‘I know that this is what you want me to learn’: More Tips for Friendly Canvas Courses
byOver the past fortnight, the FASS Teaching and Technology Innovation Team ran two feedback workshops with a dozen students testing new Canvas sites for…
LMS transformation
Students’ Top Tips for Friendly Canvas Courses
byEarlier this month the FASS Teaching and Technology Innovation Team spent a few hours with a dozen students testing a suite of new Canvas…
Thinking in Canvas: Arc turns videos into two-way learning experiences
byHow do you get the most out of videos in teaching? Arc is a new video platform that will allow you to do so…
EdTool Tips #10: Canvas inaugURL Short Guide to Linking Content
byOne of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
Quiet tools for transformation
byIn terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions
byCommonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Enhancing your Canvas designs: Using flexboxes, pad boxes and Feedwind to enhance your Canvas sites
byOver the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
Inclusive Culture in Our Teaching: Universal Design in Canvas Event
byProviding high quality education is a matter of social justice, and ‘Universal Design for Learning’ (UDL) is an innovative framework that supports all learners…
(Don’t) Make Me Think
byDuring the year 2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’s slim and conversational book Don’t Make Me Think burst onto the scene. Neither the first nor the…
Why design matters when keeping students’ attention online
byWeb and interaction design has had a long history of making difficult and complicated systems usable. When tech is easy we use words like ‘intuitive’,…