Open Door Week – now in week 8!
The Week 4 // Open Door initiative over the past three semesters allowed teachers from across the University to openly invite their colleagues to…
Provide easy, efficient, and personalised feedback to your students
The SRES is an online tool developed by staff here at the University of Sydney that has helped hundreds of teachers provide large-scale personalised…
Thinking in Canvas: Arc turns videos into two-way learning experiences
How do you get the most out of videos in teaching? Arc is a new video platform that will allow you to do so…
How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions
Commonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Innovative uses of discussion boards for collaboration and community engagement
Online discussion boards, whether those that come as part of Blackboard/Canvas or come from an external provider, are a great way to engage your…
Tour open Canvas sites from the University and get ready for Thinking in Canvas
Over 70 physical classroom doors are being flung open across the University during the Week 4 // Open Door event. As more and more…
Week 4 // Open Door is back, and with more than just doors
Over 90% of University staff who went to an Open Door last semester found the experience helpful, and an overwhelming 95% would recommend it…
Thinking in Canvas: Get inspired by innovative Canvas sites from around the University
As we move into semester 2, over 90 units of study will be running their unit sites in Canvas for the first time. The…
Welcome to Canvas: Sessions to help you design in Canvas
To kick start our University-wide move to Canvas over the next 6-18 months, the Educational Innovation Team as part of the DVC (Education) Portfolio…
Thinking in Canvas: Using pages to make your unit come alive
As we move our units to Canvas over the next few semesters, we have a chance to reimagine the way that our unit of…