for creating and managing quizzes that can be printed to paper or published directly to Canvas. Quizzes can be created offline using familiar Windows tools such as MS Word. Key Features Accessing Respondus from AppPlayer…

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Blog Post: Announcing New Private Course Journals in Canvas

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.…

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