April
You'll find lots of other timely information listed on this page to help you with online teaching and learning. Whether you're looking for more information to help you add assignments to your course or develop new ways of delivery, check out our recent blog posts for up to date information.
Active Blended Learning
Students who are able to make interpersonal networks are more likely to engage and succeed. Current approaches tend to the classroom as the ‘location’ of presence, with the VLE in a supporting role to offer materials for independent learning. The future approach has to ensure that cognitive and social presence is a feature of both online and face-to-face teaching. Active blended learning is offered as an approach.
Help and Support
Canvas experts are available 24/7 to help you with your Canvas queries. Click on the help icon in the Canvas menu when you are logged in to either speak to someone or chat online.
The Teaching and Learning Academy are also available to answer your queries. Please raise a ticket via LJMU HelpMe.
Training
The Teaching and Learning Academy run a number of training opportunities, click on the above link to see upcoming sessions.
Useful Guides
From the Blog
Blog Post: Ally Launch: How To Improve Canvas Course Accessibility
The Teaching and Learning Academy is pleased to announce the launch of Ally, a powerful accessibility tool now integrated with Canvas. Ally is designed to help you identify and resolve accessibility issues in your Canvas digital content.
Blog Post: Introducing Ally For Canvas – A New Accessibility Tool
The Teaching and Learning Academy is pleased to introduce Ally, a revolutionary tool designed to take accessibility to new heights in your Canvas courses.
What’s New In Buddycheck: Custom Scales And Score Management
For those unfamiliar, Buddycheck is an online peer assessment tool integrated into Canvas that helps instructors manage groupwork. Students can review their teammates’ contributions, providing a weighting factor to adjust individual grades based on participation and effort.
Blog Post: Communicating Across Multiple Courses Using Your Canvas Inbox
We’re committed to making digital content accessible to as many people as possible at Liverpool John Moores University. This article is one in a series of accessibility tips to help you improve the digital environment for everyone.
Blog Post: What Makes A Good Accessible Home Page?
At Liverpool John Moores University, we’re committed to making digital content accessible to as many people as possible. To help meet this objective, this article aims to help you create an accessible Canvas course home page for your students.
Blog Post: Accessibility – Just Do One Thing [1. Headings]
Within a Canvas course you can use discussion boards to create a space where students can communicate around a theme, topic or question. Discussion boards allow students enrolled on that course to engage by posting and viewing comments and replies.