TEL Roadmap
Take a look at some of the exciting enhancements and developments happening in Canvas over the next 12 months.
The next six months....
Accessibility
The Teaching and Learning Academy are constantly striving to improve Accessibility across all TEL Systems. TEL Accessibility
Anthology A11y - Improving Canvas Course Content Accessibility
The Teaching and Learning Academy will shortly be introducing a tool to help both the student experience in Canvas and improve the accessibility standard of content on canvas courses.
JISC Insights survey
LJMU is running a pilot project to increase our understanding of the level staff and students’ digital capability. The aim of the project is to see if the JISC digital capability insights survey helps to reveal new insights that lead to new or support current initiatives to support our staff and students’ digital capabilities.
Canvas Blueprinting
We are in the process of replacing the pseudo-course processes with the Blueprint tool, which is an alternative method for managing the deployment of content, across several separate SIS modules.
Canvas Assignment Enhancements
A provisional date has been set. Canvas are in the process of developing a new assignment submission page for Students. It aims to improve the submission work flow and align the web experience with mobile devices.
JISC Discover
A sector level diagnostic tool for digital capabilities for staff and students. The Academy are focusing on how discover can be used to support teaching and learning and are seeking to explore integrating Discover with the ongoing, organisation wide LinkedIn Learning roll out.
Engagement Analytics
Supporting the continuation of students from level four is an important part of the student experience. TLA are working in partnership with ITS, Academic Registry, Strategy and Planning and Academic colleagues to identify which engagement factors might help to identify students at risk of non-continuation. Using this data we are applying machine learning models to help predict which factors could be the best predictors and help to target interventions.
Cadmus
Post pandemic, online exam practice has increased and it is important to ensure that exams are being delivered in a way that is supportive of the student digital user experience and in a manner that provides robust assurance that academic standards are being upheld. Cadmus, integrated with Canvas, is being piloted across all faculties in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the tool in delivering this and recommendations will be made with regards a wider, post pilot, roll out.
6 Months +
Discussion Enhancements
A provisional date has been set. Canvas are in the process of developing a new assignment submission page for Students. It aims to improve the submission work flow and align the web experience with mobile devices.
1 Yr +
Canvas and Teams
Canvas have highlighted that they aim to replace Big Blue Button's online conferencing experience with Teams. A full Roadmap is not yet available.
Canvas New Quizzes
Canvas are developing a new quiz tool, this feature is continually being developed, and will be released as soon as it reaches feature parity with the current tool.