One New Thing: Interactive Hotspot Questions
Many of us have used Turningpoint (“PRS”) and may associate it with the infuriating error “TurningPoint Desktop has detected an open version of PowerPoint” or dragging around boxes of clickers, but some updates have come along to make our lives easier: A new release, “Turningpoint Web”…
Importing Content and Publishing Your Module
In order that students can view the content you have created in Canvas you must do two things: Import the course material from your DEVELOP area into the Academic Module for AY 2020/21. Make sure that everything you want the students to see is published….
Canvas New Rich Content Editor
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…
Canvas For Support Staff
Who is This Information For? This post is designed to be an easily digestible starting point for administrative and support staff who may need to help manage Canvas access and resources for their school. You may not be required to do all of the things…
Accessible design for learner variability: Presentations
Accessible Presentations/Slides(e.g. PowerPoints) This blog post outlines how to ensure your MS PowerPoint (PPT) slides are fully compliant in terms of accessibility. Although the principles are the same, there is also more specific guidance available for Mac/Keynote. When creating a PPT, there are a few…
Accessible design for learner variability: Video
Accessible videos Before you begin to plan and record any learning materials, take a moment to think about accessibility design for learner variability and how to ensure that video resources shared with learners are fully compliant in terms of accessibility. Video offers an alternative way…
Preparing for Academic Year 20/21
This time last year the university was preparing to roll-out Canvas to students at the start of the academic year 19/20. One year on and we have 2, 483 modules in Canvas as well as a wide range of approaches to learning, teaching and assessment…
Accessible design for learner variability: Text
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…
Use of Canvas Quizzes in Canvas to Enhance Laboratory Teaching and Safety
In this blog post Dr Jillian Thompson and Dr Dan Corbett from the school of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering describe about how they have used quizzes to prep students ahead of lab classes. As with many aspects of teaching and assessment, a significant contribution to students’ success in laboratory…
5 Top Tips for setting up Canvas assignments
The following post provides the top 5 recommended settings to consider regarding the set-up of Canvas assignments. 1. Hide totals in student grades summary By default, students can see their grade total column in Canvas. That means that Canvas calculates the students total based on…