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…
DIY Recording Booth now open for all staff
A new do-it-yourself recording booth is now available for any University of Sydney staff member to book and use to record high-quality educational videos….
Thinking in Canvas
As we move to Canvas as the University-wide learning management system(LMS), we have a key opportunity to refresh the designs and functions of our…
Engaging students in pre-work – wisdom from the crowd
Making sure students prepare for class and complete assigned work is a longstanding challenge for all educators. We’ve written on Teaching@Sydney previously about one…
Week 4 // Open… Site? – Sharing innovations in blended learning
Week 4 // Open Door is an event where staff from around the University are invited to attend colleagues’ face-to-face classes so that we…
Week 4 // Open Door is back!
The week-long event last year that had staff around the University asking for more is back this semester. Loved it. Should be more! I…
Knowing Your Students – deep insight into your cohort
As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…
Six quick and impactful changes you can do today on your Blackboard site
As we gear up forweek 1, tens of thousands of students across the University will be logging into their Blackboard sites for the first…
Bringing the world into your lecture – lessons we learnt from observing other lecturers
In week 4 semester 2 last year, lecturers across the University opened their classroom doors and invited colleagues to sit in and observe how…