Discussion boards are a common feature of VLEs, supporting the collaborative exploration of ideas and understanding that plays a central role on the development of knowledge. Canvas Discussions offer a rich set of options and a clean, highly usable interface.…
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Canvas highlights 7: Discussions
Tagged with: Canvas, Collaboration, discussion, interaction, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
Canvas Know-how 2: Making Use of Announcements
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] Announcements in Canvas are a great way of making students aware of important news. For example, if there…
Canvas news: May update
The implementation of Canvas continues to progress well and training for staff is well underway. Since our last update in early April bookings to attend Canvas Fundamentals workshops have been flooding in. The demand has been such that Technology Enhanced…
Tagged with: Canvas, Learning Design, Learning Technology, Training, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Canvas, Technology Enhanced Learning
Canvas Know-how 1: Combining content on a single Canvas page.
When your module content is migrated to Canvas it will be displayed slightly differently to the way it looked in Study Direct. The two VLEs have different approaches to organising content, so you will see a best fit interpretation of…
Tagged with: Canvas, Instructure, Learning Design, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas, Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in Canvas, Learning Design, Technology Enhanced Learning
Canvas highlights 6: Conferences
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] Canvas provides staff and students with many collaboration opportunities and in this Canvas highlights post we will be…
Canvas news: an update on progress
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] Since our last Canvas update in early February, work has continued at full pace, with a focus on…
Tagged with: Canvas, Instructure, Training, Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), VLE
Posted in Canvas
Posted in Canvas
Canvas highlights 5: Collaborations
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] In the second of these Canvas Highlights posts we looked at Groups and some of the ways that…
Canvas highlights 4. Rich Content Editor
[note: this post has been updated to reflect a terminology change on the Sussex Canvas VLE, to align it to Sussex terminology] In this weeks ‘Canvas Highlights’ we take a look at the Rich Content Editor. This represents the set…
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