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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Important Please Note This information and guidance has now been replaced by the ‘key information’ course menu item.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…

Blog Post: New Open Courses in Canvas

New Open courses in Canvas It’s now even easier to access information about Libraries, IT Services and many other University departments right within Canvas. The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team want to make it easier for you to access content…

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…

Canvas Release 11/05/2019

We skipped that last release cycle because many of the changes implemented by Canvas were background changes. In this months update Canvas have been busy updating the mobile app, and there’s lots of new features for both staff and students.…

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…

Canvas Release 30/03/2019

Canvas Updates We have summarised the most relevant changes for students and academic staff for the March update below. There have also been a number of accessibility updates improving the Canvas experience for screen reader applications. Content Link Error The…

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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