TEL Team Completed Projects
The TEL team have completed the following developments, if you have any questions about any of these projects please do not hesitate to get in touch with the TEL team at ltsupport@ljmu.ac.uk.
Zoom Analytics Project
The Zoom 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 teaching. Zoom has been an important tool in helping to deliver teaching in an online way and understanding how our students are engaging with the online delivery can help us to improve both their engagement and delivery of teaching. Using the dashboard it is possible to filter students by Faculty, School, Programme and Level of study in order to obtain a sense of their overall level of engagement and identify any recent drops inactivity. You can also select an individual student and examine in detail how their activity looks over time and even how much time has been spent in individual sesssions. Module tutors can filter by their details to view student session participation relative to their own online classes.
Curriculum Analytics Project
This JISC research project explores opportunities to use extended learning analytics data to make meaningful insights around curriculum analytics and build a new service. This will involve working with IT services and Registry. It will connect with some of the directions in the Mycanvascourse and Feedback project. See this JISC link for more information.
Aquisition of Zoom

Canvas Induction Courses
Key Information Area

Canvas Institutional Open Courses

Accessibility and Inclusion
This will be an ongoing project that will demonstrate how the team are improving the accessibility of the content as we move towards compliance in September 2020. The information on this project is being collated here.

Canvas Menu Consistency

Canvas Consistency

Course Journals
The TEL team examined the possible benefits and issues connected with developing a Canvas blogging tool. Blogging is form of personal publishing distinctive from other forms of online publishing (such as websites) by its reverse chronological order, which enables the writer and reader to move through previous posts . Blogs are being used within education in a number of ways. Three key pedagogical applications at LJMU are:
- Reflective Learning. Supporting students in examining their own learning process which enables the lecturer to understand students learning journey. For example, a student writing a blog entry each week about their experiences on a field trip.
- Authentic Assessment. Creating assessments that allow students to act as practitioners on the border between education and ‘real world’ practice. Examples would include, arts students promoting their work through a website, or sociology students displaying content that could be useful for a general or local audience.
- Professional-based Portfolio. Supporting students to construct and organise a display of their completed achievements. This is common in professional based courses such as nursing and pharmacy.
This Canvas development is now complete; private course journals can now be added to your course. Read More...
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Canvas Quizzes
- Diagnostic Assessment. Quizzes taken early on in a students time at LJMU are a helpful way to establish a baseline for newer students and identify where some of their strengths and areas for development may be. This can help to inform early personal tutor sessions
- Formative Assessment. Some courses deploy a series of quizzes throughout the course of a semester. As well as providing indications as to how students are engaging with the course it also allows students to reflect on their learning and address any areas of concern prior to final assessments.
- Summative Assessment. Many staff use online tests as part of summative assessment to count towards the overall grade of a particular course or module.
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My Canvas Admin Refresh
The TEL team have made some improvements to My Canvas Admin. This space is really useful for managing your course list and exporting grades, but the TEL team in consultation with staff have come together to offer you some new features including:
- Displaying the number of student enrolments for each course.
- Customised course filters, allowing you the ability to group courses by code or year for adding/removing/viewing.
- Quick Unenroll, just click on the x next to the course you'd like to unenrol from.
- Course Groups - You can now export a list of course groups and their enrolments.
- Course Journals - My Canvas Admin now facilitates the option to create private course journal for each student within your course
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Course Groups Download
This development improved the management and administration of large groups, allowing you to easily view and export your Canvas Course groups.

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Turnitin Framework Assignments

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Canvas Grades Export
