Staff Guide: Mobile Apps

Learn more about teaching and learning mobile apps available for both staff and students.

There are now several mobile apps available within the University for both staff and students to use, take a look at our list and see what works for you:

Canvas Mobile Web

You can access Canvas directly in your mobile device browser. Canvas is fully responsive and works effectively on any screen size. As with accessing any web page on a desktop computer, open the internet browser on your device and navigate to canvas.ljmu.ac.uk

You can find out more about Canvas's commitment to Accessibility in their Canvas Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)

Canvas Teacher App

Save time and use canvas more efficiently from your mobile device. Canvas Teacher allows you to facilitate your course on the go. This app provides quick access to three of the most frequent course tasks, including: Grading, Accessing student submissions and providing feedback. Use the app to communicating and send announcements and messages and participate in course discussions from the palm of your hand. Need to change a due date? Or publish and assignment? Canvas teacher allows you to update your course content.

Canvas Student App

The Canvas student app allows students to view course activity streams, stay on top of your to do items, view your course schedule and syllabus and participate in course discussions. You can also submit coursework, view grades, upload files, videos and audio recordings, read, create and reply to inbox messages.

Panopto

A mobile video platform that offers picture-in-picture playback. With Panopto’s mobile video platform, you can record videos, schedule new recordings, approve new videos, search your entire video library, and share videos all from your smartphone or tablet. Panopto’s mobile apps and embedded video podcasts give viewers the ability to see closed captions during playback. Some videos may also be downloaded for offline viewing. Panopto offers native mobile Android and iOS apps that support video recording, upload, search, playback, and more.

Vevox

Vevox is an inclass voting system and discussion tool that can help you contribute to activities during a lecture or workshop.

Email

ActiveSync is a Microsoft service for syncing your Email, Calendar and Contacts to mobile devices like phones & tablets. It is supported by nearly all phone manufacturers. Whatever your device, it is likely you will be able to support this – depending on the wording used it might refer to adding a Microsoft Exchange / ActiveSync or EAS (Exchange ActiveSync Server) account.

LJMU provide an Activesync server for all users – this is free, there is no cost for you to use this so you can synchronise your email, calendar and contacts from anywhere in the world. If you have a big list of addresses & phone numbers in Outlook or on your phone already, Activesync is a great way of getting these and keeping them safely so you will never lose any important mobile numbers.

For more information about Activesync and how to add email to your mobile device, please see the Help with IT pages on the intranet.

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