From September, Liverpool John Moores will be moving from Blackboard to Canvas as provider of the Institutional Virtual Learning Environment. The Canvas houses a modern, mobile friendly interface and powerful personalised communication and notifications. It is a system that aligns…
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Blog Post: Canvas Transition FAQs
There are bound to be questions you would like to have answered whilst we are changing to Canvas as our new Virtual Learning Environment We will do our best to answer any and keep this list up to date. Answers…
Blog Post: Canvas – The new Virtual Learning Environment for Liverpool John Moores University
Contracts have been signed and the announcement has been made. Canvas, by Instructure is the new Institutional Virtual Learning Environment. Staff training sessions have been scheduled and are now available for bookings.
Blog Post: Non-Standard Module Information
The new VLE will be introduced on 1st August, 2017. This date was chosen to co-incide with the creation of new 2017-18 modules and to minimise impact on teaching and learning . However, staff in the Teaching and Learning Academy,…
Blog Post: A new year!
We at the Teaching and Learning Academy, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team would like to wish a warm welcome to all of our new and returning students. A significant part of our role is to ensure that students get the…
Blog Post: LJMU Learning Technologies and the JANET Network
Following on from the brief issue with JANET yesterday affecting Panopto (JANET is the Higher Education internet provider that services Europe and North America) we at the TEL team decided it might be useful to write a short post looking at how the Learning Technologies we use at…
Blog Post: Mobile First Forum
The Mobile First Forum is where all LJMU staff can meet and discuss all matters relating to mobile devices and M-learning. Peter Ashton (Director, IT Services) and other representatives from IT Services will be giving a talk on the upcoming…
Blog Post: Self and Peer Assessment
This post explores some of the research in this area in order to help you understand the possible benefits and issues surround this type of assessment. This guide generally focuses on peer assessment, although many of the points can apply to…
Blog Post: Twitter Polls
Having been on the periphery for a few weeks it now seems that Twitter Polls have been broadly released for use by anyone with an account. Tweets can now take the form of a question and be accompanied by a…
Blog Post: Conference – The Future of Mobile and Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher and Further Education
I took part in this on Friday (2nd Oct) and it was a really well attended and positive event. The themes and ideas discussed included; The facilitation of flexible pedagogy through the use of MOOCS and tablet devices. Public/private partnerships to…