Canvas and EdTech support during the Winter break| EdTech news
With the Winer break approaching, we’d like to remind everyone of the support available for Canvas and our wider range of learning technologies.
With the Winer break approaching, we’d like to remind everyone of the support available for Canvas and our wider range of learning technologies.
The Teaching and Learning Academy is asking teaching staff what they think about Ally, a computer program that helps make online learning materials accessible for all students.
Andy Shackleton has partnered with the School of Nursing to pilot a smarter way of organising large student cohorts in Canvas, using a combination of Groups and Sections to deliver targeted activities and content to different teams. Early feedback from the Nursing Simulated Practice team has been very positive, with the approach credited with helping a current placement run significantly more smoothly. The pilot is part of a wider project to find scalable Canvas solutions for larger cohorts.
The Edtech team at LJMU is currently operating with reduced capacity. We ask that staff and students bear with us during this period as we work hard to maintain support and minimise disruption.
This blog post announces the upcoming upgrade to SpeedGrader in Canvas, going live on 30 March.
An update on the LearnWise Canvas AI assistant pilot at LJMU. What it is, where we are, and what's happened recently as the project.