AHSS Digital Learning Forum: The ‘Early Adopter’ Experience
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 to discuss and share their digital learning practices. The topic of the first forum was the...
Three Things – Dr Stephen Kelly
Dr Stephen Kelly, School of Arts, English and Languages 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...
Student Feedback Focus Groups
https://twitter.com/QUB_CED/status/1068494887660789760 We've been gathering feedback from students on their Canvas experiences over the last couple of days, and it's been great to hear students' views on what it is like to use Canvas for their study. If you have been using Canvas at Queen's in...
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. Dr Neil Anderson from EEECS was first up ...
How can I check for broken links on my Canvas Course?
You can check to see if you have any broken links in your course by using the 'Validate Links in Content' feature in Canvas. To do this, follow the steps below. Within your Canvas course, click on the 'Settings' menu item. Click on the 'Validate...
Canvas, Coffee & Cake (3)
https://twitter.com/McallisterE/status/1045658757513007104 There was a great turnout at today's Canvas, Coffee and Cake session. First off, we heard from Gail Anderson from the School of Nursing and Midwifery who told us about her experiences of putting together her first course on Canvas. https://twitter.com/McallisterE/status/1045676469584883713 Next we heard...
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). How to prevent students creating additional discussion topics Open your Canvas course Click on 'Discussions'...
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
This online course is aimed at students to help them quickly understand how to navigate around and use Canvas. There is a link to the Student Canvas Orientation Course from the Welcome Page included in the Canvas Blueprint (this is the default welcome page staff...
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. The course consists of 8 lessons and takes approximately 13 hours to complete the entire course but...