Teaching Tools

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…

This article will compare the Assignment tools within Canvas to Blackboard. This is not intended to be a training piece but a overview of features to give you some idea as to how it differs from Blackboard.

Buddycheck is a peer scoring tool. Check out this article for a quick overview of what Buddycheck does and for links to further information about peer assessment.

Peer Scholar is a peer evaluation and scoring tool available via Blackboard. Find out the key information you need to getting started using Peer Scholar.

A quick overview of the Peer Scholar tool, with links to guidance on how to get started.

Whilst preparations for the migration to the Universities new CLE platform Canvas are being finalised one activity that staff can currently undertake is a thorough ‘spring clean’ of their Blackboard course units.

Find out more about the core Teaching and Learning Tools we can support you with in FSE eLearning.

Mentimeter have released some Ai functionality that groups responses to your open ended questions, we have now enabled that functionality for use across UoM.

It is now possible to access the Mentimeter Powerpoint Add-In on your UoM managed device.

How to customise the staff view of Gradecentre, to show/hide and re-order columns.