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…
Introducing Canvas
A number of resources are available to support teaching staff when introducing Canvas to new students and to aid communication, which is driven by schools at the start of every term, The Canvas Introduction Slide Deck (PowerPoint slides) is the primary resource available, supported by…
Blackboard Ally and Canvas
What is Blackboard Ally? Blackboard Ally is a tool that integrates seamlessly with Canvas to make your digital content more accessible. It has been available in all Canvas courses from January 2021. It automatically checks course materials against WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. It gauges the accessibility of…
Feel the fear and do it anyway!
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:…
The Jelly Baby Tree
Promoting a connected learning through developing an online community: The Jelly Baby Tree In this blog post Alison Smart shares her experiences of adopting the Jelly Baby Tree for online work. As we have all started to adapt to the (dare I say it) “New…