Dr John Topping: Feedback & ‘Feed Forward’ with Video and Audio Comments
Dr John Topping is a Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, with research specialising in the area of policing. He has been using audio and video feedback for student assignments for years. We interviewed him about the benefits…
AHSS Digital Learning Forum: The ‘Early Adopter’ Experience
Canvas has moved to a new Gradebook. For more information please see: The New Canvas Gradebook The first AHSS Digital Learning Forum took place on Wednesday 27th March. This is an opportunity for staff in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty to come together…
Three Things – Dr Stephen Kelly
Dr Stephen Kelly, School of Arts, English and Languages What is your favourite Canvas feature, and why? Canvas is fast, stable, and well-designed. It is also brilliantly flexible in terms of what it allows me to do for students. It has transformed how I communicate with…
Canvas, Coffee & Conversations (4)
Last Friday we held the latest ‘Canvas, Coffee and Conversations’ event. It provided another great opportunity to hear from academics involved in Phase 1 of the Canvas roll-out and learn about what they’ve discovered throughout the process.
How can I check for broken links on my Canvas Course?
Canvas, Coffee & Cake (3)
Another Canvas, coffee and cake session today attended (amongst others) by the new digital learning officers for EPS faculty! #QUBCanvas pic.twitter.com/EbAZnQp6WG — Emma McAllister (@McallisterE) September 28, 2018
How can I stop students creating discussion topics?
To change the settings in your Canvas course so that students can not start up their own discussion topics, watch the video below (there are written instructions underneath the video).
Webinar Wednesday 2: Where’s Wally – avoid hiding your resources!
We held our second Webinar Wednesday today on how to avoid inadvertently hiding all the resources and activities you have carefully created on Canvas from your students. Watch the Webinar Wednesday recording (You will need to download the Adobe Connect plug-in). You may find it…
Student Canvas Orientation Course
Getting Started with Canvas
As soon as you have access to Canvas, you will get access to the ‘Getting Started with Canvas‘ course. This is an online, self-paced introduction to Canvas.