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The Teaching and Learning Academy have worked with Academic Staff and JMSU to create a system within Canvas that aggregates an individual student’s electronic feedback into a single Feedback Dashboard. This has now been released as a beta version for staff to use with…

Originally published 15/03/2020. Updated 16/11/2020 to include most recent technologies and practice. Keep Learning with Canvas This post focuses on core Canvas functionality that is available to help you with your learning. Each course is different, if you can’t find…

Vevox have have a number of interesting updates arriving on the 16th November. If you’ve been debating whether to include polling in your Zoom meetings, take a look at some of their new features: Dashboard In this latest update you’ll notice that the dashboard…

‘What’s working?’ provides an outline of key issues raised in cross-institutional student feedback from the the BluePulse Survey. Feedback indicates that there is a lot of excellent practice right across LJMU, and that students appreciate the efforts that academic staff are making to support…

We would like to notify you of a couple of recent changes to Zoom in Canvas, which will be effective from Monday 9th November. Summary of Changes

The facility to create a copy of a group set from one Canvas course to another The Teaching and Learning Academy have developed a tool which creates helps you to create multiple copies of the same group across a different…

Digital accessibility is even more critical at this particular time. The Teaching and Learning Academy, IT Services and Student Advice and Wellbeing have collaborated to ensure all support workers, working alongside a student to support them academically, are enrolled in…

BuddyCheck is an easy to use peer evaluation tool within Canvas, which allows students to evaluate each team member’s performance in a group activity, as well as self-assessment. It is a valuable tool to helping your students successfully manage group work. The Teaching and Learning Academy are…

The Canvas Enhanced Analytics Dashboard allows Academic Staff to view student engagement with Active Blended Learning Tasks in relation to other students on their programme. This Can help staff to identify those students who may be be participating in the course as…