Tom Rodgers is a Reader in Chemical Engineering Education in the Department of Chemical Engineering. At the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards he won the award for Educational Leadership and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery. Here Tom tells us how he has focused on developing rich-media resources to allow students to learn at their own pace, developing strategies for group problem solving, peer marking, and in-class discussions.
Lisa Taylor is a Senior Lecturer Fashion Business and Technology Department of Materials. She led the Fashion Education and Inclusive Learning Innovators (FEILI) team that won the Inclusive Education and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery award at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards for their Digital Learning Technologies Project: a Creative Combination to Augment Applied Learning. Here she tells us more about the project and what the future might hold.
Lorna Dawson is the Interim Head of Teaching, Learning and Student Experience for the School of Natural Sciences. Here she provides an update on the developments in assessment and progression following the review in the summer of 2023. I think many colleagues will be familiar with the challenges we encountered regarding Assessment and Progression (A&P), […]
We recently hosted an event where we demonstrated how Graide software can improve marking time and feedback quality. The recording can be found here. If you would like to take part in the pilot, please…
This case study looks at the importance of innovation and how peer action learning and peer evaluation, can benefits students.
Case Study: How Computer Sciences are using Gradescope to autograde programming assignments.
Gradescope is a tool which enables submission of programming code. This article introduces the Gradescope programming assignment and signposts to useful documentation and sources of support.
This article will compare Canvas Quizzes to Blackboard Tests. This is not intended to be a training piece; it is an overview of the features, giving you some ideas on how Canvas compares to Blackboard. Quizzes can be created in Canvas to support assessment and feedback. Quizzes can be used for formative and summative assessments […]
The CLE project team and IT Services have been working together to undertake the necessary analysis and design work to implement Canvas by Instructure as our replacement for Blackboard Learn at The University of Manchester. This page clarifies the updated timeline for the project
Canvas Studio is a tool for uploading and sharing video content inside Canvas. Studio also has a built-in screen recording tool so you can create video messages, podcasts or any other screen recording within the tool itself. Both students and teaching staff have access to Studio. As you’d expect, Studio allows users to upload videos […]
