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…
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…
Steps To Prepare
Set Your Grade Posting Policy To Manual: The ‘Global Setting’ Level: In your Canvas course, click ‘Grades.’ Click the ‘Cogwheel’ (at top right-hand corner of the screen.) Click the ‘Grade Posting Policy’ tab. Ensure the radio button is set to ‘Manually Post Grades.’ Click…
Set Up and Administration of Assignments
Make the instructions clear and unambiguous: In your Canvas course, click ‘Assignments.’ Click ‘+Assignment’ to start setting up your assignment. Give your assignment a title e.g. ‘Demo Assignment’ and enter all the ‘instructions to students’ into the into the box below. Note: The Canvas…
Marking Submissions In Speedgrader and Releasing Grades/Feedback in Gradebook
1. Make sure all markers have access to the Canvas course in advance: Contact your school admin staff to add or amend staff roles (Teacher, TA, etc) in QSIS, these will transfer over to Canvas within 24-48 hours. For more information on Canvas roles….
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….
Caveats for using SCORM in Canvas
What is SCORM? The word SCORM is an acronym which stands for Shareable Content Object Reference Model. It is a set of technical specifications developed to provide a common approach to how eLearning content is developed and used across various platforms. SCORMS allows Canvas VLE…
10 Top Tips for Creating Accessible Content in Canvas
When you create a blank page in Canvas you will have access to the Rich Content Editor. This provides you with a variety of formatting tools and functionality, so you can design and create rich content pages for your subject. Read these 10 Top Tips…