Designing for accessibility in Canvas
byHow accessible is your Canvas site? Accessibility should be an important consideration when designing your Canvas course. The University of Sydney is committed to…
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[Don’t] Get Lost! Using good navigation and organisation to improve your Canvas site
byGood (or bad) site navigation and organisation can go a long way towards making (or breaking) your unit of study Canvas site. Creating a well…
EdTool Tips #15: Canvas Content and Marks Control – Publishing, muting, and visibility
byThe transition to Canvas is running along smoothly and we’re almost starting to get into a routine with it. The value of our ever-increasing experience…
“Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement!”: Using SRES in a large, first-year sociology course
byWith over 500 students, lecturing shared among 5 co-coordinators, and 24 tutorials run by 10 tutors, reaching out to particular students in a first-year…
Open Canvas sites – 2018 students’ choice
byWhat makes a really great Canvas site from students’ perspectives? At the end of semester 1, 2018, over 5000 students from across the University…
Canvas workshops: foundations and assignments & anonymous marking
byCanvas has many powerful features and tools to help your students learn online and for you to support, interact and assess them. Because it…
EdTool Tips #14: Finding the answer to your Canvas questions quickly
byThere are a wide array of new and existing support options for Canvas and it can be hard to know where to start. We…
Practicalities of anonymous marking
byAnonymous marking of assessments with written elements is now in effect across the University. A variety of enterprise tools allow coordinators and markers to…
Open Canvas Sites – 2018 edition
byAs the University started to explore Canvas in semester 2, 2017, almost 100 unit coordinators designed their sites in Canvas for the first time,…
What OLE choice will you make?
byIn June last year over 100 academics chose to embark on a bold expedition to turn concept into reality and create the Open Learning…