Preparing for the assessment period and Spring teaching term? Staff development opportunities from TEL
To celebrate the new year, we are pleased to announce the launch of a new programme of workshops and webinars taking place over January. What […]
Getting Ready to Move to Canvas Part Four: Move!
Let’s pack up our stuff, and prepare to make the move to our new online home, Canvas! What do you do when you prepare to […]
What’s New in Canvas? (December 2018)
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 […]
Getting Ready to Move to Canvas Part Three: Pack
Let’s pack up our stuff, and prepare to make the move to our new online home, Canvas! What do you do when you prepare to […]
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 […]
Getting Ready to Move to Canvas, Part Two: Clean
Let’s pack up our stuff, and prepare to make the move to our new online home, Canvas! What do you do when you prepare to […]
Getting Ready to Move to Canvas, Part One: Plan
Let’s pack up our stuff, and prepare to make the move to our new online home, Canvas! What do you do when you prepare to […]
CanvasNews With Bowties And Suspenders! Instructure Stock Reaches New Heights, Fundamentals Strong
Instructure, the company behind Canvas LMS, held the third quarterly investors call last week, to report on end-of-period financials. While Instructure is not yet a […]
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 […]
Interactive Images in Online Courses
Why do we use images in online courses? To make the course "pop"? To support the topic we’re trying to convey, or perhaps to engage […]
Webinar: Engaging with Canvas!
This week's webinar focused on some great new features in Canvas! Jason Neenos from UTO, shared a number of features that make life easier for […]
Facilitating discussion and collaborative note-making in lectures through a backchannel
What is a backchannel? The ‘backchannel’ is a term coined by Victor Yngve, Professor of Linguistics (1970) to acknowledge subtle and informal responses from a […]
