Rubrics are a great way to apply consistency to marking and also save you a ton of time. But understanding how they work can get confusing pretty quickly. Here are 3 different ways to use rubrics, starting off at the…
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Blog Post: Turnitin Emergency Maintenance Window
On April 30, 2020, Turnitin will require an emergency maintenance window from 0800-1300 BST as one of our third-party network providers is performing maintenance on their circuits. During this time, there may be an interruption to our services. This may not require the…
Mobile OneNote Study Guide for Students
OneNote explained OneNote is probably the most powerful study tool you haven’t heard of. You can use it to structure your revision or essay using a range of tools that make it easy to keep track of your studies. OneNote…
Blog Post: Tips and guidance for effective online meetings
This guide suggests good practice in organising, running and participating in an online conference or webinar drawing from a wide variety of sources. If you follow these tips you will hopefully have a far more productive online meeting, possibly even…
Keep Assessing with Canvas (Staff)
In light of the current public health situation, alternative assessment is required for any assessment strategy that requires face to face contact. This includes invigilated examinations and presentations. This blog post makes recommendations for alternative assessments, via Canvas. We understand…
Blog Post: Using Video in Assessment – Which option is best? (Staff)
Creating video and audio recordings for teaching and learning can provide students with a chance to work in a different format, develop valuable new skills, and is an opportunity for reflection. But if you’ve never done anything like this before…
Blog Post: Conferences in Canvas
If you are using ‘Conferences’ in Canvas please note that they are not part of the recommended practice that TEL team have provided for staff for remote/distance teaching. The details of which can be found here ‘Keep Teaching with Canvas’…
Blog Post: A simple example of individual online seminar activity
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…
Blog Post: Simple Tips to Improve the Quality of your Video Recordings (Staff)
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…
Blog Post: Canvas Dashboard Views Explained
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,…