Adding engaging and interactive content to your online course materials just got easier with H5P. This new online tool allows you to create custom learning resources such as branching scenarios, accordions, interactive images and videos, 360 degree virtual tours, simple formative quizzes, and so much more. No coding or software is required – all you need is a web browser!
H5P – interactive online content (about 1-2 hours).
This page hosts guidance for digital polling tools in Vevox, Zoom, and Teams.
Digital polling (about 1-2 hours).
Canvas quizzes offer a number question types, many of which can be automatically marked. This page hosts all of the guidance and opportunities for further training.
Using Canvas quizzes (up to half an hour).
This page includes a handy checklist to work through to make sure the Canvas course for your module is ready for the new academic year.
Getting your Canvas course ready for next year (about 1-2 hours).
Inspera is the system that we use to deliver digital exams. This page hosts all of the available training and guidance for using the system to set up exams.
Digital Exams with Inspera Assessment (up to half an hour).
Ally is a tool that helps to make digital learning content more accessible. It helps to find and fix accessibility issues within Canvas Courses, and also provides students with a means of viewing or downloading content in different formats.
Ally: Canvas Accessibility Tool (under 10 minutes).
NESS (Newcastle E-Learning Support System) is the system used to support the administration of marks and exam boards in academic units, in line with University regulations. Schools record coursework marks and exam marks (components) and calculate overall module marks in NESS. This site contains the complete guidance and training for using the system.
This resource guides you through setting up Buddycheck on your Canvas assignments, allowing students to evaluate their group work.
Adding Buddycheck to a course (up to half an hour).
This Turnitin feature allows you to create question banks for your students’ peer marking.
Numbas is a tool developed at Newcastle that performs automatic marking of a variety of types of answer, including mathematical expressions, numbers, short text, and multiple-choice. Numbas is perfect for maths testing, but can be applied to many different subjects.