Canvas

Canvas Early Bird

How you approach the rebuilding of your course units in Canvas will depend on many personal factors; the size and scale of your unit, who else is involved in the delivery, how the unit is delivered, the range and format of the materials within your course and your familiarity with Canvas and technology in general. […]

Canvas Migration: Semester 1 Complete

The migration to Canvas of Semester 1 course unit content has now been completed. Additionally all the 2025/26 teaching spaces – 1SE, 2SE and 1YR – have also been created in Canvas. This now means that semester 1 unit leads and those wishing to build their canvas space from scratch can now begin working on your […]

Canvas Implementation Update

Canvas is coming. Find out more about what is happening next, how you can access Canvas and what support will be available to you.

Canvas Essentials: Quizzes

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 […]

Canvas Essentials: Studio

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 […]

Canvas Essentials: Discussions

Like Blackboard, Canvas has its own Discussions tool that enables discussions between the entire course unit cohort or a group. The basic functionality is not significantly different…