Teaching Tools

Canvas provides an intuitive way to add rubrics to assignments. This article compares the Rubic tools in Canvas to Blackboard.

Slate is a new course unit information management system, intended to replace the existing course unit information publishing system called CUIP. Designed and developed in FSE by James Marsh and Steve Pettifer. 

Impact by Instructure offers several tools to enhance engagement among staff and students. This article will provide an overview of Campaigns, Campaign Templates, and Walkthroughs, highlighting their key features and benefits.

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…

Like Blackboard, Canvas has its own tool for storing and managing student grades and feedback.  This article will compare the Canvas Gradebook to Blackboard.

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.

Peer Scholar is a peer evaluation tool. This article provides an overview of the different types of evaluation activity that you can build in Peer Scholar and what the workflow process looks like for students.

Mentimeter continues to grow in popularity across the University and this post shows off a new Quiz Competition feature.

In this article, we will outline why you should undertake a thorough ‘spring clean’ of your Blackboard course units, what elements you should focus on and why it’s essential to prepare now for the move to Canvas.

This short guide will show you how to organise your Blackboard course unit list so that the relevant courses are displayed more prominently at the top of the page.