Polls and quizzes can be great for increasing the interactivity of teaching sessions and encouraging student engagement. You might want to use a poll to kick off a discussion or a quiz to check students’ understanding of previous content before…
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Rubrics and you
Providing responsive and consistent feedback to students is an important if challenging part of assessment, however there are techniques and tools that can help you as a marker to leave great feedback. One of those techniques, and the focus of…
Tagged with: assessment, Canvas, feedback, Feedback Studio, Rubrics, Turnitin
Posted in feedback, Marking and assessment
Posted in feedback, Marking and assessment
Using the Canvas Accessibility Checker
There are lots of steps that can be taken to make sure that your module content is digitally accessible to your students. From headings and font colours to tables and alternative text, it can feel like there is a lot…
Writing effective multiple choice questions
The quiz tool in Canvas is fantastic for creating multiple choice quizzes. There are currently two quiz tools available within Canvas, we currently recommend using the Classic quiz engine for graded assessment rather than the New quiz tool due to…
Feedback options in Turnitin and Canvas SpeedGrader
‘Assessment and Feedback’ is a somewhat notorious category within National Student Survey data, frequently ranked poorly compared to other areas. This trend is present in most UK universities even when ‘Student Satisfaction’ is ranked highly. The 2021 Student Academic Experience…
5 steps to effective formative assessment in Canvas
Good formative assessment throughout a module is key to achieving good student outcomes .It helps students and tutors to gauge how they are progressing and to identify areas to focus on. It also provides opportunities to practice and prepare for…
Adding a ‘chat’ backchannel to in-person classes
During the pandemic most lectures have been online – either as recordings or as live Zoom sessions. Academics noticed that the ‘chat’ facility in the latter encouraged more questions and discussion than they had experienced during in-person lectures on campus.…
Tagged with: Canvas, communication, community, Padlet, Poll Everywhere, polling
Posted in Apps and tools, Blended learning, Polling tools
Posted in Apps and tools, Blended learning, Polling tools
5 easy steps to set up inclusive, self-running study groups within your module
By Paolo Oprandi and Sarah Watson. What are study groups? A study group gives students the opportunity to meet on a regular basis and work together towards a common goal, such as unpacking concepts within a module, undertaking weekly module…
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