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    The Virtual Year Abroad: Facilitating Online Linguistic and Cultural Immersion of Modern Languages Students in a Global Pandemic

    by Jen McParland 2nd August 2021

        Submitted by the Year Abroad Team for Modern Languages: French, Spanish and Portuguese (Dr Dominique Jeannerod, Dr Karol Valderrama-Burgos & Dr Tori Holmes)     Introduction: In the context of the global pandemic prohibiting travel abroad, we faced an urgent need to provide an…

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    Feel the fear and do it anyway!

    by Jen McParland 23rd February 2021

    2 MDBS staff speak to their experience of using Canvas Quizzes (Submitted by Sean Roe and Samantha J Taylor, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences)           Uses of Canvas Quizzes for Summative Assessment of Second Year Medical students Sean says:…

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    Getting Started with Canvas New Analytics

    by Jen McParland 15th December 2020

    This blog post briefly introduces the Canvas New Analytics feature and provides links to additional support materials. What is New Analytics? Canvas New Analytics will be available in September 2020 and is a tool that allows you to filter and compare individual student data and…

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    Canvas New Rich Content Editor

    by Jen McParland 17th November 2020

    A new and improved Canvas Rich Content Editor! Canvas has updated the Rich Content Editor (RCE). It looks very similar to the current editor you are used to but provides a new and improved interface with some enhanced functionality. It has been turned on in…

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    Accessible design for learner variability: Text

    by Jen McParland 8th April 2020

    Text Documents, Word and PDF When planning for alternative approaches to assessment which the University are advising at this time, it is more important than ever to ensure all documents designed and developed are inclusive and accessible to all students. This blog post outlines how to ensure…

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