The new Canvas release for December has just been rolled out across the University, this will bring a few helpful changes to Canvas that will enhance your day to day experience. Two of the biggest changes are the ability to…
Yearly Archives: 2018
What’s New in Canvas? (December 2018)
Tagged with: Canvas, Card View, Dashboard, Media Recorder, Video, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
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Posted in Canvas
Digital tools for reflective practice – an update
Back in 2015 I wrote a post for this blog on digital tools for reflective practice, and it has proved to be one of our most-viewed posts, but things move fast in the world of digital tools, so it seemed…
Canvas Know-How: Using the Accessibility Checker
When developing your teaching materials in Canvas, it is important to consider online standards of accessibility to ensure that your content is inclusive of as many individual students as possible. This is important to ensure that equal access and opportunity…
Daily Digest of Digital Discovery Week.
Each day we wrap up with some highlights in podcast form. Check out each micro-episode below. Digital Discovery Week is a week of workshops, seminars and online opportunities to enable students and staff to experiment with new technologies, showcase examples…
5 ways to make groupwork work in your teaching
Learning from academics is important to students’ learning, but so is working with their peers. The types of communication that peer-to-peer work requires provokes forms of motivation, reflection and criticality that cannot be generated any other way. Furthermore, the main…
Student Created Technologies for Learning
Judith Good, Professor of Interaction Design and Inclusion, runs a joint third year and Masters module titled ‘Technology Enhanced Learning Environments’ at the University of Sussex. We spoke to Judith to learn more about the module and find out what…
Tagged with: Engineering and Informatics, learning environments, student projects, Technology Enhanced Learning
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How to enhance your assessments with video presentation
In this blog post, I will explore the potential and possibilities for assessing students’ presentation skills through the medium of video. With the affordances of modern technology, the possibilities for students to create video presentations are now much more accessible.…
Tagged with: assessment, digital skills, Inclusive practice, Multimedia, Video
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Posted in Apps and tools, digital skills, Marking and assessment, Mobile learning
Peer feedback for student learning
Professionals in all fields are constantly giving feedback to, and receiving feedback from, their peers. This blog post, for example, was reviewed by one of my colleagues before it was published and they made suggestions for ways to improve it.…
Tagged with: assessment, Canvas, feedback, Office365, Padlet, peer assessment, peer review
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