TEL Developments - Current Projects

The TEL team are currently working on the following developments, if you have any questions about any of these projects please do not hesitate to contact the Teaching and Learning Academy via LJMUHelpMe.

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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. 

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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. 

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This project is focused on supporting and evaluating two new classroom technologies, working in collaboration with IT services.  The first is Mersive Solstice content sharing which allows staff and students to share their screen to the main teaching screen. Mersive Solstice Active Learning allows staff to put students in groups to work collaboratively on a single PC and then share their screens. These new capabilities should be a useful addition to a toolset to increase opportunities and creative space for active blended learning.  

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This project manages the transition from the current quizzes system (Classic Quizzes) to the new Canvas quizzes system (Quizzes Next). New Quizzes is an assessment engine that integrates with Canvas as an LTI tool and replaces the classic quizzes functionality currently existing in Canvas from July 2023.  

Completion: September 2023

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The Teaching and Learning Academy recognises the changing patterns of engagement with development and training across the sector. Many institutions support programme development and design particularly when implementing large scale change success as movements to inclusive, blended and online delivery (such as C7, ABC, ADDIE and Carpe Diem). We wish to explore these new methods with programme teams to understand the opportunities within LJMU. We believe that this may help integrate institutional strategic aspirations with curriculum development, design, and practice. It may also help communicate and share new models and practices and create greater awareness of the immediate needs of staff and students.  Programme level design project definition document

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The Teaching and Learning Academy’s AiDED vision is to use the digital learning environment to help all our students improve their life chances. It goes beyond compliance to explore how technology can support all of our students therefore it will run in phases until 2024. AiDED Project. The next phase of this project is to aquire an accessibility tool to help improve digital content in Canvas.

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The Panopto Dashboard is the next stage in the ongoing Canvas and Technology Enhanced Learning Analytics offering from the Teaching and Learning Academy It is intended to support teaching and learning by providing insights in to how students engage and interact with your videos.

The TEL team are currently in consultation with Academic Registry services about the replacement of the existing pseudo-course framework with the Canvas Blueprinting tool. Unlike SIS modules, pseudo-courses are manually created in Canvas and used to group several module cohorts into one course, allowing for the easier management of content. Blueprinting is a fully supported, core Canvas tool which provides an alternative method for managing the deployment of content, from a single Canvas ‘Master’ course, leaving the students enrolled in their correct SIS modules.

Benefits:

• Clarity: Keeping students enrolled within their initial Canvas module ensures alignment with curriculum management software and other institutional systems.
• Consistency: Keeping students enrolled within their initial Canvas module ensures that they can access institutional tools that are only available in the SIS module. These are:
  • The Key Information area - This section of the Canvas course that originally replaced the module handbook. It provides easy access to clear and consistent information about the modules they are studying. It contains a module description, expected learning hours, assessment details, a link to the reading list and links to further important resources.
  • Reading List - Contains key reading material for the courses.
  • Timetable – Links to course timetables.