Using Respondus LockDown Browser with Canvas Quizzes
What is Respondus LockDown Browser? Respondus LockDown Browser (LDB) is a web browser which adds an additional layer of academic integrity to an exam by providing a secure, online environment for taking a quiz in Canvas. It prevents students from printing, copying, visiting other URLs/apps…
Personal Pronouns in your Canvas Profile
Pronouns – what are they and how can we use them? Gender pronouns are the terms people choose to refer to themselves that reflect their gender identity. These might be he/him, she/her or gender-neutral pronouns such as they/them. People who are transgender, non-binary, or gender…
Canvas VLE Templates – AY22/23
About the Templates ℹ Minimum standard guidelines have been created to ensure all Canvas VLE courses offer a good and consistent digital pedagogic baseline, improving consistency in courses across programmes of study. Output from user research activities and co-design workshops conducted in March 2022 have…
Desktop Assessment and Feedback Utilities
The adoption of Canvas as the Virtual Learning Environment at Queen’s has brought many benefits for assessment and feedback. Student submissions can be annotated with feedback comments and marking rubrics can be established to guide student efforts and speed up the grading and feedback process….
Understanding What Really Matters to Students
In February 2022, a Task & Finish Group of key stakeholders was established to address the issue of inconsistent layout across courses in Canvas, the virtual learning environment (VLE) at Queen’s. The Group are currently working together on a ‘Canvas Course Co-Design Project’ to develop…
Using Turnitin within Canvas – common queries from staff and students
A Central University Turnitin Account has been created for Turnitin assignments created and submitted through Canvas. This allows classes, assignments and both staff and student users accounts to be created automatically in Turnitin without the need for any additional effort required by teaching/support staff. The integration also…
YouTube as an Effective Educational Resource
Educational videos have become an important part of higher education, providing a content-delivery tool in many flipped, blended, and online classes (Brame, 2016). If you are considering whether to use 3rd party YouTube videos for supplementing or extending on the knowledge gained from existing course…
Digital Portfolios
Introduction to ePortfolios ePortfolios are digital presentations of a student’s experiences, achievements and aspirations. Creating an ePortfolio involves skills essential for 21st century learning; organising and planning material, giving and receiving feedback, reflecting and selecting and arranging content to communicate with a particular audience in…
Using Teams Live Events in Large Cohort Lectures
By Dr Danielle McConville, Senior Lecturer Education, QMS This post is based on my experience of using a Teams Live Event for a 50 minute lecture to 360 students in my level one, non-specialist Accounting module in the last academic year. Last year, MS Teams…
The Virtual Year Abroad: Facilitating Online Linguistic and Cultural Immersion of Modern Languages Students in a Global Pandemic
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…