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).
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Vevox is Newcastle University’s centrally-supported Audience Interaction System, and allows colleagues to conduct live polls, quizzes and surveys with students – in advance or live in a lecture or seminar. From gauging opinion to providing participants with question & answer opportunities, Vevox can be used on different devices with the only requirement to participate being a device connected to the internet.
Audience and class interaction with Vevox (about 1-2 hours).
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).
How to schedule and create Teams meeting rooms from within Canvas Courses.
Create Teams Meetings in Canvas (up to half an hour).
How to schedule and create Zoom meeting rooms from within Canvas Courses.
Create Zoom Meetings in Canvas (up to half an hour).
The use of cameras in online sessions: technical and etiquette guidance.
Camera Usage in Online Events from a Staff Perspective (under 10 minutes).
How and why to create captions and transcripts for audio and video content. Includes guidance for ReCap (Panopto), Canvas, Zoom, and Teams, and references accessibility guidelines and requirements.
Learning and Teaching Site: captions and transcripts (up to half an hour).
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.