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Introduction to Canvas

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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These sessions will demonstrate the basics of identifying learning resources, building pages and organising content. It will provide an introduction to Canvas and is aimed at all new staff.
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Supporting learning with Canvas Quizzes

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Canvas quizzes are an important component for supporting a high quality active blended learning experience for students. Quizzes are a helpful accompaniment to course materials to test knowledge, support engagement and check students are keeping on track with their studies. This session will cover the basics of how to create a quiz, pedagogic approaches with respect to sharing and delivering them to students and how to incorporate quizzes into effective Canvas course management.
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Digital Accessibility in Canvas with Ally

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Fri, 02 May 2025
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Please note this session is for staff only.

Ally is designed to help you identify and resolve accessibility issues with your Canvas digital content.  

In this session we will show you how to engage with the Ally course report, prioritising any issues highlighted, with a particular focus on: 

  • Resolving the most severe issues first 
  • Reviewing any contrast issues in documents and pages 
  • Fixing any image Alt Text in documents and pages 
  • Ensuring documents and pages use correct headings 
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Introduction to Panopto

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Please note this session is for staff only.

Panopto is LJMU’s institutional video recording and management system, that greatly simplifies the process of media creation and sharing through an easy to use set of tools and secure integration into Canvas course spaces. Panopto can be used for a number of applications including sharing of short video messages by tutors, recorded lab demonstrations, narrated PowerPoints, live broadcasts, student presentations, video assignments and lecture capture. Video allows staff to support diverse student needs and rethink how programmes are delivered such as ‘flipped’ teaching and broadening the range of ways that students engage with their learning. Additional parts of the system allow built-in quizzing, captioning and group notetaking.

The main staff guide for Panopto is available at https://ltech.ljmu.ac.uk/?page_id=159


The Teaching and Learning Academy may have to cancel this session at short notice if there are insufficient attendees.
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Personal Tutoring: Boundary-setting and signposting

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

Date: Wed, 07 May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: Online
Format: Workshop
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Personal Tutoring has a significant role to play in guiding students’ academic achievement and engagement with opportunities for further development and support, where needed. In undertaking that role, it is likely that Personal Tutors will become aware of difficulties students are encountering which are impacting on their studies – these may be academic-related or related to typical life issues. An effective and trusting relationship will be based on a shared understanding of the role and its boundaries.

This session will cover how to establish appropriate boundaries and manage students’ expectations. It will also cover how and when to signpost students to other specialist services for more specialist guidance.

Led by staff from Organisational Development and Student Advice and Wellbeing this session will be delivered online.

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Vevox: Classroom voting

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Education, Student, Technology.
Date: Mon, 12 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Vevox is a technology that facilitates polling or the raising of questions via mobile devices in training, meetings, classes and conferences. This session focuses on recent updates. It is a very flexible, easy to use system that could be utilised in a variety of ways. There are two basic functions: running a poll and allowing others to respond to a given topic. These can be created and delivered via the web or a powerpoint slide, and the audience can respond via any web enabled device, e.g. phone, tablet, or laptop. This session will provide you with hands on training. The Teaching and Learning Academy may have to cancel this session at short notice if there are insufficient attendees.
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Tips for creating an ‘easy to navigate’ canvas course

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Students can find it difficult to navigate your resources in Canvas. This session provides you with and understanding on why this happens and the simple steps you can put in place to improve the design and organisation of content and activities in Canvas. 
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Engaging Students in Active Blended Learning through Canvas Discussion Boards

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

Date: Wed, 21 May 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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This comprehensive session brings together best practices in online student engagement, focusing on both discussion board activities and social engagement tools within Canvas. The session aims to provide practical insights into designing engaging online activities, rooted in the experiences of LJMU staff and established distance learning practices.

Designing Interactive Discussion Boards: Learn how to create simple yet effective discussion board activities on Canvas. This includes sharing these activities with students, encouraging participation, and monitoring engagement.

Hands-On Experience: Get practical exposure by trying out various discussion board activities, enhancing your understanding of the tool's functionality and potential in engaging students.

Social Engagement in Blended Learning: Explore how to use existing Canvas tools to foster online social engagement, crucial for active blended learning environments. This segment is developed in response to the Academy's recent staff survey, highlighting the need for enhanced guidance in this area.

Practical Examples and Idea Sharing: We'll provide numerous examples of social engagement activities. There will also be opportunities to discuss and share ideas on how these can be integrated into your teaching practices.

Note: The Teaching and Learning Academy reserves the right to cancel the session if there are insufficient attendees.
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Teaching Insights: It’s not just what you say, it’s how you say it! The impact of exam linguistics on student performance

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Remaining Places:  41
 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Professional Services.
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location: Student Life Building - Room 3.04
Format: Seminar
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Most courses use written exams to assess their students, but perhaps the linguistic quality of the question writing isn’t always the best it could be. Comprehension of a question is essential for a student to display their subject specific ability. It is important then to make our writing as understandable as possible. To try and help with that, a linguistic verification tool will be presented in the seminar. This tool is based on good writing practice and primary research into idea density, which will also be presented.

  • Impact of reduced idea density in lectures

    Lunn AM, Bürkle DM, Ward R, McCloskey AP, Rathbone A, Courtenay A, Mullen R, Manfrin A. Spoken propositional idea density, a measure to help second language English speaking students: A multicentre cohort study. Medical Teacher. 2022 Mar 4;44(3):267-75.

  • Impact of reduced idea density in exams

    The trial protocol is published here

    Lunn A, Manfrin A. Impact of reduced idea density on pharmacy students' attainment in pharmaceutical calculations: A study protocol for a single-blind multicentre randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Educational Research. 2023 Jan 1;117:102108.

Hosted by the Teaching and Learning Academy, this event is part of the Teaching Insights series and will be led by Dr Andrew Lunn, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences.
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Supporting learning with Canvas Quizzes

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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Canvas quizzes are an important component for supporting a high quality active blended learning experience for students. Quizzes are a helpful accompaniment to course materials to test knowledge, support engagement and check students are keeping on track with their studies. This session will cover the basics of how to create a quiz, pedagogic approaches with respect to sharing and delivering them to students and how to incorporate quizzes into effective Canvas course management.
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A Guide to Flipped Learning: Bridging Research and Digital Practice

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

Date: Tue, 27 May 2025
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
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This session explores the relationship between pedagogical research and digital implementation in flipped learning. It examines current studies on flipped approaches while considering their implications for student engagement and learning. Through practical examples, we investigate how educators might select and adapt digital tools, develop pre-class materials, and design in-class activities. The guide offers possible pathways for both those new to flipped learning and those looking to reflect on their current practice. Drawing from experiences across different disciplines, it presents various approaches to common challenges, alongside questions for consideration when implementing flipped learning in different contexts. By examining both successes and limitations, this session aims to support informed decision-making in flipped learning design.
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Digital Accessibility in Canvas with Ally

Teaching and Learning Academy |

Academic Practice Development

 Keywords:  Academic Staff, Technology.
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Online
Format: Class
More details
Please note this session is for staff only.

Ally is designed to help you identify and resolve accessibility issues with your Canvas digital content.  

In this session we will show you how to engage with the Ally course report, prioritising any issues highlighted, with a particular focus on: 

  • Resolving the most severe issues first 
  • Reviewing any contrast issues in documents and pages 
  • Fixing any image Alt Text in documents and pages 
  • Ensuring documents and pages use correct headings 
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