If you are using ‘Conferences’ in Canvas please note that they are not part of the recommended practice that TEL team have provided for staff for remote/distance teaching. The details of which can be found here ‘Keep Teaching with Canvas’…
Year: 2020 (page 4)
Blog Post: A simple example of individual online seminar activity
Overview This blog post contains a simple process for moving seminar activities online. We anticipate that you will already have learning activities for your remaining seminars. These probably will have been intended to be delivered verbally, with the possibility of…
Blog Post: Simple Tips to Improve the Quality of your Video Recordings (Staff)
This post provides you with some tips on how to quickly improve the quality of any video you are creating to present you in the best light! Tip #1: Planning Plan out your presentation. If you are going to be…
Blog Post: Canvas Dashboard Views Explained
Your Canvas dashboard is the first page you see when you login. There are three different views which can be enabled depending on how you would like information to be displayed. Card View This is probably the most useful view,…
Blog Post: Getting your Canvas Course Ready for the New Semester (Staff)
Semester 2 has arrived, and if you haven’t already developed your Canvas course, we have a few useful tips to help you get started: 1) Course Copy If you haven’t imported content into a Canvas course before, take a look…
Blog Post: Digital Learning Champions Network (Staff)
Digital Learning Champions The Digital Learning Champions network met for the first time on the 27th of Jan 2020. the aims of this group are to: Jim Turner introduced the aims of the group and key current TEL projects. Heather Thrift…
Blog Post: Additional assessment support information added to all Canvas Assignments
Assessment support We have been working with Student Advice and Well-being to consider how to help students submitting assessments. Some students find it difficult to understand an assignment brief, they can struggle with uploading the document and find feedback confusing.…
Blog Post: 5 Tips to Improve and Deliver Online Canvas Feedback (Staff)
Technology can often be used to save time and improve processes. Delivering online feedback in Canvas is just one way you can save time and provide consistent and engaging feedback. In this post you’ll find lots of useful tips on…
Canvas Quiz now available to Support Academic Misconduct (Staff)
Your students are expected to conduct themselves appropriately and in accordance with the LJMU academic misconduct policies. Academic misconduct covers all deliberate attempt(s) to gain an unfair advantage in assessments, including cheating, plagiarism and unauthorised collusion. This resource can help…